Early product access
Run meaningful capabilities on your own hardware before broad release, and shape how they work in practice.
FleetDriver Design Partner Program
Design your future private cloud platform with us
Run FleetDriver early on your own hardware. Work directly with the engineers building it. Decide with us what it becomes.
The exchange
More connected than a typical customer. More practical than an advisory board
A design partner is an operator who uses FleetDriver on real infrastructure while it is still being shaped. You bring firsthand experience. We bring the product team. Together, we build a platform around how your team actually works.
Design partners bringFirsthand context
Hardware, workloads, day-to-day operations, buying decisions, and the priorities that only become clear in a live environment.
context
product
FleetDriver bringsDirect access
Early product access, transparent plans, hands-on help, and a direct channel to the team building your future cloud.
A direct line
A private chat channel with the engineers building and operating the platform. No ticket queue in between.
Roadmap influence
See what is coming, understand the tradeoffs, and help us choose which problems matter most.
Hands-on help
Work with the team that wrote the code when you evaluate, install, and operate FleetDriver.
How the program works
From first note to shaping the roadmap
Five steps, in order. Nothing is automated and nothing is outsourced: every step is with the people who build FleetDriver.
- 01
Start the conversation
Send a short note about what you run today and what is getting in the way. It goes to the team, not a sales sequence.
- 02
Scoping call
One call to walk through your hardware, workloads, and constraints. We both decide whether the program is a good fit.
- 03
Get running
We help you bring FleetDriver up on real servers in your environment, and we write down what was hard.
- 04
Work together monthly
A standing working session plus the shared chat channel. You see changes early; we see how they land.
- 05
Shape what ships
Your feedback feeds prioritization and design reviews. We tell you what changed because of it.
The monthly cadence
One focused conversation every month
No theatre and no giant customer council. A working session about what shipped, what we learned, and what will happen next. Between sessions, the chat channel stays open.
FleetDriver Design PartnersChat
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FleetDriver We are testing the next rollout experience. Here are the three decisions still open.
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Design partner The maintenance window is flexible. Recovery confidence matters most.
the product team is listening
Monthly design partner session
60 minutes- What shippedNew capabilities, changes, and release notes
- What we learnedPatterns from partners and the field
- What will happen nextThe next release and decisions still open
- Open discussionQuestions, feedback, and priorities
Every monthDirectly with the product team
Roadmap access
A view into the decisions, not just the dates
Design partners help us understand which operating problems are urgent, which ideas are useful, and which tradeoffs are worth making.
Available now
Operate the foundation
- Bare-metal provisioning
- Kubernetes control plane
- Hardware-backed security
- Safe OS lifecycle
Coming into focus
Build the platform layer
- Projects and workload boundaries
- Encrypted storage
- Ingress and service exposure
- Managed platform services
Shape with us
Choose what matters next
- Operational workflows
- Private AI foundations
- Virtual machines
- Hybrid connectivity
Influence is real. Delivery promises stay explicit. We will tell you what is committed, what is exploratory, and what we are not planning.
Who this is for
Operators with a problem worth solving together
The best design partners have an infrastructure problem, a point of view, and the patience to improve the answer with us.
Need is real
Ready to engage
Cloud repatriationPrivate dataSmall platform teamRegulated workloads
You might belong hereReal hardware. Real workload. Named operator.
What we ask
A named technical contact, one monthly conversation, candid feedback, and a real path to using FleetDriver.
Questions
What operators ask before joining
- Is there a cost or a discount?
- The program is a working collaboration, not a pricing offer. If FleetDriver becomes part of your platform, we discuss commercial terms directly and separately.
- How much time does it take?
- A named technical contact, one 60-minute session each month, and asynchronous chat when something is worth raising. Setup takes more time up front; we do that work with you.
- Is FleetDriver ready for production?
- FleetDriver is in active development. Design partners run it on real hardware with real workloads, and we are explicit about what is stable, what is preview, and what is not built yet.
- What if it stops being useful?
- Tell us and step away. We would rather hear why than keep a partnership that no longer helps you.
The partner group is intentionally small
Bring your infrastructure problem to the table
Tell us what you run today, what is getting in the way, and what a better operating model would make possible.
Start the conversationDirectly with the FleetDriver team. No sales sequence.