Shotgun/Ventures
A company that makes companies

The modern
startup

Every idea faces a seasoned VC's scrutiny; only the best get built — continuously, as distinct products and companies.

1/mo
Conservative build pace
1–2wks
Realistic build pace
12–26/yr
Distinct products & services a year
4h27m
First prompt to App Store — proven
Ethos

Automate the mundane. Stay human

The best companies automate the mundane so their people can do what they do best — be more human.

The fine line

Automate everything that isn't human; amplify everything that is. Walking that line gives us a capital-expenditure profile no competitor — startup or incumbent — can match. We price lower and deliver the better product.

Democratize the human

The biggest opportunities sit in fundamentally human industries, where power asymmetries let giants gate the people who create the value. Whatever we build, we democratize.

More time being human

Building takes days and the mundane is automated — so we spend our time in the field, across industries, with people. More time human means more human problems understood, and more human solutions built.

The ventures

What we're building

Every venture below was conceived, vetted, and built by one core team — each one a distinct company with its own product, brand, and customers.

Pre-launchFilm & streaming
Aflik

The future of cinema: write a film, produce it with AI, publish and monetize it — one platform, no studio gatekeepers. Writers and actors keep the upside.

aflik.app →
DeployedHome services
Life

An AI operating system for home services — Alfred works for the homeowner, Bruce for the tradesperson, on one marketplace with escrow. The wedge into a universal action router.

l1fe.io →
Mainnet stagedTicketing
nftix

Ticketing for independent venues where the poster price is the price — splits settle instantly on every sale and resale, and a ticket can't be faked or scalped past its cap.

nftix.io →
App Store reviewConnection
Vent

Say it to a stranger: anonymous, encrypted one-on-one conversations matched by topic — chat or live call — and deleted the moment they end. Built in one afternoon.

vent.talk →
TestFlight betaSleep
Polysleep

Sleep in cycles, not hours. An almanac for the polyphasic day — one anchor wake time, 90-minute checkpoints scheduled as real alarms, and a weekly ledger of 35 cycles.

polysleep.io →
Phase 1 completeLegal
Codicil

AI drafting for solo and small-firm estate-planning attorneys — wills, trusts, and powers of attorney with intake wizards, audit logging, and encrypted client data.

ActiveTrust
Provenance

Proof of human. Certifies the human-to-AI authorship ratio of any work with signed certificates and an offline verifier — the trust layer for a generated world.

Next
+ More

A new product or service leaves the shop every month — realistically, every one to two weeks. The ranking never runs dry.

Proof

We shipped a company in an afternoon

Vent went from first prompt at 12:01 pm to App Store submission at 4:28 pm — documented, timestamped, tested against production. Industry surveys had put the same MVP at months.

4.5mo
Industry average MVP
4h27m
First prompt to submission
~700×
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