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The problem
Putting AI to work often requires technical expertise, multiple applications, expensive subscriptions, and consultants. Businesses are navigating a fragmented landscape of disconnected AI tools.
Why Me? Why This? Why Now?
Businesses do not just want AI to answer questions.
They want AI to generate leads, find customers, execute marketing campaigns, follow up with prospects, and automate everyday operations. In other words: they want AI to get work done.
Why Me?
35+ years building at the intersection of technology, business, sales and execution.
I’m Richard Hart, Founder and Founding Architect 0000. I approached AI from a business owner’s perspective—not by asking “What can AI do?” but by asking “What does the business need accomplished?” That question became the architecture of HartBeat OS.
02
The shift
New models, companies, and agents emerge almost daily. Some will lead. Others will be replaced, acquired, or forgotten. The winning operating layer should be able to evolve above that churn—across AI models, agents, providers, tools, and supported hardware.
03
The HartBeat OS answer
Your Chief AI Office in a Box. A unified business AI operating system designed to transform human intent into missions, coordinate the right intelligence, and deliver useful work.
The AI Swiss Army Knife
Human imagination drives the vision. AI delivers the execution. People remain in control.
HartBeat OS is designed as a business orchestration layer above models, agents, tools, apps and workflows. Your mission sets the direction; the technology serves the mission.
“Your wish is my command” becomes a governed business mission.
The AI workforce
Meet Genie, Maestro, and the Beats.
A simple operating model: any authorized user can communicate human intent naturally, Genie turns it into a mission, Maestro assembles the appropriate Skills and workstreams, and Beats execute toward the intended outcome.
01
Genie
Your five-star AI concierge and human-to-machine interface.
Any authorized user in the company can chat, speak, call, or email Genie and give HartBeat OS a mission. If your team already knows how to chat with AI, there should be practically no learning curve.
“Hey Genie, bring my sales team 10 high-quality prospects by tomorrow.”
“Hey Genie, research, write, create and prepare five video Reels every day for all my social channels—but let me approve the creatives before anything is published.”
02
Maestro
The orchestrator.
Maestro turns wishes into missions, selects the appropriate Skills, models, tools, connectors and authorized intelligence, then creates and coordinates the specialized workstreams required to execute the mission within approved constraints.
03
Beats
Simultaneous specialized AI workstreams.
A Beat represents one focused workstream. Many Beats means many workstreams operating simultaneously—like many capable people with beating hearts working toward a shared business outcome. The AI-worker metaphor makes invisible execution easy for humans to understand.
The intelligence behind the mission
Simple for the user. Sophisticated underneath.
HartBeat OS is designed to hide the complexity of LLMs, models, agents, Skills, plugins, connectors, tools, applications, workflows, permissions, routing and orchestration. The user asks for the outcome. HartBeat OS organizes the machinery required to pursue it.
Underneath the familiar Genie, Maestro and Beats metaphor, HartBeat OS may coordinate one or more capable intelligence systems across many independent workstreams. We do not need to predict which AI technology will win; the architecture is designed to benefit from whichever compatible technologies prove most useful.
Skills become capabilities
Load the right skill. Empower the right Beat. Execute.
The Matrix helicopter scene provides a compelling visual metaphor for the intended HartBeat OS experience: the mission determines the Skill, Maestro finds the appropriate Skill, and the Beat receives the procedural knowledge, context and tools needed to perform the mission.
Why a Skills-first architecture?
As foundation models become more capable, specialized business knowledge can increasingly be supplied dynamically through Skills, tools, connectors, plugins and context. Instead of permanently coding a separate agent for every job, Maestro can equip the appropriate Beat with the capabilities required for the mission.
Models change. Agents change. Providers change. High-quality business processes remain valuable. We believe portable Skills can become durable intellectual property within the HartBeat OS ecosystem.
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Select skill
Maestro finds and selects the appropriate skill from approved skill folders and available capabilities.
2
Upload to Beat
The skill and required knowledge are delivered to the appropriate Beat, which ingests and integrates the mission-specific capability.
3
Beat runs the skill
The Beat executes the mission with the selected capability, focused on the intended outcome and designed to keep approved workflows moving 24/7.
Illustrative concept. The Matrix comparison is used as an analogy for the intended skill-delivery model, not as a claim of literal instant human knowledge transfer.
The HartBeat OS Appliance
The Sovereign Local AI Appliance — Your Intelligence. Your Control.
The appliance strategy is designed to give businesses greater control over data, AI infrastructure, operating costs and where eligible AI workloads run. HartBeat OS is intentionally hardware agnostic, designed to support suitable hardware from different vendors as the market evolves.
Hardware exampleApple Mac mini
Compact local AI hardware for suitable deployments and workloads.
Hardware exampleApple Mac Studio
Higher-capacity local compute for more demanding configurations.
Hardware agnosticNVIDIA / other hardware vendors
HartBeat OS is intended to sit above supported hardware rather than depend on a single manufacturer.
Why sovereignty matters
Businesses increasingly share imagination, inventions, strategies, proprietary workflows, customer information, ideas and creations with hosted AI providers. Provider policies vary, and companies remain dependent on outside infrastructure when processing happens externally.
We believe a company’s intelligence should remain under that company’s control.
AI Sovereignty is not simply owning hardware. It is maintaining meaningful authority over where intelligence runs, what information leaves the business, which providers may be used, and which actions require human approval.
Local-first, not cloud-isolated
The goal is not to disconnect businesses from the world’s best AI. It is to give them control over when, where and how intelligence is used. Suitable workloads can run locally, while Maestro can select authorized hosted intelligence when greater capability is needed—balancing performance, privacy, capability and cost.
HartBeat OS Security
Powerful AI requires disciplined control.
Security is being architected into HartBeat OS through layered permissions, least-privilege access, controlled execution and human oversight.
Role-Based Access
Authorized users receive access appropriate to their role and business responsibilities.
Skill & Tool Permissions
Every Skill and Beat should receive only the tools, data and actions necessary for its approved mission.
Connector Authorization
Business systems and external services are accessed only through approved connections and credentials.
Human Approval Gates
Sensitive or consequential actions can require explicit human review before execution continues.
Logging & Auditability
Mission activity, system decisions and authorized actions should be observable and reviewable where appropriate.
Local / Cloud Boundaries
Policies can help determine what remains local and when authorized external intelligence may be used.
Minimum necessary access. Maximum practical control. Human authority remains above the system.
Architected to evolve
AI Agnostic. LLM Agnostic. Model Agnostic. Agent Agnostic. AI Provider Agnostic. Hardware Agnostic.
The AI marketplace is expanding rapidly. HartBeat OS is designed as an independent orchestration layer that can evolve above compatible AI models, autonomous agents, AI providers, business apps, tools, and supported hardware rather than depend on a single vendor or technology stack.
This is the architectural thesis: HartBeat OS should benefit from innovation wherever it comes from—new intelligence, new agents, new providers, or new hardware—while keeping the business mission and orchestration layer consistent.
Maestro is being designed to discover, evaluate, select and deploy suitable compatible intelligence for each mission—with security guardrails, permissions and human oversight.
Others are building models, LLMs, agents, tools and hardware. HartBeat OS is being architected as the business orchestration layer designed to evaluate, connect and put the best compatible technologies to work.
HARTBEAT OS
ORCHESTRATION
ORCHESTRATION
LLMs & Models
Agents
Hardware
AI Providers
Skills & Tools
Built for recurring revenue
Three subscription plans. One expanding customer relationship.
The same HartBeat OS architecture. Different levels of implementation support. The managed appliance model is designed to deliver continuously improving AI capabilities without requiring customers to build and maintain their own AI infrastructure.
Do-It-Yourself
Your direction. Your pace.
$5,000 setup
$995 / month
- Configured appliance
- Training and onboarding
- Knowledge library support
- 5 included development hours per month
Due at enrollment: $6,990
Deployment + first and last month’s base subscription payments.
Reserve this plan for $20 →Done-With-You
Your business knowledge. Our team’s expertise.
$9,500 setup
$1,995 / month
- Guided implementation
- Knowledge and workflow design
- 10 development hours in month one
- 5 included development hours monthly thereafter
Due at enrollment: $13,490
Deployment + first and last month’s base subscription payments.
Reserve this plan for $20 →Done-For-You
You set priorities. We lead implementation.
$25,000 setup
$5,995 / month
- White-glove deployment
- Advanced workflow implementation
- 20 development hours in month one
- 10 included development hours monthly thereafter
Due at enrollment: $36,990
Deployment + first and last month’s base subscription payments.
Reserve this plan for $20 →Pricing shown here reflects the executive summary dated October 30, 2026. Usage, external services, additional development, taxes and applicable fees may be separate.
Reserve your place in an upcoming production Run
Reserve any HartBeat OS plan for just $20.
You do not need to pay the full setup amount today. A $20 fully refundable reservation can secure your position in the next available HartBeat OS production Run on a first-come, first-served basis, subject to hardware availability, configuration capacity, and onboarding schedules.
Do-It-Yourself
Done-With-You
Done-For-You
Your final plan can be selected or changed before your order is finalized. As your production Run approaches, our team will confirm your plan, appliance configuration, business requirements, shipping information, onboarding schedule, and final order details.
$20 · Fully Refundable · Reserve Your Place
After the $20 checkout, customers may optionally be offered an Express RSVP upgrade for $30 more for priority placement within their selected Run and first consideration if an earlier opening becomes available. Reservation and delivery timing remain subject to final program terms and operational capacity.
Why now?
AI adoption is exploding. Deep integration is still in its infancy.
The executive summary cites a March 2026 Goldman Sachs survey reporting that 76% of surveyed small businesses were already using AI, while only 14% had fully integrated it into core operations. Adoption is happening faster than operational integration. That gap is where HartBeat OS is positioned.
76%
Surveyed small businesses already using AI
14%
Surveyed small businesses reporting full core integration
36M+
U.S. small businesses referenced in the summary
21K+
Large U.S. enterprises referenced in the summary
The demand is not simply for more AI.
It is for better AI execution, greater independence, and meaningful AI sovereignty. As companies become more dependent on AI, protecting business intelligence and controlling AI costs become strategic priorities.
We believe the next big winners in AI will not only be those building the smartest models. They will also be the companies that make AI indispensable to everyday business operations.
That’s the gap we see. That’s the opportunity we’re pursuing. And that’s why we’re building HartBeat OS — now.
Across virtually every industry
From SMBs to global enterprises.
The opportunity extends beyond small businesses to midsize companies and large enterprises, where automation, data security, integration, governance and infrastructure costs create even greater demands.
As AI becomes more powerful, accessible and affordable, the addressable opportunity continues to expand.
Go-to-market
From awareness to approximately 5,000 active business customers.
Five thousand customers is an outcome—not a strategy. Our planned acquisition model creates measurable steps from awareness to active recurring subscribers.
Awareness → 10,000-business waitlist
Founder-led content, social media, advertising, public relations, partnerships, webinars, affiliates and referrals build qualified demand.
$20 refundable reservation
Prospective customers who want to establish real purchase intent can reserve a HartBeat OS Appliance for $20, fully refundable before final order confirmation.
Optional $30 Express RSVP
After the $20 checkout, customers may optionally add Express RSVP for $30 more for priority placement within the selected production Run and first consideration for an earlier Run if capacity becomes available.
Runs → active subscribers
Run 01, Run 02, Run 03 and beyond organize capacity. Reservations progress to confirmed orders, shipped appliances, onboarding, active subscriptions, retention and recurring revenue.
Transparent traction reporting
HartBeat OS intends to measure each stage separately: waitlist members → paid reservations → Express RSVPs → confirmed orders → appliances shipped → active paying customers → retention → ARR.
Waitlist members are not paid reservations. Paid reservations are not confirmed customers. Confirmed orders are not active subscribers. The purpose of the funnel is to show the progression of demand clearly and credibly.
34,000+ external Skills
The executive summary identifies an external open-source Skills ecosystem, including a registry advertising more than 34,000 AI Skills across more than 2,800 GitHub repositories. These are a starting point for discovery—not Skills already integrated, licensed or certified by HartBeat OS.
Innovation can find its own customers
CrowdBuild Architects can create specialized Skills, workflows, connectors and capabilities that expand what HartBeat OS Beats can accomplish. Once a capability passes security, quality and compliance requirements, Maestro is intended to discover, evaluate and select it for the right business mission, subject to customer authorization.
The economics of scale
From vision to valuation.
The executive summary uses 5,000 active paying appliances as an illustrative milestone to show how recurring subscription revenue could scale.
Illustrative annualized recurring revenue
$125.7M
Rounded in the executive summary to approximately $126 million ARR.
30% DIY · 1,500 appliances · $995/mo$1.4925M/mo
60% DWY · 3,000 appliances · $1,995/mo$5.985M/mo
10% DFY · 500 appliances · $5,995/mo$2.9975M/mo
8× illustrative multiple
≈$1.0B
Applying an 8× revenue multiple to the illustrative ARR produces roughly a $1.01B enterprise value.
12× illustrative multiple
≈$1.5B
Applying a 12× revenue multiple produces roughly a $1.51B enterprise value.
Why approximately 5,000 active customers?
It is a deliberately modest deployment milestone relative to a global opportunity spanning millions of businesses. The 5,000 milestone refers to active paying customers—not waitlist members or refundable reservations. The illustration also excludes potential developer marketplace revenue.
One customer relationship. Ongoing value. Recurring revenue.
Illustrative only. Achieving any valuation requires strong execution, sustainable growth, healthy margins, retention and market support for the assumed multiples. This is not a present-day valuation or guaranteed outcome.
The investment opportunity
You are not simply investing in another AI application.
You are investing in an AI Agnostic, LLM Agnostic, Model Agnostic, Agent Agnostic, AI Provider Agnostic, Hardware Agnostic business execution platform architected to evolve as artificial intelligence advances; a sovereign AI infrastructure strategy designed to bring powerful local intelligence, greater privacy, operational independence and meaningful cost optimization to businesses; and a planned global ecosystem of independent developers creating specialized AI workers—our Beats.
Our competitive advantage is not limited to what our own engineers can build. It is what an entire global developer ecosystem can build on HartBeat OS.
Imagine the collective innovation of 1,000 developers building on one platform—and Maestro intelligently connecting their best creations to the businesses that need them.
$1.5MPre-seed capital sought
SAFEPost-money instrument
$20MValuation cap
≈7.5%Target round economics
Proposed SAFE structure
Post-Money SAFE · $20M valuation cap · no discount. A SAFE lets an investor fund HartBeat OS now in exchange for the contractual right to receive equity later upon specified conversion events. It is not a direct purchase of a fixed number of shares at signing, and the proposed SAFE has no interest rate or maturity date.
Rule 506(c) · Accredited Investors Only
HartBeat OS intends to conduct this pre-seed SAFE offering pursuant to Rule 506(c) of Regulation D. Participation is limited to accredited investors, and HartBeat OS will take reasonable steps to verify each purchaser’s accredited-investor status before accepting an investment. Final participation remains subject to definitive SAFE and related offering documents.
Transparent participation math
At a $20M post-money valuation cap, the ownership economics at the cap are straightforward: $10,000 ≈ 0.05% · $50,000 ≈ 0.25% · $100,000 ≈ 0.50% · $250,000 ≈ 1.25% · $500,000 ≈ 2.50%. If the full $1.5M is raised on the same cap, the target round economics are approximately 7.5%, before dilution from later financings or other issuances.
What the capital is intended to accelerate
Build the approximately 10,000-business waitlist, generate paid reservations, fill production Runs, convert demand into active subscribers, and continue improving Genie, Maestro, Skills, Beats, security, connectors, orchestration, frontend/backend, UI/UX, appliance infrastructure and CrowdBuild.
Build faster. Go to market faster. Scale faster.
Go-to-Market & Customer AcquisitionBuild awareness, drive the waitlist, generate reservations, fill Runs and convert demand into active subscribers.
Public relationsPosition HartBeat OS and educate the market.
AI CoreTeam & PlatformImprove Genie, Maestro, Skills, Beats, security, connectors, orchestration, frontend/backend, UI/UX and appliance infrastructure.
Developer ecosystemAdvance CrowdBuild, Skills, Beats and marketplace foundations.
Our vision is simple
Every business deserves its own Chief AI Office.
Every business should have meaningful control over its intelligence, its data, its AI infrastructure and its future.
AI Execution.
Move beyond conversation into governed, measurable work.
AI Independence.
AI Agnostic · LLM Agnostic · Model Agnostic · Agent Agnostic · AI Provider Agnostic · Hardware Agnostic. Keep models, agents, providers, tools, and supported hardware replaceable through an evolving orchestration layer.
AI Sovereignty.
Give businesses meaningful control over where intelligence runs and how their data is handled.
Your imagination. Your AI workforce. Your business. Your command.
Closing — an invitation to our next meeting
Let’s turn AI from conversation into execution.
Don’t make an investment decision from a website. Take the second meeting. Let Richard show you Genie, Maestro, Skills, Beats, the Sovereign AI strategy, customer-acquisition plan and development roadmap. Challenge the assumptions. Ask the hard questions. Then decide.
Richard Hart
Founder & Architect · HartBeat OS
HartBeat OS — Your Business AI Operating System · Your Chief AI Office in a Box.
Investor notes
Financial assumptions & forward-looking milestones.
These notes are intentionally visible on the page so investors can distinguish the current business, illustrative financial modeling, and planned initiatives.
Pre-seed SAFE terms
The current proposed pre-seed target is $1.5 million through a Post-Money SAFE with a $20 million valuation cap and no discount. If the full $1.5 million is raised on the same cap, the target round economics are approximately 7.5% at the cap, before dilution from later financings or other issuances. A SAFE is a contractual right to receive equity upon specified future conversion events; investors are not purchasing a fixed number of shares at signing. HartBeat OS intends to conduct the offering pursuant to Rule 506(c) of Regulation D; participation is limited to accredited investors and accredited-investor status will be verified before an investment is accepted. Final terms remain subject to definitive SAFE and related offering documents, company approvals, and applicable securities laws.
Revenue model and valuation illustration
The projected approximately $126 million in annualized recurring revenue assumes 5,000 active, paying appliances with a subscription mix of 30% Do-It-Yourself at $995 per month, 60% Done-With-You at $1,995 per month, and 10% Done-For-You at $5,995 per month. The illustrative $1.0–$1.5 billion enterprise valuation assumes premium revenue multiples, substantial growth, sustainable margins, and customer retention. It is not a present-day valuation or guaranteed outcome.
Local AI economics and performance
Local AI may offer advantages in privacy, responsiveness, and inference costs for appropriate workloads. Actual savings and performance depend on model capability, hardware configuration, workload volume, electricity, maintenance, support, and external AI usage.
Hosted AI and data handling
Hosted AI providers have different data-handling policies. Some commercial providers explicitly exclude training on business data by default. External processing or retention does not necessarily mean a provider owns or trains on a company’s ideas.
External Skills ecosystem
The 34,000+ Skills figure refers to an external registry’s advertised catalog, not Skills already integrated, licensed, or certified by HartBeat OS.
Planned initiatives and design objectives
The approximately 10,000-business waitlist, $20 refundable reservation program, $30 Express RSVP option, production Run model, 1,000-Architect CrowdBuild ecosystem, marketplace revenue, Sovereign AI deployments, Skills-first architecture and broad orchestration capabilities are planned initiatives or design objectives unless otherwise identified as launched or achieved.
Market survey
The Goldman Sachs survey figures refer to surveyed small-business participants rather than all U.S. businesses.
Rule 506(c) Offering & Investment Risk Notice
Accredited investors only. HartBeat OS intends to conduct the pre-seed SAFE financing described on this page pursuant to Rule 506(c) of Regulation D under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Rule 506(c) permits general solicitation, but all purchasers in the offering must be accredited investors. HartBeat OS will take reasonable steps to verify the accredited-investor status of each purchaser before accepting an investment.
The securities offered have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 or applicable state securities laws and, if issued in reliance on Rule 506(c), will be restricted securities. They may not be offered, sold, transferred, or otherwise disposed of except pursuant to an effective registration statement or an available exemption from registration.
Any investment will be made only pursuant to definitive SAFE and related offering documents. Information presented on this website is provided for informational and discussion purposes and does not constitute legal, tax, accounting, or investment advice or a recommendation to invest. Prospective investors should conduct their own due diligence and consult their own legal, tax, and financial advisers before making an investment decision.
Investing in an early-stage company involves substantial risk, including the possible loss of some or all of your investment. HartBeat OS is an early-stage venture; its products, market adoption, revenue, technology, competitive position, financing plans, and future valuation are subject to uncertainty. Forecasts, targets, market-size references, development plans, anticipated capabilities, and valuation illustrations are forward-looking and should not be interpreted as guarantees of future performance.
No federal or state securities commission or regulatory authority has approved or endorsed these securities or determined that this offering is fair, complete, or appropriate. HartBeat OS expects to make the required federal and applicable state notice filings in connection with the offering. A Form D is generally required to be filed with the SEC within 15 days after the first sale in a Regulation D offering.
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The next step
Interested in evaluating the HartBeat OS pre-seed opportunity?
Let’s schedule a private investor conversation to review the vision, roadmap, offering terms, risks, due diligence materials, and your questions. A clear yes or no is welcome; what matters is clarity and the opportunity to evaluate the round while it remains open.
Current proposed round: $1.5M pre-seed · Post-Money SAFE · $20M valuation cap · approximately 7.5% target round economics at full subscription.
Rule 506(c) · Accredited Investors Only · Verification Required. Participation is subject to definitive SAFE and related offering documents, company approvals, and applicable securities laws.