/ Limited worldwide · Founding Partner positions for a small group of global leaders. Gold · Elite · Enterprise — applications open.

/ Founding Partner Programme

The price you pay today
is the price you'll pay
in 2036.

Become a GIWAHS Founding Partner and lock your membership rate for 10 years — while we build the world's most trusted manufacturing and product intelligence network.

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Founding Partner · Trusted · Verified

USD subscription · Stripe-secured · 14-day full refund · Cancel anytime

/ Signed by the founder

Every Founding Partner contract is signed personally. The 10-year price-lock is a clause, not a promise.

Jay Elkington
Founder & Director
Whaitiri Black Limited · trading as GIWAHS
Auckland · New Zealand
/ 01 — Why now

Most platforms inflate prices. GIWAHS will too — for everyone except Founding Partners.

Every credible B2B platform you use today was cheapest in its first year. Slack, Notion, Figma — the operators who joined early paid 50–80% less than the operators who joined in year five.

GIWAHS is doing the opposite of the usual pricing trajectory: we publish the long-term rate today, tell you exactly what you'll pay in year ten, and lock it in writing.

That commitment is only possible if we cap the programme. A worldwide-limited group of Founding Partners — once allocated, the programme closes permanently. There is no "Founding Partner Wave 2" next year.

/ 02 — What you get

Three tiers. One window.

All Founder prices in USD, exclusive of applicable taxes. Stripe processes payment. 14-day full-refund cooling-off applies. See Trust Centre.

Gold Founding Partner
Gold Founder #001–#300
$490
USD / year
Standard (2027+): $990
Locked saving · $500/yr · $5,000 over 10 years
Solo workspace·Worldwide-limited
Solo operators, founders, single-buyer brands.
  • Verified Supplier Profile (where applicable)
  • RFQ participation
  • Founder badge + Founder Member Number
  • 10-year price-lock guarantee
  • Founders Wall recognition
  • Quarterly product-roadmap briefing
Applications open · review-based allocation
Apply for Gold
Most chosen
Elite Founding Partner
Elite Founder #001–#150
$1,490
USD / year
Standard (2027+): $2,990
Locked saving · $1,500/yr · $15,000 over 10 years
Team workspace·Worldwide-limited
Teams of 3–10 with regular RFQ flow and multi-certification verification needs.
  • Everything in Gold
  • Team workspace + multi-user roles
  • Expanded RFQ throughput
  • Priority verification queue
  • Founder Council invitation
Applications open · review-based allocation
Apply for Elite
Enterprise Founding Partner
Enterprise Founder #001–#050
$4,990
USD / year
Standard (2027+): $7,400
Locked saving · $2,410/yr · $24,100 over 10 years
Multi-team workspace·Worldwide-limited
Multi-team organisations, dedicated sourcing teams, 50+ RFQs/year, custom reporting needs.
  • Everything in Elite
  • Dedicated success manager
  • Advance API preview access
  • Named-account verification reviewer
  • On-call onboarding session
Applications open · review-based allocation
Join the waitlist
/ 03 — The 10-Year Founder Price-Lock

We wrote the lock into the contract — not the marketing.

The 10-year price-lock is a clause in our Founding Partner Terms, recorded against your Stripe subscription with founder_price_lock_years=10 metadata, and enforced automatically every renewal.

YearStandard (projected)Founder (locked)Your saving
2026 (Year 1)$990$490$500
2028 (Year 3)$1,080$490$590
2030 (Year 5)$1,180$490$690
2033 (Year 8)$1,360$490$870
2036 (Year 10)$1,560$490$1,070
10-year total (Gold)$11,800$4,900$6,900

Standard projection assumes a conservative 3% annual increase; actual standard rate may rise faster. Founder price is locked and contractually protected for 10 years.

/ 04 — Founding Partner status

What "Founding Partner" actually means.

Founder Member Number

Permanent, sequential identifier (FP-0001…). Issued once your subscription is active and onboarding is complete. Yours for as long as you remain active.

Founder badge

Visible on your supplier or buyer profile across the GIWAHS Platform. Other users see immediately that you backed the network before it scaled.

Founders Wall

A permanent public recognition page at /founders, ordered by Founder Member Number. Activates once 25 active founders are acquired.

Roadmap briefings

Quarterly written briefings on what we're building next, before it ships. You see the strategy in private. You can shape it.

/ 05 — How GIWAHS is different

GIWAHS is not a directory, a marketplace, or an agency.

DirectoriesMarketplacesGIWAHS
Pays for visibilityYes — pay-to-rankYes — feature feesNo — verification-first ranking
VerificationSelf-reportedLimitedMulti-document, audited
Buyer protectionWeakMarketplace-onlyDirect buyer–supplier relationships
Revenue modelLead fees + adsTransaction feesAnnual membership only
Founder programmeNoneNone500 partners, 10-year price-lock
/ 06 — Trust & compliance

Founder Partners commit for ten years. We treat that like the bond it is.

Read the full Trust Centre
Bank-grade infrastructure

Stripe payments, Supabase + AWS data, Cloudflare edge, TLS 1.2+, AES-256 at rest.

Privacy-first by design

GDPR · UK GDPR · CCPA · NZ Privacy Act 2020 · AU Privacy Act compliant. Full DPA available.

No data resale, ever

Your RFQs, supplier profiles, and certifications are yours. We never sell user data.

/ 07 — Allocation status

Founding allocation ledger.

Counters below are illustrative reference figures until the membership API is activated. When live, they refresh every 60 seconds from the GIWAHS admin RPC.

TierTotalAllocatedRemainingWaitlist
gold300297312
elite150148228
enterprise5050017

A worldwide-limited window.
Lock your price for a decade.

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