Sparrow — grant programme
Minimal’s cloud products, with credit drawn from a $1M pool, over 24 months. It covers what is live when you are accepted and extends to Agent Studio, Ask Studio and App Studio as each becomes available. For the teams who want to start this afternoon rather than stand up a server.
Everything big on the internet was small first. A garage, a dorm room, a kitchen table, two people and a deadline nobody set but them. Sparrow is us helping you realise it.
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$1M of credit on Minimal’s cloud services, committed over 24 months, for students, for companies with two founders and for stealth startups.
Nothing is charged at the end. There is no card on file, no automatic conversion to a paid plan, and no clause that turns the gift into a bill.
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The credit is issued over the products that exist on the day you are accepted, and extends to each of the others the day it becomes available: Agent Studio, Ask Studio and App Studio. Selected teams begin on Pro and spend the credit wherever the work goes. When the work outgrows it — real users, real traffic, real load — we move you to Scale. You do not have to ask.
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A student with a dataset and a deadline. Two founders with an idea and no infrastructure budget. A team building in stealth whose data has outgrown the spreadsheet it lives in. If you are enrolled somewhere, run a company with two founders, or are building in stealth, this is your programme.
One application covers all three programmes — Ostrich and Pelican included. You do not choose; we read what you sent and offer whichever fits the work.
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The credit runs for twenty-four months from the day it is issued.
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Whoever holds a grant under the programme does not build a product that competes with Littlebit Labs for the next 7 years.
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We take no equity, no revenue share, nothing from you. Besides the non-compete above, we ask one thing: tell us what you think of the product every quarter.
Your idea is enough.
The rest is covered.