Pre-seed round · Confidential

AI. Built to be yours.

The independent AI stack. Four years and $6.4 million, bootstrapped - from the world’s compute to the computer in your hands.

Global Compute
Super Cloud
Unified AI Platform
AI Native OS
AI Computer
OwnX
01

The pre-seed round

Terms, capital plan and pathway to seed

Stage Raise Pre-money Post-money Investor stake Instrument
2023 Bootstrap $6.4M - - - Team
2026Q3 First close $1.0M $30M $31M 3.23% SAFE
2026Q3 Pre-seed $2.0M $39M $41M 4.88% SAFE
2026Q4 Seed - Q4 2026 $12.0M $60M $72M 16.67% Priced equity
ItemDetail
Pre-seed programme$3.0M · 8.09% at conversion · USD / USDC / USDT
EntityOwnX Labs Inc. - Delaware C-Corp
Target first close20 August 2026
Capital plan$15.0M total planned: $7.5M deployed over 12 months, $6.0M protected reserve, $1.5M working capital buffer
Twelve-month plan$37.94M expected revenue, $15.87M gross profit, 7,000 Own 1 units, $36.81M exit ARR
Next milestoneKeynote 15 Aug - first sales Sep 2026 - recurring revenue from Oct 2026
Seed pathway$12M at $60M pre-money in Q4 2026, with a 50% secondary liquidity option for first-close holders
Series A valuation$120M+ expected in Q2 2027
02

All about OwnX

Who we are, what's broken, and how the pieces fit together

OwnX is the independent AI stack. We map the world's compute, turn fragmented infrastructure into one competitive market, route every task to the best-value open model, give that intelligence rules it must obey, and put the whole system inside a computer you own. We own no data centres and train no frontier models - the same way Uber owns no cars and Booking.com owns no hotels.

The vision is simple and it is not modest: the future of intelligence must not belong to four companies. Intelligence should run where its owner decides, cost what the market says it costs, and remember only what its owner allows. Four years, twelve people and $6.4 million of founder capital have gone into making that a working system rather than a position paper.

The full stack - helicopter view

The user Individuals · teams · developers · enterprises · sovereign buyers Own 1 - the device Local models · 8 agents · 5 concurrent users · private memory · bursts to OwnCloud on your terms OwnOS - the control layer Identity · permissions · memory · budget · wallet · payment policy · audit · rollback · routing OwnAI - the intelligence layer Open-weight models · multi-model workflows · picks cheapest model that clears the quality bar OwnCloud - the market 32 providers · 482 regions · one search, purchase and deploy layer Earth Compute - the map 7,369 data centres · 60 countries · 32,324 products · the price index for compute value flows up
ProblemSolution

Infrastructure has no transparent market, buyers overpay on model and machine, costs keep rising, building in-house is risky, and sensitive data leaves the building.

OwnX maps the market, makes providers compete, routes every task to the cheapest qualified model and machine, enforces identity and budget rules, and keeps sensitive work local.

Head to head

CapabilityOwnXChatGPTClaudeGeminiKimiQwenAWS / GCP / AzureHugging FaceMac Studio
Compares prices across the whole infrastructure market
Routes work across competing providers
Routes across models by cost and quality
Runs entirely locally - data never leaves
Agent identity, budgets and rollback at OS level
Ships hardware
Open source
No vendor lock-in

Legend: ● full · ◐ partial · ○ none. Kimi and Qwen are open-weight models OwnX runs, not competitors. The distinction is between owning a model and owning the system that decides which model to use.

Traction snapshot

$6.4MFounder capital invested
66%Of the planet's infrastructure mapped verify
7,369Data centres indexed
60Countries covered
32,324Infrastructure products
32Cloud providers integrated
1,224Benchmark runs published
5Layers live before the round

Cost by task type

Relative cost per completed task. The most expensive provider in each group is indexed to 100. OwnX runs 50-80% below frontier API pricing by routing to open-weight models on competitively priced infrastructure.

Cost by task type
02550751002241788594100Text2544748192100Coding12387010088n/aImage18356679100n/aAudioOwnXKimiGrokGeminiChatGPTClaude

Cumulative spend - one user, twelve months

Day-to-day professional AI use: chat, coding, documents, images and voice. The gap compounds. For an Own 1 owner the line flattens further - local work costs electricity, not credits.

Cumulative spend per user
$0$95$190$285$380M1M2M3M4M5M6M7M8M9M10M11M12Claude $360ChatGPT $360Gemini $336Grok $300Kimi $180OwnX $144

A new breakthrough in AI privacy

OwnX on-device85%OwnCloud routed70%30%ChatGPT100%Claude100%Gemini100%Grok100%Perplexity100%On deviceYour infraThird party

Share of a typical session's data that stays under your control. Open-weight models can run privately, but their hosted apps still send data to a third party.

What you ownWhat it means
DataDocuments, memory and history live on your device, not on a company's servers.
ModelOpen weights you can inspect, copy and keep running if any vendor disappears.
InfrastructureYou choose the jurisdiction each workload runs in, or that it never leaves the room.
IdentityEvery agent action carries an identity, a permission and a receipt you control.

Energy, carbon emission & cloud cost

0255075100OwnXAWSGoogleAzureEquinixDigitalOceanEnergyCarbonCloud cost
Energy per unit of useful work80% lower
Carbon emissions82% lower
Cloud cost for the same workload80% lower
Indexed to the highest provider in each measure. Figures are internal estimates pending third-party verification.verify

Who we work with

The round

StageRaisePre-moneyPost-moneyInvestor stakeInstrument
First close$1.0M$30M$31M3.23%SAFE
Pre-seed$2.0M$39M$41M4.88%SAFE
Seed - Q4 2026$12.0M$60M$72M16.67%Priced equity
Pre-seed programme$3.0M8.09% at conversionUSD / USDC / USDT
EntityOwnX Labs Inc. - Delaware C-Corp
Target first close20 August 2026
Capital plan$15.0M total planned: $7.5M deployed over 12 months, $6.0M protected reserve, $1.5M working capital buffer
Twelve-month plan$37.94M expected revenue, $15.87M gross profit, 7,000 Own 1 units, $36.81M exit ARR
Next milestoneKeynote 15 Aug - first sales Sep 2026 - recurring revenue from Oct 2026
Seed pathway$12M at $60M pre-money in Q4 2026, with a 50% secondary liquidity option for first-close holders
03

Product, innovation & breakthroughs

One idea, built one layer at a time

Oil has a price. Gold has a price. Compute doesn't.

Every serious market has a number you can look up - compute has nowhere.

Reference
1st
Financial markets
Bloomberg
Solved decades ago
Crypto
CoinMarketCap
Solved in a weekend
GPU & compute
Earth Compute
Nobody had built it

Nobody else offers the full stack.

Compute market, cloud, AI platform, operating system and hardware - everyone else owns a piece.

Layers
5

Your stuff. Not ours. Move anywhere, anytime.

Run it locally, move it anywhere, and take everything you built with you.

Yours
100%
Your stuff.
MEMORY · HISTORY · WORKFLOWS · AGENTS · CONFIGS · IDENTITIES · PERMISSIONS · LICENCES · POLICIES
Own 1
The machine on your desk
Bare metal
Any dedicated server
OwnCloud
34 providers, priced live
Hyperscalers
AWS, Google, Azure
Your own rack
On-prem, air-gapped

Ownership = control + portability + optionality.

Fourteen things you accumulate, and a tilde means a download that will not run anywhere else.

Portable
14/14

The model gets cheaper. Your intelligence gets bigger.

The price of a model falls every quarter, but five years of your memory and decisions does not.

Compounds

Ask AWS about data centres and you get AWS's data centres.

Squares drawn to area, and they each see one fleet - their own.

Mapped
62%
GO ~130 Google AW ~914 AWS 7,369 DATA CENTRES EC Earth Compute 62% of the world

Earth Compute can tell you if you're getting ripped off.

Your bill against every provider running the same machine, twelve months.

Overpaying
2.4×

Where is an H100 cheapest on Earth?

The same GPU, the same hour, priced in every region we index.

Hong Kong
45%
Hong Kong · −45%$5.60 / GPU-hour$ per H100-hour · same configurationUS East$10.20baselineSão Paulo$9.80−4%London$9.30−9%Frankfurt$8.90−13%Stockholm$7.60−25%Warsaw$7.20−29%Mumbai$6.80−33%Seoul$6.40−37%Singapore$6.10−40%Hong Kong$5.60−45%

The wrong provider decision compounds every hour.

Hyperscaler list price against the cheapest qualified machine across thirty-four providers, over a thousand GPU-hours.

Saved
80%

Every job teaches the router.

Which model, which hardware, how fast, how often it failed, what it cost - operational telemetry, not personal content.

Learned
880k
LAYER 01

First, we mapped out the entire world's data centres and GPUs.

Earth Compute banner

Earth Compute is the intelligence layer for the physical infrastructure powering AI. Data centres, cloud regions, GPU clusters, bare metal, internet exchanges, fibre routes and subsea cables in one connected view - with pricing, availability and history running from early infrastructure through to projects planned for 2030. It is available as an API, so applications, analysts and agents can query the physical market directly.

The moat is not collecting prices - it is normalising millions of inconsistent listings into genuinely comparable infrastructure. A provider knows its asking price. Earth Compute knows the market price: whether a configuration is unusually expensive, whether another region offers better value, whether supply is tightening, and whether the advertised specification is really equivalent. Competitors cannot buy the historical record; it only accrues by observing the market for years.

7,369Data centres mapped
60Countries
32,324Products indexed
26,297Cloud virtual machines
6,027Bare metal products
39Provider feeds
22Feeds refreshed <24h
$3Lowest indexed product / mo
Earth Compute demo poster
Product mix
Cloud VM 26,297Bare metal 6,027
Feed freshness
22/39
Index summary
Facilities7,369
Countries60
Products32,324
Feeds39
LAYER 02

Then, we connected them to create an Airbnb of cloud.

OwnCloud banner

OwnCloud puts hyperscalers, regional clouds, GPU operators and bare metal providers behind one search, purchase and deployment layer. The workload is described by requirement - CPU, GPU, memory, region, latency, sovereignty, budget, interruption policy - and infrastructure that cannot meet it is removed before price is compared. Agents and applications can transact through the same API, with stablecoin payments, so software can buy its own infrastructure inside limits the owner sets.

Two network effects run in opposite directions: more providers give customers better selection, and more customer demand gives providers better utilisation. Underneath both, OwnCloud observes what providers actually deliver - provisioning time, real uptime, sustained throughput, failure frequency, cancellation behaviour - rather than what they promise. That machine-observed reputation record cannot be replicated by a new entrant without the same years of history.

32Providers integrated
482Cities and regions
26 PBIndexed memory capacity
900 PBIndexed bandwidth
26,297Cloud VM options
6,027Bare metal options
60Countries reachable
1-clickDeploy to any provider
OwnCloud demo poster
Capacity indexed
26 PB memory900 PB bandwidth
Reach
Providers32
Regions482
Countries60
Products32,324
Payment options
Card
Stablecoin
Agent wallet
Reserved

One cloud over many clouds.

Booking.com for compute - compare thousands of options without visiting thousands of pages.

Providers
34
NVIDIAMicrosoftGoogle CloudOracleIBMAWSAlibabaHetznerHivelocityVultrEquinixCherry ServersOVHcloudScalewayOwnCloud34 PROVIDERSHyperscalersIndependents · 14 of 34 shown

Host, train and run models up to 80% less.

The same workload, priced across every provider we index.

Save
80%

Major breakthroughs in cost reduction.

One open model in four places, where only the location changes.

Save
96%
LAYER 03

Then, we built a platform to host the latest open-source models.

OwnAI runs the latest open-weight models across text, images, video, voice, music, coding, research, documents, analysis and agents. A single request can become a multi-model workflow - one model researches, another reasons, another generates, another verifies - returning one finished result. The user chooses where it executes: on Own 1, on their own infrastructure, or on OwnCloud.

Every model company can show benchmarks where its own model wins. OwnAI measures models against real tasks and learns which is genuinely right for each job - which is unnecessarily expensive, which smaller model performs equally well, which needs the fewest retries. The unit that matters is not token price but cost per successful outcome: a model that costs half as much and fails three times is not cheaper. As prices, limits and quality shift, OwnAI re-routes - smart order routing, applied to intelligence.

7Modalities supported
44Models benchmarked
3Execution zones
$200→$10Routed cost, qualified work
$8Go tier / month
$12Pro tier / month
$50Max tier / month
0Frontier models trained
OwnAI demo poster

OwnAI vs the AI subscriptions people already pay for

CapabilityOwnAIChatGPTClaudeGeminiGrokHeyGen
Choose the model per task
Choose where it runs
Run fully offline / on-device
Open-weight models
Text · image · video · voice · code in one place
Multi-model workflow in one request
No per-seat lock-in to one vendor's models
Cost cascade
$200$50$10
Subscription tiers
Go$8
Pro$12
Max$50
Own 1 ownerlocal
Execution zones
Own 1private
Your infrasovereign
OwnCloudscale
Modalities
Chat · Code · Agents3
Image · Video2
TTS · STT2

Ten kinds of intelligence. One workspace.

Chat, text, reasoning, coding, research, image, video, voice, music and agents - behind one experience.

Ten into
1

Why should seven kinds of AI require seven products?

Nine capabilities across six platforms, where only one row runs all the way.

Complete
9/9

A new billing system for AI. Unlimited time-based access.

Unlimited time-based access, against two or three separate meters you cannot see.

Tokens
0
Day rate
$59
8 hours a day, unlimited · per month
Around the clock
$109
24 hours a day, unlimited · per month
What unlimited actually costs everywhere else

One bill. Many functions. Unlimited tokens.

Six subscriptions to cover one workflow, or one that covers all of it.

Save
58%

Many AI subscriptions add up over time.

The annual difference becomes real when you stop buying a separate premium tool for every job.

Year one
984

A new breakthrough in AI privacy.

Where the work runs, who controls it, who keeps the memory, and whether it can leave.

Privacy
9.0
BrandLocal routeUser controlMemoryPortabilityOverall
OAOwnAI9/109/109/109/109.0
CLClaude5/103/103/102/103.3
PPPerplexity4/103/104/102/103.3
GPChatGPT4/103/103/102/103.0
GEGemini4/103/103/102/103.0
GKGrok4/103/103/102/103.0
LAYER 04

Then, we built an operating system to run it all efficiently.

OwnOS banner

OwnOS is a lightweight, open-source operating system designed for models and agents rather than retrofitted for them. Built on NixOS with TPM2-protected keys, Btrfs snapshots, atomic updates, ERC-4337 smart accounts and x402 machine payments. Every model, application and agent inherits ten native systems: identity, permissions, memory, data access, wallet, budget, payment policy, usage metering, audit history and compute routing.

The moat is not a permission screen - it is the policy and behaviour graph underneath it. OwnOS learns which actions are normal for each kind of agent, which sequences are dangerous, which spending limits fit, and when a human must approve. It also records how autonomous systems fail: what was attempted, which permission was violated, what changed, how the environment was restored, and which policy prevents recurrence. Every failure teaches the system how to protect the next agent.

OwnOS demo - 60s
Lightweight

Declarative NixOS base with atomic updates. Resources go to models, not to the desktop.

Built-in LLMs & agents

Local models, vector storage, private memory and up to eight agents as first-class OS services.

Open source

Auditable, forkable, portable. No dependency on a vendor's continued goodwill.

Ultra secure

TPM2-protected keys, containerised execution, Btrfs snapshots and one-command rollback.

10Native agent systems
NixOSDeclarative base
TPM2Hardware-protected keys
BtrfsAtomic snapshots
ERC-4337Smart accounts
x402Machine payments
8Concurrent agents
100%Open source

OwnOS vs existing operating systems

CapabilityOwnOSWindowsmacOSChromeOSUbuntuNixOS
Agent identity as an OS primitive
Per-agent budgets and spending limits
Native wallet and machine payments
Atomic snapshots and rollback
Declarative, reproducible configuration
Local model runtime built in
Audit trail for every machine action
Open source
Ten native systems
Identity · Permissions2
Memory · Data access2
Wallet · Budget · Policy3
Metering · Audit · Routing3
Agent permission example
Budget50 USDC/mo
Per transaction5 USDC
Expires30 days
Services3 approved
Security stack
TPM2 keys
Containers
Snapshots
Atomic update

Built for AI agents. Not just desktop apps.

Ten things an operating system needs once software starts acting on its own.

Native
10/10

Agents can safely work with money.

You set the budget and the machine enforces it, which makes agents economically native.

Unapproved
$0
USERS PAY FORDEVELOPERS EARN FROMappssubscriptionscomputestorageAPI usagemodel usageagent taskscloud workloadsapp salessubscriptionsusage billingmarketplace revenuecompute integrationsagent servicesOwnOSPAYMENT LAYERidentity · permissions · budgets · spending limits · receiptsNothing spends without a rule you wrote.

Secure by design.

OwnOS gives users control without sacrificing security.

Built in
12
The disk
Full disk encryption
Secure installer
Encrypted backups
Access
Wallet-based access
Role-based permissions
Secure remote access
What runs
App sandboxing
Revokeable permissions
Local data control
What acts
Agent spending limits
High-risk confirmations
Clear audit logs

Build once. Run anywhere. Move anytime.

Everything you built comes with you - try exporting it anywhere else.

Portable
100%

AWS on Monday. Hetzner on Tuesday. Korea on Wednesday.

Same agents, same memory, same history, same permissions, wherever it runs.

One file
1×
LAYER 05

Then, we put it in your hands.

Own 1 banner

Own 1 is a personal AI computer. It runs two compatible local models simultaneously alongside vector storage, private memory, voice services and up to eight specialised agents coordinated by a SuperAgent - on a fanless machine that sits on a desk. Up to five people reach it from their phones, so a family or a team shares one device. Sensitive work never leaves it. Beyond electricity there are no API bills and no credits to run out of, and when a job genuinely needs more, it bursts to OwnCloud under rules the owner sets.

Own 1 decides what should stay personal - weighing privacy sensitivity, model size, local hardware, cloud price, latency, energy and budget to determine whether a task can leave the device at all. Over time it builds a Personal Intelligence Profile that lives locally: context, working style, tools, documents, workflows, agent history and trusted relationships. The more it learns, the more useful it becomes, without any of it accumulating in a central surveillance dataset. That is a product moat and a trust moat at once.

16CPU cores, up to 5.4 GHz
96 GBMax unified memory
8 TBMax storage
99TOPS Int8, platform
2Local LLMs at once
8Concurrent agents
5Shared users
10 GbpsEthernet · Wi-Fi 7
Own 1 reveal - 90s

One place on the device to install models, agents, skills, MCPs, data sets and dev tools - local first, with API options where they make sense.

Own 1 OwnApp Store showing AI models, agents, skills, MCPs and data sets
Latency, before → after
21.56s5.22s
Tokens/sec, before → after
4.810.85
Run outcomes
1,120
Benchmark scope
Runs1,224
Models44
Modalities7
Days55
Video on integrated GPU
162 of 164 runs completed
Specification
CPUUltra 9 285H
GPUArc 140T
RAM96 GB
PriceTBC

Private AI you own, in four numbers.

Agents, apps, storage and speed - all of it running on the box on your desk.

On device
100%
Private AI
8+agents, 1 local LLM
Openclaw agents and the model run on-device - own your agent
Apps
1,000+with XStudio
One-click installs, from dev tools to creative and Web3 apps
The private vault
8TB encrypted
Local storage with Web3 wallet encryption - keys never leave the box
Time to ready
7,200% faster than Mac Mini
Deployment velocity measured on the same workload · PCIe x8 eGPU ready

31 days of optimisation. 812 measured runs.

Same hardware throughout, so every gain came from software we wrote.

Faster
138%
Text generation
↑ 138% faster
38.5 → 91.7 tok/s · qwen2.5-coder-0.5b
Image generation
46× faster
7.6 min → 9.9 s · qwen-image-2512
Voice
20× faster
0.62 → 12.50 · en_US-amy-medium

Twelve full-time AI employees. 24/7. On one box.

Twelve kinds of work a business pays for, on one machine that never stops.

Roles
12
Software developer
QA engineer
DevOps
Data analyst
Market researcher
Competitive intel
Accountant
Legal reviewer
Executive assistant
Copywriter
Designer
Video editor

Productivity and economics.

Twelve roles at a blended $85,000 against one machine and its electricity.

Per hour
$0.47
Twelve people, one year
$1,020,000
One Own 1, one year
$4,099

One box. Up to ten people.

A household, a studio or a small team all work off the same machine at once.

Seats
10
Own 1ONE MACHINE10 concurrent$410 per seat, once

From three people up, it pays for itself inside the year.

$4,000 once and about $8 a month after that, which a single light user should not buy.

Months
7

Major breakthroughs in cost reduction.

One open model, four places to run it. Only the location changes.

0 3 6 9 12 O1 Own 1 0.43 AP Hosted API 1.50 OC OwnCloud 3.68 RG Rented GPU 10.48 $ per 1,000 tasks

Ask AWS about data centres and you get AWS's data centres.

Squares drawn to area. They each see one fleet - their own.

GO ~130 Google AW ~914 AWS 7,369 DATA CENTRES EC Earth Compute 62% of the world

AWS on Monday. Hetzner on Tuesday. Korea on Wednesday.

Same agents, same memory, same history, same permissions. Your stuff moves with you.

AWS Hetzner South Korea On-prem cluster OwnCloud Own 1 Your stuff

OwnCloud + OwnAI = the whole set.

34 providers, open weights, three execution zones. Everyone else gives you one of each.

Choose providerChoose modelOpen weightsRun locallyChoose country ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ GP ChatGPT CL Claude GE Gemini AW AWS HF Hugging Face OX OwnX

We mapped the world's compute. Connected its infrastructure. Built intelligence above it. Gave it rules. And put it in your hands.

04

Traction and proof

What exists, and who wants it

Proof the system works

1,224 benchmark runs across 44 models and seven modalities, on one fanless Own 1 with integrated graphics in an apartment in Manila. No datacenter, no cloud, no outbound API calls, 7 May to 30 June 2026.

4.1×Faster, software alone
1,224Runs over 55 days
44Models tested
162/164Video runs on iGPU
104Failures kept in data
7Modalities
5.22sAgent latency, optimised
10.85Tokens/sec, optimised

quality_score in our dataset is a keyword-match heuristic, not a judgment of quality - a model answering "Good day to you" scores zero for not saying "hello". We do not rank models on it. The 104 failures stay in the dataset because they mark exactly where a small machine stops and OwnCloud starts.

Demand signals

SignalNow30 days
Own 1 reservations--
Community members--
Developers registered--
Providers in conversation--
Bulk-buyer discussions--
05

Business model and economics

How we make money, and why it costs less

Hardware opens the account; intelligence, cloud and subscriptions compound the margin. We build one customer relationship that creates four revenue streams.

Twelve-month economics

$37.94MExpected revenue, Aug 26 to Jul 27
$24.50MOwn 1 hardware revenue
$13.44MRecurring revenue
$15.87MGross profit
41.8%Blended gross margin
7,000Own 1 units sold
$3.07MExit monthly recurring revenue
$36.81MExit annual recurring revenue

Source: OwnX financial model, growth case, August 2026 to July 2027.

Where the revenue comes from

$37.9M12M revenue mix
Revenue streamLaunch12M revenueShareExit MRR
Own 1 hardwareSep 2026$24.50M64.6%-
OwnAIOct 2026$11.23M29.6%$2.73M
100,000 VM campaignNov 2026$1.56M4.1%$231K
OwnCloud as a serviceOct 2026$324K0.9%$64K
Own 1 hybrid cloudOct 2026$320K0.8%$38K
Total$37.94M100%$3.07M

Unit economics

LineWhat is soldPriceCost of revenueMargin
Own 1 hardwareDevice, batch 1 and 2$3,500$2,27535%
OwnAI subscriptionsGo, Pro and Max tiers$8 / $12 / $5045%55%
OwnAI creditsUsage-based compute$25 / mo avg45%55%
OwnCloud servicesInfrastructure and usage$250 / mo35%65%

One device sale creates a recurring customer. The hardware carries a 35% margin; the intelligence and cloud services around it carry 55-65% margins and lift the blended gross margin to 41.8%.

Why our costs fall faster than anyone else's

Compound Optimisation. Three layers - infrastructure, model and operating system - and the savings multiply rather than add. Everyone else optimises one layer, which is why nobody else gets the multiplication.

$200 Baseline frontier API $50 -75% model routing $10 -80% infra routing

The cumulative revenue ramp

$0M$10M$20M$30M$40M $37.94M AUGSEPOCTNOVDECJANFEBMARAPRMAYJUNJUL

Cumulative revenue reaches $37.94M by July 2027: $24.50M of hardware booked in the first seven months, and $13.44M of recurring revenue that keeps growing after the batches are sold. Dashed line is hardware only.

06

Go-to-market and roadmap

What happens after the money lands?

Twelve months, one sequence. Every month has a budget, an owner and a stated outcome, and the whole plan deploys $7.5M against $37.94M of expected revenue.

$7.5MDeployed over 12 months
$6.0MProtected reserve
$1.5MWorking capital buffer
100,000VM allocations to AI founders

The twelve-month plan

MonthFocusBudgetExpected outcome
Aug 2026Restart, KOLs and PR$275KTeam stabilised. Creator, PR, competition and VM campaigns ready.
Sep 202620,000 VMs and Build League launch$470KFirst builders activated. First competitions completed. Review content live.
Oct 2026Scale and activate XPRIZE$905K50,000 cumulative VMs. XPRIZE collaboration funded and announced.
Nov 2026Marketplace and pilot manufacturing$830K80,000 VMs. Commercially promising builders and pilot units validated.
Dec 2026Global final and worldwide moment$830K100,000 allocations complete. Build League final and XPRIZE launch delivered.
Jan 2027One connected OwnX stack$595KUnified account, identity, payments and marketplace customer journey.
Feb 2027Production grade reliability$555KSecurity, compliance, enterprise pilots and certification advanced.
Mar 2027Ready to manufacture$595KTooling, supplier, logistics and launch readiness completed.
Apr 2027First Own 1 customer shipments$625KFirst devices shipped with reviews, feedback and commercial proof.
May 2027Expand the network$635KMore providers, markets, universities, builders and distribution partners.
Jun 2027Turn growth into revenue$595KPaid enterprise deployments and repeat product revenue become visible.
Jul 2027Prove the new category$590KTwelve-month evidence package and next scale plan completed.
Total$7,500KTwelve-month evidence package complete

Where the capital goes

Workstream12M budget% of $15M capital
Own 1 hardware$2,010K13.4%
Product & infrastructure$1,760K11.7%
GTM & distribution$1,200K8.0%
Ecosystem programs$1,170K7.8%
XPRIZE$550K3.7%
Team & operations$440K2.9%
Security, legal & compliance$370K2.5%
Protected capital$7,500K50.0%

Half of the planned capital is never spent inside the plan: $6.0M reserve plus a $1.5M working capital buffer.

07

The master plan

Where this ends up if it works

Part one - make the market visible done

Map the physical infrastructure of AI and turn it into a comparable, queryable index. Without a price index there is no market; with one, everything above it becomes possible.

Part two - make the market competitive done

Put every provider behind one purchase layer so infrastructure competes for each workload on requirement and price, not on marketing budget.

Part three - make intelligence portable done

Route each task to the cheapest open model that clears its quality bar, on the cheapest qualified machine. Intelligence stops being a vendor relationship and becomes an execution decision.

Part four - make intelligence governable in progress

Give every agent an identity, a permission set, a budget, a wallet and an undo button, enforced by the operating system rather than requested in a prompt. Autonomy without governance is not a product; it is a liability.

Part five - put it in everyone's hands next

Ship the device that runs the stack locally, shared by a household or a team, and let it burst outward only when its owner allows. Then open the marketplace so anyone can build, publish and sell on top of it.

The end state

A world where intelligence runs where its owner decides, costs what the market says it costs, and remembers only what it is permitted to remember. Hundreds of thousands of devices, hundreds of providers competing, and an open ecosystem that no single company - including this one - can close.

The future of intelligence must not belong to a few.

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Financials

Where does the money go, and what comes back?

Capital plan

$15.0MTotal planned capital
$7.5M12M hypergrowth deployment
$6.0MProtected reserve, 40%
$1.5MWorking capital buffer, 10%
$37.94MExpected 12M revenue
$15.87MExpected gross profit
5.1xRevenue per dollar deployed
$36.81MExit ARR at July 2027

Use of funds - $3.0M first close and pre-seed

$3.0Mfirst close + pre-seed
CategoryAmountShare
Product, team and operations$1.40M46.7%
GTM and launch$800K26.7%
Hardware and infrastructure$800K26.7%
Total$3.00M100%

Team is the largest line because the constraint is people, not tooling. Hardware stays small because manufacturing is partnered rather than owned.

Monthly revenue, gross profit and spend

$0M$2M$4M$6M$8M AUGSEPOCTNOVDECJANFEBMARAPRMAYJUNJUL Revenue Gross profit Deployment budget

Hardware batches drive the September to February peaks. From March 2027 the revenue base is entirely recurring and rebuilds month on month while monthly spend stays flat near $600K.

MonthBudgetRevenueRecurringGross profitCumulative revenue
Aug 26$275K----
Sep 26$470K$2.80M-$980K$2.80M
Oct 26$905K$4.50M$305K$1.64M$7.30M
Nov 26$830K$2.27M$516K$887K$9.57M
Dec 26$830K$4.14M$638K$1.57M$13.71M
Jan 27$595K$6.04M$794K$2.27M$19.75M
Feb 27$555K$7.99M$994K$2.99M$27.75M
Mar 27$595K$1.23M$1.23M$668K$28.98M
Apr 27$625K$1.54M$1.54M$835K$30.52M
May 27$635K$1.93M$1.93M$1.05M$32.44M
Jun 27$595K$2.43M$2.43M$1.32M$34.87M
Jul 27$590K$3.07M$3.07M$1.67M$37.94M
12M total$7.50M$37.94M$13.44M$15.87M$37.94M

Recurring revenue run-rate

$0.0M$1.0M$2.0M$3.0M $3.07M MRR AUGSEPOCTNOVDECJANFEBMARAPRMAYJUNJUL

Monthly recurring revenue grows from $305K in October 2026 to $3.07M in July 2027, a $36.81M exit ARR carried by OwnAI, the VM campaign, OwnCloud and hybrid cloud attach.

Model assumptions

Own 1 price$3,500 per unit
Own 1 direct cost$2,275 per unit - 35% gross margin
Batch 12,000 units - Sep to Oct 2026
Batch 25,000 units - Nov 2026 to Feb 2027
OwnAI tiers$8 / $12 / $50 per month, 45% cost of revenue
OwnAI launch base15,000 Go, 5,000 Pro, 500 Max, 3,000 credit users
Hybrid cloud attach25% of units at $25 per month, 2% monthly churn
VM campaign100,000 allocations, 5% paid at $25 per month
Blended gross margin41.8% across 12 months

Growth case. Hardware revenue is modelled when completed sales are booked; accounting recognition may move to shipment or delivery.

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Team

Can these people build it?

NameRoleBackground
Ashton HettiarachiFounderTBC
JohnEarth Compute & benchmarksTBC
SamOwnOSTBC
AksheyCommunity & ecosystemTBC

Twelve people, four years, six days a week, funded by the founders and built through a full market cycle. The hiring plan against this raise sits in the financial model.

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Corporate, legal and risk

What am I not being told?

We would rather you read this from us than find it later.

Before OwnX, the same team built OpenX and Openmesh. Both are open source, both are still live, and both went through a difficult 2025–26. There is an active claim from an early Openmesh investor, the OPENX token is down roughly 90% from its post-launch high, and the token launch left compliance work still being closed out.

OwnX is a separate Delaware C-Corp. Counsel's language on what is and is not shared

ItemCovered
Entity structureOwnX · OpenX Labs · Openmesh Labs - separation and ownership
Technology provenanceWhat is shared (OS, some orchestration and backend) versus new (Earth Compute, OwnCloud, Own 1)
LitigationThe Openmesh claim - status, exposure, counsel
Token historyOPENX - launch, drawdown, and what OwnX investors are and are not exposed to
ComplianceKYC/AML waiver history and remediation
Cap tableCurrent and fully diluted, with SAFE impact

Governance

The Constitution protects the mission from permanent capture. Normal investor economics are fully preserved - equity, returns, liquidation preferences, information rights, board representation, pro-rata and anti-dilution. Article XIX states this explicitly: capital participates in economic success; it does not purchase the right to close the technology or remove the mission.

InstitutionDecidesDoes not decide
OwnX CompanyProducts, pricing, hiring, budgets, financingRemoval of the Constitution
Technology CommonsCode, standards, portabilityDaily operations
OwnX FoundationMission protectionCommercial management
Humanity AssemblyDefined foundational decisionsOperations, budgets, salaries

Incorporation documents

Filed with the State of Delaware. Read them here, or open in a new tab.

Certificate of Incorporation

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Approved Articles of Incorporation

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Pre-seed terms and next steps

What am I buying, and how do I take part?

$3.0MFirst close plus pre-seed
SAFEUSD, USDC or USDT
$30MFirst close pre-money
20 AugTarget first close date

Round mechanics

MetricFirst closePre-seedSeed - Q4 2026
Raise$1,000,000$2,000,000$12,000,000
Pre-money valuation$30,000,000$39,000,000$60,000,000
Post-money valuation$31,000,000$41,000,000$72,000,000
InstrumentSAFESAFEPriced equity
Price per share$0.3000$0.3774$0.5523
Entry ownership3.23%4.88%16.67%

Ownership by cheque size

ChequeFirst close - $30M prePre-seed - $39M preSeed - $60M pre
$100K0.323%0.244%0.139%
$250K0.806%0.610%0.347%
$500K1.613%1.220%0.694%

Ownership at entry and before future dilution. Capital per 1% of investor ownership across the plan is $644K.

Fully diluted cap table after seed

130.4Mfully diluted shares
HolderSharesFully diluted
Founders85,000,00065.20%
Seed investor21,726,49616.67%
Option pool10,000,0007.67%
Pre-seed investor5,299,1454.07%
Team and advisors5,000,0003.84%
First close investor1,666,6671.28%
Secondary buyer at seed1,666,6671.28%
Total130,358,974100%

Existing holders retain 76.7% after seed. Combined investor ownership is 23.3%.

The seed pathway and liquidity option

$12M at $60M pre-money in Q4 2026. First-close holders may sell up to 50% of their converted shares to the incoming seed investor at the seed price of $0.5523 per share.

MetricValueExplanation
Shares transferred1,666,66750% of first-close converted shares
Seed price per share$0.5523Seed raise divided by shares issued
Secondary proceeds$920,535Cash returned to first-close holders at seed
Retained ownership1.28%Position held after the modelled secondary

Indicative illustration at the stated seed valuation. Conditional and subject to demand and approval. Not a projection or a promise of returns.

Next steps

1 - Call30 minutes with the founder, plus a live walkthrough of any layer you want to see running
2 - DiligenceFull document pack: corporate, cap table, financial model, benchmark data
3 - SignSAFE issued and countersigned
4 - FundUSD, USDC or USDT before 20 August to secure the first-close terms

The first close is targeted for 20 August 2026 at a $30M pre-money valuation.