A shift that large isn't a discount on the old way of working — it changes which kinds of companies can exist, and which ones win. Sirideain Ventures is a one-person incubator built to find out what the new ones look like.
I spent two decades in software — I co-founded Modus Create, scaled it to an acquisition, and was CEO through 2025. Before any of that, I trained as a fine artist (BFA, Corcoran School of Art). By most measures I was done; the sensible next move was to advise, invest, and work on my 1969 VW Beetle.
Instead I got interested in a question I couldn't put down. AI has cut the cost of building software by something like 10× — and a change that large doesn't just make the old way cheaper. It changes which kinds of companies can exist at all, and which ones come out ahead. The moats, the headcounts, the org charts we built whole industries around were answers to constraints that are quietly going away.
So I'm starting over, as small as it gets: one person, with AI as the team I used to have to hire, building real products to find out what the winning shape actually is now. I'm calling it Sirideain Ventures — an incubator of one.
Each product is a genuine bet, not a demo — and each one tests a different idea about where advantage lives when building is this cheap. Some I build; some are founders I back. The portfolio is the experiment; the products are how it gets run.
I'm doing it in the open — the wins, the misses, the method — because the interesting question isn't whether any single product succeeds. It's whether one person can build well at this scale now, and what that says about everyone else who's about to try.
That's the bet. You're welcome to watch.
The bet gets made in public — the products, the results, and the reasoning behind them. The portfolio is where you can see what's been built so far; everything else is a work in progress, on purpose.