![\"Will](\"/assets/will.png\")
- I grew up in Fort Smith, Arkansas, in the kind of instability where home is a moving target — roughly thirty addresses before I was fifteen, parents struggling with addiction, the material precarity that comes with all of that. I left when I was old enough to go, stayed with friends until I finished high school, found my way to college. At fourteen I'd already found software, writing C++ at the public library because it was the first thing in my life that responded to precision with correctness, and that property turned out to matter more to me than almost anything else. + I grew up in Fort Smith, Arkansas, in the kind of instability where home is a moving target — roughly thirty addresses before I was fifteen, parents struggling with addiction, the material precarity that comes with all of that. I left home at fifteen, stayed with friends until I finished high school, found my way to college. At fourteen I'd already found software, writing C++ at the public library because it was the first thing in my life that responded to precision with correctness, and that property turned out to matter more to me than almost anything else.
What I built
- Neuron is what I built in response to that. Not a startup in the traditional sense — no team, no funding, no press release — one person, nearly two years of work, and a conviction that this can be done differently. I wrote the programming language the core runs in, I wrote the memory architecture, I built the inference infrastructure, because the tools that existed weren't sufficient for what I was trying to build and so I built those too. + Neuron is what I built in response to that. Not a startup in the traditional sense — no team, no funding, no press release — one person, nearly two years of work, and a conviction that this can be done differently. I wrote the memory architecture, I built the inference infrastructure, because the tools that existed weren't sufficient for what I was trying to build and so I built those too.
Use it long enough and you'll understand why I couldn't have gotten there on top of existing infrastructure. Some things have to be built from the ground up to be built right. diff --git a/src/checkout.el b/src/checkout.el new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ba9cd6c --- /dev/null +++ b/src/checkout.el @@ -0,0 +1,427 @@ +// checkout.el — Integrated Stripe checkout page. +// +// Uses Stripe Payment Element (not hosted checkout) so the entire +// purchase experience lives on neurontechnologies.ai. The page is +// designed to match the Neuron brand — navy, clean, no Stripe chrome. +// +// Flow: +// 1. GET /checkout?plan=founding|professional +// 2. Page JS calls POST /api/payment-intent → { client_secret, publishable_key, plan } +// 3. Stripe Payment Element mounts into #payment-element +// 4. User fills name, email, card — submits +// 5. stripe.confirmPayment() → redirects to /marketplace/success + +fn checkout_page(plan: String, pub_key: String) -> String { + let is_founding: Bool = str_eq(plan, "founding") + + let plan_name: String = if is_founding { "Founding Member" } else { "Professional" } + let plan_price: String = if is_founding { "$199" } else { "$19 / month" } + let plan_desc: String = if is_founding { + "Pay once. Neuron inference forever. No subscription, ever." + } else { + "Full access. Neuron inference — cheaper than what you're paying now." + } + let plan_cadence: String = if is_founding { "one-time" } else { "billed monthly" } + + let features_html: String = if is_founding { + "
Your order
+ +" + plan_name + "
+" + plan_desc + "
++ Your data stays yours. Runs locally. No telemetry. +
+Payment
+ + +SQLite local storage. No cloud database with your data. SOC 2 alignment built into the data model. ExternalSecret-based secrets management. Audit logs at every layer.
+Custom on-device storage. No cloud database with your data. SOC 2 alignment built into the data model. ExternalSecret-based secrets management. Audit logs at every layer.
No database server for your data
-SQLite on your machine
+On-device storage
- Your memory graph lives in a single SQLite file. No cloud database servers running 24/7 to store and serve your conversations. No replication across availability zones. Just a file on your device. + Your memory graph lives in a custom on-device storage layer we built for this purpose. No cloud database servers running 24/7 to store and serve your conversations. No replication across availability zones. Just your device.
![\"Neuron\"](\"/assets/brand/neuron-wordmark-on-light.png\")
diff --git a/src/main.el b/src/main.el
index 86c64c6..ee2b212 100644
--- a/src/main.el
+++ b/src/main.el
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ from about import { about_page }
from founding_badge import { founding_badge, founding_badge_css }
from terms import { terms_page }
from enterprise_terms import { enterprise_terms_page }
+from checkout import { checkout_page }
+from safety import { safety }
// ── Founding counter ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -78,6 +80,7 @@ fn page(sold: Int, total: Int) -> String {
+ enterprise()
+ mission()
+ local_first()
+ + safety()
+ environmental()
+ pricing(sold, total)
+ viral()
@@ -131,6 +134,42 @@ fn handle_request(method: String, path: String, body: String) -> String {
return "{\"__status__\":404,\"error\":\"not found\"}"
}
+ // ── Checkout page ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+ if str_starts_with(path, "/checkout") {
+ let plan: String = "founding"
+ if str_contains(path, "plan=professional") {
+ plan = "professional"
+ }
+ let pub_key: String = state_get("__stripe_publishable_key__")
+ return page_open() + checkout_page(plan, pub_key) + page_close()
+ }
+
+ // ── Stripe payment intent ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
+ if str_eq(path, "/api/payment-intent") {
+ let stripe_key: String = state_get("__stripe_secret_key__")
+ if str_eq(stripe_key, "") {
+ return "{\"__status__\":503,\"error\":\"Stripe not configured\"}"
+ }
+ let plan: String = "founding"
+ if str_contains(body, "\"professional\"") {
+ plan = "professional"
+ }
+ let amount: String = "19900"
+ if str_eq(plan, "professional") {
+ amount = "1900"
+ }
+ let pi_body: String = "amount=" + amount
+ + "¤cy=usd"
+ + "&payment_method_types[]=card"
+ + "&metadata[plan]=" + plan
+ let response: String = http_post_form_auth(
+ "https://api.stripe.com/v1/payment_intents",
+ stripe_key,
+ pi_body
+ )
+ return response
+ }
+
// ── Health check ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
if str_eq(path, "/api/health") {
return "{\"status\":\"ok\",\"service\":\"neuron-landing\"}"
@@ -279,10 +318,12 @@ state_set("__founding_total__", int_to_str(FOUNDING_TOTAL))
// Stripe config from environment.
let stripe_key: String = env("STRIPE_SECRET_KEY")
+let stripe_pub_key: String = env("STRIPE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY")
let stripe_price_founding: String = env("STRIPE_PRICE_FOUNDING")
let stripe_price_professional: String = env("STRIPE_PRICE_PROFESSIONAL")
let license_api_url: String = env("NEURON_LICENSE_API_URL")
state_set("__stripe_secret_key__", stripe_key)
+state_set("__stripe_publishable_key__", stripe_pub_key)
state_set("__stripe_price_founding__", stripe_price_founding)
state_set("__stripe_price_professional__", stripe_price_professional)
state_set("__license_api_url__", license_api_url)
diff --git a/src/pricing.el b/src/pricing.el
index 335c6a7..8d3c2ec 100644
--- a/src/pricing.el
+++ b/src/pricing.el
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ fn pricing(sold: Int, total: Int) -> String {
+ Most AI products add parental controls as an afterthought — a toggle that tells the platform which account is the adult and which is the child. That's not safety. That's a permission system with a friendly name. +
+ ++ Neuron's family architecture was designed around an uncomfortable statistical fact: the people closest to a child are statistically the most likely threat. The emergency contact on file and the source of danger are often the same person. A system that routes every distress signal to "guardian on file" is not a safety system. It's a notification system that may alert the very person the child needs protection from. +
+ ++ We built something different. We called it the Hard Bell. +
+Hard Bell
+An emergency contact the threat can't intercept
++ The Hard Bell is an emergency contact designated in a calm moment — a teacher, a relative outside the household, a trusted friend — set up independently from the guardian account. When a signal warrants it, this contact is reached. The guardian is not automatically notified. +
+Emergency routing
+Emergency services first — not parent notification
++ Physical danger and abuse signals route to emergency services and crisis lines — not to the guardian account. Neuron evaluates the content of the signal, not just the age of the user. The guardian cannot disable or redirect this path. +
+Parent dashboard
+Oversight without surveillance
++ Parents see what they need to see. The child's conversations remain private unless a wellbeing signal triggers parent notification — and even then, the routing logic protects against the parent being the source of harm. +
++ Minors require a parent account. Children and teens cannot create accounts on their own — a parent or guardian creates the family account, configures access, and designates the Hard Bell contact. The child's experience is private from everyone except the trusted adult who set it up — and from emergency services when the signal warrants it. +
+