Private dinners
One table, no stage.
Fifteen to twenty-five founding engineers in a room built for the kind of candor that never happens on a panel.
For the first technical hires
Founding engineers deserve their own room.
First Commits is a private community for the first technical hires: operators who turned an idea into a product, a repo into a company, and uncertainty into working software.
Our partners
Why we exist
The earliest builders deserve a category of their own.
You joined when the product was mostly conviction. You chose the stack, handled the outage, shipped the demo, hired the next engineer, and made the technical bets that everyone else later inherited.
First Commits exists to recognize that work and connect the people who have done it with others operating at the same level of trust, taste, and urgency.
What we host
Small rooms with enough context to become useful.
Working salons
Technical context first.
Conversations around the early decisions that shape companies: architecture, hiring, incidents, velocity, and taste.
Partner-hosted rooms
Useful access, not sponsorship theater.
We bring together members, operators, and aligned partners when the room gets sharper because they are there.
Membership standard
Invite-only, referral-led, evidence-based.
We are looking for people who can point to the work: the first repo, the first launch, the early architecture, the production incidents, the first hires, and the hard technical calls made without much cover.
The goal is not scale. The goal is density: every member should make the room sharper for every other member.