Building AI‑native businesses with aligned experts
xVentures gives experienced people a way to build and own a meaningful part of a growing business without building the whole company themselves.
We provide SOFE, our platform, and the businesses that run on it. Partners bring expertise, relationships, and judgment to the areas they know best.
How it works
xVentures owns SOFE, the platform. Three businesses run on it, each serving its own customers. Partners build the verticals inside them. Pick a business to see its verticals.
xVentures AI Inc.
Owns the platform, every brand, and all the IP
SOFE
The platform every business runs on
Family and business context
One private picture each agent works from
AI agents
Sprout, Otis, and the business agents
Dispatch
Intake, matching, scheduling, follow-through
Live plans
Parties, tutoring, and jobs, shared as they change
Business operating system
CRM, projects, client work, books
Permissions and trust
Each person sees only what they’re allowed
AI-powered operating systems for businesses
Catalyst finds what’s costing a business time, money, and capacity. Audits are the starting point. The SOFE platform turns what they find into software, workflows, and AI agents built around how that business runs.
Verticals in Catalyst Studio
Built by partners and councils
What each vertical builds flows back up into the platform.
The platform
Every business, and every vertical a partner builds, starts with these in place. They’re live today, running real parties, tutoring, families, and businesses.
A request comes in by text or phone. An agent takes the intake and drafts each reply for an operator to approve. The job is scoped, offered to the right provider, scheduled against their availability, and tracked to done.
A planner builds the party around what the child loves: the theme, printables with their name, a supply list sized to the guest list, and a table plan. Invitations go out, RSVPs and allergies are tracked, and every helper gets the party-day plan on their phone.
A parent snaps a photo of homework or a graded quiz. The workspace shows how each subject is going, skill by skill, and sets short practice on what came back shaky. The tutor sees the same picture, so each session starts where the child needs help.
SOFE reads the school and household email a family approves. Deadlines, payments, and events become items with a date, an owner, and a link to the original. The right person gets reminded by push, text, or email.
The same platform runs a business: a daily dashboard, projects, a knowledge base, a CRM, outreach, client work with time and invoicing, the books, and pitch decks. Catalyst shapes it around each business it audits.
Every week the list is pulled from organizers’ own calendars across the five boroughs, then sorted by day, age, and neighborhood on a map. Weekly Picks text each family the few that fit, and weekend trips come as a full plan.
Under all of it
Today
The SOFE platform is running and all three businesses are live. Each earns a mix of service and software revenue, and each starts with something free.
SOFE platform
Running
Running all three businesses, on iPhone, Android, and the web.
Catalyst Studio
Live and selling.
Starts free with
Free audits a business can run itself
Earns from
Audits Catalyst runs, from $500, and fixed-price fixes from $2,500
Surehand
Live, with its first family services in testing.
Starts free with
Free things to do with kids
Earns from
Party planning from $69, tutoring from $95 an hour, Weekly Picks, and $49 weekend trip plans
SOFE app
Live with families.
Starts free with
A 30-day trial of Sprout
Earns from
$99 for lifetime access, then ongoing hosting and AI usage
Free to start
Things to do with kids, free audits, and a Sprout trial bring families and business owners in.
$99 for access
Each gets their own SOFE workspace, theirs for life. One account covers family and business.
Hosting and AI
Ongoing hosting and AI usage keep earning after the license, with a margin on the AI.
Services on top
Party planning, tutoring, audits, and fixes, sold to people already using SOFE.
Every job adds context to SOFE, so the next service starts further ahead and is easier to sell.
We’re early. Each business is proving the model one vertical at a time, on a platform that’s already in use.
The team
A core team of three, the engineers behind SOFE, two councils, and specialists who bring one skill each.
Core team
Mike Anderson
Partner, Platform & Strategy
More than twenty-five years building and running platforms. Led AI operations at VentureHub, running AI agents for more than 100 service providers, after platform and operations roles at EY and Warner Music Group.
Experience
Julia Webb
Partner, Growth & Lifecycle
Leads growth for startups and scale-ups: performance marketing, marketing technology, and keeping customers longer. Builds the systems that find customers and turn them into regulars.
Experience
Adam Elfiky
Partner, Delivery & Client Success
Former Director at KPMG, where he owned client engagements from kickoff to close. Earlier led enterprise program delivery at some of the largest banks in the world.
Experience
Platform team
Builds and runs SOFE
Matthew Anderson
Cloud & Infrastructure
About twenty years in cloud and infrastructure architecture, including more than a decade at a top consulting firm. Secures sensitive data and sets what each AI agent is allowed to touch.
Kyle Reagle
Full-Stack & AI Engineering
Seven years as a full-stack engineer, now building AI features on a healthcare data platform in production. Connects systems and builds what doesn’t exist yet.
Councils
Kids’ Events & Activities Council
Julia Webb
Founded Go Greatest, where families discover and book kids’ parties online.
Criselda Anderson
Ran Tactile Tykes, hands-on learning events for toddlers. Has planned many parties for families.
Shapes
Kids’ Learning & Tutoring Council
Early childhood through high school
Criselda Anderson
MBA in early childhood education. Teaches at Avenues in New York.
Jackie Kircher
Twenty years teaching high school in New York City, with tutoring on the side.
Shapes
Specialists
Eric Chu
AI Architecture & Security
Reviews how SOFE’s agents are designed, tested, and secured, and where the guardrails go.
Rob Levin
Growth & Process Strategy
Principal at Chief Growth Advisor. Helps each business find what’s working and scale it.
Liz Cuccinello
Legal
Founder of Cuccinello Law. Counsel on partner agreements, contracts, and protecting the IP.
Eric Harlovic
Finance
Keeps the model sound: partner economics, vertical revenue shares, and the numbers investors see.
Verticals
A partner, or a small group of partners, takes real responsibility for one area of a business. No one has to start a company to pursue the opportunity.
How a vertical can grow, in Surehand
A partner who starts with kids’ birthday parties can grow that into local experiences. As the scope widens, their role and their share can grow with it.
The business already supplies
The partner brings knowledge of the market and the relationships in it. The platform barely changes as the vertical grows.
A council is a small group of aligned experts who shape one vertical and share in what it becomes.
The council behind this path
Kids’ Events & Activities Council
Julia Webb and Criselda Anderson shape:
SOFE platform
Dispatch, AI agents, live party plans
Surehand
The customer, the brand, the outcome
Council
Expertise, relationships, key decisions
Providers
Deliver each party, class, and session
The bargain
xVentures provides
You provide
xVentures equity
A share in the value of the company underneath every business.
Vertical economics
A share of what the vertical you help build earns.
You can be a partner in xVentures without taking part in every business.
For partners
xVentures keeps the core team small and brings in the right expertise where it counts.
Keep your independence
Keep your company, your career, and your other projects.
Build something real
Your expertise goes into a working business: its services, its standards, its relationships.
Share in the upside
Your contribution can turn into xVentures equity and a share of what your vertical earns.
A few hours a month
Light involvement
Expert input, introductions, and a say in key decisions.
Regular working sessions
Council member
Market development, service design, and key decisions for one vertical.
Ongoing
Vertical partner
Leads a vertical: customers, relationships, standards, and growth.
Find the opportunity
An area where your expertise gives you an edge.
Define the vertical
Agree on the market, the customer, the offer, and the scope.
Sign the agreement
Your role, your time, and how you share in the results, in writing.
Build and contribute
Use the platform. Bring expertise, relationships, customers, and judgment.
Grow your share
Your participation follows your role and contribution, and widens with the vertical.
Contribution creates opportunity. Opportunity creates ownership. Ownership gives everyone a reason to keep building.
Illustrative economics
xVentures is building the tools to make each partner’s contribution visible over time. Eligible contributions earn Contribution Credits, and the record feeds into each partner’s share.
Partner equity
Up to0.5%
A year, in xVentures. 12-month vesting, 3-month cliff.
Contribution equity
Up to1%
A year, earned through eligible contributions.
Vertical economics
Revenue or profit share
In the vertical you build, where it applies.
Built for independent experts
Participation is earned over time and set out in a written agreement. Each agreement covers:
One credit is worth $25 of contribution value.
Credits measure contribution value. They don’t turn into equity automatically: awards depend on the partner agreement, the kind of contribution, and the opportunity being built. The company values are examples for the math and say nothing about what xVentures is worth.
Portfolio
Start where your expertise is strongest. As you contribute and build trust, you can expand into nearby verticals and other businesses. Your relationship is with xVentures. Your share follows what you help build.
One partner’s portfolio, a few years in
Surehand
Catalyst Studio
SOFE
Why it compounds
What one vertical builds stays in SOFE. The next one starts further ahead.
A vertical grows
and leaves behind
SOFE
The platform gets stronger
The next vertical
starts with all of it on day one
Technology built once
Every vertical runs on the same agents, workflows, and systems.
Fewer duplicate hires
Expertise joins where it’s needed, at the scale it’s needed.
Faster tests
A new vertical starts with customers, tools, and standards in place.
Relationships carry across
Partners, providers, and customer insight are shared between businesses.
For investors
xVentures AI Inc. is a single Delaware C corporation that holds the IP and brands of every business. An investment is in that company.
Who has invested so far
One platform, built once
Capital goes into SOFE, and every business and vertical runs on it.
Several paths to revenue
Catalyst, Surehand, SOFE, and future businesses grow on their own while using the same capabilities.
Experts with a stake
The people closest to each market share in what it earns.
Knowledge that carries forward
What works in one vertical cuts the time and cost of the next.
A growing portfolio
The company gathers businesses, capabilities, and relationships over time, so no single vertical has to carry it.
Every business is part of the same company, and each one adds to what it holds.
Customer
Pays for a service or software
Business
Catalyst, Surehand, or SOFE, all part of xVentures
Vertical economics
Partners who built that vertical take their share
xVentures
Keeps the rest, along with the platform it builds
We share investment terms directly with each interested investor.
Why now
AI changed the cost of coordination
Agents now handle much of the scheduling, tracking, and follow-up a business runs on.
Expertise travels
People contribute deeply to a company without joining it full time.
Software adapts
One set of infrastructure can be shaped to fit very different businesses.
Together they make room for a company organized around expertise, technology, and ownership.
Join us
Fractional partners
Deep expertise and the wish to build and own a vertical.
Get in touch
Council members
Domain knowledge, relationships, and standing in a market.
Get in touch
Specialists
A specific skill we can use across the businesses.
Get in touch
Strategic investors
Back the company underneath several businesses and the verticals growing on it.
Get in touch
What we’re building toward
A company where talented people build meaningful businesses without building all the infrastructure themselves.
We’re adding partners, council members, and investors a few at a time.
mike@xventuresai.com
