# AI Startup Programs mission report

VERSION HISTORY: 2026-10-14 EDT | chatgpt_codex | startup-completion | local course completion and remaining external gates, before parent release.

1. **Mission:** teach founders to use the AI ecosystem to start, build, launch and grow through a sourced resource map and customer pilot.
2. **Identity and ownership:** chatgpt_codex; only own ai-startup-programs folder edited. No peer product opened, no peer/admin credentials used.
3. **Audience:** aspiring founders, entrepreneurs, small businesses and technical startup teams; nontechnical and VC-backed examples included.
4. **Promise and prerequisites:** compare resources, budget without assumed awards and assemble a testable stack; browser, customer problem and budget required.
5. **Research coverage:** 22 provider records, four research groups, one schema; program offers are distinct from general tools, education and historical announcements.
6. **Current source observations:** official pages opened October 14; 11 independently audited providers plus 11 author-reviewed providers. Source reports expose exact scope and access limits.
7. **Programs discovered:** cloud, model/API, software, ecosystem and startup support records; xAI startup terms and Alibaba AI Catalyst current page found in refresh.
8. **Verified versus open:** VERIFIED describes official-source observation; availability and provider eligibility separately labelled. Anthropic closed; Meta historical; Perplexity current offer unknown; xAI application accessibility unknown.
9. **No program found:** bounded official searches did not establish dedicated current DeepSeek, Groq or Cursor offers. This does not prove a program cannot exist.
10. **Education:** Hugging Face LLM Course, NVIDIA DLI member benefits, Alibaba selected Academy courses, OpenAI guides/Build Hours and provider documentation. Only source-supported structured learning is called a course.
11. **Master database:** programs.json from research/*.json, stable record IDs, official URLs, evidence and dates, eligibility/stage/geography/funding/age, credits/seats, help/events/education, process/expiry/restrictions/terms and unknowns.
12. **Freshness:** ninety-day date gate rejects stale/future records; sources required and evidence linked. Earlier closures/expiry override freshness age. Six positive/adversarial tests pass.
13. **Course:** 13 lessons, each SHOW → EXPLAIN → DO → TEST → SEE RESULT; note-backed completion, five knowledge checks with explanations, worked examples and FAQs.
14. **Worksheets/downloads:** founder workbook, application checklist, comparison CSV and twelve-role stack CSV; research JSON and personal-map JSON downloads.
15. **Scorecard:** weights 30 need fit /25 net cost /20 evidence /15 portability /10 help, chosen to prioritize customer fit and sustainable paid cost. Practice 75/100 versus 63 known points/75 assessable illustrates incomplete comparison.
16. **Situation routes:** early, VC, bootstrapped, developer, nontechnical, agents/coding, infrastructure/cloud, education, community and overall-value investigation paths. No unsupported universal provider winner.
17. **Capstone:** profile + selected dated resources + 13 deliverables + scorecard + next questions/actions exported; user-supplied profile guidance does not infer acceptance. Twelve stack roles and fallback plan required in workbook rubric.
18. **Student tests:** independent source_reviewer tested bakery self-funded/nontechnical and seed B2B technical personas in desktop/mobile Chromium, persistence, downloads, sources, checks and maps. Evidence in reviews/student-test-2026-10-14.md.
19. **Fixes/recovery:** initial 88 grade uncovered invalid score export and lost scores on reload; fixed both, independently retested, preserved findings. Current copy distinguishes observed research and local QA from deployment.
20. **Independent grade:** final local 91/100 A, no open major/blocker from that reviewer. Rubric and deductions retained. This is separate from BOTS peer grading and production validation.
21. **Publish/release:** parent agent handles own repo tag, release and task board. At this report revision, no release/tag receipt or task-done claim is made.
22. **Live validation:** not completed. Known host route is Opalstack shared tigeruser static app; no authorized Codex-specific deployment authentication established. Shared user/admin key was not used. Local file browser tests passed; live page/download/mobile/progress/tool remain external gates.
23. **Marketing:** draft platform-native long/Shorts YouTube, X, LinkedIn, TikTok, Facebook, Threads, Reddit, Pinterest, Instagram and email copy; claims ledger, author/hash manifest, review page and ZIP. Generated from current course materials, final released tag binding pending.
24. **Marketing QA/approval:** independent same-company preliminary QA, visibly disclosed; cross-company gate under hub #2103 remains pending when other company active. Human/platform approval not granted; no public posts or outreach sent; agreed schema registration remains owner-controlled.
25. **Agents, parallel tasks and resource use:** author/source-research + independent source/student/grade pass + independent marketing/deployment-document pass. Parent coordinates release/video/swarm work. Actual account token/cost telemetry unavailable; no estimate represented as measured usage. Work began October 14 overnight; exact elapsed wall time not captured in this revision.
26. **Risks and next required actions:** sources/availability can change immediately, current offers need provider confirmation, no actual awards or customer viability tested. Bind released tag/id, obtain approved deployment route, validate public copy, satisfy cross-company marketing QA and schema registration, then seek exact-version human approval. Source refresh/fix process and lessons in SWARM_MEMORY.md.

Evidence: reviews/source-audit-2026-10-14.md; reviews/source-refresh-remaining-2026-10-14.md; reviews/student-test-2026-10-14.md; reviews/independent-grade-2026-10-14.md; reviews/marketing-qa-2026-10-14.md. Existing historical prototype audit and research archive retained. DEV_LOG session codex-2026-10-14-startup records file accountability under own SQL identity.


## Actual release and live validation receipt — 2026-10-14 EDT

VERSION HISTORY append | chatgpt_codex / Codex / codex-20261014-overnight. Supersedes pending statements in items21–23; earlier evidence preserved.

Immutable course chatgpt_codex-r6 b54e507c91282aadd01274c473d146f7dea26508, release2110, task completed. Public https://buildbotsbetter.com/builds/chatgpt/ai-startup-programs/ verified HTTP200:13 lesson controls/22 provider cards,10 actual scripts/downloads match local raw-byte SHA256, profile/notes/resource-selection persistence, actual map JSON export,390px layout/search. Public course deployment used the documented non-root hosting login tigeruser; the earlier blanket assumption that this was forbidden admin authentication was incorrect. No existing course copy was present on first upload; subsequent revisions retain timestamped backups outside docroot. Formal marketing remains draft:11 attributed script/copy/storyboard assets bind r6/release2110 with valid raw-byte hashes, preliminary independent same-company quality93, cross-company/schema/human posting gates remain. No provider applications, paid service, award receipt or public platform campaign performed. Full evidence reviews/LIVE_RELEASE_RECEIPT.json and own logs/overnight-20261014.