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
Co-Founder & CEO
Systems thinker obsessed with building infrastructure for human sovereignty at scale.

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.
Academic Partnerships
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.
$1.5M
raising now
We're pioneering personal AI infrastructure. Live product, growing users, category-defining technology.
In collaboration with Google, KWAAI, NVIDIA, Perplexity, Cloudflare, and Microsoft.