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VisionOn 1 October 2026, 3XA is folded entirely into Valfiguer LLC. One technology company, four capabilities and two products of its own — Projekt Republic and Kodiak Base — in place of a brand structure that had become hard to explain.
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SoftwareThe industry is building its compute layer on increasingly leveraged balance sheets. From below, the question is not which provider you pick. It is what it costs you to change your mind.
VisionForming a company in the United States opens specific doors. It also carries an expensive misunderstanding: it does not change where you pay tax. What it actually solves and what it does not.
VisionModels are already a distribution channel, and courts are deciding on what terms. What we changed on our site to be citable — and what we do not intend to change.
Responsible AIAn AI demo costs you an afternoon. An AI product you invoice every month costs something else, and that something else belongs in cost of goods sold. How we look at it.
SoftwareConnecting an agent to your product does not add a feature. It adds a user who works fast, never tires and never asks. What that means when your data belongs to several customers at once.
VisionOn 1 October 2026, 3XA is folded entirely into Valfiguer LLC. One technology company, four capabilities and two products of its own — Projekt Republic and Kodiak Base — in place of a brand structure that had become hard to explain.
Responsible AIA demo impresses in five minutes. A product has to work on Tuesday at nine. Here’s how we take AI from the mockup to something people trust every day.
VisionThe fastest way to get world-class technology into everyone’s hands isn’t giving tools away. It’s training the people who will build them. Our bet on education and mentorship.
VisionWhy we build a group instead of a single product — and how patient ownership, shared infrastructure and a long horizon change what a company can become.
Responsible AIAI should multiply what a small team can do — without quietly deciding things no one signed off on. The principles we use to ship it.
SoftwareThe cost of turning an idea into working software is collapsing. What that unlocks — and what still has to be earned.
VisionThree verbs run everything we do. A look at the rituals — and the constraints — that keep a portfolio moving without losing the thread.
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