For investors
A small bet on sovereign infrastructure.
Baryon Systems is at the very start. The product is real, the
public preview is shipping, and I'm having early conversations
with angels and small operator-led funds. If sovereign infra
software is in your thesis, this page is the short version of
the conversation.
$10–25k
Indicative cheque size
2026
Public preview shipped
The thesis
Cloud-first SaaS won the 2010s. The 2020s are showing us the cost:
small teams stuck on metered everything, audit trails owned by
the vendors being audited, and platform risk that compounds the
longer you stay.
There's a quiet counter-movement of operators going back to
self-hosted infrastructure — but the tooling is a mess of YAML,
bash scripts, and Stack Overflow threads from 2014. Baryon Gluon
is the integrated, opinionated, owner-operated alternative.
What's working already
- Desktop app shipping signed Windows builds at 75 MB
(electron-builder, NSIS + portable).
- Python agent (~1300 lines, stdlib only) that generates, compiles
and loads real eBPF/XDP into the kernel.
- Full Postgres + PostgREST + Realtime backend deployable in one
click over SSH.
- End-to-end demo path runnable on any $5 VPS.
Where the money goes
- Bandwidth to ship faster. Right now I have one set
of hands. A pre-seed buys me six to twelve months of full-time
focus and a small budget for design polish and code signing.
- Real-world coverage. Bare-metal testing,
IPv6 support, macOS notarisation, and Linux-desktop builds need
dedicated hardware and time.
- Light commercial layer. Free for solo operators,
paid for teams. That requires a license server, a billing
surface, and a hosted control plane for groups that don't want
to run their own desktop.
Why now, why this team
eBPF crossed the chasm for ops. Self-hosted Postgres is mature.
Electron makes desktop ops apps trivial. The pieces have only
recently lined up to make this product even buildable by a small
team. I'm one of the people for whom "small team" means one — and
I've already shipped the load-bearing parts. Capital here buys
speed, not invention.
What I'm not doing
- No "AI-native" buzzwords.
- No fundraising theatre — no decks bigger than ten slides.
- No vague TAM charts. The market for "operators who want their
own infra back" is concrete and you probably know some of them.
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Materials available on request.
Pitch deck (10 slides), product demo recording, financial model
and roadmap doc. Send a note below and I'll get back the same day.