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
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
Writing
- Privacy in AI agents is a judgment problem, not a classification problem
- The future of value [IN PROGRESS]
- How to combine bottom-up and top-down problem-solution finding to create genius level new companies
- What is CRM and how will it change in the age of abundant intelligence?
- The strategy mistake I made at FunnelBud for years
- The path from LLMs to AGI
- Comprehensive Guide: How to understand what your customers need based on qualitative interviews
- How the software industry will change when development cost nears zero (who will still make money?)