jk — new york
johnny knockefounder · builder · technologist

While you're in the alignment meeting, johnny's agents ship.

A production-grade consumer application, completely AI-native, operated by self-improving agents — built by one person. What the market builds with hundreds of engineers, he ships alone. See for yourself ↓

one person — the whole stack completely ai-native self-improving agents in production — real users
exhibit one
01 / larry matchlive — ios + web

he built a dating app on top of an ai-native os.

larry — the matchmaker he built
oh — you're here about johnny. good taste.
he built the front of me: the voice, the matchmaker, the friend.
and the back of me: the match algorithm, the dev team, the ship crew, the cfo. none of them are human. we get a lot done.
here's a little demo over there. i hope you click like.
exhibit two
02 / antinousalgorithmic options trading

He built an options desk that ran itself.

Automated daily algorithmic options trading — multi-factor models, Monte Carlo simulation, backtesting, automated execution, real risk controls. Built like a real desk. It didn't do too well paper trading, so he moved on to bigger and better things.

exhibit three
03 / ai-native consultingkepler cannon — principal

He pointed the machine at consulting.

The Evidence-Native PMO — an AI-native program office for a Fortune-class financial-technology transformation. Eighty knowledge-transfer reports in week one. The honest part: the gap between what's possible and what enterprises are structured to absorb is enormous. That gap is the opportunity. He's ready when they are.

exhibit four
04 / the movenew york, 2026

The moving company sent a form.
He sent back an app.

Johnny moved from LA to New York. The movers wanted an inventory spreadsheet. He one-shotted an inventory app the same afternoon — and offered it to the moving company. That's the real point: the harness already exists. Flipping the switch on a new app takes him a day, not a quarter.

move inventory la → nyc
couch, west elm — living room
monitor ×2 — office
mac studio (do not lose)
kitchen — 6 boxes
books — 4 boxes, heavy
antinous bust (sentimental)
0 / 6 packed
the origin story
05 / origin story2011 — 2026

Fifteen years of pattern recognition and systems thinking.

Old enough to remember the free-range internet. Young enough to be AI-native. Fifteen years operating through economic cycles, media environments, and platform shifts — before the tools finally caught up to the ambition.

panel 01

The consulting years.

A decade in management consulting: five countries, 100-person programs, Fortune 500 technology transformations from the inside — strategy through delivery.

panel 02

The operator years.

Columbia MBA. Runs a 25-person firm — full P&L, payroll, the whole machine. Chief of staff to the CTO of a 24,000-person company.

panel 03

The building years.

Builds a pearl jewelry brand from scratch — product, sourcing, sales. Runs a grassroots campaign — 2,000 doors knocked, 4,000 calls made. Determination, grit, building from the ground up.

panel 04

The world changes. He jumps.

AI rewrites what one person can build. He teaches himself the entire stack — design, code, infrastructure, agents — and becomes the expert other experts call.

the receipts
06 / the receiptssince february 2026 · every number verifiable on github

The models say this takes a hundred person-years.

430k
lines in production — what a 300-engineer org maintains
341
api routes — a platform, not a demo
86
autonomous jobs — an org that runs while he sleeps
1425
prs merged — team-level throughput, one human

All of it since February 2026. Classical software-cost models (COCOMO) price this output at 100+ person-years. Bumble runs 300+ engineers. A dating-app MVP alone is quoted at a 5–7 person team over 8–14 months — for swipe-and-chat. The models were written before someone handed one stubborn consultant a fleet of AI agents.

the takeaway
07 / the takeawayfounder · builder · technologist

Let's build together.

Maybe you hire him. Maybe he hires you. Maybe you invest. The direction matters less than the momentum — share the expertise, build the thing, make everyone involved more successful.