When my son saw the price of Red Wing boots, he didn't want me to spend the money. He thought a cheaper brand would do just as well, and couldn't see how any boot could be worth that much.
A few years later we were back for another pair, and a man came in saying he'd never owned Red Wings and wanted to try them. My son — who rarely volunteers his opinion — said:
"If you try them, you'll never leave them."
The salesman smiled and said, "And that's why we don't need to advertise. Our customers do it for us."
That's the kind of company I want Owls to be. One that customers love. But as far as the price, we are aiming to be a bargain worth bragging about.
This isn't my first rodeo. I gave my life to God as a young man, and He has allowed me to help start unusual things — a college in Africa, an educational movement, and now working with others to bring AI into university science programs. I'm trusting Him to help us make Owls a home for some.
You've read this far, so let me explain that last line. Not long ago a wealthy man asked me why I'd pour this much effort into something worth fifty million dollars, when the same effort could build something worth a billion. I felt sad for him. He didn't seem to know the difference between money and relationships.
Owls is just entering this market — not chasing a fortune, but looking for customers we can serve well and get to know. Find out what we have, and see if we're a fit for you.
You have my team's personal invitation, and our promise to do our best to serve you.
— Dr. Anthony Petrillo, CEO
What we build
Three environments for three different worlds — manufacturers whose work is regulated, schools and churches the internet may not reach, and developers who would rather build than run a business. The same floor under all three: dedicated, private servers that we build and run. Each one says below where it stands today.
Foundation
In build — founding customers nowFor work where getting it wrong is not an option.
Dedicated, isolated infrastructure with the whole operational stack already in place and working together. Built because medical device development leaves no room for lost paperwork.
See FoundationCompass
Anticipated early 2027From the paper floor to the web.
For schools and churches that start where there is no reliable power or signal and grow all the way to the fully connected city — without migrating or rebuilding along the way.
See CompassLoom
Open nowThreads into cloth.
Servers we have run for years, offered plainly: your source control, your wiki, and documentation that builds itself from what you push. Backups included. No regulated-industry tooling — that is Foundation's job.
See LoomForge
Open nowBuild your product. Keep the bulk of what it earns.
Builders get a solid floor to stand on and someone else running everything it takes to keep a business upright — so they can spend their time on the work they actually love.
See ForgeWhere we are
Forge is open. Compass is being programmed — a different country, a different service structure — and it will be ready when it is ready. Foundation is coming up now, carefully, because a system that medical device work depends on is not something to rush.
None of this is new in computing. Somebody learned from Yahoo and built Google, and somebody is learning from Google right now. We are doing the same thing with decades of watching good people lose their days to tools that fight them.
Tracey has been showcased and loved. We hope to roll her out soon.
Our first customer or two will get a discount, because they will be helping us make sure there are no bugs.
We want to run Owls on it
We have run this company on other tools since 2018. We are looking forward to getting Flint fully up so we can run Owls on it ourselves — it will make our own work a great deal easier. We won't ask you to run on anything we wouldn't run our own company on.
Come see if we're a fit.
We're taking on a small number of customers we can serve well and get to know. If that's the kind of partner you're looking for, we'd love to hear from you.
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