Builders Wanted.

Mega corporations have thousands of engineers.
The 33 million small businesses they're crushing have zero.
We're the builders on the other side of that fight.

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35,000+ restaurants powered

100M consumers reached

$2.3B valuation

Backed by Goldman Sachs, Redpoint, Meritech, and Headline

35,000+ restaurants powered

100M consumers reached

$2.3B valuation

Backed by Goldman Sachs, Redpoint, Meritech, and Headline

We want you if:

You'd rather ship something a restaurant owner uses tomorrow than something a committee reviews next quarter.

You want problems that don't have a playbook, building AI that runs a business, not a feature that demos well.

You measure your work in customer outcomes: orders, revenue, a business that survives.

Building AI that empowers local business, creates jobs and expands local economies energizes you.

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THE PROBLEM

Big corporations are getting stronger with technology. Everyone else gets left behind.

The last era of tech produced powerful software. But software that demanded time, budget, and expertise to master. Enterprises could afford all three. Small businesses couldn't, and fell further behind every year.

AI changes this. For the first time, we can build technology that doesn't require expertise,  We build technology that simply delivers outcomes.

That's what Owner is: a complete system that delivers the one outcome small business owners need: profitable sales growth.

Owner optimizes itself, using data from millions of interactions on our platform, so our customers never have to become technologists to compete with companies that employ thousands of them.

We're building a future where everyone can win, not just the largest corporations.

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WHO WE'RE BUILDING FOR

Meet Yuliana Vasquez.

Smiling woman wearing a black sweatshirt with #EchoenOaxaca text, standing in a kitchen.

Yuliana owns Somos Oaxaca, a Mexican restaurant in LA.

For her business to grow profitably, Yuliana must:

1. Get more new customers

2. Get more repeat orders

3. Get more revenue per customer

Without Owner, here's what that takes:

The discovery problem

To get found, Yuliana needs to optimize her website for 100+ constantly changing factors in Google's local search algorithm, keep her info current across dozens of directories, and now show up when people ask ChatGPT where to eat. That's a full-time SEO team's job.

The marketing problem

To drive repeat orders, Yuliana needs to know who her regulars are. But her online customers are invisible — hidden behind third-party apps or sitting on an email list she never has time to use. She needs to reach her best customers directly, and reward them for coming back, without it becoming another job.

The optimization problem

Yuliana needs an ordering system that optimizes for lifetime value, not single transactions — a checkout that uses purchase history to suggest pairings, handles complex catering orders, and keeps improving as her customers' behavior changes.

Goliaths like Domino’s win because they have builders solving these exact problems.

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Hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of them. Compare Domino's ordering experience to your favorite local pizzeria's. No contest.

Yuliana can't hire engineers, PMs, or marketers. She's one person running a restaurant while Goliaths optimize every advantage.

That's where Owner comes in.

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the market

What you’ll build

The last decade of software was tools. The next decade is outcomes.

Millions of platform interactions feed models that decide, per restaurant, what to change, test, and ship. Your code doesn't just serve requests. It makes business decisions for 35,000 businesses at once.

Discovery in the AI era.

Search is fragmenting into Google, Maps, and LLMs. We're building the machinery that makes a taqueria in LA as findable as Domino's — across all of it, automatically.

Checkout that thinks in lifetime value.

Recommendation and retention systems that Goliaths spend hundreds of millions on, delivered to businesses that spend $35K a year on everything.

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the market

40+ former founders have joined Owner. Many of whom raised millions in venture capital, then chose to build here instead.

We're backed by Meritech, Headline, and Redpoint, along with operators who know this fight — including Sweetgreen CEO Jonathan Neman and Cava CEO Brett Schulman.

The Market

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Independent grocers, gyms, salons, spas, auto shops, and beyond. Owner is like Shopify for local businesses, but beyond being their ecommerce platform – we're using AI to also become their dev team, marketing team, finance team and more, all rolled into one.

Our customer traction is pulling us forward, bringing us closer to that reality.

That’s why some of the most formidable investors in the world have backed us. We've helped more than 35,000 local restaurants and reached 100 million consumers. Our business is on track to keep multiplying every year – all while approaching top efficiency benchmarks.

And that's why we're looking for builders.

Builders who want their work to have deep, meaningful, personal impact. We've had customers tell us that we've made it possible for them to start a college fund. To keep the business that's been in their family for generations.

Building for owners like Yuliana means that you get to create a future with thriving local communities, where small businesses can win alongside large corporations.

You're going to spend the next decade building with AI.
Who will you build for?

Builders wanted.

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Let's build.