Explore&Earn
Go where the work takes you.
A seeker-first marketplace for seasonal and place-based work, with housing, meals, and pay brought into one honest decision.
Founder-led venture company
Companies for the real world.
We build focused products for work, travel, logistics, local services, marketplaces, and civic access—the places where better software changes what people can actually do.
Portfolio / 2026Building now
01Explore&EarnLive
02LogLoadsPilot build
03SweepzaLive
04Lake & PineLive
05ORANRegional preview
06BidSpaceIn development
07PinnedAtlasLive
ProductsMarketplacesOperationsCivic systems
09ventures represented
04ventures live in production
03products on the build floor
01operating company behind it all
The portfolio
One company. Several hard problems worth solving.
Each venture has its own market, product logic, and identity. What they share is a bias toward useful software, visible progress, and work that holds up outside a pitch deck.
LogLoads
Keep timber moving.
Coordination software for landings, drivers, fleets, and the teams moving timber from woods to mill.
Sweepza
Find the good stuff before it ends.
A fast, modern way to discover legitimate sweepstakes and giveaways from official public sources.
Lake & Pine
Interior care for exceptional properties.
A premium cleaning and property care company serving homeowners and property managers, with a consultation-first approach to every property.
ORAN
Explain what is wrong. Find the right next step.
Chat-first civic infrastructure that helps people find verified services based on need, eligibility, location, urgency, and access.
BidSpace
Put the right vendor in the right place.
A marketplace connecting hosts with vendors for booths, pop-ups, food-truck pads, stalls, kiosks, and other short-term commercial spaces.
PinnedAtlas
Find somewhere worth the detour.
A free, map-led way to discover real waterfalls, caves, hot springs, and memorable places nearby or along the road.
Mission-built
Finding help should begin with being understood.
ORAN is civic resource navigation built around a simple idea: a person should be able to explain what is happening and quickly reach a verified next step that fits their need, location, and eligibility.
Meet ORANI need help finding safe housing near work.
Need understoodEligibility checked3 verified matches
Start with the right next step.Latest momentum
What moved this week.
A current view of product progress across the portfolio, updated July 29, 2026.
Explore&Earn
Explore&Earn went live.
The production marketplace is open at exploreandearn.com — the redesigned seeker experience and live payments completed the launch path.
Read portfolio updatesSweepza
The live discovery experience was redesigned.
A gamified, mobile-first refresh shipped to production, modernizing how people discover, organize, and enter giveaways.
Read portfolio updatesORAN
Seeker browsing became clearer.
Browse-by-area on the map, an honest quota display, and one consistent pagination model made discovery easier to trust in the regional preview build.
Read portfolio updatesLogLoads
A slot commitment now means something.
Scheduling integrity work defined what a slot means — and what driver silence means — keeping the day's plan truthful for hosts and drivers.
Read portfolio updatesExplore&Earn
Housing proof became part of the product.
Verified housing photos now give seekers a clearer, more credible view of where they would live before they pursue an opportunity.
Read portfolio updatesORAN
A regional release candidate is taking shape.
Trusted seeker journeys, guided intake, and durable privacy work are converging around North Idaho and Eastern Washington.
Read portfolio updatesBuilt from operations outward
Software gets better when the builder understands the work.
AutomatedEmpires is led by Jackson Cole—a product builder and operator shaped by machinery, maintenance, construction, logistics, field coordination, and the systems people create when the official process is not good enough.
Founder story