Weldr for Founders

Build your first release in hours, win trust with live previews, and stay in control as your product matures.

Why Founders Choose Weldr

• Idea to traction fast – Chat your requirements and share a live SaaS preview on day one.

• Keep leverage – Progressive ownership lets you experiment without committing to lock-in. Move key logic to your own code at any time.

• Onboard collaborators smoothly – Designers, PMs, and engineers can co-create in the same chat workspace.

• Graduate to governance – When investors or customers ask for controls, contracts and policies are already built into the workflow.

Journey to Product-Market Fit

| Stage | What You Get | Ownership Tips | |-------|--------------|----------------| | Week 1 – MVP | Hosted Free Cloud workspace, live preview, managed Postgres, authentication, and CRUD scaffolding. | Keep everything Managed. Iterate purely in chat until you have a clear story to demo. | | Month 1 – Validation | Embed previews in investor/customer updates, collect structured feedback. | Flip surfaces that hold competitive logic (pricing, scoring, workflows) to Extended so you can collaborate with a contractor or advisor without losing regeneration safety. | | Post-Traction – Scale | Upgrade to Pro for higher limits, saved templates, and pipeline hooks. When the business logic becomes critical IP, eject it to your repo with TypeScript contracts. | Use Ejected mode for anything that differentiates you—billing rules, AI prompts, integrations. Weldr validates contracts on every regen. |

Hosting & Pricing Snapshot

• Free Cloud – Ideal for experimentation and early pilots. Includes all ownership modes, managed infrastructure, and community support.

• Weldr Pro ($30/mo, early access) – Adds higher regen limits, priority preview capacity, reusable templates, and upcoming policy automation.

• Enterprise – Dedicated environments, compliance attestations, and managed deployment options. Reach out via the in-app roadmap form.

• Self-host (invite-only) – Available for teams that need private infrastructure today. Follow docs/getting-started/installation.md once granted repo access.

See docs/pricing-and-accounts.md for detailed limits, upgrade paths, and billing FAQs. Upcoming milestones live in docs/roadmap.md.

Working with Partners & Agencies

• Share read-only previews via access links so partners can explore without Git access.

• Grant temporary workspace roles when contractors need to edit. They can use Extended mode to add custom logic without breaking your managed surfaces.

• When you inherit agency code, run weldr contracts check to verify ejected modules match expectations before merging into your repo.

Communicating the Vision

Keep docs and roadmap aligned with the reality users see:

Maintain a source of truth in the /docs core set. Archive outdated launch visions in docs/archive/ instead of leaving them in the main flow.

Annotate in-product copy (landing, pricing, onboarding) with the same tier names used in documentation.

Review the homepage and pricing page quarterly so messaging tracks the roadmap. Use the maintenance checklist in docs/MAINTENANCE.md.

Questions? Ping the product team in Slack (#weldr-docs) or reply to the beta update emails for direct support.