Building the operating system for AI-native teams.

Before Stilla, we spent the last decade building and scaling products at Shopify. We founded Tictail, Shop & Shop Pay — now processing over $100 billion annually. We built systems that had to work at massive scale, handle sensitive data, and earn trust from millions of merchants.

During that time, we watched something shift. Remote work forced every team to become more intentional about how they shared context and made decisions. Software teams adapted fastest — they'd already adopted the principles of open-source development: everything documented, decisions tracked, work visible to everyone. But the rest of the organization struggled. Product managers spent half their time writing and reading status updates. Context lived in people's heads, not in systems.

Then large language models arrived. And the curve wasn't linear — it was accelerating. We saw clearly that within a few years, AI would be capable of doing much of the coordination work that consumed entire roles. Not just answering questions, but actually doing work: creating tickets, writing code, sending emails, updating documents.

We left Shopify with a text file called “The Future of Work” and a conviction: the tool that helps humans stay aligned today will be the same tool that helps AI agents operate effectively tomorrow. As the ratio of AI to humans in the workforce shifts, the system that holds context, enforces permissions, and orchestrates action across tools will become the most important layer in the stack.

That's what we're building.