Forward Deployed Founder

Build the infrastructure. Own the category.

One operator running an AI machine. The machine is the hands. I map the system it runs, in the categories where AI touches money and memory.

The thesis

Intelligence got cheap. Accountability didn't.

AI moved the work up a layer. Hands stopped being the constraint, the map became the constraint. Someone has to design the system the machine runs, and answer for what it does with your money and your memory. That is my job. The human in the compute layer.

How the operator works

Audit. Build. Ship. Days, not quarters.

One operator, one AI machine, the whole operation mapped as a graph. Every ship feeds the next. invobi moves the money in, Get Paid recovers the overdue, Purse governs what agents spend, Company Brain keeps the memory operable. The moat is the loop.

A dense node graph of ARABA's working Obsidian vault: hundreds of connected notes forming one map of the operation
The operation, mapped. My working vault, one connected graph.