Founder's Story

I’m Raymond Gross. 62. Founder of Quiet Logic AI.

For decades, I turned wrenches on trailers, consulted for national fleets, and invented systems that run themselves—on highways, in code, and on the page. My work bridges the blue-collar world and the emerging AI frontier, taking everything I learned in the field and turning it into practical systems leaders rely on.

But here's the part not on LinkedIn: Fifteen years ago, a friend hijacked the company I built and sold it for millions. When my wife was dying of stage-4 cancer and we faced eviction because I couldn't leave her side, I asked him for the $200k that was mine. He laughed me off.

One week later, I burned his house down.

First felony. Thirty days in county jail. Two years probation.

In that tank we had no phones, no tablets, no internet—just concrete, steel, and nine men who thought hope had already left the building. So I did the only thing I could: I told them what was coming.

I described AI so clearly they could taste it.

One guy made his public defender start using AI for case research the next week.

A barber who’ll never drive again lit up when I sketched the Lincoln Barber side hustle—robotaxi drops him at senior centers for group cuts.

A 23-year-old with three baby mamas and zero prospects started dreaming about coaching kids’ football again because AI can now write grants, design playbooks, and match mentors.

I told the lifers about Norway—how prisons there already look like college campuses, and how AI is about to make warehousing human beings obsolete everywhere.

I watched eyes that had been dead for years come back alive—because for once they could see a future where the system works for them instead of on them.

That’s when I knew:

I took the worst thing I ever did, let the fire do its work, and turned the ashes into the most powerful tool on the planet for anyone still sitting in that cell.

Fireborn Agency is the promise I made to those nine men—and to every person who will ever sit where we sat:

Your story isn’t over.

The fire left a mark.

Now we make it count.

– Raymond Gross

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