Build-a-Claw | Investor Overview
Own the brain
of your business.
AI operators that run on hardware you own. On-device, 24/7, under your control.
Build-a-Claw
The Thesis
The Personal Data Center Is the Future
- Open-source models keep getting smarter — the gap to frontier narrows every quarter.
- Personal hardware gets cheaper and faster — Mac and PC, widely available.
- Compute is returning to the individual — the next great business runs on hardware it owns.
- A personal data center, not a cloud rental. Build-a-Claw packages, deploys, and supports it.
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Ownership
Your Bot Is the Brain of Your Business
- The whole operator lives in one portable folder you own — the brain of your business in a box.
- Copy it, back it up, move it to a faster machine — or one day a humanoid robot. The hardware upgrades; the brain carries forward.
- You don't rent a seat on someone else's model. You own the worker.
- You only need ONE super-agent — your own chief of staff — not a swarm of a thousand disposable bots.
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What We Build
Dedicated AI Operators, Not Chatbots
- Full-stack digital employees — not chatbots or automation scripts.
- They run on dedicated hardware, know your business, and work 24/7.
- Built, deployed, configured, and operated for the client by Seveti.
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The Real Purpose
Control of your data —
not owning data centers.
Frontier models (Claude, OpenAI) are essential at the edge: SkyGrid, healthcare, deep research. But your SMB doesn't need an Einstein professor in its pocket to answer email and run daily operations — it needs a reliable operator that keeps your data on your machine.
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The Security Moat
Why On-Device Hardware
- Passwords, financials, and client data cannot safely flow through a third-party server.
- Each client's agent runs on their own machine — sensitive data never leaves their control.
- The Yank Method: unplug the machine and everything stops — no credentials or data stranded in the cloud.
- Security is why businesses invest — see buildaclaw.bot/security.
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The Market Reality — MIT NANDA, 2025
Why Most GenAI Fails
- 80% of companies have tried GenAI — but only 5% of custom tools ever reach production.
- The failure isn't the model — it's the lack of memory, feedback loops, and deep integration.
- Buying from specialized vendors succeeds far more often than building in-house.
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Why Build-a-Claw Wins
The Moat Isn't the Model
- Purpose-built for the winning strategy MIT identifies: adaptive, domain-specific, deeply integrated.
- The moat is the hardware, the configuration depth, and the client relationship.
- Long-term moat: licensing — the Build-a-Bear playbook (Pokémon, Disney, ABC-style IP partnerships).
- Deployed and supported by Seveti — a real operator behind every bot.
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Traction — Live Today
Real Deployments, Real Work
Rhodes — Custom Furniture
Never behind a desk. He remote-controls his Mac Studio from the shop floor while doing woodworking — the bot handles estimates, invoicing, and email.
Callie — Connect PFF Fitness
Trainers are always in class or filming, never at a desk. The bot answers email, keeps the whole studio on the same page, and is shared across staff — one AI, many employees.
These aren't pilots — they're live operators doing real work today.
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The Vision
A Build-a-Bear Workshop
for AI operators.
AI + affordable robotics makes the "toy robot" real — pick it, build it, name it, take it home. Licensing becomes the brand and the moat (the Pokémon / Disney / ABC playbook). Today a folder on a Mac Studio; tomorrow a physical companion that runs your business.
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Per-Client Economics
Recurring, Predictable Revenue
$5,500
Hardware, included
at setup
$6,000/yr
To operate
and support
+$600–6k
Per additional bot,
per year
Hardware is a reusable asset — wipe, reset, and redeploy to the next client. Capital recirculates, it isn't sunk.
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Growth
Customer Acquisition
- Inbound: content engine (Clawticles), free consultations at buildaclaw.bot/meet, referrals from live clients.
- Targeted outbound: SMB owners who work away from a desk — trades, fitness, real estate, clinics.
- Events (e.g., NARPM) and a partner / franchise channel.
- Land one bot, then expand across the whole team.
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The Ask
$500,000
Raised on a SAFE — no priced round required. Illustrative terms: $4M valuation cap, ~12.5% at conversion. The raise funds the growth engine — GTM, delivery team, and deployment capital — not hardware.
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Use of Funds
From 12 Clients to 100
- Fleet: lease or finance powerful local AI machines — Mac Studio and NVIDIA / MSI DGX Spark — scaling toward 100 units. Leasing keeps it capital-light.
- People: the org to go from ~12 clients to 100 — marketing, client relations / account management, plus IT and office management.
- Ops at scale: centralized provisioning, maintenance, monitoring, and software updates across the whole fleet.
- This is what turns a handful of deployments into a repeatable operation.
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The Model to Scale
High-Margin, Capital-Light
- Each client = high-margin recurring revenue: $6,000+/year, expanding with every added bot.
- Capital-light: client setup fees fund most hardware; the raise funds acquisition + delivery.
- Path to $2M+ ARR by Year 5 on 80%+ gross margins.
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Revenue Projection
The Trajectory
Today
3 live clients across
3 verticals
~$300k
Year 2 ARR
~40 clients
$2.0M+
Year 5 ARR
~250 clients · 80%+ margin
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Get In
Invest & Franchise
- Invest: $500K on a SAFE — back the growth engine, not the hardware.
- Franchise: operators license the Build-a-Claw playbook and run their own territory — hardware, configuration, and support systems included.
- A way for partners to own a piece — and for operators to build their own book of business.
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Platform Vision
The AI Operating Layer
- We're not building a better chatbot — we're building the AI operating layer businesses run on.
- The support layer for the AI era: Genius Bar for digital workers, Geek Squad for autonomous agents.
- OS-, hardware-, and bot-agnostic — the platform, not one model.
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Governance & Trust
Cautious by Default
- Bots operate inside defined workflows — not blank-slate Q&A — and pull from knowledge bases you control.
- Low-confidence or high-risk actions escalate and require explicit human approval.
- Full audit log of every action — nothing happens off the record.
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Let's Talk
Build the operating layer
of the AI era.
We're selectively bringing on investors who understand the AI infrastructure space. Schedule 30 minutes: buildaclaw.bot/meet