Alona
ai-native // founder // builder
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01About Me
I'm Alona. I build stuff. I used to do construction; now I'm building software. I would like to build the next AI unicorn, have kids, and retire in Kauai. I'm a terrible texter, and I mostly dictate instead of type.
My weakness is I really don't work out much. I wake up and start working. But I love tennis, hiking, and beach volleyball, and I wish I did them more often. My favorite food is anything I didn't have to cook.
2 coffees/day
regular milk
12+ projects
and counting
Cat person
obviously
Based in Thousand Oaks, CA
building globally
02Projects
what i'm building right now — tap to expand
Zai
BetaAI-powered budgeting and financial advisory platform
Market Update
ActiveMorning and evening market notes with voice memos
Human Financial Advisor
Coming SoonWhen you want a real person in the room
FUWN
ActiveFederated Unified Worker Network Incorporated
Your Digital Worker
BetaPrivate computer assistant that lives on your device
Prompt Rewriter
ActiveBrowser extension that rewrites prompts for better results
Real Estate Company
ActiveResidential and commercial real estate in California
Cooking Blog
FailedFailed, but taught me what recipes really require
Smoothie Book
ShippedA small book I actually finished
SVG Design Files
ClosedA shipped digital design business that eventually closed
Aromatherapy Company
FailedGood idea, good timing, not enough persistence
Real Estate Flips
ShippedSuccessful property projects before the current company
03Updates
life, projects, and what i'm learning
Building Zai in public
PostZai is not trying to replace human judgment. I want AI to handle the repetitive analysis, budgeting work, and signal cleanup, but the final decision should still feel responsible and human. The hard part is making financial software useful without making it feel fake, pushy, or overconfident.
Market Update notes
PostMarket Update is becoming a twice-a-day habit: one note before the market opens and one after the noise settles. The goal is not to sound smart. The goal is to make the market easier to read: what moved, what matters, and what I would actually pay attention to.
Real estate field notes
PostReal estate keeps teaching me that people do not just buy property. They buy timing, trust, risk, and a plan. Software can make the process more organized, but someone still has to understand what is actually happening in the room, in the market, and in the client's life.
Turning Ask Alona into a founder platform
PostAsk Alona started as my personal page, but it is starting to look like the first piece of a founder platform. Profiles, projects, follows, messages, updates, and AI memory all belong together. The question is how to make it useful without making it noisy.