Builders Wanted
We are looking for you if:
You're excited to make AI useful for a huge, underserved market.
You want to be surrounded by people who believe in the same mission.
You want to build something viscerally important to millions of people.
01
THE PROBLEM
Big corporations are getting stronger with technology, but everyone else gets left behind.
The last era of tech gave us powerful software. But they demanded time, budget, and expertise to master. Enterprises with resources gained the advantage. Small businesses couldn't keep up and fell behind.
Small businesses are a critical part of our economy. But they can't afford to hire experts that can wield this complex technology. So corporations compounded their advantages. They got more powerful and exerted more control over everyone, with small business owners scraping to defend their livelihoods.
AI changes this. Because it's now possible to build technology that doesn't require expertise. We can now build technology that simply delivers outcomes.
That's what we're building at Owner.
Owner is a complete system to deliver the outcome small business owners need: profitable sales growth.
Owner optimizes itself, so our customers are freed from the burden of mastering technology. By combining AI with data from millions of interactions on our platform, it proactively configures itself to maximize their profits with minimum intervention.
We're building a future where everyone can win, not just the largest corporations.
02
WHO WE'RE BUILDING FOR
Meet Yuliana Vasquez.
Yuliana owns Somos Oaxaca, a Mexican restaurant in LA.
For her restaurant to drive profitable growth, Yuliana must:
1. Get more new customers
2. Get more repeat orders
3. Get more money per customer
Without Owner, here's what Yuliana faces:
The discovery problem
To get more new customers, Yuliana needs to manually optimize her website for the 100+ constantly changing factors in Google's local search algorithm. She also needs to keep her restaurant's info updated across dozens of online directories. Yuliana needs to optimize for LLMs so her restaurant appears when people ask AI for recommendations.
The marketing problem
To get more repeat orders, Yuliana needs to know who her regulars are. But the only ones she knows are the ones who come in when she's working. Online customers are invisible to her, coming in through apps, or sitting on an email list she never has time to use. Yuliana needs a way to reach her best customers directly, without it becoming another job. And she needs a rewards program that keeps them coming back.
The optimization problem
Yuliana needs an ordering system that optimizes for lifetime value, not just single transactions. Her checkout flow should use purchase history to suggest pairings, growing average order value. She needs to be able to handle complex catering orders. Yuliana needs these optimizations to evolve alongside changing customer preferences and behaviors.
Goliaths like Domino’s are winning because they have builders that solve these problems.
They've spent hundreds of millions of dollars solving these problems, making it easy for their diners to find them and buy from them.
These corporations are winning because they have technology builders. Small business owners don't.
It's obvious when you compare Domino’s Goliath-tier ordering experience with your favorite local pizzeria’s. No contest.
Yuliana doesn't have a team of builders. She can't hire engineers, PMs, or marketers. She's one person running a restaurant while Goliaths optimize every advantage.
Without help, she can't keep up.
That's where Owner comes in. We're here to arm owners to take on their Goliaths. We're building the software that small businesses need to compete and win.
We're using AI to build for millions of Yulianas.
03
Building for A MASSIVE MARKET
Building for the next decade
The past was about building tools like online ordering. The next 10 years will be different.
It will be about using AI to deliver outcomes.
Building this new "done for you" stack means we are constantly solving novel problems. We're hiring builders who are up for the challenge.
That’s one reason 30+ former founders have joined us, many of whom raised millions in venture capital.
At Owner, you will build for a massive market, full of customers who are desperate for what you’re building.
Restaurants are just our first market, before moving on to every type of brick-and-mortar business. In restaurants alone, we see a $21 billion per year market — 600,000 restaurants at $35K per year, where $35K is what they spend on tech and marketing.
The international market is 8X that size, and that's before we've moved on to other verticals.
Our vision stretches far beyond restaurants.
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?