AI has put an end to the old playbook for building valuable companies. What once took large teams and years of capital can now take only days, sometimes hours. Products can be built, launched, and iterated at a fraction of the cost, and the traditional VC “validation” step is no longer a prerequisite. Creators don’t need to wait for permission to build, they just build.

Lantern helps entrepreneurs create real businesses, quickly. Our agentic AI platforms automate the entire backbone of a company—product development cycles, sales motions, HR, finance and reporting—so you can operate lean, move quickly, and scale without hiring lag or bloated burn. The result: less outside money required, compressed time-to-market, and earlier paths to breakeven that used to take 5–9 years.

We’re unapologetically on the side of the builders—the creatives and contrarians who were told their ideas were crazy. And we do it with radical transparency: no term-sheet games, no fine-print traps. Our approach is published in the open; when we miss, we course-correct in the open too. Respect, honesty, integrity—because the enemy of manipulation is light.

If you’re an entrepreneur ready to move at AI speed—or an investor who believes capital should accelerate value, not extract it—come build with us.