Yusuf Young

Yusuf Young

I am actively building Aether Many and CRM From Within. They are part of a broader sovereign-AI thesis: people and companies should own the intelligence, software, and data they depend on. Works Like Us and Company Native explore two other parts of that thesis. I also share FIRE Decision Lab and Robotaxi Predictor as projects I build from personal interest. Before these, I built and exited FunnelBud.

What I'm building now

Aether Manyin development

A personal AI agent that learns how you work, builds new abilities, and cooperates with other independently owned agents without giving up your control. I want people to own the intelligence that acts for them.

CRM From Withinin development

A service that builds an SME's first CRM around how the company already works. The company owns the software. CRM From Within can also build a better-fitting replacement before helping an existing CRM customer move into it.

The sovereign-AI thesis

Own the intelligence, software, and data you depend on

People and companies are building more of their work around AI and software they do not control. A provider can change the model, price, rules, or access. Generic systems also push different people and companies toward the same way of working.

Why these projects belong together

I use “sovereign AI” to mean something simple: the person or company relying on the intelligence should control it. The same principle applies to software and data. They should adapt to their owner, preserve what makes that owner different, and remain portable when a provider changes.

That thesis leads to several projects, not one generic consultancy. Each project has a different customer job and must get better at a different repeatable process. I am actively building Aether Many and CRM From Within. Works Like Us and Company Native are earlier concepts.

Aether Many is the agent runtime. It is meant to let each person or company run agents that learn, build abilities, and cooperate while remaining accountable to their owner.

CRM From Within builds an SME's first CRM around how that company already works. It can also build the better-fitting replacement before helping a company move out of an existing CRM. The company owns the resulting software.

Works Like Us explores company intelligence. It would fine-tune open models on approved examples of one company's work, run the model on infrastructure the company controls, and improve it through feedback.

Company Native explores software migration beyond CRM. It would replace existing generic SaaS with custom software while carrying over data, workflows, and users. It stays separate because migration risk and retraining are different work from building a CRM or training a model.

The common thread is ownership. The reason for separate brands is specialization: agent infrastructure, CRM building, model training, and system migration create different skills that should improve with each user or customer.

I wrote earlier about the path from language models to more general intelligence and why privacy in an agent is a judgment problem.

Concepts I'm exploring

Works Like Usearly concept

AI trained for one company, owned and run by that company. Works Like Us fine-tunes an open model on approved examples of how the company works, improves it through feedback, and runs it on infrastructure the company controls.

Company Nativeearly concept

A concept for replacing generic rented software with custom software a company owns. Company Native would carry over the existing data and workflows, help users move safely, and maintain the new system.

Tools I share publicly

FIRE Decision Labfree public-interest project

Free tools for testing a financial-independence plan, practising hard investment decisions before the consequences are real, and checking ideas against evidence.

Robotaxi Predictorpersonal project

A Tesla robotaxi fleet tracker I built for myself and decided to share. It estimates how many vehicles appear active and compares the rollout with published investor expectations.

What I have done

FunnelBudFounder and CEO

Founded and built the CRM and marketing automation company before Holdflight acquired it in 2025. Holdflight's acquisition announcement →

CirratoGlobal marketing

Built the company's inbound marketing and sales process.

OracleSales

Worked in technology sales before leaving to build FunnelBud.

What would be useful to discuss

I am most useful when the conversation starts with a real problem, project, or decision. Yusuf's assistant can point you to the right work, ask the useful follow-up questions, and pass the conversation to me.

Writing

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