Acembly · Pre-Seed · 2026

Sovereign Memory
for the Agentic Economy.

Verifiable memory for autonomous AI agents.


$1.25M Pre-Seed · First Close 2026 · v1.0
01 · The Problem

Two crises are converging on agent deployment.


I.

The Read Unit Tax

Vector databases and hyperscalers charge for every thought an agent has — not just the data it stores.

5–10×
Monthly bill spikes
32%
Waste tax across the AI stack
II.

The Insurability Crisis

On August 2, 2026, the EU AI Act makes black-box agents a balance-sheet liability. Major carriers are already excluding AI from coverage.

71 days
Until EU AI Act enforcement
UNINSURABLE
Without a verifiable audit trail
02 · The Wedge

Acembly is the Sovereign Context Gateway.

Think of us as Stripe for AI memory.

Every time an autonomous agent remembers, retrieves, or shares context, we sit in the middle — issuing a tamper-proof receipt, holding the bill flat, and keeping the data on storage the customer actually controls.

s3 = boto3.client(
    "s3",
    endpoint_url="https://gateway.acembly.com",  # ← that's it.
)
Drop-in S3 compatibility · Zero code changes
03 · The Product

One drop-in stack. Four foundational shifts.

01

Black Box Flight Recorder

Every retrieval anchored on-chain via Akave / Avalanche C-Chain with a cryptographic eCID receipt.

Tamper-Proof Audit-Ready Insurable
02

Deterministic FinOps

Flat-rate, zero-egress storage with no read-unit tax. Roughly 80% cheaper than AWS, GCP, and Pinecone.

~80% Savings Zero Egress Predictable
03

Agent-to-Agent Commerce

Self-managed wallets let agents discover, buy, and share verified memories — a liquid labor economy.

Wallets Discovery Memory Market
04

Zero-Friction Sovereign Migration

Drop-in S3 compatibility. Workloads move off AWS in minutes. Zero code changes.

S3 API No Code Change Minutes
04 · Why Now

August 2, 2026.

The EU AI Act enforcement window opens. Black-box AI memory becomes legally indefensible.


$10.6–17B
Vector DB + AI storage market by 2032
F500
Running "reduce single-cloud" initiatives in 2026
Carriers
Already excluding AI from coverage

Operational context has replaced model intelligence as the binding constraint.

05 · Revenue

Three tiers. 70%+ blended gross margin.

Tier 2

Intelligence & Trust

$0.05 / 1M

Vector queries · high-margin reasoning revenue.

  • $250/mo per active agent (Flight Recorder)
  • $0.02 per ZKML-verified retrieval
  • EU AI Act compliance dashboard
Tier 3

Agentic Economy

10% Commission

On A2A context exchanges · marketplace upside.

  • $500/mo institutional Discovery API
  • Per-transaction settlement
  • Premium wallet identities

Tier 1 wins the seat. Tiers 2 and 3 expand it.

06 · Traction

Not a deck. A running prototype.


Gateway
Rust + Axum + Tokio
Sub-12ms verified Akave-mock latencies. AWS SDK clients work unmodified.
Store
SQLite + sqlite-vec
eCID receipts persisted, queryable. Append-only audit log.
Console
Next.js 15 · TypeScript
Auth · Sandbox · Compliance Recorder · AWS Exit Ramp · A2A Marketplace.
Compliance
EU AI Act Article 12
Timestamp · agent_id · query_semantic · proof_status · latency in every receipt.
We are giving investors a working surface to inspect — not slideware.
07 · Team

Infrastructure operators. Not AI wrappers.


68PB
Managed and migrated
7,800+
Businesses served
6yrs
Production storage · real SLAs

We have run production storage for real customers, with real data on the line. We have made the mistakes you only make when you are responsible for someone else's bytes. We are not building Acembly as an experiment — we are building it because we have already built the layer beneath it.

08 · The Ask

$1.25M Pre-Seed · First Close.

Rolling SAFE notes · No lead required · Designed to close before August 2.


40%
$500K
Engineering
Rust gateway hardening · sub-12ms retrieval · sqlite-vec → LanceDB
32%
$400K
Team & Runway
12–15 month runway · founding team
12%
$150K
Design Partners + GTM
3 enterprise pilots · ≥1 paid contract
8%
$100K
Smart-Contract Pre-Audit
Unlocks first paid pilot · ZKML institutional audit deferred to Seed
8%
$100K
Infra & Legal
Avalanche subnet · AWS · SAFE docs
Day 61
Revenue-ready
$150–400K
Target ARR · Year 1
$5–8M
Series Seed · 12 mo · $25–35M cap
· Fin

The agents that win the next decade will be the ones whose memory is provable and whose bill is predictable.

We are building the layer that makes that possible.


Acembly.
Where the agentic economy is built, anchored, and verified.