About openIE

openIE is a small team building the energy-priced cloud. We are headquartered remotely, with infrastructure in Helsinki, Ashburn, and 16 other locations.

What we make

One product (the mesh) and four open standards:

• Joule — an energy-budgeted systems programming language. Source-available; targets v1 in 2027.
• Pattern-lang — a deterministic code-generation DSL. Open source.
• JouleDB — the energy-aware columnar/row hybrid database that powers our Database surface. Source-available.
• Invisible Infrastructure — the substrate the mesh runs on. Source-available on Forgejo.

Why

The hyperscalers built their pricing models in the 2000s. Cores, reserved hours, egress fees, opaque PUE estimates. The unit economics monetize waste — they charge for the time you reserved, the bytes you moved, the GB-months you provisioned even if you used none of it.

The physics underneath the cloud is energy: joules consumed. We thought, what if the bill matched the physics? The router picks the cheapest capable silicon, the receipts are signed and auditor-ready, the egress is free on the mesh. The bill is what the work cost the universe. We thought that was a better deal.

The team

Founder: David Jean Charlot, PhD. ML researcher and silicon-systems person; previously built measurement infrastructure for AI workloads at scale. Joule Cloud + openIE since 2025.

We're a small team and we keep it small on purpose. The substrate is built by a handful of senior systems engineers; the surface APIs and dashboard are kept deliberately simple so the team can ship features without the org weight that's usually required to ship cloud features.

What we don't do

• VC funding rounds chasing growth at any cost. We took a small pre-seed round and have not raised since; the business is funded by paying customers.
• "AI-washing" — we don't put AI in the marketing where it doesn't belong. Joule Cloud has an Inference surface because customers asked for one; the rest of the cloud isn't a chatbot.
• Sales calls before you've tried the product. Sign up, run a workload, decide based on the receipts. If you need help, the founder will email you back.

Where to find us

• Founder: [email protected]
• Sales / partnerships: [email protected]
• Security: [email protected] (PGP key at /.well-known/security.txt)
• Press: [email protected]
• Source: git.openie.sh

Press kit

Logos, headshots, fact sheet, screenshot pack — available on request to [email protected]. We don't pre-publish a press kit because the visuals are still moving; we'll send what you need within a working day.