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Empowering local businesses with AI.

We are on a mission to amplify employees at local businesses using AI. With years of experience building and scaling commerce tools for businesses—from farmers markets and neighborhood coffee shops to global retailers, restaurant chains, and major sports venues—we know how to deliver mission‑critical technology that integrates easily, delights customers, and works every time.

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Meet the founders

Built by executives from
Square, Cash App, Meta, and Bain

  • Michael MacLennan, Co-Founder

    Michael MacLennan

    Co-Founder

    Mike led the Hardware team at Square, where he deployed millions of payments and POS products that powered everything from the farmers market to the Super Bowl. Prior to Square, he led private equity and product teams at Bain.

  • Ali Hussain, Co-Founder

    Ali Hussain

    Co-Founder

    Ali was on the founding team of Cash App where he led product engineering, scaling it to top 10 apps in the App Store and 55 million monthly active customers. Before that, he built core ML models at Meta that powered Ads, Feed and Search.

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