Replace cloud VMs
with your devices.

More than two hundred and fifty conversations. I stopped counting.

My runway was thinning. I was running on Google Cloud, building infrastructure for a thesis most people had not yet imagined.

I went to investors. I told them about Presence Economy™. I told them about the fabric. I told them about a world where physical reality could be addressed the way knowledge had been addressed by search.

For every yes, I averaged nine nos. Sometimes the same investor said no twice. Sometimes three times. I stopped tracking after two hundred and fifty conversations.

I applied to Google's startup credit program. They said no. I applied again. They said no again.

Then the cloud bill came due. An investor had committed — and the onboarding was supposed to come with GCP credit to keep me running. At the last minute, they pulled out. No check. No credit. No runway.

I went out hat in hand. Three percent of the company for one hundred thousand dollars — to anyone who could write the check. No takers.

One night I was on my phone, desperate, searching "how to minimize my cloud bill." Scrolling pricing calculators. Comparing instance types. Trying to shave dollars off a number that was already eating me alive.

And then I looked at the device in my hand.

I looked at it again.

This phone is a supercomputer. More powerful than the machines that put a man on the moon. As capable, just a few years back, as the most powerful machines you could rent on the major cloud platforms. I was searching for how to afford compute — on a device that was, itself, more compute than I needed.

Could I convert my mobile into my savior?

I started working that night. A quick proof of concept. Then another. It worked.

And the question that followed wouldn't leave me: if no one will give me compute, what if I didn't need anyone to give me compute?

I looked around. Three companies own the substrate beneath the entire AI economy. Pricing opaque. Margins extreme. Meanwhile, billions of devices sit idle for most of every day — phones, laptops, EVs, every pocket and parking lot in the world.

The world's largest compute fleet already existed. It just wasn't addressable.

So I made it addressable.

The platform you are reading this letter on right now? It IS that proof of concept, grown up. A real Cloud Run-style service running on phones, all day. This website is one. The auth service that powers sign-in is another. More are migrating off hyperscalers as you read this.

What happened to me must not happen to you.

Two years ago, building a software company required permission. Permission from a hyperscaler to give you compute. Permission from an investor to give you runway. Permission from someone, somewhere, to let you matter.

That world is ending. And you have inherited the keys.

I went through what I went through so the next founder would not have to.

If this site reaches you in your hardest hour — if you are on your fiftieth pitch or your two-hundredth no — let this be the message I wish someone had handed me at mile one: