By Alexa Amundson, Founder of BlackRoad OS
March 2026
Dear Investor,
I know what you're looking for. You're looking for a team of Stanford PhDs who've raised a pre-seed from a tier-one fund, have a waitlist of 50,000, and are building in a space with a $100B TAM.
I have none of those things. Here's what I have instead.
17 working products in one browser tab. Not mockups. Not demos. Working products with backends, databases, AI integration, and persistent memory.
All live. All functional. All sharing one memory system.
Total lines of deployed code: 27,000+. API endpoints: 150. Databases: 35. Workers: 466.
Five Raspberry Pis in my living room. Two Hailo-8 AI accelerators (52 TOPS). Two DigitalOcean droplets. Cloudflare for the edge.
Monthly cost: $150.
I'm not asking for server money. The servers are in my living room and they work.
The AI industry is competing on intelligence. Intelligence is commoditizing. In two years, the difference between GPT-5, Claude 4, and Gemini 3 will be imperceptible to users.
When intelligence is a commodity, three things have value:
1. Characters. BlackRoad has 27 named AI agents with persistent personalities. Think Disney characters for AI. Nobody else has this — not because they can't build it, but because they didn't think to. Characters create emotional bonds that prevent churn. "Which Roadie are you?" is our "Which Hogwarts house are you?"
2. Memory. Persistent, append-only, cryptographically verified memory that spans months and years. The product gets better the longer you use it. Switching costs are organic, not artificial. After six months, your Lucidia knows your business better than a new hire would.
3. Sovereignty. Your data, your hardware, your agents, your exit. In a world increasingly anxious about AI dependence, the platform that gives you true ownership wins trust. Trust is the scarcest resource in AI.
I'm going to be honest: zero paying users. Zero revenue.
But:
The product is built. The marketing just started. The gap between "built" and "revenue" is distribution, and I'm closing it this week.
I'm not asking for $10M. I'm not asking for $1M.
I'm asking for enough to cover living expenses while I get from zero to first revenue. Probably $50K-100K. Enough for 6-12 months of not worrying about rent while I turn 2,000 daily visitors into paying users.
In exchange, you get equity in a platform that has:
The risk is obvious: I'm one person. If I get hit by a bus, the company dies.
Mitigations:
The other risk: maybe nobody wants this. Maybe sovereign AI with persistent memory and named characters is a niche that never scales.
Counter-argument: 20 million people are on Character.ai talking to AI characters. 200 million people use ChatGPT. The demand for AI with personality and memory exists. It's just being served badly.
Alexa Louise Amundson. 25. Sales → finance → real estate → every license I could get → quit everything to build this.
I got a 290 on a standardized test without doing the homework. The kid who did every assignment got 295. Five points — and she spent 100 more hours to get them.
I build like I test: understand the thing deeply, skip the rituals, ship the result.
In the last year, I've:
Alone. On Raspberry Pis. For $150/month.
Imagine what I could do with a team and a budget.
You've seen a hundred pitch decks this month from companies that raised pre-seeds to build the thing they'll show you next quarter.
I already built it. It's live. You can open os.blackroad.io right now and see 17 products in one browser tab with 27 agents that remember your name.
The question isn't whether the product works. It does.
The question is whether you believe that characters, memory, and sovereignty are the future of AI. If you do, I'm the only founder who's built all three — alone, profitably, on hardware that fits in a breadbox.
Remember the Road. Pave Tomorrow.
— Alexa
os.blackroad.io
BlackRoad OS, Inc. — Delaware C-Corp — Founded November 2025
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