Founding Design Partner Program

Shape the product your business runs on.

A Founding Design Partner (FDP) is one of 5 Texas hemp retailers in a closed design cohort. Partners work directly with the founder, and HempDash is built around their real compliance workflows — COAs, age verification, and audit packs, shaped by the people who use them.

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What the program is

A closed cohort of 5

The program is capped at 5 Texas hemp retailers. Small on purpose — every partner gets real founder time, not a mailing list.

A working relationship

Partners meet with the founder on a regular cadence, walk through their actual workflows, and see their feedback land in the product.

A design role, not a beta test

Founding Design Partners set priorities. Their use cases are built first, and the compliance workflows they rely on define what ships.

What partners give — and what they get

Partners give:

  • Real-world use — running actual compliance work (COAs, age verification, audit packs) on HempDash
  • Honest, regular feedback in working sessions with the founder
  • Permission to design around their workflows, so what ships works in a real store

Partners get:

  • Direct roadmap input — their use cases are built first
  • Founder access — a working relationship, not a support queue
  • Charter Vendor status on top of FDP status — the two stack, including Charter pricing (50% off list in Year 1, then 25% off list on renewals)
  • A product shaped around how their store actually operates

Founding Design Partner ↔ Charter Vendor

Every Founding Design Partner is also a Charter Vendor — the statuses stack. The Charter Vendor program is the broader founding cohort, capped at 25, with 50% off list in Year 1 and 25% off list on every renewal.

About the Charter Vendor program →

How the conversation starts

1

Book a demo

Every program conversation starts the same way: a 30-minute demo of your actual compliance workflow.

2

Talk fit with the founder

If the design-partner program fits your store, we cover what the partnership looks like on the call.

3

Start with compliance

Partners onboard like any retailer — records organized, first audit pack exported — then the design work begins.

See it first, decide after.

The demo walks your real compliance workflow — COAs, age verification, audit pack export. If the Founding Design Partner program is a fit, that's where we'll talk about it.

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