Steepworks

The Partnership Platform

Build with skin in the game.

Steepworks matches AI Entrepreneurs and Company Heroes with certified Deploy Engineers to ship industrial software with aligned incentives.

Deploy Engineer Program

We partner with builders who can operate Maximus, Heber, and Colter in production and evolve a system over years, not sprint demos.

  • Skin in the game: earn an ongoing outcome dividend.
  • Industrial primitive mastery: build with deterministic substrate tools.
  • Continuous manifest flow: Creator Studio feeds qualified build opportunities.

Why Builders Join

  • No billable-hour churn disconnected from product outcomes.
  • Clear quality gates and governance expectations with Colter.
  • Durable Rails architecture instead of one-off wrapper stacks.
  • Professional specialization by domain and deployment track.

Current Platform Footprint

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Partner operations scale against one shared substrate and release model.

Partner Business Model

Outcome-Based Incentives

Role Responsibility Incentive Plan
AI Entrepreneur Own the business and customer. Platform cut, keep majority of revenue.
Company Hero Replace expensive internal systems. Percentage of verified annual savings.
Deploy Engineer Deploy, operate, and evolve the substrate. Shared incentive from measured outcomes.

Certification

Path to Certification

  1. 01

    Recruit

    Target experienced builders who treat agents as operational systems, not demos.

  2. 02

    Vet

    Candidates deconstruct a raw idea into a Didist project tree for humans and agents.

  3. 03

    Certify

    Demonstrate production-level command of Heber schemas and Colter guardrail rules.

  4. 04

    Match

    Deploy to a live Company Hero or Entrepreneur manifest and begin operational delivery.

Outcome Verification Protocol (Coming Soon)

Placeholder for the payout audit framework used to verify partner incentives.