NSF I-Corps

# NSF I-Corps application draft — {{idea name}}

1. **What are you building?** (1-2 sentences)
   {{one-line description}}

2. **Why is this hard for others?**
   {{Defensibility — what existing players can't easily copy}}

3. **What have you shipped so far?**
   {{Concrete artifacts: prototype, beta users, contracts, demos}}

4. **What did you learn from your first 10 conversations?**
   {{The single most surprising customer insight}}

5. **Why this team?**
   {{The unfair advantage each founder brings}}

6. **What's the 90-day goal during the batch?**
   {{One concrete metric you'll move in the batch — usage, revenue, partners}}

7. **What would you do with the check?**
   {{The single biggest constraint $100-500k would unblock}}

Fill in: idea name, one-line description, Defensibility — what existing players can't easily copy, Concrete artifacts: prototype, beta users, contracts, demos, The single most surprising customer insight, The unfair advantage each founder brings, One concrete metric you'll move in the batch — usage, revenue, partners, The single biggest constraint $100-500k would unblock