The observation
Modern industrial software — digital twins, OT cybersecurity, EV charging platforms, banking AI, robotics fleet management — is designed and priced for Fortune 500 companies in North America and Northern Europe. Regional utilities, mid-market industrials, financial institutions, and infrastructure operators across Latin America, the U.S. Sun Belt, and Iberia are left between two equally bad options: legacy software from the 1990s, or solutions priced for global enterprises.
The market ignores them. The incumbents ignore them. VC-backed startups avoid them because the average ticket is below their CAC target. But the gap exists, it's growing, and it represents tens of billions of USD in critical infrastructure that needs modernization across the Atlantic axis.
The decision
NEXSPIRE builds for that gap. A vertically integrated technology group — hardware, firmware, cloud, services, AI platforms, robotics, energy, security — operating natively in English, Spanish, and Portuguese across Latin America, the United States, Spain, and Portugal.
Bootstrap-first. No VC pressure forcing unsustainable velocity. Solo founder with a clear vision and disciplined execution. Costa Rica as the operational base. Delaware as legal headquarters. Texas as secondary U.S. operations. Spain and Portugal as Phase 3 European entry.
The operating doctrine
- Sales first, code second, documentation third. Until the product is validated by paying customers, everything else is premature optimization.
- Customer dev > coding. Minimum five real conversations per week before coding features.
- Public building. Sharing progress attracts demand organically and builds credibility.
- Selective open source. Reference designs and compliance frameworks open; commercial products closed.
- Iron financial discipline. Every USD invested is backed by cash generated in the previous six months.
- Nine brands as vision, three as execution. Clear ambition, surgical focus.
- Personal sustainability. 24+ month marathon — Saturdays and Sundays off, exercise 4×/week, sleep more than seven hours.
The stack
Rust end to end. From firmware embedded in STM32H7 + ESP32-S3 to axum microservices in cloud, through edge gateways on i.MX 8M Plus with Yocto Linux. A single language across the stack reduces team overhead, improves regulatory auditability, and allows protocol logic reuse across layers.
Open standards on data: OPC UA, MQTT 5 + Sparkplug B, ISO 15118, OCPP 2.0.1, Asset Administration Shell. No vendor lock-in on data formats. No proprietary licenses on strategic components.
The corporate structure
Three legal entities with a deliberate separation of function. Spire AI LLC (Delaware, EIN 30-1437578) and Eridanus American Technologies LLC (Texas) are IP and trademark holding entities — they own the NEXSPIRE SUITE™ wordmark filed at USPTO, the CropConnect patent application (USPTO #64/062,885), the 10 inventions in active R&D, and every product trademark in the portfolio. These two US entities do not sell products to customers directly. Spire AI Sociedad Anónima (Costa Rica · cédula 3-101-908570) is the authorized worldwide sales channel — every commercial contract, invoice, delivery, integration and post-sales support flows through Spire AI SA for customers across LATAM, USA, Iberia and worldwide. A full group of high-performance technology consultants covers every area and solution, assigned to specific projects on demand — keeping the operation lean and scalable without overhead in specialized capabilities, under our own proprietary methodology called JEPSILON. Additional subsidiaries (VE, AR, BR, MX, CO, ES) will be incorporated by phase based on traction.
The roadmap
Phase 0 (months 0–12): bootstrap with DTwin SaaS, Secure consultancy, AI Security audits, and Labs whitepapers. MVP-first plus demand generation. No external capital. First revenue months 9–12.
Phase 1 (months 12–24): first angel/seed round if traction justifies. Expand Charge (HW), Enclosures (manufacturing), Care (technical services). Geographic expansion to Argentina and Brazil.
Phases 2–4: full LATAM scale, EU opening (Spain + Portugal), exit options (trade sale to ABB/Siemens/Schneider/Hitachi/Eaton or BME IPO). Target ARR $143–242M in 7 years.
The commitment
Building NEXSPIRE for the next 7+ years. Not a side project, not an MVP-flip, not an experiment. The technology backbone the Atlantic axis deserves to have, built from within.
If you share the vision — as customer, partner, collaborator, mentor, or future employee — let's talk.