The honest version

I just wanted to
ship one thing.

No team, no plan, and no real idea what I was doing, just a stubborn need to get one project across the finish line. APxAI is everything I built to get there. This is the honest story, in my own words.

C
Caio Carvalho
Self-taught engineer, building APxAI solo
I'm self-taught, and I learned the hard way, through classes I struggled in and a few languages that didn't click the first time. I believe in out-working the doubt and trying the things other people skip; with AI, one person can actually do that now. I'm not here to get rich. I build to finish what I start, and to be a little better than I was yesterday. That's the only person I'm really competing with.
apxai.co founders@apxai.co TRIPPYCOIN
Origin

How this actually started

Honestly? APxAI started as me trying to save money. I had little projects I wanted to put online, and I was learning how to actually do it: wiring up AI integrations, standing up agents, and getting things to deploy on the cloud. Azure CLI, logging in, adding whatever each project needed. Railway was my favorite… right up until the bill showed up, or I misplaced a key.

I didn't fully know what I was doing. I just wanted to finish the process: get one thing across the finish line. At the time, that finish line was a single deployment of a MySpace-looking page with two photos and a Spotify embed that kept breaking. (Joke. Mostly.) Every tool on this site came from a real problem I hit on the way.

ClaudeJr, and why the vault exists

ClaudeJr is just an interceptor, a small, free layer that sits in front of Claude and GPT. I'm casually training it to help with dev, but its real job is simple: spend less, leak nothing. It quietly cuts most of my model bill (measured around 66%, and on a good run the speculative cascade saves about half again) and it guards my keys so I stop repeating my own mistakes.

Because… .env files and I have a history. I'm not saying I ever lost an important key. I'm saying I might have dropped one, picked it back up, and made a few copies with different secrets just to feel safe. I once shipped a project and watched my notifications light up a few minutes later, back before GitHub's secret scanning had my back, when I was paying for a service just to tell me what I'd already done. That's the whole reason the vault and ClaudeJr exist. See exactly how your keys stay yours →

The little hack

Use the agents. Then customize them. Underneath, they all start from the same place: you tweak, and if you're creative, you shine. But at the end of the day, you are you. Get the help you need, then put your own self on top. In any field, that's the part that makes you different.

Tech moves fast, and you're not behind. With AI, the only thing between you and the finish line is whether you keep going.

This page is dedicated to two people. To the one who asked me for a simple repo and then thanked me for weeks, you reminded me that small help is still help. And to the professor who knew I had a tiny chance and poured his time in anyway. If I kept going, maybe that's part of why he bets on the next long shot too.
Purpose
Mission & Vision
We're not building another dev tool. We're building the last layer of abstraction that makes all the other tools disappear.
Mission
"Make autonomous AI development accessible to every developer on earth."
Vision
"A world where software is built by humans and AI in perfect collaboration, faster, safer, and more creative than either could achieve alone."
Core Values
Speed
Autonomy
Transparency
Security
The Facts
What's Real Today
Pre-launch and self-funded. These are verifiable facts, not projected metrics.
2025
Founded
42+
API endpoints (full OpenAPI spec)
1M
TRIPPY fixed supply (no minting)
BNB
Smart Chain, verifiable on BscScan
$0
Outside funding
Open
Source on GitHub
People
The Team
A solo founder building in the open, designing, engineering, and shipping every layer.
C
Caio Carvalho
Founder & Engineer
A company of one shipping honest, downloadable developer tools, ClaudeJr, CloudJr, DeployDoctor, the per-user Vault, over an internal Jr army of agents (AP for code intelligence, xAI for DevOps) coordinated by a hash-linked ledger. TRIPPY is optional brand glue, not a payment rail. Shipping in the open on GitHub.
GitHub Portfolio
Differentiation
How We Stack Up
Most AI dev tools autocomplete a line. APxAI ships honest, downloadable tools, ClaudeJr, CloudJr, DeployDoctor, over a two-agent brain (AP for code intelligence, xAI for the deploy doctor) with cross-session memory.
Feature APxAI us GitHub Copilot Cursor Devin Replit AI
Agent Orchestration ✓ Multi-agent, full autonomy △ Copilot Workspace (beta) △ Composer mode ✓ Single long-running agent △ Limited automation
Memory Persistence ✓ Cross-session Brain layer ✗ Session-only △ .cursorrules file △ Task-scoped only ✗ None
TRIPPYCOIN (optional crypto rail) ✓ Real BEP-20, 1M fixed, non-custodial ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗
Deploy-error help ✓ DeployDoctor, ~180 recipes, local-first, $0 ✗ ✗ △ Agent retries △ Limited
Enterprise SSO △ SAML / OIDC / SCIM, planned (roadmap) ✓ GitHub Enterprise △ Business plan △ Enterprise tier △ Teams plan
Open API ✓ 42+ endpoints, OpenAPI spec △ GitHub REST only ✗ No public API ✗ No public API △ Limited
Price (entry) Free tools → optional $1/mo support $10/mo $20/mo $500/mo $25/mo
Principles
What We Believe
Autonomy over interruption
Agents should do the work, not ask permission at every step. Set a goal, go build something else, come back to results.
Memory matters
An AI that forgets your codebase every session is a productivity tax. The Brain route was built to fix this from day one.
Source-available
The Hub's source is on GitHub to read and self-host. The code stays proprietary, you own yours, we own ours. We make money on the managed tier and Enterprise support.
Brand glue, not speculation
TRIPPYCOIN (TRIPPY) is a real, fixed-supply, non-custodial BEP-20 on BNB Smart Chain. It's optional brand glue across the ecosystem, not a wealth vehicle, not an investment, never a promised return. Price is read live from PancakeSwap or shown honestly as unavailable.
Ecosystem
The CAI Ecosystem
The Honest Tools
ClaudeJr (LLM/token-cost engine), CloudJr (cloud-$ cost engine), DeployDoctor (~180 deploy-error recipes, local-first, $0), and the per-user Vault. Downloadable, honest, runnable. The products.
The Jr Army
An internal 3-agent brain, AP for code intelligence, xAI for DevOps, coordinated by a hash-linked ledger. Shown read-only on the live coordination and pulse pages. The tooling.
IronGram
One of several apps in the wider ecosystem, an AI fitness app (FORGE/NEXUS/FLOW/HELIX). Not the headline; the tools are. An app.
TRIPPYCOIN (TRIPPY)
Real fixed-supply BEP-20 on BNB Smart Chain. Optional brand glue across the ecosystem, not a wealth vehicle or payment rail; price read live from PancakeSwap or honestly null. The flourish.
cai-portfolio
3D interactive portfolio with playable CryptoRPG. The showcase. Rock index 7 = IronGram.

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42+
API endpoints
$0
Outside funding
3
Products in the ecosystem
1
Real on-chain token (BNB Chain)