Orbit is the AI-native platform where builders create, share, and sell plugins — starting with their own ideas. Capture ideas in encrypted, local-first idea spaces, collaborate on shared idea spaces, then turn the best one into a plugin you can sell on the marketplace. Local-first, encrypted, and built so creators keep 85% of every sale.
Every AI product today wants your life in its cloud — conversations, code, context — to train models you don't control and lock you into a subscription silo. Orbit inverts the model: the AI comes to your machine, your memory stays yours, and your best ideas become products you can sell.
Orbit/ folder, not a silo.AI became the interface to everything — but the tools are fragmented and the creator economy is booming without a neutral rails layer. Orbit is the market maker: one local, encrypted runtime + one storefront where anyone can create, share and sell AI-powered plugins. No creator ever builds a website, a payment flow, or an installer again.
This round funds six months of development + launch: finish the marketplace rails (seller onboarding, per-plugin checkout, 85/15 payout ledger via Stripe Connect), seed the catalog with first-party plugins, and open selling to outside creators. Capital buys the time to win both the data-custody debate and the marketplace cold-start while staying relentlessly bootstrap-minded.
Orbit starts free so the funnel is zero-friction, then monetizes builders as they create, share and sell.
Three revenue streams, one compounding platform.
Sheehan has designed, built and shipped Orbit end-to-end — from the encrypted desktop workspace and its local AI harness to the PWA shell, storefront and the WordPress payment flow. He works out in the open: architecture, security reviews and business plans are all committed to the repo, not kept behind closed doors.
He believes software should serve the person using it — which is why Orbit's first principle is that your data stays yours. He answers every inquiry personally, and he's looking for investors who want to fund a durable, bootstrapped-style company rather than a burn-rate bet.
"Your data. Your hard drive. Your encryption. Orbit doesn't store your life — it just organizes it, right where it belongs."
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