poking around on your socials, it seems like you've been building for ~5 years, and are just now officially launching, after i guess a capital injection from yc.
since the core ip is "deep" as you say, i'm guessing it cost quite a bit to develop, unless you built out all of the components yourself, which, while possible, seems unlikely given the technical complexity of each piece (you, and whoever else is on the engineering team, seem smart but this looks like "research edge" tech along several dimensions).
so i'm curious whether you paid the development costs up front (either using your own money or FFF) or if you validated and raised in small pieces. if the latter, i'm curious how one does that for such a complex product/service.
lots of assumptions in the above - feel free to disabuse me of my ignorance.
since the core ip is "deep" as you say, i'm guessing it cost quite a bit to develop, unless you built out all of the components yourself, which, while possible, seems unlikely given the technical complexity of each piece (you, and whoever else is on the engineering team, seem smart but this looks like "research edge" tech along several dimensions).
so i'm curious whether you paid the development costs up front (either using your own money or FFF) or if you validated and raised in small pieces. if the latter, i'm curious how one does that for such a complex product/service.
lots of assumptions in the above - feel free to disabuse me of my ignorance.