The universal market of goods and services

D6N · Neosphere Inc.

We are heading toward a world where people are not going to look before they buy. We have been going in this direction for the last few years… the last few decades. It started when I was young. I remember walking to the market with my mom. Her generation would inspect every vegetable, fruit, piece of clothing, and pair of shoes with their own eyes and hands before they committed to buying it. As time went by, we got further and further away from engaging with our goods and services before consuming them. Buying became easy. It became ‘online.’ What came to be considered ‘good enough’ was an image of the product, one detailed enough to satisfy your soul. That image would help you imagine what the product would be like when it reached you, on an underlying ‘fabric of trust’ provided by the seller. The consumer learnt to be okay with it and, in fact, started liking it once the system matured. They would just buy those goods and services. The Internet enabled that.

The Internet enabled you to delegate trust to a marketplace, trusting that if something goes wrong, the marketplace, which specializes in its category of products, would help you when you’re not happy with the transaction. All you had to do was be involved in the buying process, so what you saw was multiple user experiences popping up. When you visit an Airbnb, you feel very different from when you visit amazon.com; visit Etsy and you feel as though you’ve just entered a handicraft shop, a very different feeling from visiting eBay or newegg.com. Each of these marketplaces, over the last 20 years, developed an ethos and a set of constructs that allow you, the buyer, to trust them. Each let a human extract information in the way best suited to a specific product category. And now we are in a different moment. Now the buyer can delegate the autonomy of making buying decisions to an AI agent. An agent does not have feelings; it does not need a user experience to be provided to it. It is a data construct. It is the kind of buyer who is volatile yet informed. It can look at thousands of data points at any given time, within seconds, and make decisions in seconds. It is also a buyer whose buying decisions will need to be walked back at a higher frequency than ever before. This forces us to rewrite 20 years of dogma built by human-centric online marketplaces: the dogma that the human has to trust the marketplace. There is a very short, open window right now to build a marketplace catered to agentic buyers, one that can sell data and physical goods under one roof, as long as it provides everything an AI program needs to make a decision and, more importantly, everything the owner of that AI program needs to walk back such a decision.

Why should you invest?

If you had billions in a coffer (locked up, accessible only for generational ideas that bring forth American Dynamism), there is nothing more dynamic than the American consumer and the interface he or she buys from.

As a founder in my 30s who has had a chance to see the world as a middle-class consumer, I have seen how buyers always evolve faster than sellers, and what goes through their minds. I am also young enough to have had my Openclaw buy a thing or two for me (an overall regrettable experience, which we will change) and to realize how revolutionary this tech can be for a consumer. Maybe this is how Bezos felt in 1995 when he was raising seed for Amazon.

This is a unique chance to invest in someone who has the skills, conviction, and insight to go hard and build something generational. This is a unique chance to invest in something that already exists in some form, not just an idea still in a founder’s head.

Why do we need to raise capital?

I can always grow this myself from my own money, make this a small marketplace like Craigslist (Craig Newmark), and have an exit that lets me sail into the sunset. But there is something about this idea that I feel will play out exceptionally well at venture scale; for this, I need capital to deploy FDEs as suppliers and to ingest catalogs from a wide variety of consumer goods and services. I also need capital to encourage new users to make more transactions on the system and get a feel for how effortless and invisible this new experience is. I need capital to build a small team of engineers capable of running such a marketplace.

Most importantly, I need the experience my investors bring to the table. Nothing beats experience and good advice. Going on this journey with me is not a light ask, but it may very well be an extremely rewarding one.