Delta Zero Labs (d0)
Building systems where dcost/dcomplexity = 0. Website: https://deltazerolabs.dev
Company
Delta Zero Labs (d0) is a seed-stage systems infrastructure company. Founder: Mike Kuykendall (IRS.gov Lead Developer, former USAF Staff Sergeant, VOSB owner). Seeking $4.5M seed. Contact: mikchaelallenkuykendall@gmail.com | 816-835-3920 | https://www.linkedin.com/in/makuykendall/
Technology
Fused Semantic Execution Engine (patent pending, provisional filed December 2025; non-provisional due December 2026). Core claim: selector deduplication across independent decision rules, streaming evaluation without intermediate representation, parallel rule state with bounded memory O(N), and early termination on partial data. Evaluation cost becomes independent of rule count: dcost/drules ~ 0. Benchmarks: 78x speedup at 1000 policies (210ms baseline vs 2.7ms d0), 64KB fixed memory, sub-linear overhead growth. Interactive demo shows 690,909x speedup at 1M rules.
Validated Applications
- Reactive Columnar Database - live query results as functions of data; incremental view maintenance with O(delta) updates (active development).
- Reactive SQL Engine - the first SQL database where query results are live facts, not snapshots; hypothetical queries, self-modifying query plans; drefresh/ddelta = 0.
- Ethereum Trading Platform - direct P2P connectivity, no full nodes or RPC providers; 70+ peers tested across mainnet, Base, BSC (active development).
- API Security and Policy Optimization - flat-scaling policy evaluation for gateways; 80% infrastructure cost reduction; $500K-1.5M/year per vendor license (demo available).
- LLM Pipeline Efficiency - pre-tokenization gating drops 70-90% of records before AI processing; $350-450K monthly savings on $500K/month token costs; 90% token reduction (demo available).
- Network Security and Deep Packet Inspection - multi-layer protocol fusion (L3/L4/L7), consolidating 3-4 hardware boxes into 1 software layer.
- Semantic Data Scanning - single-pass extraction, 2.98x faster than baseline, 7,772x less memory (demo available).
Business
Go-to-market: Month 6 - first 2-3 licensing deals ($1-2M ARR); Month 12 - $5M ARR, patent filed; Month 18 - $10M ARR, 8-12 licensees across 5+ domains; Month 24 - Series A ready ($15-20M ARR). Moat: technical barrier, IP protection, economic moat, first-mover advantage. Exit paths: profitability, strategic M&A, category leader.
Pitch Deck
Interactive deck at /, downloadable at /pounce and /pounds (aliases of /fse_pitch_deck.pptx). 18 sections: Title, Problem, Insight, How It Works, Patent, Benchmarks, Validated Applications, Reactive SQL Engine, API Gateways, AI Cost, Defense, Ask Justification, GTM, Moat, Team, Demo Flat Scaling, Demo AI Gating, Demo Semantic Scan.
Site Routes
- / - Interactive pitch deck (JS heavy). Full text snapshot: /llms.txt, /llms-full.txt, /site-content.md, /pounce-content.md
- /pounce, /pounds - redirect to /fse_pitch_deck.pptx
- /contact - contact page
- /repro-arena - interactive inference and evaluation demo workspace
- /dataset, /mainnet, /bsc, /base - archive storefronts (suspended; archive delivery offline)