# Graduating from the Google for Startups: AI Solution Lab Program

> In December 2025 I graduated with the Caliana team from the first cohort of the Google for Startups: AI Solution Lab Program 2025, bringing Spead AI, its Google Cloud architecture validated, with compute access and mentorship.

In December 2025 I graduated with the Caliana team from the first cohort of the Google for Startups: AI Solution Lab Program 2025. Caliana is the company where Spead AI is incubated and where I worked under the President Director; the product we brought to the program was Spead AI, and the graduation certificate is issued to Caliana. It is the kind of validation I value most: of how the product is built, not of what it promises.

**The program at a glance**
- Program: Google for Startups: AI Solution Lab Program 2025
- Cohort: First cohort
- Product: Spead AI
- Certificate issued to: Caliana
- Graduated: December 2025
- Support: Compute access and technical mentorship

## What the program validated

For us, the core of the program was architectural review. Spead AI runs contextual RAG engines on top of an organisation's internal documents, which means the system has to be secure by default, able to scale across regions, and resilient when a component fails. Over the program we worked through that design with the program's mentors, and graduated with the technical architecture for secure, globally scalable and resilient AI systems on Google Cloud Platform validated.

Two practical things came with it. Compute access, which at our stage is the difference between testing an idea on a laptop and testing it against real document volumes. And technical mentorship, which mostly meant experienced people asking uncomfortable questions about our data boundaries, our failure modes and our costs before a client did.

## Why it matters

A validated architecture is not a product, and I am careful not to describe it as one. What it gives Spead AI is a foundation I can put in front of an enterprise or a state-owned company without asking them to take the infrastructure on faith. The 87% reduction in document time that Spead AI reports from its pilot is only meaningful if the system behind it can be trusted with corporate data, and this program is part of how I answer that question. The next step is to keep earning it, one pilot at a time.

Source: https://nugrahalabib.com/writing/google-for-startups-2025
Author: Nugraha Labib Mujaddid (https://nugrahalabib.com)
Published: 2025-12-15. Updated: 2026-09-24.