Apply for one of four seats.

A stranger could pay for it today without you present. If no: this is a build problem, not a selling problem, and no amount of outreach fixes it. Come back when there is a URL where a stranger with a card can pay you.

A company pays, and you can name the job title that signs off. If no: consumer products cannot be sold one at a time by one operator inside a two weeks. The $199 workshop is the honest thing for you.

In year one. About $417 a month, or $5,000 once. If no: our floor fee of $1,250 would eat an unreasonable share of your first year. That is not a judgment about your product, it is arithmetic, and it is why the floor and the gate are the same number.

Payment infrastructure live, not planned. If no: fix it this week. It is a two-hour job and it is the cheapest gate on this list to clear.

You have never collected money from any customer, and you will say so in writing. If no: your problem is repeatability rather than existence, which is a different job. That is a Belkins conversation and we will point you at it.

The list is in the next section, with the reason for each. If no: you get told which category and why, in writing.

In Cohort 001, that is Vlad. Not a scoring script, not an assistant, and not a model deciding. A model helps him read. It does not decide, and it does not reply.

Six pass or fail checks, in the order printed above. One fail ends it there and you are told which one, by number.

If the gates pass. One hundred points across nine criteria. Seventy-five and over is an accept. Sixty to seventy-four is a deferral. Under sixty is a refusal.

Usually within a working day. Silence is not a refusal here, it is a queue. If three working days pass with nothing, email vlad@belkins.io and push.

Which of the four seats, and a kickoff slot. The terms document, with the contracting entity named on it, before you pay anything. The payment link for the $1,000 Deal Sprint. The card mandate in plain terms: stored for the close fee only, under an authenticated mandate disclosing the $2,500 per-account ceiling, with a $1 authorisation run before a single delivery hour is spent. The eight-hour scope cap in writing. The 336-hour delivery clock, which starts at kickoff and not at payment. And a request for your excluded list: every company you have already spoken to, named by you, fixed before we send you a single prospect. Nothing on that list can ever trigger a close fee. Nothing is charged until you accept those terms. An acceptance is the offer of a seat, not a bill.

Which gate you failed, or your score and the criteria that lost the points. A specific diagnosis: not "not a fit", the actual reason, in a sentence you could act on tomorrow. One recommendation, the thing we would do first in your position this week. A route where one exists: Belkins if you have revenue, the free Teardown, or the $199 workshop. No cost, and no follow-up sequence. Refused applicants do not get added to a mailing list.

One named fix and a date to re-apply. A deferral is a real answer, not a soft no, and re-applications are read against what you said the first time.

And it is the least satisfying one. Cohort 001 is four founders, and at least three of them need to share one buyer-role family, because a repeating pattern cannot be detected across four observations that differ on every axis. If you clear everything but would push the cohort past two buyer types, you are waitlisted for Cohort 002 with that stated as the reason. It is a scheduling decision about the cohort, not a judgment about your product.

No card is collected on this page. No amount is charged, authorized, held or reserved. Applying costs nothing and creates no payment obligation of any kind.

Two matter more than the rest: that you have never collected revenue from anyone, and that a first deal is worth what you said. If either turns out to be wrong after acceptance, the seat ends and any sprint fee already paid goes back to you.

Deal Sprint $1,000, charged only on acceptance and only after you have the terms in writing and click the link yourself. Live Desk $600 a month, opt in, three months maximum, auto-stop, and silence never renews it. Close Fee 25% of cash you actually collect from an account we sourced, floor $1,250 accrued across payments, cap $2,500 per account, charged only after you tell us in writing that the money landed. Never against a contract value you have not been paid.

We prepare you, we are on the line, and we take the awkward parts. Your voice is the one the buyer hears. If you want someone to sell for you, this is not that, and it is cheaper for both of us if you find that out on this page.

What you send us, plus the public pages of your product. That is the whole screening surface. We do not sign an NDA to read an application and we do not need one, because the form asks about your buyer rather than your build.

Not to another founder, and not to Belkins' commercial teams. If you have collected revenue and the route is Belkins, we ask you before we forward anything.

So the same product is not screened from scratch twice, and so a re-application can be read against your first one. You can ask to see it, correct it, or have it deleted, at vlad@belkins.io.

There are four. They go to founders who accept the terms, in the order they accept them.

Your name, company and product stay out of it unless you give separate written consent, which is refusable with no consequence and withdrawable at any point after.

Dealone promises the work and the refund. The refund is specific: if outreach we ran produces zero booked meetings by day 45, the sprint fee and every desk month charged come back within five working days, and we start that ourselves without you asking.