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AI Startup Studio · Carmel, California

Building the AI economy
of Carmel & Monterey.

We build profitable AI products that modernize local business.
Built by proven operators, designed to compound.

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The Loop

How CIG works:
The Local Business AI Flywheel

We don't ship one tool and hope. We run a loop that gets smarter and more profitable with every local business it touches.

1

Audit

Daena audits a local business and shows, in dollars, where AI saves money.

Daena
2

Deploy

CIG deploys the products the audit calls for, Eazier first, then more agents.

Eazier +
3

Revenue

Recurring local revenue, low churn, built on trust and real results.

Recurring
4

Smarter

Every cycle teaches the next one. The loop speeds up and gets sharper.

Data loop
Intelligent Infrastructure · CIG AIOS

One system behind every startup

No startup starts from zero. The CIG AIOS is our intelligent infrastructure: proprietary AI systems that run up to 95% of each business, tiny teams building profitable companies.

Product

Specs, prototypes, and UX in days, not months.

Engineering

An AI-native build pipeline ships and maintains each product with a tiny team.

Operations

Finance, legal, and admin run on shared agents across the portfolio.

Marketing

Content and distribution, powered by Eazier's own engine, behind every launch.

Sales

Daena's audits feed a qualified pipeline into every startup.

Support

Agentic customer support that scales without scaling headcount.

Up to 95% of each business, run by our AI systems.

Startup 01
● 90% built · launching soon

Eazier

AI content creation and social distribution that drives more business to a local shop, for less than half the cost of one hire. The owner does nothing.

  • Posts and promotes on autopilot
  • Drives foot traffic and revenue
  • Replaces a marketing hire a local shop can't afford
See Eazier in action
Eazier · this week
Posts published12
Reach vs last month+38%
New bookings driven27
Owner hours spent0
< ½the cost of one hire, monthly
Startup 02
● 80% built · launching soon

Daena

A localized, agentic platform that audits any small business and builds the custom AI agents that make every part of it more efficient. The audit also opens the door to the rest of our startups.

  • Audits 100% of the business
  • Builds custom AI agents to fix what's slow
  • Turns every audit into a qualified pipeline for CIG
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Daena · audit summary
Marketing$1,200/mo
Scheduling & admin$900/mo
Customer support$1,500/mo
Bookkeeping$600/mo
100%of the business audited
Startup 03
● Near-live · powered by Amove

StorHub

The all-in-one platform to connect, mount, edit, move, search, govern, and AI-operate your data across 90+ cloud and local providers.

  • Connect 90+ cloud and local storage providers
  • Mount, move, search, and govern data in one place
  • CIG's white-label data layer, powered by Amove (a $12.5M company)
See StorHub
StorHub · connected
Cloud & local providers90+
Data across cloudsUnified
Search & governanceOn
AI operationsActive
90+providers, one platform
Two ways in

Run a local business or invest
in improving all local businesses

For local businesses

Find out where AI saves you money

Get a Daena audit. We'll show you exactly where time and money leak today, and what we'd fix first. No jargon, no pressure.

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For investors

Back the studio building a region's AI economy

We're raising $1M as a SAFE into CIG HoldCo, studio equity plus pro-rata into breakout companies. It proves the loop on the first one or two builds, then we scale. Founders have already put in $100k of cash plus ~$1.25M of Amove equity.

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The portfolio

Five startups. Three shipping now.

Eazier, Daena, and StorHub are live first. Arlo and Acembly are in build for 2026. Each one runs on the CIG engine and shares the same two distribution channels.

● Near-live

Eazier

AI content and social distribution that grows a local business for less than half the cost of one hire.

● Near-live

Daena

Audits any business and builds the custom AI agents to fix what's slow.

● Near-live

StorHub

CIG's white-label data and storage layer, powered by Amove, a $12.5M company.

In build

Arlo

Custom, soulful AI avatars for sales, product, and support, deployed through CIG.

In build

Acembly

One AI toolkit for SMBs, plus an MSP partner portal to resell it.

The Founders

Two lifelong operators based in Carmel

We're passionate about enhancing the lives and experiences across our communities.

Patrick Kennedy

Patrick Kennedy

Co-Founder

Founder and operator, 25+ years. Multiple companies built and shipped, with deep AI-product and go-to-market experience.

Jon Saso

Jon Saso

Co-Founder

Lifelong entrepreneur and operator who has built companies across product, operations, and growth.

The round is open. The loop is running.

Whether you want an AI audit for your business or a stake in the studio, the conversation starts here.

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Tell us whether you're a local business or an investor and we'll get right back to you. Carmel, California.