Two Founder seats, both one-time purchases that unlock immediate funded capital on launch day, bypassing the normal Rating qualification queue. Silver $399 starts you at Junior tier with $25K funded. Gold $899 starts you at Pro tier with $100K funded. Both include 12 months of membership, a 7-app A-Trader bundle for a year, a lifetime pricing lock, a lifetime Founder badge, and a seat on the Responsibility & Integrity Board.
Normally, Rating earns the tier.
For Founders, paid once earns the seat.
Both are one-time payments covering 12 months of membership at the listed tier. After 12 months, your membership renews at the locked Founder rate. Capital is yours from day 1 of public launch, you skip the Rating climb and Floor participation gate that Open-tier traders go through.
Important: after launch, Founder Access closes permanently. New traders join the standard Open tier and earn their way through the Rating qualification. The bypass to immediate funded capital is exclusive to this 750-seat cohort.
The normal path to Junior takes a median trader ~3.5 weeks of Open-tier Floor participation. The path to Pro takes ~4 months at Junior tier. Founders skip both. On launch day, the funded account is active, the apps are activated, and the membership clock starts.
$25K (Silver) or $100K (Gold) is in your account when the platform opens to Founders at the end of June 2026. No Rating climb, no Floor count requirement, no waiting for cycle 2.
Your one-time payment covers a full year of Junior (Silver) or Pro (Gold) membership at the standard tier benefits. The clock starts on your platform activation day, not at purchase.
7 apps from the A-Trader marketplace are unlocked for a year: pattern detection, sentiment feeds, position-sizing, risk overlays, backtest tools, trade journaling, and more. Pick the 7 that fit your style.
An exclusive launch-month competition open only to the Founder cohort. Real prize pool, Founder-only field, special Rating bonus for top finishers. A flagship moment in the platform's history.
A separate channel grouping for the Founder cohort. Direct line to Arizet team. Earlier visibility on platform changes. Trader-to-trader cohort discussions.
A curated multi-module trading curriculum produced specifically for Founders, covering Meritix mechanics, Floor strategy, Rating optimization, and career-track planning.
Both Founder tiers are deeply discounted against the value they unlock. Below is the comparison: what each component would cost separately, what the Founder package costs, and the resulting effective discount.
| 12 months Junior membership | $588 |
| Immediate $25K funded capital from Day 1skips weeks of Floor entries to qualify | $200-$300 |
| 7-app A-Trader bundle, 1 year | ~$1,260 |
| Lifetime Silver badge + pricing lock | priceless |
| Founder Cup access | ~$100 |
| Founder educational series | ~$200 |
| Total stated value | ~$2,400 |
| You pay | $399 |
| Effective discount | ~83% off |
| 12 months Pro membership | $1,548 |
| Immediate $100K funded capital from Day 1skips months of Junior + Floor work | $500-$1,000 |
| 7-app A-Trader bundle, 1 year | ~$1,260 |
| Lifetime Gold badge + pricing lock | priceless |
| Founder Cup access | ~$100 |
| Founder educational series | ~$200 |
| Total stated value | ~$3,700 |
| You pay | $899 |
| Effective discount | ~76% off |
Why the discount is this big: Founders aren't paying for a discount, they're paying for a commitment. You're choosing to back a platform that hasn't fully launched yet. That commitment is what makes the launch viable, and we recognize it with permanent perks no later trader can purchase.
Year 1 perks expire after 12 months. The lifetime perks below stay with your Desk profile for as long as you maintain a continuous subscription, regardless of which tier you're at.
Silver or Gold badge permanently visible on your profile, leaderboards, and Floor results. A marker of being there at the start.
$49/mo Junior (Silver) or $129/mo Pro (Gold) locked for the life of your subscription. If the public price rises, and it will, your rate doesn't.
The Responsibility & Integrity Board is a consumer-advisory body. All Founders are eligible to participate in shaping platform policy.
Annual Founder summit (virtual or in person), plus periodic Founder-only Floors with special prize structure.
Founder requests are routed to senior support. Faster response times. Direct escalation channel to the Arizet team.
The first 750 Founders are publicly recognized on the platform's launch wall. Your trader profile carries the founding-trader marker permanently.
The pricing lock requires continuous subscription. If you pause your subscription, the lock holds for 90 days; after that, you'd resume at then-current pricing. The badge and other lifetime perks remain regardless.
The Responsibility & Integrity Board is a consumer-advisory body composed of Founder traders. It exists for one reason: to keep Arizet honest about the platform's product, rules, and behavior toward traders. The retail prop industry has had no such institution until now.
Detailed structure, eligibility rules, election mechanics for a core working group, voting procedures, and meeting cadence, is published in a separate document, available to Founders at activation. The Board is not a legal governing body and does not replace Arizet's operational authority; it is a structured channel for consumer voice and accountability.
The Desk is in active pre-launch with a tight runway to a soft launch at the end of June 2026, full public launch following in late July. Founders are activated at the soft launch, you get the platform a month before everyone else.
Silver and Gold seats available. KYC begins after purchase. Founder Discord access opens. Pre-launch communications and educational series begin distribution.
Platform activates for the Founder cohort. Funded capital is tradable. A-Trader apps unlock. First Floors run. First Meritix cycle begins. Founder Cup announced with dates.
Open tier signups open to the public. Marketing scales. Daily YouTube trading streams begin. Founder Cup runs through the launch month.
Your 12-month membership clock runs. Capital grows monthly while your Rating sustains. A-Trader apps active. Founder benefits in full effect.
Subscription auto-renews at locked Founder rate ($49 Silver / $129 Pro) for as long as you stay continuously subscribed. Lifetime perks remain.
A Founder seat is a real commitment, so the refund policy is real protection. Four overlapping safeguards mean your purchase is effectively risk-free if anything goes wrong.
Full refund, no questions asked, for any reason. Standard consumer-friendly cooling-off period.
Full refund if The Desk does not publicly launch by September 30, 2026. A hard date, buffered past our late-July full-launch target.
Automatic full refund if you fail KYC for any reason. We won't keep your money for a seat you can't activate.
An additional satisfaction window: 30 days from your platform activation day to test the live product. Full refund if you decide it's not for you.
The combined effect: if anything material goes wrong, the platform doesn't launch, the platform launches but disappoints you, KYC fails, or you just change your mind, your money comes back. The risk to a Founder is the time spent waiting for activation, not the capital.
Common questions about Founder Access specifically. For general questions about The Desk, see the full FAQ.
Yes, while Founder Access remains open. Pay the difference ($500) and your tier upgrades to Gold (Pro), with the corresponding $100K funded capital, Rating 1800 start, and Gold badge. Once Founder Access closes (after sellout or end of the open window), upgrade requires normal Rating qualification.
Same rules as any Pro trader. Capital growth pauses (your $100K stays $100K), but no demotion. When Rating recovers above 1750, the +$10K/mo growth resumes from your current capital. You keep the Pro tier indefinitely as long as you maintain your subscription.
Your Founder badge is permanent and survives subscription pauses. Your pricing lock is the only thing that requires continuous subscription, if you pause for more than 90 days, the rate resets to current public pricing when you return. The badge, profile recognition, and R&I Board eligibility remain regardless.
Formation happens during the Founder cohort window (now through July 2026). Initial structure document published to Founders at activation. First quarterly meeting target: Q4 2026. Eligible Founders receive participation details directly.
Founder Access is a subscription pre-payment, not an investment. Tax treatment depends on your jurisdiction and individual circumstances, consult your accountant. The Founder fee is separate from your funded-account capital, which is Arizet-funded, not your money.
Yes, with KYC handled by the recipient. The recipient must complete KYC in their own name. Once KYC is complete, the seat is theirs and non-transferable.
Founder Access closes permanently at sellout. No second wave, no "we changed our minds." New traders join the standard Open tier and earn their way through Rating qualification. This is the only opportunity to skip the queue and earn permanent Founder perks.
We extend the Founder window up to 60 days past the soft launch to give new platform users a chance to convert. If after that we still have unsold seats, we close the program at the count actually sold. We will not lower prices retroactively or open a discount cohort, that wouldn't be fair to the Founders who paid the full price.
Founder Access seats are limited and the window is short. Reserve via email, we'll respond within 24 hours with the activation flow and KYC instructions.