Lock in for 12 months and change the future.
Rent, food, laundry, a job. Not your problem here. Your job is to build. A workspace with a bed in it, labs that never close, 3 chef cooked meals a day, a Silicon twin for the admin, 399 people as locked in as you. Day 1 you own a company. Month 12 you know something nobody else does. Costs you nothing.
Fucking accelerate.
400
People locked in
12
Months to cook
1
Question answered when you walk out
$0
Out of your pocket
The film
The Medici backed a 15 year old. We back you.
75 seconds. Sound on.
Why it exists
For the ones who were going to build it anyway
You’re already building. A garage, a second hand oscilloscope, an idea the people around you don’t get. Nobody funds that. Universities want a supervisor’s name on it. Venture capital wants a result before the cheque. Ad Astra is the third path. Patronage. Someone houses you, feeds you, hands you the equipment and takes a share of what comes out. The only thing in the way was access. This is access.
The fellowship
Don’t go to uni. Start building instead
A room, 3 meals, the labs, the machine shop, the compute, a Silicon twin for the admin, a company in your name from day 1. We take a convertible note in it. Your bill is $0.
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The building
Bed to bench in 2 minutes
200 suites on top of the labs, the machine shop and the compute. Out of bed, at a bench in 2 minutes. More engineers per hectare than anywhere in the country.
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Excelsior
It keeps the score and finds the market
Checks your idea is new before you get in. Tracks every run, what worked, what didn’t. Runs experiments overnight, files the patents, finds who pays for what you built.
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e / acc
Accelerate or die.
Time to refactor academia.
Stagnation kills. Growth is upstream of everything good, and a rising energetic tide floats every boat.
Cheap energy plus cheap intelligence collapses the cost of making anything. Civilisation keeps complexifying whether the committees like it or not.
No doomers. The only constraint left is how fast you get your hands on the equipment.
Climb the Kardashev scale or die trying. Start in Cremorne.
400 people. 12 months. New knowledge. Every year.
Biology is engineering now. Rebuild the stack.
Selection
Builders only, no doomers
3 things. A view your field doesn’t hold, and you can back it. You were building before anyone paid you. You’re going after something big. No referrals, no credentials, no quota. 400 places a year, 1 open application.
How to apply
1 written application. That’s the door.
What you believe that your field doesn’t, the evidence, what changes if you’re right. Someone who can judge the science reads it. 2 weeks to an answer.
For investors
1 room, on a registered lease
Buy a room. Ad Astra leases it from you for 25 years and pays you 12 per cent of the price a year, paid annually, hedged against inflation. Bought through a company, a trust or a self managed fund.