The honest version.
Averian Labs is Heather and Craig — two founders, both 50, trying to build an AI-native venture studio from $0 to $500K ARR. We're doing it in public because we think the process is as valuable as the outcome, and because we could use the company.
Why this exists
We built an internal platform called Orbit that runs most of the day-to-day operations — idea validation, product architecture, brand, launch strategy, content, code. Nine AI agents handling the work that would normally require a team. That's the experiment: can two people with AI as their engine do what used to take twenty?
We don't know yet. That's not false modesty — we genuinely don't know. But we're going to find out, and we're going to document every step.
How we work
Heather drives operations and marketing — strategy, content, brand voice, partnerships. She spent 20+ years in banking, which is where BuildCreditAI came from. Most of the spec drafting happens through her work in Cowork-Claude.
Craig drives technical execution — writing code, managing deployment, building the Orbit platform that runs the studio. He turns Heather's spec drafts into shipped products and keeps the systems running.
Neither role is subordinate to the other. The split is genuinely equal.
Why a venture studio
Most AI-native companies are pitching investors. We're not raising capital. We're not pitching anyone. We wanted to test whether AI as the day-to-day execution layer could actually work in practice — not as a thought experiment, but as a real studio shipping real products to real customers.
The studio model lets us test the hypothesis across multiple products at once. If AI can run the day-to-day, two founders can credibly operate three SaaS products. That's the experiment.
Why we're showing the whole thing
Most build-in-public stories start at $10K MRR. The early, unglamorous parts — the waiting on state paperwork, the wrong turns, the $0 dashboard — usually never get shown.
We're doing the opposite. We're sharing the entire journey, including the unglamorous parts. The hypothesis we're testing is more useful to other builders if they can see what actually happened.
We'll take help from anywhere. If you know something we need to know — say so. We read everything and reply.
Where to next
The Orbit story has the full breakdown of how the platform works — nine agents, two-layer architecture, the institutional patterns we use. The Ventures page covers the three products we're building. Subscribe to the blog (coming soon) for weekly updates.