Founding Customer Cohort 2026 · 2 of 3 spots open → details
Bo[a]B / by pi.0 / v.2026

Are you the bottleneck
for your own business?

Bo[a]B is an AI operations layer that runs on a small computer on your premises. It unifies your data, and handles the daily work most small businesses lose evenings to — the books, the inbox, the schedule, the reporting.

The Noise Problem

The "AI" you've been pitched is mostly vaporware.

Every vendor is selling AI. Most of it hallucinates, costs more than it saves, or solves a problem you don't have. Sales decks are confident. Demos look great on the rep's laptop. Production is a different story.

You don't need an enterprise AI strategy with governance committees. You need one tool, that one person operates, that quietly pays back inside the first quarter — and keeps earning for years. That's what Bo[a]B is.

Failure 01

Hallucinated outputs hit customers.

Wrong prices quoted. Invented policies. Damaged brand. Confidence without accuracy is worse than no AI at all.

Failure 02

Tools that need a full-time supervisor.

The "AI assistant" that ends up costing more in oversight than the human it was supposed to replace.

Failure 03

Demo-ware dressed as production.

Works on the rep's laptop. Breaks the moment it touches your real data, your real workflows, your real edge cases.

Language models can't yet do everything well. But with proper orientation and the right data controls, they can take a substantial amount of the drudgery out of running a small business. The bigger unlock — finally being able to interact with all of your own data as if you had a Quant team on call.

Founding Customer Cohort 2026

Three businesses. One year. Built with you.

I'm taking on three founding customers in 2026 to install Bo[a]B, tune it under real production conditions, and tell the truth about it to whoever comes next. Smaller cohort, deeper relationship, beta pricing.

Founding customers get the discount of being early. You also get a deeper relationship — weekly working sessions during install, priority on which actions get built next, and my full attention while Bo[a]B stabilizes around your workflow.

In exchange: a few hours a week during build and install, candid feedback as I tune the system, a written case study at the end, and reference rights for two years. Plain trade.

At month 13, the arrangement converts to standard pricing — or you walk. No multi-year lock-in. The discount was for being first; year two is for being a customer.

What you give

  • Up to 2 hrs/week working sessions for the first 12 weeks
  • Candid feedback as we tune
  • Reference rights for 2 years
  • Approval for one written case study

What you get

  • 50%+ discount during the beta year
  • Priority on which new actions get built
  • Founding customer status, named publicly
  • Direct access to me, end to end
Cohort Status 2 / 3 open
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Confirmed
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Open
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Open
$5–7.5k Setup (vs. $15k std)
$1–1.5k/mo Managed (vs. $2k std)
Apply for a spot

Hardware (~$1.5–2k) included in monthly. Founding customer agreement available on request.

About

Twenty years of operating instincts.

I'm Patrick Inverso. pi.0 is a studio of one — I do the work, I don't subcontract it. Before this, I ran operations inside companies that had real ops teams: full P&L ownership at Sonicbids (six-month turnaround, a decade profitable, exit arranged), and revenue work at Google, The New York Times, and MoMA before that.

The pattern across all of it: diagnose the real constraint, design the system, ship it, hold the line on outcomes. Bo[a]B is that pattern, sized for the businesses my old employers wouldn't notice.

pi.0 is the studio. Bo[a]B is what it ships.
Contact

Let's talk.

I'm always open to a conversation — whether you have a defined problem, a hunch that something isn't working, or you're applying for a founding partner spot.

No pitch decks required.