Local-first AI that doesn't just answer questions.
It does the work.
Seed Round — $500,000 for 10% — $5M Post-Money Valuation
Prepared for 021T Capital — September 2026
33 million U.S. small businesses spend $50K–$200K per year on back-office operations: bookkeeping, tax, legal, email, scheduling, compliance. The work is repetitive, expensive, and crushingly manual.
AI chatbots answer questions. Business owners need AI that files the return, sends the email, reconciles the books, and syncs the bank — autonomously, locally, privately.
VIMS is a local-first AI operating system that orchestrates autonomous agents across every back-office function — accounting, tax, email, legal, banking, scheduling, compliance — from a single control plane.
VIMS is the Industrial Intelligence Stack applied to SMB operations. It converts messy human domains — bookkeeping, tax, email, legal — into systems that can be solved by pouring compute into them.
Current maturity: L2–L3 (structured & semi-autonomous).
Target: L5 — back-office as reliable and boring as tap water.
Go backend (478K LOC) + TypeScript surfaces (305K LOC) + Electron + React Native. The entire stack runs on a single machine with no cloud dependency.
Every number below is from live databases queried today, September 21, 2026.
29 QBO transactions autonomously reclassified with full audit trail. 8,343 purchases triaged across 6 connected business entities via 145-tool MCP server.
130 AI-generated emails sent across 2 mailboxes (Gmail + Zoho). 853 contacts enriched. 377 drafts created with SMS approval loop.
8 Plaid-linked bank items, 16 accounts, 3,518 transactions synced. Real-time balance monitoring across all entities.
175 attention items, 115 work items, 94 owner decisions, 101 executive reports. Live SMS + voice line with deterministic command parsing.
AEV, Engajer, Skyfall, MCG, 45 LLC, Jake The Stock Guy — all managed through one QBO MCP server with entity-scoped OAuth.
Local-LLM MyCase war room: 46 document sidecars, 14 AXON bodycam videos, timeline, entity graph, dismissal vectors. All processed on-device via Ollama.
Running 24/7 on launchd. SMS/voice line live. 452 connector syncs, 101 executive reports generated.
6 entities connected. 145 tools. Full CRUD on 29 entity types. 11 financial reports.
Autonomous email triage + outbound. 1,804 conversations tracked. Auto-disclosure on every AI message.
Policy-driven QBO reclassification. $145.7K applied. Full audit log.
All returning HTTP 200 today. Built and deployed by the same AI agent infrastructure.
"I run 10+ entities. VIMS manages my books across all of them, triages my email, files my tax returns, reconciles my bank accounts, and checks in with me via text. I built it because nothing else could do this."
— Michael Castellano, Founder
American Eagle Ventures, Engajer, Hummingbird Inc., Skyfall Ocean, +6 others
When AI collapses the cost of back-office operations, the savings don't disappear — they get reallocated to productive work. This is the largest labor-cost reallocation since cloud computing eliminated the server room.
Existing tools solve one problem: QuickBooks does books, TurboTax does tax, Mailchimp does email. VIMS is the orchestration layer that connects all of them and adds autonomous action. The defensible position is the agent graph — the accumulated understanding of how a specific business operates across all its systems.
Multi-entity operator running 10+ businesses across real estate, technology, consulting, and media. Built VIMS from necessity: no existing tool could manage the complexity of his portfolio.
Most AI tools are built by engineers who imagine business problems. VIMS is built by an operator who lives them daily.
The result: every feature exists because it solved a real problem across real entities with real money. The 29 QBO reclassifications weren't a demo — they were real owner draws in a real company's real books.
This is the unfair advantage: the customer IS the builder. Product-market fit is tested every day by the person who writes the code.
CTO hire. Generalize multi-entity agent into installable product. Launch private beta with 25 SMB operators.
Public beta. Accounting firm channel partnerships (10 firms, ~500 clients). $500/mo tier.
1,000 active users. $50K MRR. Agent marketplace live (third-party skills).
$3M+ ARR run-rate. Raise Series A at $25M+ to expand platform and enter mid-market.
VIMS is a direct implementation of the Solve Everything framework applied to the largest addressable market in the world: small business operations.
"The Intelligence Revolution is a war on the final bottleneck: scarce expert attention."
— Wissner-Gross & Diamandis, Solve Everything
VIMS targets exactly this bottleneck. Every small business owner is an expert whose attention is consumed by non-expert work. VIMS frees that attention by making the back-office autonomous.
Industrial Intelligence Stack
VIMS converts messy business domains into solvable systems via MCP tool routing, policy-driven automation, and audit-logged execution.
Maturation Curve (L0 → L5)
Bookkeeping is at L3 (semi-autonomous, human-gated). Email triage at L2. Tax filing at L1. Each domain climbs independently.
Abundance Flywheel
Solve one entity's books → same agent generalizes to all 7 → same framework applies to any SMB → reinvest surplus into the next domain.
$1T+ Impact
$1.7T in annual SMB back-office labor. Collapse it by 60% and you've created a trillion-dollar reallocation of human productive capacity.
Michael Castellano
Founder & CEO, VIMS / American Eagle Ventures
mccastellano@gmail.com
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