The best technology was sitting behind a price tag.
Small businesses need that leverage the most, and they were locked out of the room.
I've spent more than seven years in technology: hardware, software, network and cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, coding, and now AI engineering. Somewhere along the way, I noticed something that kept bothering me.
Big companies had endless budgets for the systems that helped them move faster. Small businesses, the ones who needed that edge most, couldn't get in the door.
I come from that world. I come from a family of small business owners. These are people I know by name, and watching them get priced out of tools that could change how they run their business never sat right with me.
So I decided to do something about it.