A small family company, betting that the dull layer underneath the AI demos is the one that actually decides whether any of it holds.
I’m Rado. The flashy agent demos get the attention; the boring layer underneath — auth, billing, webhooks, the parts that can quietly ruin you — is where reliability actually lives. Hand those to an agent to write fresh every session and the small differences become the bugs.
So Ctrl AI gives agents a catalog of verified parts they can wire but can’t break: vendored into your repo, locked, attested, yours. The code most likely to ruin you becomes the code your agent isn’t allowed to touch.
Two founders, and two of my sons in the build. Adam (21) and Oliver (19) keep the median age startup-appropriate; at 51, I bring the scar tissue.
Questions, or want in early? Email me directly — rado@ctrlai.com. I read every one.
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