AI-native venture accelerator  ·  Indiana

We build software companies. Five are already live.

Crossroads is an AI-native accelerator. Instead of funding outside startups, we build and run our own — six so far, taken from idea to live product in months, all out of Indiana.

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Products live
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Ventures
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Markets
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Built in Indiana
Manifold.FM live product siteLive

Manifold.FM

Facilities-management technology

Software and service for the operators who keep buildings and equipment running.

manifold.fm ↗
Torus live CMMS platformLive

Torus

CMMS platform

Manifold's maintenance platform — one shared system of record for operators, vendors, and field technicians.

torus.fm ↗
Huzzah! live event capture siteLive

Huzzah!

Live event capture & streaming

Captures and clips live events, then gets the video to families — recitals, tournaments, graduations.

huzzah.live ↗
Tare personal finance, private betaPrivate beta

Tare

Transparent personal finance

Shows what you can actually spend, not just what's sitting in the account.

tare.money ↗
Jaro AI portfolio agentWaitlist

Jaro

AI portfolio agent

A professional portfolio that maintains itself, updated straight from your work.

jaro.works ↗
Pre-launch

Nowi

Transparent local delivery

Zero-commission restaurant delivery for Northwest Indiana. Drivers keep 100% of tips; every receipt is itemized.

Launching in Crown Point
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Shared infrastructure

Every venture starts on the same foundation: a common stack, a shared design system, and our own AI tooling. No one rebuilds the basics.

02

Production in months

AI-native building compresses what used to take a team a year into a few focused months. And we ship to real users — five products are already live.

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A compounding advantage

Each company we ship makes the next one faster to build. Every launch adds tools and infrastructure the next venture inherits.

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Built, then operated

We don't hand a company off and move on. Crossroads runs what it builds — brand, growth, daily operations — long after the first commit.

Stack

Production infrastructure

Infrastructure, auth, payments, and data, built once and reused across the portfolio. A new venture launches at production quality on day one.

Design

A shared design language

One component system and design discipline across the portfolio, applied to each venture's own brand.

AI

The accelerator's own tooling

AI tooling we build in-house that compresses the build loop. It's the reason a small team can run a whole portfolio.

GTM

Go-to-market & operations

Brand, launch, and operating support that turns a finished product into a business with customers.

Local logisticsTransparent delivery that keeps more of every dollar local.Nowi
Facilities technologyThe operators who keep buildings and equipment running.Manifold.FM
Maintenance softwareA multi-party system of record for field work.Torus
Live event mediaCapturing the moments families actually want.Huzzah!
Consumer financeHonest numbers about where the money really is.Tare
Creator toolsA professional presence that maintains itself.Jaro
Why Indiana

We build at the Crossroads of America — on purpose.

Close to the operators we build for: the restaurants, the maintenance crews, the dance studios. At a fraction of coastal cost, in markets the coasts overlook. Great software companies don't have to come from California.

What is Crossroads Accelerator?
An AI-native venture accelerator. We come up with the ideas, build the products, and run the companies — a portfolio of software businesses operating in parallel on shared infrastructure.
How is this different from a typical accelerator?
Most accelerators take in a cohort of outside startups and advise them. We build our own. The idea, the product, and the company are all ours, running on shared infrastructure we own and sharpen with every launch.
How can one accelerator run six companies at once?
AI-native building. A small, focused team now ships in months what used to take a full team a year, working from a common stack, a shared design system, and our own AI tooling.
Are these real products?
Yes. Five are live today — Manifold.FM, Torus, Huzzah!, Tare, and Jaro — and Nowi launches in Crown Point. Every link on this page goes to a real product.
Why build in Indiana?
It's the Crossroads of America. We build close to the operators we serve, at a fraction of coastal cost, in markets the coasts overlook.
Get in touch

Building from Indiana. Always open to a conversation.

me@jarodbarrera.com