The universal market of goods and services

D6N · Neosphere Inc.

We are heading to a world where people are not going to look before they buy. We have been going in this direction for the last few years… last few decades. It started when I was young. I remember walking to the market with my mom. Her generation would like to inspect every vegetable, fruit, clothing, and 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, and it should've been sufficiently detailed to satisfy your soul. That would help you imagine what that product would be like when it reaches you, on an underlying 'fabric of trust' provided by seller. The consumer learnt to be okay with it and infact 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 the trust to a marketplace, trust that if something goes wrong, the marketplace specializes in it's category of products, and would help you when you’re not happy with the transaction. All you had to do was be involved in the buying process, so you saw was multiple user experiences pop up. When you visit an Airbnb, you feel very different than when you visit amazon.com, or when you visit Etsy, you feel like you’ve just entered a handicraft shop, which is a very different feeling from when you visit eBay or newegg.com. Each of these marketplaces over the last 20 years developed an ethos and a set of constructs that allow the buyer, you, to trust them. It allowed a human to extract information in a way that is best for a specific product category. And now we are in a different moment. Now the buyer has the ability to delegate the autonomy of making decisions in the buying process to an AI agent. An agent does not have feelings; it does not have a user experience that it needs to be provided with. It is a data construct. It is the kind of buyer who is volatile yet informed, who can look at thousands of data points at any given time within seconds, who can make decisions in seconds. It is also a buyer whose buying decision will be disputed at a higher frequency than ever before. This forces us to rewrite 20 years of dogma that has been built by online marketplaces that are human-centric; that the human has to trust the marketplace. There is a very short and open window right now to build a marketplace that is catered to agentic buyers. Such a marketplace can sell data and physical goods under one roof. As long as such a marketplace provides everything that an AI program needs to make a decision, and more importantly, everything that the owner of the AI program needs to walk back on such a decision.

Why should you invest?

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

As a founder in his 30s, who has had a chance to look at the world as a middle-class consumer, I have seen how buyers always evolve faster than sellers, what goes through their minds. I am also relatively young to have my Openclaw buy a thing or two for me (an overall regrettable experience, which we will change) and 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 the insight to go hard and build something generational. This is a unique chance to invest in something that already exists in some form, and is not 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 to be deployed as suppliers and 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 of how effortless and invisible this new experience is. I need capital to build a small team of engineers who are 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 together with me is not a light ask, but it may very likely be an extremely rewarding one.