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KINO /// Autonomous infrastructure — Est. 2026

Built for peoplewho actually ship things

AI was supposed to make work easier.
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[ 01 — Origin ]

KINO was founded in Wolf Trap, Virginia —
by two builders who would rather ship
than talk about shipping.

Andres Cruz and Dylan Torrey spent a year turning hackathon weekends into shipped product — drone simulators, global news engines, real-time voice. KINO is the company that comes next: autonomous software built for the people who actually finish things.

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Founders, one desk

$35K

Won shipping, not pitching

Two people.
One standing desk.

Wolf Trap, Northern Virginia — where it started.

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Co-founder

Andres Cruz

Turns weekend hackathons into shipped product. Lives at the edge of intent and execution.

LinkedIn 
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Co-founder

Dylan Torrey

Builds the systems that make the demos real. Latency, infrastructure, and the parts nobody sees.

LinkedIn

Before KINO,
the track record.

Two products. Two hackathons. Two wins.

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01 — SKY

Sky

A Reddit-, Amazon-, and 3D-simulator-in-one for drones. Research any UAV, source the parts, and simulate the whole aircraft in a single environment.

1st place · $25,000

SCSP 2025 Hackathon

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02 — GAIA

Gaia

A global AI news model that delivers personalized news podcasts wherever you are — voiced in real time with ElevenLabs. The world, narrated to you.

Winner · $10,000

ElevenLabs Lovable Hackathon

[ 02 — Live ]

A single model of the world, rendered in real time.

KINO // RENDER

Built for people who actually ship things

05:30 AM UTC

WOLF TRAP, VA

Move your cursor across the field. Every agent, signal and decision shares one coordinate space — drag to orbit.

[ Early access — Cohort 01 ]

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