Batch F26 Self-accepted Now in private beta New York City · Est. 2026 Series A · Investor interest Hiring · $500,000 base

AI for cobblers.

The AI-native operating system for the shoe era. AI makes the shoes. The shoes make the AI. The cobbler is just there.

No spam. We don't keep your email. The shoes remember it for us.

Talk to the Cobbler
Fig. 1: The Platform Model: Oxford-1 (open weights) · Size: Yes
Technical line drawing of a cap-toe oxford shoe with four numbered callouts, described in the list that follows. 1 2 3 4
  1. VampWhere the AI goes at night.
  2. Eyelets ×5Five. Don't count them.
  3. HeelThinking.
  4. Toe capContains a smaller shoe, which is worse.
Fig. 2: The Agent Model: Chelsea · Laces: None
Technical line drawing of a Chelsea boot with an elastic side panel and a pull tab, with four numbered callouts, described in the list that follows. 1 2 3 4
  1. Elastic gussetScales horizontally. Do not ask it to scale vertically.
  2. Pull tabHuman in the loop. Pull to escalate.
  3. ToeContext window. Fits two toes at a time.
  4. HeelStill thinking.
Fig. 3: The Stack Exploded view · Do not reassemble
Exploded technical drawing of a sneaker separated into five floating layers, laces, upper, insole, midsole and outsole, with numbered callouts described in the list that follows. 1 2 3 4 5
  1. LacesOrchestration layer. Ties the agents together, loosely.
  2. UpperThe agents. Several. They do not speak to each other.
  3. InsoleMemory. Retains everything. Do not ask what.
  4. MidsoleInference. Cushioned.
  5. OutsoleCompute. Touches the ground so the rest of the stack doesn't have to.

Trusted by cobblers and their agents in

New York · London · Bruceton, PA

  • AI-native
  • Agents
  • Infra
  • RL environments
  • Physical AI
  • Feet
  • 11Mshoes made by the AI
  • 11MAIs made by the shoes
  • 1cobbler. Just there.

The platform

It's a loop. The loop is the product.

Four autonomous agents. They are all the same shoe.

Sole Diagnosis™

Describe your shoe's problem. The Cobbler will describe your problem.

Input
"There's a hole."
Diagnosis
You've already got one hole on your backside I wanna explore.
Confidence
Too much.

Flagship · Do not look at it

Stitch Swarm

Four thousand agents coordinate on a single seam. We know which seam breaks next. We are not going to tell you which seam.

Accuracy: the shoe knows

Heel Analytics

This is how high your heel could be. The heel of your shoe, to clarify. Trained in a long-horizon RL environment. The environment is a hallway.

Enterprise Last-Mile

A last is the wooden foot a shoe is built on. We have one wooden foot. It sits on the board. It votes. Your agents can now rent it by the hour. They do not have feet. This is the opportunity.

Computers for agents · A foot for agents

Batchmates

Our batch.

Everyone in our batch is building the operating system for something. We are building it for the shoe. Nobody else is building it for the shoe.

Batch F26 · Showing 7 of 7Sort: by foot

  • Cobblers

    New York, NY · Team size: 1 cobbler

    The AI-native operating system for the shoe era.

    AI makes the shoes. The shoes make the AI. The cobbler is just there.

    • Hiring: no
    • AI-native
    • Feet

  • Lastly

    San Francisco · Team size: 4

    The operating system for wooden feet.

    • Infra
    • B2B

  • Welt Labs

    San Francisco · Team size: 2

    RL environments for superhuman walking over long horizons.

    • RL environments
    • Benchmarks

  • Insole

    Palo Alto · Team size: 3

    On-device AI that knows your entire foot and walks for you overnight.

    • Consumer
    • Hardware

  • Grommet

    Remote · Team size: 1

    Shared context for your shoelaces.

    • Agents
    • Developer tools

  • Northampton Dynamics

    Northampton, England · Team size: unknown

    Robotics simulation indistinguishable from Northampton.

    • Physical AI
    • Under review

  • Tongue

    New York, NY · Team size: 2

    We make AI that never hallucinates. It is the tongue of a shoe.

    • Safety
    • Enterprise

Enemies

Known enemies.

Fine shoemakers. We are watching them. They know.

  • File No. 01

    Crockett & Jones

    Northampton, England

    Too good at shoes. Has been for a very long time. We're looking into it.

  • File No. 02

    Edward Green

    Northampton, England

    Hand-burnished. By hand. Whose hand.

  • File No. 03

    John Lobb

    London

    Bespoke. Traced our foot once. Kept the tracing.

  • File No. 04

    Alden

    Massachusetts

    Shell cordovan. That's horse. They make shoes out of horse.

  • File No. 05

    Allen Edmonds

    Wisconsin

    Will recraft your shoes. That's our thing. That was going to be our thing.

  • File No. 06

    Church's

    Northampton, England

    Third enemy from Northampton. Something is happening in Northampton.

Leadership

The team.

  • Dale Borkston, a bearded man in a grey polo, tipping a grey fedora.

    Dale Borkston

    Chief of Staff

    Dale wears the hat and eats spicy carrots.

    Hat wobbled 0 times.
  • Jebediah Leeker, grinning in a straw hat and suspenders, holding a wooden staff and pointing at himself.

    Jebediah Leeker

    Head of Product

    Shoes don't have zippers, so we're good here.

  • Markosh Swaz, in a dark suit and fedora, staring down at the camera.

    Markosh Swaz

    Founder

    Forbes 30 Under 30. Lauded visionary.

Flagship model

Ask the Cobbler

Ask him anything. He already resents you for it.

  • Real repair advice, delivered with open contempt.
  • Ask about the Series A. He will tell you about the loop.
  • We don't store conversations. The shoes might. That's between you and the shoes.
The CobblerAlready annoyed

Up to 400 characters. He will read some of them.

Simple and transparent

Three tickets. One shoe.

Take a ticket. The ticket takes you.

Claim No. 0001

Apprentice

For people who have shoes on right now.

$0/ forever
No credit card. No card.
  • A few questions a day
  • The Cobbler looks at you
  • Basic Heel Analytics
Ask the Cobbler
Claim No. 0002The shoes chose this*

Journeyman

For when you need the shoes to make more AI.

$20/ month, billed yearly
Billed yearly No refunds
  • More questions a day
  • Priority contempt
  • Predictive Stitching beta
  • A second, smaller cobbler
Join the waitlist
Claim No. 0003

Master Cobbler

For organizations. The organization becomes a shoe.

Ask him
He won't answer
  • Unlimited questions
  • Dedicated Cobbler (same guy, angrier)
  • SSO, audit logs, a wooden foot
  • Forward-deployed cobbler (he will not come)
  • Uptime: depends on his knees
Contact sales

*The shoes made this plan. The plan made the shoes. All prices in USD.