FOUNDING CUSTOMER PROGRAM · 5 SPOTS · DESIGN PARTNERS
Help us build AI Token FinOps around your workload.
We're taking five founding customers. You get a direct line to the founders, onboarding we run for you, and real influence over what we build next. We get a live AI workload to instrument and your honest feedback. That's the whole deal.
What is the Behest Founding Customer program?
The Behest Founding Customer program is a design-partner program limited to five companies. Founding customers get a direct line to founders Garen and Levon, white-glove onboarding, and roadmap influence over the Behest AI Token FinOps platform, in exchange for a real AI workload, biweekly feedback, and an optional reference.
What founding customers get
Three incentives — access, onboarding, and influence.
Founder access + roadmap influence
A shared Slack channel with founders Garen and Levon — not a support queue. Tell us what your AI workload actually needs, and we build for your use case and prioritize it on the roadmap. Founding customers shape where the Behest AI Token FinOps platform goes next.
White-glove onboarding
We do the integration and setup for you. Instead of handing you docs and wishing you luck, our team instruments your AI workload, wires up cost attribution and budgets, and gets you to real numbers — with the founders on the line the whole way.
Named design partner + co-marketing (opt-in only)
When Behest is working for you, we'll ask to tell that story together — your logo, a quote, a case study. It's mutual, it's collaborative, and it only happens if you opt in. No surprise logos, no using your name without your sign-off.
What we ask in return
A two-way deal. Here's our side and yours, in plain terms.
A real AI workload to instrument
Founding customers bring a live AI use case — actual model calls, actual spend — for us to put under cost attribution, budgets, and governance. This program is for teams already running AI in production or close to it, not for evaluating an empty sandbox.
Biweekly feedback
A standing biweekly touchpoint (plus the shared Slack) where you tell us what's working, what's missing, and what's in your way. Your feedback directly steers the roadmap — that's the point of the program.
A reference or quote when it works
If Behest delivers for you, we'll ask for a reference, a quote, or a case study. This is opt-in and only after we've earned it — but going in, founding customers agree in principle to be a reference if the results are there.
Who this is for
Platform Engineers running multi-tenant AI infrastructure who need per-team, per-project cost attribution, budgets, and isolation on every model call — and want it built to fit their stack.
CTOs weighing build-vs-buy on AI cost control who'd rather shape a platform with the founders than build the plumbing in-house.
CFOs and finance leaders who want AI spend visible, attributable, and enforceable at the unit level — before the provider invoice arrives, not after.
CISOs who need AI Governance in the loop: PII scrubbing, prompt-injection defense, tenant model allowlists, and audit trails on AI traffic.
Best fit: a team already spending on AI in production, with a real workload and a person who owns the AI bill. Want the standard ladder first? See pricing. Otherwise, if that's you, you're exactly who these five spots are for.
We're taking five founding customers
This program is capped at five companies — on purpose. White-glove onboarding, a shared Slack with the founders, and building to your use case don't scale to fifty. Five is the number where every founding customer gets real founder attention and real roadmap pull.
When the five spots are filled, the program closes. Applying doesn't commit you to anything — it starts a conversation. We read every application and reply either way.
Apply for a founding spot
Short but qualifying — enough to tell if there's a real AI workload and a decision-maker behind it. We reply either way.
What you're partnering on
The AI Token FinOps platform is the control plane for your AI spend: it tracks, allocates, and controls AI Token budget at the unit level, so cost is visible and predictable before the invoice arrives. Explore the platform, or meet the founders on our story.