Founding partner program · Applications close 30 June 2026
Ten enterprises.
One foundation.
Twelve months free.
We’re choosing ten enterprises to set the operating record for Norrsent. This is the brief — what you get, what we ask in return, and how to apply.
At a glance
01Why founding partners
The platform you join now is the platform you help shape.
Norrsent is in the rare window where the platform exists, the trust foundation is real, and the operating record is still being defined. Founding partners are the ten enterprises whose decisions become Norrsent’s defaults.
Software companies sell software. Norrsent sells something different: a long-term operating partner with the discipline, security, and design to hold an enterprise’s most sensitive workflows. Risk, compliance, and governance are the entry product because they are the most demanding test of trust — if the platform can hold an audit-grade risk register, signed and attributed, it can hold anything else.
Once a customer has the foundation in place — their structure loaded, security cleared, integration patterns proven — every additional capability deployed on top of it costs a fraction of what a fresh procurement would. That marginal-cost collapse is the long-term value. Risk is the proof.
Founding partners aren’t beta testers. They’re the enterprises whose feedback shapes the integration patterns, naming conventions, roadmap priorities, and design defaults that become the way Norrsent handles those problems for everyone after.
“Founding partners are the ten enterprises whose decisions become Norrsent’s defaults.”
The Norrsent design principle
02Fit
Who this program is for.
Founding partners self-select. We’d rather have you walk away early than spend twelve months in a partnership that wasn’t built for your situation.
Right fit
You’re likely a fit if you have:
- Enterprise scale — typically 200+ employees, often multi-entity or group-structured
- A regulated industry posture, or a mature internal risk function (energy, financial services, healthcare, infrastructure, public sector)
- An internal sponsor with authority to deploy — head of risk, CRO, head of compliance, CISO, or equivalent
- Capacity for quarterly engagement with the Norrsent team (about an hour per quarter)
- Comfort with EU data residency and ISO 27001:2022-aligned hosting
- A real operating problem that today's modules can address — not a hypothetical
Not the right fit (yet)
This program isn’t built for:
- Buyers looking for shrink-wrapped GRC software with a fixed feature set and a sales rep on commission
- Organisations without an internal sponsor who can authorise deployment
- Deployments outside the EU where data residency is a hard requirement we can't meet today
- Procurement windows shorter than four weeks — founding partner work needs scoping space
- Pilots intended to be taken to other vendors as leverage
If you’re not a fit today but might be later, we’d still like to hear from you.
03Included
What founding partners get.
Full platform access. Not a feature-gated trial, not a watered-down sandbox. Every module, every capability, the same product an enterprise customer would deploy on day one of a paid contract.
- 01
Twelve months of full platform access
Every module deployed during your term, free. New capabilities released during the term are included automatically.
- 02
All eight modules currently shipped
Risk Management, Threat Management, Controls Management, Incident Reporting, CSRD, Policy Management, Third-party Risk, Audit Management.
- 03
Norrsent Copilot — full access
Responsible-AI assistant for risk identification, control suggestion, register audit, and report drafting. No feature gating.
- 04
Dedicated implementation analyst
A single Norrsent engineer assigned to your deployment for the duration of the founding-partner term.
- 05
Quarterly roadmap sessions
About an hour per quarter with the Norrsent team. What's working, what's not, what should ship next.
- 06
Permanent founding partner status
Granted on day one and held regardless of whether you continue commercially. Recognised in product communications when you wish.
- 07
Optional public reference
If you choose to be public — and only if you choose — your participation is acknowledged in case studies, talks, and partner communications.
Equivalent commercial value
What this represents.
A standard enterprise deployment of this configuration — eight modules, full Copilot access, dedicated implementation analyst — would carry six-figure annual licensing on most comparable platforms.
For founding partners: zero, for twelve months. We’re trading commercial revenue for design partnership. Both sides know it.
04Reciprocity
What we ask in return.
Honest engagement. The ten founding partners are the closest collaborators Norrsent will ever have, and the expectations reflect that.
A 45-minute scoping call
Before any agreement. We confirm fit, configuration, and timing. No pre-sales theatre.
A clear internal sponsor
Someone with authority to deploy and a stake in the outcome. Without one, the program won't work for either of us.
Quarterly feedback sessions
About an hour per quarter. What's working, what's not, what should ship next. Honesty over politeness.
Permission to learn from usage
Anonymised, aggregated usage patterns inform roadmap and defaults. Your data stays your data; what we learn from how the platform is used is what shapes the next version.
Tell us what's broken
If a workflow doesn't work, a control feels wrong, the audit trail isn't enough — we need to hear it. That's the entire point of the program.
Reasonable response on go-lives
When you commit to going live with a new module, we expect you to actually do it. Twelve months passes faster than people expect.
05Agreement
The terms, in plain English.
The full founding-partner agreement is short. The headline points are below; the detailed agreement is shared at the scoping call.
Term
Twelve calendar months from go-live.
Fee
None. No credit card, no deferred billing, no auto-conversion at end of term.
Continuation
Optional. Continuing after twelve months is your choice and is negotiated separately. Not continuing is also fine.
Status
Founding partner status is granted on day one and held permanently, regardless of commercial outcome.
Exit
Either party may exit the program at any time with 30 days written notice. Your data exports in standard formats; nothing held hostage.
Reference
Public reference is opt-in only. Silence is the default. No participation in marketing without explicit consent.
Data residency
EU-Central (Frankfurt) primary, EU-West (Dublin) for disaster recovery. No data leaves the EU.
Standard terms
DPA, sub-processor list, security pack, AI Article 22 statement — all included; no separate negotiation needed for founding partners.
The founding-partner agreement is a single document, drafted to be read in fifteen minutes by counsel.
06Process
From application to running.
Four steps, roughly two weeks from application submission to onboarding kickoff.
- 01Day 0
Apply
Submit configuration via the application form. Org size, modules, deployment preference. Five minutes.
- 02Day 1
Scope
45-minute scoping call within one business day of application. Confirm fit, configuration, and timing. No pre-sales pitch.
- 03Within 1 week
Agreement
Configuration finalised, founding-partner agreement signed. The agreement is a single document. Counsel reads it in fifteen minutes.
- 04Within 2 weeks
Onboarding
Implementation analyst engaged, deployment scheduled, your team trained. Production access on Norrsent within four weeks of application in most cases.
07Questions
Common questions ahead of applying.
When do applications close?
Applications close 30 June 2026 at 23:59 CEST. Applications received after that point are not considered for this cohort. We notify all applicants — selected or not — within two weeks of the close.
Why ten?
Ten is the largest cohort we can hold meaningfully close. Each founding partner gets quarterly engagement with the Norrsent team and influence on roadmap; that scales to ten, not to fifty.
Why twelve months?
Long enough to deploy, run a real programme, and form a view. Short enough that both parties can re-evaluate without entrenchment. Most enterprise tools take six months to deliver value; twelve months reaches the second cycle of usefulness.
What happens after twelve months?
Continuing is your choice. We'll discuss commercial terms in month nine or ten if you're inclined to continue. If you're not, we wind down the production access on agreed timing and your data exports cleanly.
What if we want to leave early?
Either party can exit with 30 days written notice. No early-termination fees, no clawback. Your data exports in standard formats. If we're failing you, we'd rather know than wait.
Are seats first-come-first-served?
No. We're balancing for industry mix, scale, and use-case diversity across the cohort. A later application in a different sector may be selected over an earlier one in a duplicate.
Can we do an on-prem deployment?
Yes, for founding partners with the operational capacity to run it. Same product, your perimeter. The implementation analyst handles setup; ongoing support is shared.
Will pricing be public eventually?
Yes. We're not running this program because pricing is unsettled — we know roughly what enterprise deployment will cost. We're running it because the platform's defaults are still being shaped, and the ten enterprises that shape them deserve to do so without commercial pressure.
Do non-EU enterprises qualify?
If your data must reside outside the EU, no — that's a hard constraint we can't meet today. If you're a non-EU enterprise comfortable with EU data residency, yes.
Apply by 30 June 2026 · 10 of 10 seats
Five minutes to apply.
Twelve months together if it’s a fit.
Configure the deployment that fits your enterprise. Applications close 30 June 2026; we come back within one business day with a scoping call invitation or, if it’s not a fit, an honest reason why.