ACRE

Small and medium sized businesses are the backbone of the American economy. Behind each one sits decades of real work — the drawings, the contracts, the estimates, the models. Generations of it, done well.

Today, the companies building AI need to learn from exactly that kind of work. But instead of going to the source, they pay contractors and machines to artificially generate imitations of it — synthetic copies of the know-how Main Street spent generations earning, while the businesses that did the work see nothing.

Acre exists to change that. We go directly to America's businesses with a real offer, a plain-English agreement, and a check — so what's built next is built on something real, and the people who built this country are compensated for what they know.

We're a team from Stanford and UCLA who believe the next era of American technology should be built with Main Street, not on top of it.