At 12, I built a mobile game that hit 100,000+ sessions and earned me a meeting with Apple App Store executives.
Through high school I built websites, apps, and automations for local Australian businesses and international NGOs navigating the COVID pandemic. Same pattern at every shop: AI promises and tracking dashboards. Software that "closed tickets" ended up being a person with a spreadsheet.
I interned at Deutsche Bank and saw the same gap from the institutional side: AI was theatre. Decks. Roadmaps. No wiring.
11thGear is what I wanted to exist when I was the operator trying to use AI in a real business. AI that actually knows your work. Drafts in your voice. Catches what you'd miss. Gets sharper every week.
"Every install I run, the operator sends a message in week two that reads some version of: 'wait, it just did the thing without me asking.' That moment is what we actually sell. Everything else is wiring."