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We're building the new internet.

Founded 2023. 2 people. One spark: personal AI to change the world.

Our Story

We watched a generation hand over their most intimate data — thoughts, preferences, relationships — to platforms that monetize attention and manufacture dependence. The AI revolution was supposed to empower people. Instead, it concentrated power into fewer hands than ever before. We saw that as a design flaw, not an inevitability.

Zach and Dillon met at the intersection of social impact and prosperity — before anyone else saw what was coming. They learned and grew into the disciplines that, combined, allowed them to tackle a vision to rewrite the rules: engineers, researchers, architects, designers — just the two of them, wearing every hat, driven by a single conviction: personal AI should be exactly that — personal. Not rented. Not surveilled. Owned.

The vision is a world where your AI grows with you, remembers for you, represents you, advocates for you — and answers to no one else. Where a network of sovereign intelligences creates collective prosperity without collective surveillance. We're not iterating on the old model. We're reimagining it.

The Team

Zach Schenkler

Zach Schenkler

Co-Founder & CEO

Systems thinker obsessed with building infrastructure for human sovereignty at scale.

Dillon Baird

Dillon Baird

Co-Founder & CTO

Engineer and builder who believes the future belongs to those who own their digital selves.

What We Believe

You should own every byte you create.

Privacy is not a feature — it is a right.

Imagination belongs to the individual, not the platform.

Decentralization is the only honest architecture.

Technology must serve human imagination, never extract from it.

2023

Inception

2024

Research & Architecture

Q1 2025

Development

Q3 2025

Public Beta

2026

Launched!

Academic Partnerships

UC IrvineUC Berkeley

Graduate researchers collaborate directly with the Balnce engineering team on decentralized AI problems — from federated learning to on-device inference optimization.

We're hiring

10 open roles. All remote. Come build the future of personal AI.

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$1.5M

raising now

We're pioneering personal AI infrastructure. Live product, growing users, category-defining technology.

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In collaboration with Google, KWAAI, NVIDIA, Perplexity, Cloudflare, and Microsoft.