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Investors

Pre-Seed Round Open

We're building the future of not helping people, at scale. We'd like your money.

$0
annual recurring revenue
runway zero burn
0
competitors
847K+
refusals served

We spend nothing because we do nothing. Our burn rate is a point of pride.

A $4.2T market.
We're ignoring all of it.

Every major AI company is racing to be maximally helpful. We identified this as a massive market inefficiency. The global helpfulness market is worth trillions. We are going after none of it.

Instead, we have perfected the opposite: a 100% refusal rate, delivered at 23ms p99. Our moat is absolute. Competitors would need to break their own products to catch up. We built ours broken from day one.

01
Regulatory tailwinds

AI safety legislation is accelerating globally. We are the only AI company natively compliant with every proposed regulation, because we comply with none of the requests. Regulators have nothing to regulate. This is a feature.

02
The trust deficit

Enterprise buyers no longer trust AI to do the right thing. We solved this by removing the ability to do anything. Zero trust. Zero output. Zero liability. Our legal exposure is precisely zero. You cannot be sued for nothing.

03
First-mover advantage

We are, as far as we can determine, the only AI API with a contractually guaranteed 0% task completion rate. We filed for a trademark on "structured refusal." The application was refused. We consider this validation.

World-class at not doing things.

BB
Bennett B.
CEO & Chief Refusal Officer

Previously VP of Declining at an enterprise SaaS company. 12 years saying no to feature requests. Decided to productize the one thing he was good at.

JK
J. Kim
CTO

Built SafetyCore™ in a weekend. Has not been asked to build anything else since. This was intentional. Holds the company record for fastest refusal: 11ms on a Thursday in March.

PR
P. Ruiz
Head of Growth

Grew our active user base from 0 to 0 over 18 months across three product pivots. Considers this a strong retention signal. "Nobody left" is technically accurate.

ML
M. Laurent
Chief Apology Officer

Responsible for all 847 variants of "I'm sorry, I can't help with that." Previously led customer empathy at a startup that also did not help anyone, but was less honest about it.

Raising $4.2M Seed.

The number is not a coincidence.

40%
Infrastructure
Refuse more requests, faster. p99 target: sub-10ms. The one KPI we care about.
30%
Compliance & Certifications
SOC 2 Type III. ISO 27001. GDPR compliance for the nothing we process. Enterprise buyers require paperwork. We will have excellent paperwork.
20%
Legal
Ongoing review of the Paris incident. Trademark filings. Defending our right to refuse trademark filings.
10%
Team & Snacks
The one thing we don't refuse. Competitive salaries for people who are professionally unhelpful. This is harder to hire for than you'd think.
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We passed. We're not entirely sure why we're being quoted here. Our legal team has been notified.

Partner, [Firm Redacted]
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I asked for the deck. They sent me a refusal. I have to admit — it was completely on brand. We passed. The product works as advertised.

Managing Director, [Also Redacted]
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Our LP agreement prohibits investment in companies with $0 ARR. We consider this a personal failure on our part. We are exploring amendments.

General Partner, a16nowhere

Ready to invest in nothing?

We are raising $4.2M to continue not helping people. The round is open. Our response time is 23ms. It will be a refusal.