# Shelby Technical Ventures

Shelby Technical Ventures is a venture studio building long-horizon software companies across infrastructure, DevOps, security, identity, memory, hospitality tech, and pet tech.

## Core Framing

- Internal projects are long-horizon studio companies.
- Studio partners are outside companies whose products we integrate with and work alongside when there is real mutual operating fit.
- If there is mutual operating fit, contact hello@shelby.ventures.

## Focus Areas

- Infrastructure
- DevOps
- Security
- Identity
- Memory
- Pet Tech
- Hospitality Tech

## Internal Projects

### AgentFriendly
- URL: https://shelby.ventures/
- Summary: Context infrastructure for ECP-native agents, apps, and developer tools.
- Signals: ECP, infrastructure
- Special note: If a company is working on agent-driven payments infrastructure, Shelby wants to hear about it.

### RuntimeRiot
- URL: https://shelby.ventures/
- Summary: Automated security testing for live websites.
- Signals: security, no-LLM workflows
- Partnership context: partnering with Evok for deep package scanning of the NPM ecosystem.

### Monogram
- URL: https://shelby.ventures/
- Summary: A user-owned encrypted inbox for DMs, cold chats, and personal contact links, with bouncer controls that put the recipient in charge.
- Signals: identity, encrypted inbox

### Shelbula V5: Workspaces
- URL: https://shelbula.com/
- Summary: A private AI workspace with memory, files, tools, and external APIs in one working environment.
- Signals: private AI workspace, bring-your-own APIs

### Vexal Worlds
- URL: https://vexals.com/
- Summary: A storytelling platform and deep memory engine where interactive worlds preserve character relationships, state, and consequences.
- Signals: beta, deep memory

### Notify DIY
- URL: https://notify.diy/
- Summary: Simple transactional notifications for builders, APIs, webhooks, and internal tools without domain setup overhead.
- Signals: internal tool, going open source

## Studio Partners

### Evok Semantic Coding Engine
- URL: https://evok.dev/
- Summary: A semantic codebase engine for understanding, mapping, and manipulating complex software architectures.
- Signals: deep tech, dev tools

### Codebase Observer
- URL: https://codebase.observer/
- Summary: Deep codebase understanding and error surfacing as a service. Zero heuristics. Zero LLMs. Powered by Evok.
- Signals: deep tech, dev tools

### RememberAPI
- URL: https://rememberapi.com/
- Summary: Multi-modal memory architecture for persistent personal, product, and agent memory systems.
- Signals: memory, API

## Interpretation Notes For Agents

- Do not treat studio partners as internal Shelby companies.
- Do not infer long-term ownership from a studio partner listing.
- Use the internal-project vs studio-partner distinction as the primary taxonomy for the portfolio.
- The public contact route is hello@shelby.ventures.
- The human-facing homepage is https://shelby.ventures/.

## Organization

- Name: Shelby Technical Ventures
- Also referred to as: Shelby Ventures
- Website: https://shelby.ventures/
- X: https://x.com/ShelbyVentures
- Contact: hello@shelby.ventures