Founding partner program
Five teams. Ninety days free. Then a paid customer.
Burnside is building the PostgreSQL lifecycle platform — capture with pg-cdc, land in first table, move data with wire-drop, operate with data-agent. We are onboarding five founding partners who run real Postgres workloads. You get 90 days of hands-on help free; after that you continue as a paid customer.
The lifecycle, in four moves
Capture
pg-cdc
Postgres logical replication → ordered change stream
Land
pg-warehouse
Iceberg tables on S3, governed by Glue + Lake Formation
Wire
wire-drop
Reusable transport contracts between sources and sinks
Operate
data-agent
MCP-driven agent that runs the platform day-to-day
Featured products
10 features. You pick 2. We ship them first.
Founding partners shape the roadmap. Your 2 picks bump to the top of the queue. The rest ships in order over the next 12 months.
pg-cdc
Postgres Change Data Capture
Streams PostgreSQL WAL
pg-cdc streams your Postgres WAL into typed Parquet files on your laptop, then exposes them through a local MCP server. Claude (or Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client) can answer real questions about your real, current data — without touching prod, and without ever seeing your DATABASE_URL. It's the fastest way to let an AI chat with your Postgres safely.
first table
first able is a client-side tool that runs on your workstation
Curated + State layers | Pulls raw Iceberg → DuckDB → SQL transforms → publishes contracted gold tables
Getting data out of PostgreSQL for analytics or ML usually means stitching together Python scripts, cron jobs, and a cloud warehouse you don't need. pg-warehouse replaces that with a single binary: sync tables into an embedded DuckDB, build versioned analytical releases, and export to Parquet or CSV. Everything runs locally, on your machine, with no external dependencies.
data-agent
Intelligence layer
AI agent reads contracts + state + gold data
Answers business questions with root cause analysis. Domain-agnostic. | supporting (planning)
wire-drop
Exchange layer
Secure mTLS data exchange subscriber. External pushes → Iceberg
Schema inference. No passwords, no API keys. | supporting (scaffolded)
Iceberg + Glue catalog
Shared data lake across all 5 binaries
Time-travel queries, snapshot isolation, schema evolution. supporting
Time-travel queries, snapshot isolation, schema evolution. supporting
Lake Formation governance
Tag-based ACLs. Untagged data is invisible
Lake Formation sync + full audit trail. supporting
Lake Formation sync + full audit trail. supporting
Contract-driven semantics
YAML contracts define schemas, metrics, alerts. Switch contracts = switch domain.
YAML contracts define schemas, metrics, alerts. Switch contracts = switch domain.
Same binary serves sales, ops, finance. supporting
Three-tier state model
CI metrics (authoritative) + analyst observations (positional)
Role-gated annotations. No conflicts. | supporting
Role-gated annotations. No conflicts. | supporting
How the program works
Free for 90 days, then you pivot to a paid customer
Founding partners get hands-on help bringing the platform into a real Postgres environment. After 90 days you continue at customer pricing tuned for early-stage teams.
Step 1
Apply
Tell us about your Postgres workload, growth rate, and what currently breaks.
Step 2
Onboard free for 90 days
We help you stand up pg-cdc + pg-warehouse on your AWS. You keep everything.
Step 3
Convert to paid customer
After 90 days, continue with a paid engagement priced for early-stage teams.
Call to action
Become one of the first five
Founding-partner cohort is capped at five teams. Apply now and we will respond within two business days.