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Direct line to the founders
No planners. No account-manager handoff. Founding partners message the people building Zumi, every time. Working sessions, not status calls.
Founding partner cohort · open
Get ahead of AI search.
Partner with Zumi
Zumi is onboarding a small group of brands and agencies that want to win AI-driven discovery. Founding partners get a direct line to the team, priority on the roadmap, and early-partner terms that hold as Zumi grows.
Buyers are asking AI.
Most brands are not in the answer
The shift to AI-driven discovery is already in the numbers. Founding partners are the brands that move before it shows up in pipeline reports.
90%
of organizations now use generative AI somewhere in their purchasing process.
Forrester, 2025
3×
faster than consumers, B2B buyers are adopting AI-powered search.
Forrester, 2025
25%
forecast drop in traditional search volume by end of 2026 as buyers shift to AI assistants.
Gartner, 2024
Built with partners,
not just for them
Four things the cohort gets that future customers will not. Read them in order.
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Priority on the work that matters
Partner queries ship first. Partner engines get prioritized. The categories partners compete in get deeper coverage before anyone else's.
03
Shape what gets built next
Founding partners sit inside the roadmap. They see what is being built, why, and when, and can move things up the list.
04
Early-partner terms, locked in
The terms a founding partner signs hold as Zumi grows. Future public pricing does not apply retroactively.
A partnership,
not a transaction
Founding-partner terms work because the cohort works. Three light asks, all optional, none on a contract.
Feedback
A working session every 4 weeks
A short session with the team. What is working, what is not, what is missing. Notes shape the next sprint.
Access
Intros where they make sense
Once the work is landing, a warm intro to a peer who would benefit. No pressure, no targets.
Story
Permission to anonymize results
If a partner's numbers move, we want to share the shape of the result with the cohort. Names stay private by default.
From application to
first movement
What the first month looks like from the day an application lands. No long onboarding. No services SOW.
- Day 0
Working session
A working session with the founders. We map the category, the competitors, and the queries buyers ask.
- Day 1 to 7
Live tracking on
Zumi starts monitoring the partner's prompts across 9 engines. First baseline report lands inside a week.
- Day 8 to 21
First moves
Citation source list, competitor leaderboard, missing-prompt list. Ranked by impact. Partners pick what to fix first.
- Day 30
Movement review
Side-by-side: where the brand started, where it is now. Decisions on what to double down on next.
The terms a founding
partner signs hold
Apply now and a founder reaches out within one business day to schedule a working session. No deck, no pitch. Live data for the brand on the call.
Apply to become a founding partner