There are moments in time where technology, opportunity, and personal circumstance align. You see a pivotal moment, you feel equipped to contribute – what do you do? For me, and my ambitions, I felt I needed to start my own company.
The Proxy Company means freedom. Freedom to chase the real problems, to build without compromise. To do this right, with the purity of intent it deserved, required total commitment: leaving the safety of corporate employment, investing everything I had, and even taking on personal debt to ensure the vision wasn't compromised early on.
I believe we are in a pivotal time in human history, where the meaning of money, work, and purpose will be revisited on a societal scale. AI is not a fad that will pass, nor a storm to be weathered; but rather a flood that will change the landscape of work and labor as we know it. I believe companies like mine are the future - independent individuals, teams and labs leveraging the frontier of machine intelligence. To truly keep pace with innovation, it helps to be the one innovating.
"We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI"
— leaked memo from Google
Traditional advantages are less defensible when the underlying technology moves this fast and open source democratizes access. The new differentiator is the innovation itself. It's the quality of the engineering. It's tackling the foundational problems that others might overlook or say "that's just how it is". The edge is building things right.
For me, "building things right" in AI started with the most immediate roadblock I encountered: the fundamental unreliability of execution. How can you build dependable systems on tools that generate inconsistent output, hallucinate actions, or fail unpredictably?
You cannot. Without solving that, the rest is built on sand.
It demanded more than finding clever workarounds; it required engineering a solution at the foundational level. It was one of those 'figure it out' engineering moments.
Building the solution piece by piece cemented our ethos: explicit care, careful engineering, and high standards for excellence. When you're building a foundation for the future, you don't cut corners.
You build it to last.
You build it right.
In the near future, I will introduce the technologies we've already built to make this vision a reality:
The Proxy Structuring Engine and Proxy Base Agent.