Sovren
The Platform Beneath the Surface
One identity, one ledger, one delivery network: a closed loop from post to payout, running end to end on owned rails.
The Platform Beneath
the Surface
One identity, one ledger, one delivery network: a closed loop from post to payout, running end to end on owned rails.
The part you can see is the smallest part.
Twelve owned systems. Four layers, top to bottom. Everything below the waterline runs in production today; the few components still in build are labeled where they appear.
The part you can see is the smallest part.
Four layers, top to bottom. Everything below the waterline is built and operating today. Not a roadmap.
Own the asset. Price the alternative.
Every asset: since when we've owned it, what ownership consists of, and what rebuilding it would cost on any deal clock.
Parler LIVE
vs a platform org · rebuild: 36+ moFull social media platform with social feed, graph, moderation, Lounges and more.
Go backend live: the cutover shipped as 22 coordinated releases in one day, each through the production approval gate; discover feed now serves in 30–200ms.
Play LIVE
vs Mux · Vimeo OTT · rebuild: 12–24 moSocial streaming app with video on demand and live streaming.
3–8s end-to-end live, sub-second LL-HLS, full ABR ladder + 4-hr DVR: playing now.
Pay LIVE
vs Stripe · PayPal · rebuild: 24+ moNon-custodial wallet · node management · Base Top Off
Non-custodial wallet live on both app stores; every settlement rail terminates here.
Shop LIVE
vs TikTok Shop · Amazon · rebuild: 12–18 moMarketplace, checkout, affiliate + attribution · 90/10 fee engine
Full commerce API live across five app surfaces.
Studio LIVE
vs YouTube Studio · rebuild: 12+ mo
Analytics, publisher, memberships + payouts suite
Shipped to production June 2026, mobile + web; native login SDK, MFA.
Ads Platform LIVE
vs Google Ad Manager · rebuild: 18+ moAd server, first-party auction, billing + reporting
Self-serve wizard, pixel + ClickHouse analytics, video placements.
Parler ID LIVE
vs Okta · Auth0 · Segment · rebuild: 18+ moIn-house IdP · SDKs · consent stack (TCF / GPP / GPC)
One IdP for the whole ecosystem: passwordless OTP, RS256 JWTs, SSO everywhere.
Data Lake LIVE
vs Snowflake · Databricks · rebuild: 18+ mo
Kafka event backbone · ClickHouse analytics bridge
Kafka dual-sink backbone + ClickHouse warehouse under the ad pixel.
Edgecast OWNED
vs Cloudflare · Akamai · rebuild: Acquired 2025Delivery software · PoP network · ASNs + IP blocks
10 Tbps launch capacity across 7 countries, owned outright.
Security Stack OWNED
vs Cloudflare WAF · Imperva · rebuild: Acquired 2025WAF · bot defense L1/L2/AI · ASM
No third-party dependency in the request path: DDoS L3/L4/L7 → WAF → two-layer bot defense.
Triton OWNED
vs AWS · GCP · rebuild: Acquired 2024Owned metal · proprietary control plane
Dual datacenters in Dallas & Virginia: RTO 4h / RPO 15m.
Own the asset. Price the alternative.
Every row, left to right: the asset · since when we’ve owned it · what ownership means · what rebuilding it costs on any deal clock.
| Asset | Origin | What ownership consists of | Proof | Build-it-yourself clock |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ParlerLIVEotherwise: a platform org | BUILT IN-HOUSE | Full source incl. Lounges · feed + graph · moderation · social graph | app.parler.com LIVE PROOF Go backend migration complete: the cutover shipped as 22 coordinated releases in a single day, each through the manual production approval gate. Discover feed rebuilt on the new stack: 30–200ms, down from 5.2s on the legacy build. | 36+ mo EIGHT-FIGURE MULTI-YEAR PROGRAM BUILD REALITY Multi-year, eight-figure program: feed, graph, moderation, trust and safety. |
PlayLIVEotherwise: Mux · Vimeo OTT | BUILT IN-HOUSE | Ingest, transcode + player pipeline · 3–8s E2E · sub-second LL-HLS | play.parler.com LIVE PROOF 3–8s end-to-end live, sub-second LL-HLS, full ABR ladder + 4-hr DVR: playing now. | 12–24 mo SPECIALIST INGEST + CODEC TEAM BUILD REALITY Specialist ingest, codec and delivery team. Two pipelines, one player. |
PayLIVEotherwise: Stripe · PayPal | BUILT IN-HOUSE | Non-custodial wallet source · node management · Base Top Off | pay.parler.com LIVE PROOF Non-custodial wallet live on both app stores. Every settlement rail (tips, memberships, marketplace, ad-revenue share) terminates here. | 24+ mo LICENSING CLOCKS START BEFORE CODE BUILD REALITY Engineering is the fast half; for any custodial rebuild, money-transmission licensing, sponsor banking and KYC/AML programs run months to years. This wallet sidesteps the heaviest of that clock by design: non-custodial, with users holding their own keys. |
ShopLIVEotherwise: TikTok Shop · Amazon | BUILT IN-HOUSE | Marketplace, checkout, affiliate + attribution · 90/10 fee engine | parler.com/shop LIVE PROOF Full commerce API in production: cart, orders, checkout, video product tagging, live across five app surfaces. | 12–18 mo ATTRIBUTION IS THE LONG POLE BUILD REALITY Checkout is the easy 20%. A production marketplace runs three to nine months on its own; a real attribution and affiliate engine is its own six-to-twelve-month build with a dedicated team; run in parallel from day one. |
| BUILT IN-HOUSE | Analytics, publisher, memberships + payouts suite | parler.com/studio LIVE PROOF First release shipped to production June 2026, mobile + web. Native login SDK, account switching, MFA shipped weeks later. | 9–14 mo PAYOUTS AND ANALYTICS OUTLAST THE UI BUILD REALITY The publishing calendar ships in weeks. Creator analytics that earn the comparison is an eight-to-fourteen-month maturity curve, and payouts inherit every hour of ledger discipline a wallet already had to build. | |
Ads platformLIVEotherwise: Google Ad Manager | BUILT IN-HOUSE | Ad server, first-party auction, billing + reporting | ads.parler.com LIVE PROOF Self-serve campaign wizard, pixel + ClickHouse analytics, video placements. HMAC-signed serve requests; 1s MRC viewability dedup before billing. | 12–24 mo $1.5M–$2.5M+ PER BUILD YEAR BUILD REALITY $1.5M to $2.5M+ per build year: auction, targeting, billing, brand safety, reporting. |
Parler IDLIVEotherwise: Okta · Auth0 · Segment | BUILT IN-HOUSE | In-house IdP · SDKs · consent stack (TCF / GPP / GPC) | id.parler.com LIVE PROOF One IdP for the whole ecosystem: passwordless OTP, RS256 JWTs, SSO across every surface. The JWKS endpoint is returning real signing keys right now. | 12–20 mo CONSENT COMPLIANCE OUTLASTS THE LOGIN BUILD REALITY SSO is the fast half: production multi-app auth lands in months. What runs the clock past a year is TCF/GPP/GPC-grade consent management: a specialty almost nobody builds in-house. |
| BUILT IN-HOUSE | Kafka event backbone · ClickHouse analytics bridge | app.parler.com/exec LIVE PROOF Kafka dual-sink event backbone + ClickHouse warehouse, instrumented under the ad pixel. The exec dashboard runs on this route today. | 12–18 mo RELIABILITY PATTERNS, NOT JUST PIPES BUILD REALITY Standing up Kafka and a warehouse is a sprint. Contract-first schemas, transactional outbox and dead-letter handling that survive a real incident are the year-plus part; teams that skip it pay later, mid-incident. | |
EdgecastOWNEDotherwise: Cloudflare · Akamai | ACQUIRED 2025 | Delivery software · PoP network · ASNs + IP blocks | edgecast.io LIVE PROOF 10 Tbps launch capacity across 7 countries, owned outright. In production on the owned edge: DDoS mitigation at L3/4/7, WAF, bot protection, sub-20ms. | NO BUILD AT RATIONAL COST ~$2.4M/YR TO LEASE A FRACTION BUILD REALITY Leasing a 10-PoP network, a fraction of this footprint: ~$2.4M/yr before staffing. Owning one is a two-decade head start in PoPs, peering and delivery software. |
Security stackOWNEDotherwise: Cloudflare WAF · Imperva | ACQUIRED 2025 | WAF · bot defense L1/L2/AI · ASM | edgecast.io LIVE PROOF No third-party dependency in the request path: DDoS L3/L4/L7 → WAF (OWASP + custom) → two-layer bot defense (signature + AI/ML), all inline on the owned edge. | ACQUIRED WITH THE CDN |
TritonOWNEDotherwise: AWS · GCP | ACQUIRED 2024 | Owned metal · proprietary control plane | tritondatacenter.com LIVE PROOF Dual datacenters in Dallas and Virginia: RTO 4h / RPO 15m with documented failover runbooks. 6-node quorum-sync PostgreSQL on owned metal. | NO BUILD AT RATIONAL COST BUILD DOESN’T EXIST AT RATIONAL COST BUILD REALITY Hyperscaler lineage. Build doesn’t exist at rational cost; rent is permanent. |
One journey. Every product. One owned stack.
One person's path, powered end to end by every service in the stack.
Find your friends
The feed, the follows, the community: one social graph.
Go live
Broadcast to a global audience in seconds.
Sell in the feed
Turn any post or video into checkout.
Run your brand
Your audience and your business, one back office.
Withdraw
One wallet, one ledger: your money, settled.
Every interaction feeds the next, on one owned stack with no seams between products.
One journey. Every product.
One owned stack.
One person’s path, powered end to end by every service in the stack.
Every interaction feeds the next, on one owned stack with no seams between products.
Parler: social built to scale.
The complete social graph in one app: what people post, follow and buy becomes intelligence the rest of the stack can use.
Parler: social built to scale
The complete social graph in a single app: what people post, follow and buy all becomes intelligence the rest of the stack can use.
Social components
rich content engagement
Long-form video
landscape, up to 4K
Short-form video
vertical, swipe feed
Shop
shoppable posts + video
Lounges
integrated communities
Audio rooms
live, drop-in audio
Chat + DMs
end-to-end encrypted
Payments
wallet, card + crypto
Search
people, posts, media
Contextual targeting
content-matched relevance
Notifications
cross-app delivery
Advertisements
native ad integration
Profiles
creators, stores, memberships
Trust & safety
AI + human moderation
Edge + WAF
HTTP/3, DDoS shield
Envoy Gateway
Strict mTLS, default deny
Parler ID
One identity, every app
Go Services
Kafka event backbone
Data Core
SQL + NoSQL, fully replicated
Triton DCs
Dual-region, rehearsed DR
Play: streaming + VOD.
Broadcast live to a global audience in seconds, sub-second with LL-HLS, every replay on demand. Near-zero delivery cost, monetization built into the player.
Live streaming
RTMP in, owned edge out. Sub-second LL-HLS.
Video on demand
Upload, transcode to 4K, CDN delivery.
RTMP ingest
OBS, hardware encoders, or mobile.
RSS syndication
Publish to any external destination.
Play: streaming + VOD
Broadcast live to a global audience in seconds, sub-second with LL-HLS, every replay on demand. Near-zero delivery cost, and monetization built into the player.
Live streaming
RTMP in, owned edge out. Sub-second LL-HLS.
Video on demand
Upload, transcode to 4K, CDN delivery.
RTMP ingest
OBS, hardware encoders, or mobile.
RSS syndication
Publish to any external destination.
Lounges: audio + community.
Live audio, chat and gated rooms in one place: the fastest path from a following to a paying, self-moderating community.
Live audio rooms
Spaces and Clubhouse-style rooms, live.
Text channels + threads
Discord-style channels, replies, reactions.
Private, gated communities
Invite-only, with roles and moderation.
Paid rooms
Audience to revenue, on owned Pay rails.
Maximum-intent monetization
A lounge is a declared interest: the sharpest ad and membership targeting on the platform, settled on Pay in tokens or fiat.
Lounges: audio + community
Live audio, chat and gated rooms in one place: the fastest path from a following to a paying, self-moderating community.
Live audio rooms
Spaces and Clubhouse-style rooms, live.
Text channels + threads
Discord-style channels, replies, reactions.
Private, gated communities
Invite-only, with roles and moderation.
Paid rooms
Audience to revenue, on owned Pay rails.
Maximum-intent monetization
A lounge is a declared interest: the sharpest ad and membership targeting on the platform, settled on Pay in platform tokens or fiat.
Pay: one ledger for the whole stack.
Every dollar the platform earns is accounted on one ledger of record (memberships, subscriptions, shop, ads): one fee point, one audit trail, one source of truth.
One ledger, one currency loop
Every revenue stream books to one ledger of record: one audit trail, one fee point. A native platform currency is the settlement instrument for activity inside the ecosystem.
Isolated by architecture
Payments run in their own cluster, walled off from the rest of the platform. Audit and blast-radius isolation by design.
Pay: one ledger for the whole stack
Every dollar the platform earns is accounted on one ledger of record — memberships, subscriptions, shop, ads — one fee point, one audit trail, one source of truth.
One ledger, one currency loop
Every revenue stream — memberships, subscriptions, shop orders, ad spend — books to one ledger of record: one audit trail, one fee point. A native platform currency is the settlement instrument for activity inside the ecosystem.
Isolated by architecture
Payments run in their own cluster, walled off from the rest of the platform. Audit and blast-radius isolation by design.
Shop: a store in every feed.
Turn any post or video into checkout: one tap, card or crypto, settled the instant it sells, 90% to the creator. Catalogs sync from Shopify, WooCommerce and more via Violet.
Shoppable post
Any post or video becomes a storefront.
Checkout · card + crypto
One tap, settled the instant it sells.
Pay settlement
90% to the creator, on owned rails.
Pixel attribution
Every sale measured, first-party.
Shop: a store in every feed
Turn any post or video into checkout: one tap, card or crypto, settled the instant it sells, 90% to the creator. Catalogs sync from Shopify, WooCommerce and more via Violet, surfacing on creator profiles across Parler and Play.
Studio: the whole creator business, on owned rails.
The tools that recruit creators. The economics only owned rails can pay.
Creator Analytics
Audience, retention, traffic. Real time, every surface.
Memberships
Recurring subscriber revenue, native checkout.
Performance
Every post scored: what worked, what to post next.
Storefront
A shop built into the profile. Sell without leaving.
Publisher
One composer. Schedule and post to every surface.
Revenue & Payouts
80–90% to the creator, depending on revenue stream. One wallet, owned rails.
Studio: the whole creator business, on owned rails.
The tools that recruit creators. The economics only owned rails can pay.
Creator Analytics
Audience, retention, traffic. Real time, every surface.
Memberships
Recurring subscriber revenue, native checkout.
Performance
Every post scored. What worked, what to post next.
Storefront
A shop built into the profile. Sell without leaving.
Publisher
One composer. Schedule and post to every surface.
Revenue & Payouts
80–90% to the creator, depending on revenue stream. One wallet, owned rails.
Ads: the complete ads engine.
A self-serve engine that turns attention into revenue: real-time auction, precision targeting, closed-loop measurement, on inventory we own.
Ads: the complete ads engine
A self-serve engine that turns attention into revenue: real-time auction, precision targeting, closed-loop measurement. It needs only what the other side of the table brings: audience-scale inventory and an advertiser bench.
Invite & Earn: growth built in as a product.
Every share carries the member's invite link, and verified referrals form a three-level referral program; the ad revenue it generates flows through one ledger, back to referrers, in arrears.
Every share carries the invite link
Verified referrals, three levels deep
The ad revenue that network generates
One ledger, back to referrers, in arrears
The 45/55 split applies to the ad-revenue pool only; commerce keeps its 90/10 creator split, and residuals settle once the revenue behind them is realized.
No major platform pays the network. Sovren does. Them: pay Meta / Google, then hope for revenue. Us: ad revenue first, then a share.
Invite & Earn: growth built in as a product.
Every share carries the member's invite link, and verified referrals form a three-level referral program;
the ad revenue it generates flows through one ledger, back to referrers, in arrears. The 45/55 split applies to the ad-revenue pool only; commerce keeps its 90/10 creator split, and residuals settle once the revenue behind them is realized.
Parler ID: auth + identity management.
Unified authentication is the master key to the data layer: one deterministic identity per person, shared by every property, advertiser and recommendation, so the whole stack gets sharper as it scales.
Data intelligence
One profile across viewer, advertiser and creator: the audience advertisers reach and the recommendation signal. Aggregated intelligence advertisers pay for.
Continuity
Native login SDK: instant multi-account switching and account linking across every surface. Shipped and live.
Trust
Passwordless sign-in, tokens verified offline, and bot & abuse defense enforced where every session begins.
Parler ID: auth + identity management
Unified authentication is the master key to the data layer: one deterministic identity per person, shared by every property, advertiser and recommendation, so the whole stack gets sharper as it scales.
One profile across viewer, advertiser and creator: the audience advertisers reach and the recommendation signal.
Native login SDK, instant multi-account switching and account linking across every surface. Shipped and live.
Passwordless sign-in, tokens verified offline, and bot & abuse defense enforced where every session begins.
Data lake: driving the engine.
Every product event streams through one Kafka backbone into ClickHouse and OpenSearch, then out to Studio, ads attribution, and the intelligence layer: the measurement running underneath the exec view, shown here as a simulated feed. The instrumentation is the asset; the audience that fills it is the one input the stack doesn't supply.
Product events
Kafka backbone
ClickHouse + OpenSearch
Studio · Ads · Intelligence
Creator analytics, ads attribution, interest models.
Data lake: driving the engine.
Every product event streams through one Kafka backbone into ClickHouse and OpenSearch, then out to Studio, ads attribution, and the intelligence layer: the measurement running underneath the exec view below, shown here as a simulated feed. The instrumentation is the asset; the audience that fills it is the one input the stack doesn't supply.
Four consoles. One substrate.
Moderating a network, provisioning node licences, clearing ad campaigns and reading the whole business are four different jobs. They run on the same identity, settle on the same ledger, and report from the same lake — because we own all of it.
Overview
Search users, lounges, posts OpenResolved ExportUser subscriptions
Search by plan, status, node limit All time30D RefreshCampaigns
Search campaigns, ad sets, ads ActiveDraft CreateNorth star KPIs
Search metrics and cohorts HomeEngagement SnapshotFour operating consoles: Parler Admin for moderation and payouts, Parler Pay for node licence subscriptions and treasury, Ads Studio for the advertiser portal and review desk, and Executive Analytics for cross-property reporting. All four authenticate against Parler ID.
Four consoles. One substrate.
Moderation, node licences, ad campaigns and the executive view are four different jobs — running on one identity, one ledger and one lake.
Parler Admin
The unglamorous half. Verification queues, payout approvals and an audit log of every operator action.
Parler Pay
Node licences, operationalised. Hosting plans, node limits per subscription, provisioning status and treasury batches.
Ads Studio
Both sides of the marketplace. A self-serve advertiser portal, and the desk that clears what runs.
Executive Analytics
One view over everything. Reach, retention and revenue across every property, in one place.
A sovereign execution layer for the entire stack.
The network turns distributed storage, AI inference and compute into licensed markets — with payments, policy, proofs and settlement enforced in shared state.
Cosmos SDK application
CometBFT finality · sovereign validator set · IBC connectivity
Hot + cold tiers.
Deterministic shards, proof-of-retrievability challenges and paid retrieval sessions.
Any model.
Inference + embeddings, per-model rates, token meters and signed cumulative vouchers.
Stored in → stored out.
Transcoding + classification with metered work and benchmark attestations.
licensed hosts · verifiable work · SOVR settlement
Economic rails
- payments
- settlement
- supply
- distro
- globalfee
- exchange_allocation
Trust, policy and connectivity
- identity
- policy
- attestation
- oracle
- nodelicense
- bridge
- txquery
signed facts + receipts → chain · ← policy + economics + settlement
slim-agent
Low-footprint node supervision
bridge-relayer
External-chain relay operations
sovr-bandwidth
WireGuard lifecycle + metering
sovr-inference
Model proxy + token accounting
sovr-vectordb
Vector data-plane wrapper
sovr-transcode
Compute job execution
A sovereign execution layer for the entire stack.
The network turns distributed storage, AI inference and compute into licensed markets — with payments, policy, proofs and settlement enforced in shared state.
Sovren Network
Cosmos SDK application · CometBFT finality · sovereign validator set · IBC connectivity
Hot + cold tiers. Deterministic shards, proof-of-retrievability challenges and paid retrieval sessions.
Any model. Inference + embeddings, per-model rates, token meters and signed cumulative vouchers.
Stored in → stored out. Transcoding + classification with metered work and benchmark attestations.
Sidecar plane
Edgecast Global CDN.
You cannot buy this CDN today. We know. We bought the last one.
Verizon
Cellular, video & search traffic
Origin shield at platform scale
Super Bowl LIV
Live streaming, national scale
Major Canadian bank
Financial-sector delivery, hardened
Mattress Firm
National retail commerce delivery
JAMstack edge product
Edge functions, zero origin
Every surface
Real-time pathfinding
DDoS L3/4/7 · WAF · Bot Manager
Rules engine · instant global purge
Edge functions · CDN-as-code
Collapses origin load · predictive prefetch
Two decades of delivery software, automation and traffic steering, hardened at Verizon scale under prior operators. The software, PoP network, ASNs and IP blocks transferred with the 2025 acquisition. Owned outright as a layer of this stack.
Edgecast Global CDN
You cannot buy this CDN today. We know. We bought the last one.
DECADES
Edgecast Security & Bot Management.
The same owned edge that serves the traffic screens it. Every request is filtered before it reaches the platform.
Any client
L3 · L4 · L7
OWASP + custom
Signature + challenge
AI / ML on live traffic
To gateway + origin
Web App Firewall
Bot Defense
Attack Surface Mgmt
Security is native to the edge. The same owned edge that serves the traffic screens it, tuned by two decades of delivery telemetry.
Edgecast Security & Bot Management
The same owned edge that serves the traffic screens it. Every request is filtered before it reaches the platform.
Compute.
Every workload Sovren runs is scheduled and accounted for by software we wrote, on machines we own.
zones + bhyve
One daemon · tritond
Placement, one transaction
Migration between hosts
VPC, enforced in-kernel
Manta on ZFS
Ours, end to end
Elsewhere, each of these is a separately licensed product.
Two shapes of compute
- zones · container-speed isolation
- bhyve · hardware virtual machines
- cloud-init on first boot
- VNC + serial console in the browser
Placement is a transaction
- capacity reserved with the create
- constraint + affinity filters
- no silent overcommit
- crash-safe · operations recover
Day-2 is the product
- ZFS snapshots, instant
- cold migration today · live next
- one-command host upgrade
- alarms → webhooks
No landlord in the stack. Owning the layer removes him: no outside party can reprice or unplug it. Growth is a purchase order.
Compute
Every workload Sovren runs is scheduled and accounted for by software we wrote, on machines we own.
Manta Unified Storage.
Buckets, filesystems and virtual disks are three views of one ZFS fabric, with a single integrity model to operate.
MantaS3 · object
MantaFS · file
MantaBlock · block
In production since 2013. Manta has run production object storage since 2013. Triton rebuilds it as one fabric with three doors, and one integrity model behind all of them.
Manta Unified Storage
Buckets, filesystems and virtual disks are three views of one ZFS fabric, with a single integrity model to operate.
SmartOS: owned to the kernel.
Every host boots one immutable image, built from an operating system source tree we maintain ourselves. This is the layer most stacks rent. Ours is in the building.
Solaris
Opened its source.
illumos
The community fork.
SmartOS
Built for clouds.
Hardened in public cloud
We ship the kernel
Continuous source history since 2005.
The OS is a build artifact
- boots from RAM, every time
- immutable · stateless hosts
- atomic upgrade + rollback
- no patch drift, ever
Isolation, two ways
- zones · OS-level virtualization
- bhyve hypervisor, in-tree
- one kernel runs both
Built-in truth
- ZFS · end-to-end checksums
- DTrace · live production tracing
- SMF · supervised services
- post-mortem debugging, built in
We ship our own drivers. When new hardware arrives we do not wait for a vendor: the Intel E810 network driver on these racks is ours, in-tree. That capability is rare, and already on payroll.
SmartOS Owned to the kernel
Every host boots one immutable image, built from an operating system source tree we maintain ourselves. This is the layer most stacks rent. Ours is in the building.
Hardware anyone can build.
The whole stack runs on a published OCP rack: commodity sleds, standard fabric, and an open spec any qualified integrator can assemble.
No fixed rack SKUs. The same 30 OU recomposes for GPU, balanced or storage-dense workloads.
Rack · OCP ORv3
48V DC busbar, blind-mate IT gear. Published Open Compute spec: any qualified integrator can build one.
Compute · AMD + Intel
Gigabyte Tigon sleds, validated across AMD and Intel. Any sled can take the controller role: no dedicated headnode.
Network · BGP + ECMP
Dual 400G top-of-rack, Spectrum or Arista, SONiC or Cumulus. Standards-first: any qualified switch drops in.
Balanced
GPU-Heavy
Storage-Dense
hardware anyone can build.
The whole stack runs on a published OCP rack: commodity sleds, standard fabric, and an open spec any qualified integrator can assemble.
No fixed rack SKUs. The same 30 OU recomposes for GPU, balanced or storage-dense workloads: the three configurations cycling at right.
OCP Open Rack v3
48V DC busbar, blind-mate IT gear. Published Open Compute spec: any qualified integrator can build one.
Gigabyte Tigon sleds
Validated across AMD and Intel families. Any sled can take the controller role: no dedicated headnode hardware.
Dual 400G top-of-rack
Spectrum or Arista switching, SONiC or Cumulus NOS, standard BGP + ECMP: the protocol is the contract, so any qualified switch drops in.
The surface is the easy part. We built everything else.
These are not projections. This is infrastructure we own and operate today.
What's missing is brand gravity and audience: the one asset that can't be built in a datacenter, and exactly what the other side of the table brings.
The surface is the easy part.
We built everything else.
These are not projections. This is infrastructure we own and operate today.
What's missing is brand gravity and audience: the one asset that can't be built in a datacenter, and exactly what the other side of the table brings.