Build · Back · RepeatPrivately held — own capital only
Fig. 1.1
01 — We make
Ideas are the cheap part
Everyone has them. The scarce act is staying with one long enough to give it edges — and then living with what you shipped. We design, develop, and publish our own work, and nobody else gets blamed for it.
Fig. 1.2
02 — We back
Sometimes the right move is not to build
Occasionally someone is already three years into the thing you were about to start. Then the useful contribution is capital, not code. We take positions with our own money, in people we would have wanted to be.
No fixed domain
Anything that will take the shape
A foundry is a process, not a subject. The question was never which industry a thing belongs to — it is whether the thing holds under load. Below is a partial index of where technology is currently being made. We have poured into six of them.
Law
Finance
Design
Machine intelligence
Accounting
Acoustics
Aerospace
Agriculture
Archives
Automotive
Aviation
Biotechnology
Capital markets
Chemicals
Climate
Compliance
Construction
Defence
Diagnostics
Education
Energy
Fisheries
Forestry
Freight
Grid & storage
Healthcare
Hospitality
Identity
Instrumentation
Insurance
Logistics
Manufacturing
Mapping
Maritime
Materials
Metrology
Mining
Navigation
Nuclear
Optics
Packaging
Payments
Pharmaceuticals
Photonics
Printing
Public records
Rail
Real estate
Recycling
Robotics
Satellites
Security
Semiconductors
Supply chain
Surveying
Telecom
Textiles
Translation
Utilities
Veterinary
Waste
Water
Weather
Wind & solar
▪ Poured · The rest are not off the table. They are simply not yet on it.
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Six shapes, one alloy. Nothing in the process changes when the subject does.
Method
Four gates and a rule for stopping
Nothing fails for want of ideas. Things fail because nobody set a date to stop. Everything we build and everything we back passes the same four gates, and every one of them is allowed to end it.
01
Spike
Can we name three people who would use this — and have we spoken to one?
≤ 2 weeks
02
Prototype
Did someone who isn't us come back to it a second time, unasked?
≤ 6 weeks
03
Launch
Did anyone pay?
≤ 3 months
04
Sustain
Knowing everything we now know, would we start it again today?
6 & 12 months
Work is retired, never "paused" — two missed gates, ninety untouched days, or an honest no to the last question. Retired work stays on the record with what it cost and what it taught. Knowing how to stop is the whole discipline.
On the floor
Currently in the mould
07
Across six fields
/ 01
JustSettle
An agreement, the promises it creates, and the argument that follows normally live in three unrelated places. This keeps them in one record, and brings a professional in only when the parties actually need one.
Law
/ 02
Legal Visibility
A firm can watch its rankings and still not know which competitor is taking its matters. This reads legal search by practice area and geography, then says which gap is worth paying to close.
Law
/ 03
Meridian
Automated trading systems fail quietly, then all at once. This one has to earn its own authority: every strategy carries a forward record, and a strategy without evidence is not allowed to size a position.
FinanceCapital markets
/ 04
SATpace
Most test prep competes on the size of the question bank. This serves a fresh variation of whatever a student just missed and keeps returning to that pattern until it holds under time.
Education
/ 05
Sonari
Meeting recorders send the room to somebody else's server. This captures both sides of a call, transcribes it and separates the speakers on the machine itself, and the audio never leaves.
Machine intelligenceAcoustics
/ 06
Aphelion Forge
Children's math games tend to put a worksheet between two unrelated game sequences. Here the arithmetic is the control system — the quantity is the thing that moves what is on screen.
Education
/ 07
Dance Lesson Lab
A private teacher's day is a scheduling problem with a memory problem attached to it. Lessons, packages, payments, and each student's history belong in one record instead of four.
Education
Founded August 2026. This list is kept honest, which means it will sometimes get shorter.
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