ACCEPTING FOUNDERS · ROLLING INTAKE EST. RAPID CITY, SD — 2019

Turn your expertise into a company.

Wildfire Labs is a startup studio that turns industry expertise into AI-powered software. We build alongside founders and help you get to real customers, faster.

Apply Now → See the Program
0 phases
Discovery · Build · GTM
1:1
Operator-led mentorship
AI-first
Build team · GTM engine
Companies built with Wildfire Labs
PropertyMeld Seamreaders Query AI The Journeyman
01 — Why Wildfire
We're a startup studio, not an accelerator. We don't run cohorts. We sit next to you, build real product, and keep going, all the way to paying customers and beyond. Most founders have deep industry expertise and a real idea, but no engineering team, no go-to-market playbook, and no capital runway. Wildfire closes that gap. You bring the insight; we bring the build team, the process, and the first checks.ring the build team, the process, and the first checks.

A clear path, phase by phase.

01
Phase One · Validate

Customer
Discovery

Prove the problem is worth solving. Before a line of code.

02
Phase Two · Ship

Build

AI-first team. Production v1 in weeks, not quarters.

03
Phase Three · Grow

Go To
Market

A built app is not a business. Land real customers, fast.

02 — What founders get

The team, tools,
and capital to build.

01CAPITAL

Founder-
friendly
capital.

When the fit is right, we invest early so you can focus on building instead of fundraising.

02BUILD TEAM

AI-first
engineers.

Expert builders using modern AI tooling to compress a six-month build into an eight-week sprint.

03GO TO MARKET

A live
launch
engine.

Positioning, outbound, content, and analytics, run alongside your team to find first customers.

04MENTORSHIP

1:1 with
operators.

Weekly sessions with founders who've built and sold software companies. Not professional advisors.

05PROCESS

Wildfire
Academy.

Lessons, templates, and AI prompts mapped to every phase of your company. Never a blank page.

06COMMUNITY

Workspace
& founders.

24/7 workspace in Rapid City plus a community of founders building at the same time as you.

I'm not a tech person, so when I had an idea for an app I had no idea where to start. Wildfire Labs made it easy with their process and a clear path to follow.
Tyler Olson
Co-founder · The Journeyman
Ready?

Think your idea is too wild?

We'd love to hear about it. Applications are rolling. We review as they come in, and founders start as soon as they're ready.

Get feedback on your idea