What Humans & Machines, Inc. does

Humans & Machines, Inc. is a privately held AI lab founded in 2024 and registered in Delaware, with a three-person founding team of ex-Cloudflare operators (Steve on engineering, Jessicat on product, Kawah on finance and operations) distributed across Rotterdam, the US, and elsewhere. The company's flagship product, GSV, is a distributed personal AI computer that runs open-source in the user's own Cloudflare account: LLM reasoning executes in Cloudflare isolates while tool execution happens locally on the user's devices, which connect outbound via WebSocket without port forwarding or VPNs. Users interact with the agent through WhatsApp, Discord, a CLI, or a WebUI, and the agent remains available even when user devices are offline.

The product portfolio extends beyond GSV to include the Sea of Simulation (SoS), a Rust-based Docker sandboxing service for high-fidelity shell environments, and Quorra, a shell agent framework — both published as open-source research artifacts alongside a ~14k synthetic shell task dataset hosted on Hugging Face. The technical stack is built entirely on Cloudflare edge primitives (Workers, Durable Objects, isolates), and the architecture is differentiated by its async split between cloud-side reasoning and local tool execution.

The company is bootstrapped with no external funding disclosed, operates a pure product-led growth motion through open-source self-serve distribution on GitHub, and has no commercial pricing or revenue model announced. The customer base is undefined in terms of named accounts; the target segments are privacy-conscious individuals who reject platform-locked AI and technical developers comfortable self-hosting open-source infrastructure. The company is currently in beta, with GSV having launched in February 2026, and explicitly positions itself as building toward a future state of "personal AI anyone can use, no servers to manage."

Name

Humans & Machines, Inc.

Legal name

Humans & Machines, Inc.

Website

https://humansandmachin.es

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Humans & Machines, Inc. is a three-person AI lab building GSV, an open-source distributed personal AI platform that runs in users' own Cloudflare accounts across all their devices. The company serves privacy-conscious individuals and developers seeking self-hosted, auditable AI infrastructure.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Rotterdam

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Unclear / Pre-revenue: No explicit revenue model disclosed. GSV is open-source and deployable on Cloudflare's free tier. The company appears to be in early-stage development, likely exploring funding options or future monetization through premium features, support services, or funding.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Humans & Machines, Inc. builds GSV, a distributed personal AI agent platform that spans every user device and stays active even when devices are asleep. GSV runs open-source in the user's own Cloudflare account with user-held encryption keys; LLM reasoning happens in Cloudflare isolates while tool execution runs locally on user devices that connect outbound over WebSocket. Users interact with the agent via WhatsApp, Discord, CLI, or WebUI. The company also publishes SoS (Sea of Simulation), a Rust service for Docker-based shell sandboxing used to train small language models for terminal automation.

Product overview

Humans & Machines, Inc. offers a focused product portfolio centered on personal AI infrastructure. The primary offering is GSV, a distributed personal AI agent platform that spans all user devices and operates across Cloudflare's edge network. GSV is supplemented by SoS (Sea of Simulation), an internal research tool for creating shell sandbox environments used in training small language models for terminal automation. The company is an AI lab developing open-source products with a focus on personal computing and user sovereignty over AI systems.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• GSV: A personal AI computer that spans every device and stays awake even when they're asleep. Open-source, running on the edge in users' own Cloudflare accounts. It is a distributed personal AI platform with WhatsApp, Discord, CLI, and WebUI clients.

Products and services

• GSV (Global Shared View) A distributed personal AI computer that spans every user device and remains available even when devices are asleep. Open-source and deployed to the user's own Cloudflare account so data and keys stay with the user; users access the agent from WhatsApp, Discord, CLI, or WebUI. Built for privacy-conscious individuals who reject platform-locked AI assistants.
• SoS (Sea of Simulation) A Rust-based HTTP service that manages Docker containers to create high-fidelity shell sandboxes with deterministic success checking via exit codes. Used to train small language models on terminal tasks as part of the company's open-source shell-agent research.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability5 records

Feature6 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Mem.ai: AI-powered personal knowledge and task assistant. Comparable as a personal-AI productivity surface, though Mem is a closed SaaS product rather than an open-source, self-deployable platform like GSV.
• CrewAI: Open-source framework for orchestrating collaborating AI agents. Comparable as developer infrastructure for agent systems, though focused on multi-agent business workflows rather than personal, consumer-facing distributed assistants.
• Letta: Open-source platform for stateful LLM agents with memory and tool execution. Comparable in spirit (open-source agents with persistence) but positioned more for application developers than for personal multi-device AI assistants.

Broad incumbents

• Anthropic (Claude): Frontier-model provider offering Claude as a personal assistant with tool use and (via Computer Use) agentic capabilities. Comparable as a personal AI surface but closed-source and centrally hosted, the inverse of GSV's thesis.
• Replit Agent: Cloud-hosted development environment with an integrated AI agent that can build and run code across user projects. Overlaps with GSV's 'AI that spans your machines' positioning but is vertically integrated into Replit's IDE rather than open and self-hostable.
• OpenAI (ChatGPT / Operator): The dominant personal AI assistant incumbent. Overlaps with GSV on cross-device access and agent capabilities but operates on OpenAI's own servers, contrasting directly with GSV's self-hosted sovereignty positioning.

Direct peers

• Khoj: Open-source personal AI assistant that runs locally or self-hosted across devices. The closest direct conceptual peer to GSV - both pitch privacy-first, self-hosted personal AI - though Khoj's distribution is desktop-first rather than Cloudflare-edge-first.
• LangChain: Open-source framework for building LLM-powered agents and applications. Highly comparable to GSV because both target developers building autonomous agent workflows, though LangChain is broader and language-agnostic across clouds rather than Cloudflare-native.
• AutoGen (Microsoft): Microsoft's open-source framework for multi-agent LLM applications. Comparable as a developer-facing agent orchestration platform, but optimized for enterprise Python workloads rather than consumer-facing distributed personal agents on edge infrastructure.

Others

• Cloudflare (Workers AI / Agents): Both the infrastructure provider GSV is built on and a potential competitor via Cloudflare's own Workers AI and emerging agent primitives. Critical to monitor because Cloudflare could trivially absorb GSV's distribution advantage by shipping first-party agents on the same edge runtime.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/humachinesinc
• GitHubgithub.com/deathbyknowledge/gsv

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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