One shared pool of credits
Fund every founder from one balance, and get one bill.
What it is
Your program holds one balance of credits. Workspaces the program creates draw on it, which is what an applicant you advance and an application through your own form both get, so those founders need no plan of their own and you get one bill instead of many. A workspace a founder started on their own account stays on their own account.
Why it matters
Programs buy in rounds, not in monthly seats. A pool matches how you actually budget: buy for an intake round or a cohort, and spend it when the work happens. Credits do not expire.
How it works
Top up the pool when you need to, in units of 20,000 credits, which is the smallest purchase and is sized to a cohort rather than to one founder. You can set an automatic top-up to keep the balance from drifting down, and it is worth keeping enough in the pool to cover a full run rather than relying on it, because a top-up is charged in the background and a run that outruns the balance stops. You can see what each workspace has used and who owns it. When the balance runs out, generation stops rather than quietly billing you more.
When the program ends
Graduation hands a founder their workspace as their own. Their research and documents go with them, and their projects move onto their own account. Tell them what to expect on the day: a founder whose work you funded lands on no plan and no credits, because the program already paid for that work, so they choose a plan when they want to generate something new. Everything already written stays readable.
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