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September 2026
Heyno

AI on a workstation in your building.

Heyno Inc.
Confidential.

Every AI assistant sends your words to its provider's cloud.

Ask OpenAI a question and the question goes to OpenAI. They run serious security. But they still hold your data.

They say they don't retain your data. We say we never take it.

The problem

Problem

  • Cities hold public records, court and police files, HR and council material they will not upload. Their staff still want AI.
  • Defense suppliers hold controlled technical data they will not put in a commercial cloud.
  • FedRAMP settles the compliance question, not the fear. Even in an authorized cloud the data leaves the building, and many offices will not send it.
  • What exists is reactive: someone asks, it answers. Nobody is doing the work.
  • So the AI stays off, or gets used quietly with data it should never see.

What cities told us

  • "We have Copilot. We still won't upload the records."
  • A FedRAMP badge did not change the answer.
  • What they asked for is the work getting done: the phone, the requests, the notices. Not a chat box.

From conversations with North Texas city offices, 2026.

Why local

The AI comes to the data.

Heyno runs on one workstation inside the customer's building, the size of a desktop PC. Nothing typed or uploaded leaves the network. It keeps working with the internet unplugged.

No provider in the path. Nothing to retain, because nothing was sent.

No certification required, no compliance required. We deliver the box and we are out.

unplugged the provider
Solution

Get your own AI.

  • Not a chat box. Heyno's features are built for the work. It acts before it is asked.
  • We tune and train it for our customers' work. A city needs records and phones; a defense supplier needs engineering data handled; every other business has its own list. We build that.
  • All of it on one workstation in the customer's own building. Features that make the work easier, on the customer's own infrastructure.
Records request received CityFound the three matching files, drafted the response. Approve to send.
Drawing package requested Defense supplierRouted to the cleared engineer. Nothing left the network.
Invoice received BusinessMatched to the purchase order, filed, queued for approval.
Appointment request ClinicBooked for Tuesday 9:40. Reminder sent.
Call handled · 12:40 CityCaller wanted the burn-ban dates. Answered in Spanish, texted the notice, logged it.
Side by side

Other AIs answer. Heyno works.

ChatGPT · Copilot · Gemini
Heyno
Where the words go
The provider's cloud
Inside the building
How it works
Ask, it answers
Built for the work, acts first
Whose AI
Everyone's
The customer's, tuned to their work
Answers the phone
No
Yes
Vendor in the data path
Always
Never

FedRAMP settles compliance. It does not settle the fear: cities with authorized cloud still told us they won't upload. Heyno is not a replacement for Copilot. Customers run both.

On site

In the building.

Phones. Email. Calendar. Records. Requests. Documents. Multilingual.

One workstation

The size of a desktop PC. Installed in the customer's building, running US-developed open-weight models. Delivered, installed and supported by us.

Nothing leaves

Records, calls and documents stay on the customer's network. Approvals, audit and retention stay with the customer.

Works unplugged

The internet can be off. The assistant keeps working.

The process

It starts with a meeting.

Step 1

A meeting

We meet the customer first to understand the business and its needs: the features, and what the AI should be trained on.

Step 2

Two to three weeks of training

We train the model for that customer.

Step 3

Two weeks with our machine

We bring our own workstation, free. The teams use it on the work they choose. Everything stays inside.

Step 4

The customer's own unit ships

A new workstation, sealed, film still on. Ours comes back with us.

The app

There is also an app.

Heyno is on the App Store. Connected to the workstation in the building, requests go there, not to a cloud. The data stays with the customer.

Free for anyone with a Heyno workstation in the building. On its own, a subscription.

A business without a workstation connects Heyno to ChatGPT or Claude and works on its Heyno data there, without handing the data over.

$19.99a month · Heyno Connect
$59.99a month · Premium, with $50 of AI credit
FrontdeskAnswers the phone
Ruby Voice240 ms on a live call
MailReads, drafts, sends
CalendarEvents and reminders
Calls and chatsVoice, video, messages
MeetMeetings and recaps
DriveDocuments and files
TasksThe day's work
PasswordsA vault
ConnectorChatGPT and Claude on Heyno data

Market and financials.

Market

Government first. Then everyone who chooses to stay out of the cloud.

Cities are the first buyer: they hold the data, they answer the phone, and a city sale is a reference the next city trusts.

Second: the companies that sell to the Department of Defense and hold controlled technical data. Same workstation.

19,000+cities and towns
United States
1,200+cities and towns
Texas
157cities and towns
North Texas
Sales

Market strategy

NowNorth TexasGovernment first

In person Direct

  • Meet the admin team. Ask their pain points.
  • Meet IT. Start a pilot.
  • Close the deal.

Under the threshold No bid

  • Priced beneath each city's formal-bid line.
  • No solicitation, no procurement calendar.
  • Installed by us. Setup cost is gas.
NextDefense suppliers

Controlled data Commercial

  • Suppliers who keep controlled technical data out of the cloud.
  • Commercial purchase order. No procurement code.
  • Dense in DFW.

References Proof

  • City deployments become the past performance.
ThenWhoever stays out of the cloud

Clinics, courts, counties Scale

  • Same workstation, same features, new buyer.

Our own models Moat

  • Ruby Voice and Ruby-Horizon are ours. They get more intelligent with every deployment. We keep training them.
Business model

A city is $37,000 at the median tier. Then it pays every year.

We own the workstation and finance it against the signed contract, so delivery needs no working capital. Yearly maintenance is 20% of the sale. Every city converts to recurring revenue.

The bid threshold

Texas law sets the bid line at $100,000. Below it, each city sets its own lines: where staff need quotes, where the council must sign, where a card will do.

Sealed bid, council vote
$100,000 by Texas law since September 2025. Many cities keep their own line at $50,000.
$30,000 at some cities. $60,000 at others.
the line each city sets for staff-level buying. The two-card tiers sit under the state bid line everywhere.
Under $3,000
no quotes, a card. State law; some cities put this line at $10,000.

Texas Local Government Code 252.021 and 252.0215, amended by S.B. 1173 (2025). Purchasing policies of Anna (October 2025), Flower Mound, West University Place and Denton.

$37Kprice per city, median tier
$15Kthe workstation, ours, financed
$22Kgross per city
20%of the sale, every year
$7.4Krecurring per city, per year
Tiers

Four sizes.

Pulse

2 × RTX 5070 Ti, 16 GB each

Full build about $4,700

$27K
Surge Median tier

2 × RTX 5090, 32 GB each

Full build about $15,300

$37K
Apex

2 × RTX PRO 6000, 96 GB each

Full build about $37,100

$59K
Summit

Threadripper PRO, up to 7 × RTX PRO 6000

Full build from about $130,000

From $150K

Every price is the hardware cost plus $22,000. That $22,000 is Heyno's part of the sale: the software, the training of the customer's AI, and the install. It is the same in every tier.

Full builds: cards, CPU, board, memory, storage, power, case. Component prices September 2026.

The hardware

We own the machines. They hold their value.

Every workstation is capital on our books, paid for by the contract it ships with. The market for its parts has been rising, not falling.

GPU launch price vs. today

RTX 3090
launch 2020
RTX 3090
new, Sept 2026
RTX 4090
launch 2022
RTX 4090
new, Apr 2026

DRAM, DDR5 per gigabyte

Contract prices fell 43% through 2022. Then AI took the wafers.

Sept 2025
Dec 2025

A 32 GB DDR5 kit went from under $90 to about $529 in the same window. Analysts expect the shortage to run into 2028. Data-center cards depreciate faster: an A100 resells at about 37% of its 2020 price, an H100 at 76% of its 2022 price. Our workstations use consumer-class parts.

Sources: GPUPrix RTX 3090 tracker, Sept 3 2026 · GPUPrix and Bandurart RTX 4090 history, Apr 2026 · TrendForce Q4 2025 and Q1 2026 DRAM contract reports · Tom's Hardware, 2022 DDR5 contract pricing · CCIR secondary-market data, Aug 2026.

Financials

If we sell to a share of the market.

Per city: $37K revenue at the median tier, $22K gross after the workstation, $7,400 a year recurring at 20%. Every city runs Copilot and Microsoft today; a real share is not unrealistic.

North Texas 157 cities

Share
Cities
Revenue
Gross
Recurring / yr
10%
16
$592K
$352K
$118K
30%
47
$1.74M
$1.03M
$348K
50%
79
$2.92M
$1.74M
$585K

United States 19,000 municipalities

Share
Cities
Revenue
Gross
Recurring / yr
10%
1,900
$70.3M
$41.8M
$14.1M
30%
5,700
$211M
$125M
$42.2M
50%
9,500
$352M
$209M
$70.3M

Revenue and gross are one-time per city. Recurring is the yearly maintenance line, which keeps paying after the sale. Runs on about $5K a month today.

The idea

Word, Excel and PowerPoint are getting old.

Microsoft won by owning the document. Word, Excel and PowerPoint became the workspace, then the mail and the calendar came with it, so every city adopted it and stayed. Copilot is Microsoft keeping that seat.

AI took the manual work away. The AI makes the document, the sheet and the slides. The person just says what they need.

Today

Cities keep Microsoft. Heyno runs beside it, doing the work in the building.

Then

Fewer files made by hand. Staff stop opening Word to do what Heyno already did.

Eventually

"We don't make files by hand anymore. Why do we still pay for Microsoft?" The bill gets cut. Heyno holds the seat.

Funding

Raising $2M on a SAFE

$190Kraised in SAFE Round Iat a $4M cap, keeps its terms
$2Mthis rounda target, not a minimum. SAFEs close one at a time
$8Mpost-money capthis round
What it buys

First: a marketing hire and one more engineer

The first dollars go here. The pipeline stops being one person's calendar, and the product gets a second builder. Two people and AI everywhere today.

Then: an engineer with every wave of sales

One more after the first sale. Another after the next two. The features each customer asks for take time, so each gets its own engineer.

Sales coverage

The founder full time in front of cities, and the miles to 157 of them.

Roadmap

Where this goes.

10 citiesfirst references
Texas1,200+ cities and towns
NowNorth Texas. In person, under the bid threshold. Founder full time on sales.
ThenMarketing hire. Second engineer. The pipeline runs without the founder's calendar.
ReferencesCity deployments become the past performance the next buyer asks for.
Defense suppliersSame workstation, commercial purchase order, dense in DFW.
Whoever stays out of the cloudClinics, courts, counties.
Six to eight yearsRuby-Horizon at the frontier, beside Claude and OpenAI. Then a breakthrough in hardware.

Thank you

Heyno Inc.
cem@heyno.net · heyno.net
(346) 383-7329

325 North Saint Paul Street, Suite 3100, Dallas, TX 75201
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