15 places only · applications close 12 September 2026

Reticle XV

Fifteen companies pushing coding agents harder than anyone, in one room for a run. You leave shipping fewer bugs, better known and better connected

Apply for a place

Applications close in

15 places. Reviewed as they arrive.

Applications for Reticle XV close on 12 September 2026. There are 15 places.

23k+ installs a month417 stars86/88 benchmark bugs caught

The fifteen

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15 places. Applications close 12 September 2026.

Where this starts

Your agents ship faster than anyone can check. Your customers find the rest

Output goes up. Review capacity does not. Bugs reach the people paying you, and the team slows down on purpose because slowing down is the only control left.

Fifteen companies are about to stop trading speed for confidence. The run is how.

Without it

  • Bugs reach customers before they reach you.
  • Every release is a judgement call, made again from scratch.
  • You grow your reputation one quiet incident at a time.

The XV

  • Bugs caught before the release, every release.
  • Fourteen teams solving the same problem alongside you.
  • A launch, a case study, and the introductions that follow them.

What you leave with

Four things worth more than the software. The software is free too

The room

The teams exploiting AI coding agents hardest, comparing notes every week. What one of you works out, the other fourteen have by Friday.

Buyers and partners

We make introductions inside the fifteen and well beyond it. Several of these companies will end up selling to each other.

Visibility

A case study under your name and a launch carried across every channel we own, in front of an audience that buys developer tools.

Fewer bugs

Verification stops being whoever has time that afternoon, and re-running it costs about 2,500 times less than asking a model to check the work again.

What we ask

Three things, one sentence each

Bring the problem

The flows you cannot afford to break. Not a repository prepared for us.

Let us write it up

A case study and your logo on this page. You approve every word.

Show up

Two calls and answers in the channel. That is the whole commitment.

Who gets in

We are not counting your headcount

A solo founder shipping every day beats a hundred-person company that needs a quarter to approve a quote. We are picking on the product and on whether you will stand behind it in public, and nothing else.

  • Agents write a serious share of your code, and you are accountable for it.
  • Things that worked last month break without anyone noticing.
  • Verification is slowing your releases down.
  • You ship a web product real people use every week.
  • You can say yes without waiting on four other people.

How it runs

Apply, get read, get the call

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Apply

Ten minutes. No deck, no warm intro. Applications close 12 September 2026.

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We read it

By hand. We are looking for a real product and a real bottleneck.

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The call

Short, and spent on your problem. A fit is confirmed on the call.

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The run

Opens 28 September 2026, lasts one month. You ship, we build alongside you, and the story goes out as it happens.

What it costs you

An engagement, a launch, and the room. The fifteen pay nothing

Reticle Enterprise

Nothing

No invoice, no card, no fee at the end. A place is not for sale at any price.

Take a place

  • The fifteen

    One room of AI-first teams and the talent inside them, closed for good once the places are filled.

    Invite only

  • Introductions

    Design partners, enterprise buyers, and the people who unblock what you are stuck on.

    Included

  • A launch

    Your product in front of our audience, with your approval on every word.

    Included

  • Founder time

    The people who built Reticle, working your release path with your team.

    Not sold separately

  • The platform

    Enterprise for the run, then a startup price a startup can carry.

    Included

The application

Ten minutes now, a pipeline from 28 September 2026

We are reading for the problem, not the prose.

Applications close in

15 places. Reviewed as they arrive.

Applications for Reticle XV close on 12 September 2026. There are 15 places.

The team

Step 1 of 2

One short step left. Nothing is sent until the end.

Straight answers

Asked before every application

A release path that catches its own regressions, fourteen peer companies you can call, introductions to design partners and buyers, and a case study in front of our audience. The software keeps running afterwards.
Nothing, and there is no invoice at the end. Places are not for sale at any price, which is the only reason being in one means anything to anybody.
Applications close 12 September 2026. The run opens 28 September 2026 and lasts one month. We make calls throughout, so the 15 can fill before the closing date.
No. We select the companies whose problem we are best placed to solve. Applying early still helps.
You approve every word before it goes out. Nothing about your code, your customers or your internals is ever published.
Reticle runs in the browser against your running app, so what sits behind it matters less than you would expect. If something genuinely blocks it, we would rather find that on the call.
Best possible timing. Getting verification right before a launch is cheaper than getting it right after one.