Can we join the preview?
Not yet. Design-partner intake is not open, and there is no form. The program describes the kind of team it would want first, and the best preparation is to describe a real job precisely.
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IN SHORT
Not yet. E31 Network is a technical preview, design-partner intake is not open, and there is no form or list to join. The program has published the kind of team it would want first: one with heavy, bursty AI jobs, able to describe a job precisely and engage at the engineering level. When intake opens, the design-partners page would say so.
Not yet. Design-partner intake for E31 Network is not open, and there is no form, list, or address to put your name on. The site is a technical preview of a compute network that has not shipped, and the program has chosen to publish its design and its unsolved problems before it takes on anyone. When that changes, the design partners page would change first.
That page already describes who the program would want, and it is specific enough to act on.
What a design partner would be
A small number of teams with heavy, bursty AI jobs. Heavy, because the network is for work that needs real compute: a retraining run, a backlog of footage, a sweep of simulations, a dataset to process once. Bursty, because the whole economic case is renting compute for the peak rather than owning it through the trough. A team whose demand is steady would be better served owning compute, and the program says so.
Able to describe a job precisely. The unit of the network is the job, and a job declares its work, its data, its request, and its output. A design partner would be a team that can write those four parts down for a real job without hand-waving, because the program's open questions, especially what a job must declare to be scheduled well, can only be answered against real jobs.
Willing to engage at the engineering level, and to run the job for real when the time comes. The preview is not looking for an audience. It is looking for teams that would put a job through the system and report what broke.
Why intake is closed
Because nothing can be submitted yet. Opening intake before a job can run would collect names and give those names nothing to do. The program has also not published rates, where the capacity comes from, or retention specifics, and a design partner would reasonably want those before committing a real job. The article can I submit a job today covers the same status from the job's side.
There is a second reason. The scheduling of mixed job sizes is unsolved, and the first partners' jobs would shape the answer. The program would rather choose those jobs deliberately than take them in the order they arrive.
What to do before it opens
Write the job. Take the retraining run or the footage backlog that fits the network's shape and describe it in four short paragraphs: what runs, what it reads, how much compute for how long and by when, and what should come back. The examples page shows four illustrative requests in that form.
Then check it against the line. If any part of the job must answer now, that part stays with you; the workloads page and what if my job cannot wait explain why. What remains is the job you would bring when intake opens, and the preview exists so that you can read everything about where it would run in the meantime.
Questions this raises
- Is there anything to sign or any commitment involved?
- Nothing exists to sign, because intake is not open. The program has not published commercial terms for design partners, and no commitment term, credit, or rate is described anywhere on the site.
- How small is a small number of design partners?
- The program says a small number and does not give one. The intent is few enough teams that each job can be worked through at the engineering level rather than through a ticket queue.
- Does reading the preview now give us any advantage later?
- It gives you a job description, which is what the program says it would look for. A team that has already written down the work, data, request, and output of a real job would have less to do when intake opens.
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