Self-hosted AI. One click.

Open source platform for AI + cloud infra.

www.batteriesincl.com

The problem

• AI infra is hard: GPUs, K8s, security
• Cloud lock-in, rising costs
• Dev -> prod drift, fragile ops
• Months to reliable launch

The solution

• One-click, self-hosted AI platform
• “Batteries” you turn on as needed
• Identical local -> cloud environments
• Secure by default, no YAML

Customer

• 50-5k employees
• Invest in dev; not tech giants
• Low ROI from AI/DevOps spend
• Frustrated: price swings, complexity, slowdown
• Have favorite cloud/hardware vendor

Market

• AI infra spend surging
• DevOps platforms consolidating
• Self-hosted AI is the gap
• TAM large and growing.

Why now

• AI demand outpaces teams
• Privacy + sovereignty push self-hosting
• OSS is best-in-class
• GPUs now everywhere

What ships today

• Up to date Ollama model inference
• Jupyter Notebooks and Postgres + PGVector
• SSO (Keycloak), TLS, ingress
• Magical MacOSX networking
• Observability: Grafana + metrics
• Example projects (e.g. Web, Serverless, Local LLM Chat, etc.)
• Runs on Kind locally; scales to cloud.

How it works

• “Batteries” = modular, pre-tuned stacks
• Automation wires deps + security
• GPU auto-detect (NVIDIA CTK, NFD)
• Kubernetes base

Traction

• v1 released (Custom Open/Fair/Available License)
• Hundreds of Local Installs
• Local Installs Converting to Registration/Cloud
• All with no marketing spend

Ask

• Raising $2m to reach $2m ARR in 24 months
• Valuation cap: $20m
• Use: product, GTM, support
• Intros: design partners

Use of funds

• Sales growth
• Support & success
• Product expansion in AI/Marketplace
• Runway: 24 months

Targets

• 7 paying teams in 12 months
• $2m ARR target; NRR > 100% in 24 months
• CAC payback < 6 months
• Time-to-first model < 10 minutes

Why we win

• Open source, no lock-in
• Ease of use means ease of land & expand
• Bring your own cloud/hardware

Business model

• Usage based billing
• Support + SLAs
• Marketplace for add-ons

Go-to-market

• Dev-first, self-serve
• OSS + content (docs, posts)
• Land → expand in teams
• Partners & cloud marketplaces

24-month plan

• Sales playbook
• Hardened enterprise features
• GPU/AI autoscaling across clouds
• Security/compliance packs

Team

• CEO: Facebook/Microsoft/Cloudera Alumni
• Team: Built at scale; shipped OSS
• To Join: Strong business/sales/marketing

Let's build private AI

Signup: home.batteriesincl.com/signup

Source: github.com/batteries-included/batteries-included

Contact: elliott@batteriesincl.com

Presentation source: npm run build-presentation