live.bankabil.com · Ink Foundry

Before you build
a high-trust startup,
make it verifiable.

Ink Foundry is a startup factory for verifiable companies. We use Bankabil's open-source Ink Receipts primitive to help founders, operators, accelerators, universities, and regional startup ecosystems build companies whose operations are provable from day one.

Every serious startup eventually has to prove what happened.
Ink Receipts let the startup prove it from the beginning.

Run Founder Preflight →Explore ReceiptRoom Build with Ink Receipts 90-Day Factory Plan

⏱ ~10 minutes · works offline · draft auto-saves in your browser · no login, no AI, no stored submissions

Ink Foundry thesis

Most startup factories build companies around markets. Ink Foundry builds companies around provable workflows.

We only build or support startups where proof failure is expensive: diligence, audit, dispute, compliance, underwriting, procurement, reporting, financing, customer trust, or institutional review.

Ink Foundry combines Corey's founder, CXO, and ecosystem operating layer with Bankabil's open-source Ink Receipts evidence primitive to create a repeatable startup manufacturing system for high-trust vertical companies. The result is not another SaaS studio. It is a factory for evidence-native startups.

How Ink Foundry works

Open Source Ink Receipts

A neutral evidence primitive for canonical events, signed receipts, offline verification, proof bundles, and portable evidence packets.

Evidence-Native Startup Templates

Repeatable company blueprints for diligence rooms, RFP workflows, founder accountability, healthcare operations, legal defensibility, grant reporting, and CXO handoffs.

Vertical Companies

New ventures and productized services built around workflows where clean proof creates economic value.

Open-source Ink Receipts

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Evidence-native startup templates

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Vertical companies

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Bankable, insurable, defensible operations

The Ink Foundry filter

A startup belongs in Ink Foundry only if the workflow answers at least one proof question.

Proof questionExample

Who did what?Founder update, clinician action, underwriter decision, advisor recommendation

When did it happen?RFP deadline, diligence upload, customer interview, hiring step

Under what authority?Manager approval, protocol, investor authorization, underwriting mandate

Based on what evidence?Document, transcript, model output, policy, spreadsheet, case note

Can it be verified later?Offline receipt verification, audit packet, dispute defense

Does proof change price?Procurement, lending, insurance, fundraising, compliance

We avoid consumer apps, shallow marketplaces, and vibes-based founder tools. We build where proof has economic value.

Intake layer

Bankability Preflight is how companies enter the factory.

Preflight is a deterministic, browser-only readiness process. It scores a company across readiness dimensions, maps evidence gaps, and produces a Week 0–12 sprint plan plus a 30 / 60 / 90-day follow-up. Nothing is stored, nothing is inferred by a model, and every score has an audit trail of fired rules.

Bankability Preflight
Fintech, banktech, AI, and regulated-market startups preparing for bank review.
Founder Preflight
Founders preparing for diligence, investor updates, customer discovery, and operating accountability.
RFP Preflight
Companies preparing enterprise, healthcare, government, banking, insurance, or legal-sector RFPs.
CXO Preflight
Startups or scaleups needing a fractional operator to build, receipt, and hand off a function.
Cohort Preflight
Universities, accelerators, chambers, Startup Grind chapters, and economic-development programs.

Choose your Preflight path →

Flagship module

ReceiptRoom — a verifiable diligence room for startups.

Every claim, file, update, investor response, customer proof point, founder milestone, and operating decision is sealed with an Ink Receipt.

Normal data rooms store files. ReceiptRoom produces evidence.

Normal data roomReceiptRoom

Stores filesProduces evidence

Shows current versionPreserves verified history

Relies on trustEnables independent verification

Investor-onlyInvestor, buyer, lender, insurer, and counsel-ready

Static folderLiving evidence layer

Helps fundraisingHelps fundraising, RFPs, banking, insurance, legal, and audits

Start a ReceiptRoom →View sample evidence packet

The first seven companies in the factory

StartupWhat it doesBuyer

ReceiptRoomVerifiable diligence room for startupsFounders, accelerators, angels, startup law firms, CFOs

RFP ReceiptReceipts claims, approvals, evidence, pricing assumptions, and submission milestonesB2B vendors, healthcare vendors, govtech, consulting firms

FounderProofTurns founder execution into verified operating historyFounders, accelerators, university programs, angel groups

CXO-in-a-BoxFractional CXO operating system with verified function handoffStartups, family offices, PE-backed companies, scaleups

CareProof OpsReceipt-native care coordination and patient-services operationsBehavioral health, telehealth, clinics, care-navigation vendors

GrantProofGrant reporting and milestone verificationFoundations, cities, universities, nonprofits, SmartZones

Startup Grind Evidence NetworkReceipted founder network activity, referrals, meetings, and milestonesFounder communities, chambers, accelerators, university centers

Each company shares the same proof architecture. The factory does not start from scratch every time. It reuses the same receipt primitive, evidence room structure, verification UX, and operating templates across vertical markets.

ReceiptRoom FounderProof RFP Receipt CXO-in-a-Box

The human operating layer

Corey operates the messy startup-formation layer

· founder intake
· startup selection
· customer discovery
· RFP and procurement packaging
· accelerator partnerships
· university pilots
· fractional CXO bench
· founder accountability
· market validation
· first customer discovery
· regional ecosystem routing

Bankabil supplies the evidence substrate. Corey turns the substrate into companies, cohorts, operating rooms, and customer-facing workflows.

The evidence infrastructure layer

Bankabil remains the technical and commercial evidence company

· Ink Receipts open-source standard
· signed event receipts
· offline verifier
· ProofMail
· enterprise evidence bundles
· BLKBXS for banking
· MAND8 for insurance
· DUE for legal
· paid infrastructure, support, and managed verification

Ink Foundry does not turn Bankabil into a consulting company. It turns Bankabil into the proof layer carried by many startups.

90-day launch plan

Days 1–30

Factory doctrine

Ink Foundry one-pager, ReceiptRoom landing page, open-source starter kit, founder intake form, diligence-room template, RFP proof template, accelerator cohort template, 10-founder pilot list.

Days 31–60

First pilot cohort

5–10 founders, each with a ReceiptRoom, weekly instrumented founder updates, logged customer discovery, and an investor-ready evidence packet. One or two enterprise pilots selected.

Days 61–90

Convert to paid offers

ReceiptRoom for Fundraising, RFP Receipt for Enterprise Sales, CXO-in-a-Box for Function Buildout. Bankabil observes which vertical has the strongest pull.

Open the 90-day plan →

Factory revenue model

FounderProof self-serve$49–$199 / month

ReceiptRoom startup plan$250–$1,000 / month

Accelerator cohort license$10,000–$50,000 / cohort

RFP Receipt team plan$2,000–$10,000 / month

Fractional CXO retainer$5,000–$20,000 / month

EvidenceRoom buildout$7,500–$50,000 / project

Enterprise diligence pack$15,000–$100,000 / project

Open source drives adoption. Paid infrastructure captures enterprise value.

Directional ranges, not checkout pricing. Scope, verification depth, and cohort size set the final figure.

Trust posture

· No login. No account. Nothing to sign up for.
· No backend. The tool runs entirely in your browser.
· No AI. Scoring is deterministic — every rule is auditable.
· No stored submissions. Nothing leaves this device.
· Draft auto-saves to your browser's localStorage. Start Over clears it.

Unofficial resource

Ink Foundry and Bankability Preflight are unofficial diagnostic and startup-formation resources operated by Bankabil. They are not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or approved by Canapi Ventures, ABA, Live Oak Bank, Live Oak Labs, any Canapi Alliance member, Lloyd's Lab, the FCA, the PRA, or any regulator. They are not legal, regulatory, investment, banking, insurance, or fundraising advice.