👋 Hey Grant — Michael here. This is the full picture of what I've been building, start to finish. It's private (just for you), so I've left nothing out. Grab a coffee — it's a proper read.
The tools finally caught up to the ambition. I'm building the way you use them — a software co-founder that does the work, and a community of founders racing toward the same finish line.
Two things under one roof, called Kula:
An AI co-founder that lives on your Mac. Describe what you want in plain English — it builds real, working software you own.
The network of solo founders building real companies on that tool — together, accountable to each other, chasing one audacious North Star.
For the first time, that gap can close in an afternoon. Not with a no-code toy you'll outgrow — with real software you own.
But there's a wall almost everyone hits. You get 80% of the way — the demo works, it looks great — and then the last 20% needs someone who can actually read the code. So you wait, or you hire, or you give up. The tools that got you to 80% can't get you across, and some of them quietly own your work so you can't leave.
That wall is the whole reason this exists.
No syntax. No setup. Just you and a partner who builds — with the full power of a real developer toolset underneath when you want it.
"Build me a booking page for my studio." It asks a couple of questions, then builds it — for real.
Hold the mic and think out loud. Voice runs locally on your Mac — private, no cloud.
Real files on your machine. Take them anywhere. No lock-in, no walled garden, ever.
It survives crashes and greets you with a plain-English recap of exactly where you left off.
This isn't a deck. It's a real, notarized Mac app I use every day to build itself.
Describe an app, a site, a tool — it builds working files. No syntax, no setup.
Local voice input, straight into the conversation. Private, on-device.
Drag or paste a screenshot and say "fix this." Point at the problem.
A live readout of usage and dollars saved. No surprise bills.
One click runs a security + readiness sweep before you ship — explained plainly.
Founder badges for the habits that get great results. Craft, by osmosis.
A visual timeline — "take me back to before that change." Undo for anything.
Watch your app run as it's built; share a link in one click for feedback.
Online with your own domain — hosting and the fiddly bits handled.
The tool is the engine. The community is the reason it matters. A network of solo founders building real companies on a shared substrate — collaborating and racing each other at the same time.
Not a marketing line — a falsifiable, measurable goal. Anthropic's CEO puts 70–80% odds on a one-person billion-dollar company in 2026. Sequoia is underwriting "agentic leverage." The race is happening with or without us. The question is whether the founder who gets there first does it here — using this tool, backed by this network. Being the community that produced the first one-person unicorn is an enormous, durable first-mover advantage.
The milestone ladder — each rung its own inner circle.
The point isn't to make building feel like magic. It's to make owning what you built feel inevitable.
The tool and the community are the active work. But the whole thing is wider — ideas I've carried for years that finally have a frame to hang on. Domains are owned. Land is owned. These are real intentions, sequenced behind the core.
The opinionated, layered-context architecture that gives one human the working capacity of a whole startup team — persistent memory, role-based personas, repeatable methodology. This is what coFounder the tool is built on.
KulaFounders — the network above. Co-equal pillar with the tool; each makes the other stronger.
A vetted, on-demand contractor pool members can pull in for execution-level work that exceeds solo capacity. A feature in service of the founder — not a services business in disguise.
1.5 acres near Playa Maderas, Nicaragua — north of San Juan del Sur. The eventual world HQ. A personal home build starts there summer 2026; HQ and retreats follow on the same land. Distance from Silicon Valley is now an asset, not a liability.
A retreat brand on the RESORTbe land — a member benefit and gathering site, and a hospitality business for the public. Optional, never required: the community is distributed and persistent.
The education arm — training in the four core disciplines (code, design, business, marketing) for members, the Crew, and the public. Long thread: a pathway for local Nicaraguans into the global tech economy.
I'm not pitching a someday. The tool is real and shipping; the brand and the first users are in motion.
So that's the whole thing, Grant. coFounder is the tool that lets one person build a real company. KulaFounders is the community of people doing exactly that, together, aimed at being the place the first one-person unicorn comes from. And Kula is the roof over both — with land, retreats, and a school to come.
I built this page just for you, so ask me anything — the hard questions especially. I'd genuinely love your read on it.
— Michael