Stealth Mode continues

Mike's Notes

After a recent trip to Christchurch, NZ, recruiting for the mission is underway, and Ajabbi and Pipi will stay in stealth mode until they are strong enough to rapidly scale without limits.

Resources

• https://www.blog.ajabbi.com/search/label/sign-up
• https://www.revenuecat.com/blog/growth/subscription-app-trends-benchmarks-2026

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06/10/2026

Stealth Mode continues

By: Mike Peters

On a Sandy Beach: 25/09/2026

Mike Peters: Mike invented and designed Pipi and founded Ajabbi.

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4-18 September 2026 Christchurch visit

While on holiday in Christchurch, opportunities and openness were confirmed by visiting the following;

• KiwiSaaS Meetup
• KiwiSaaS Leaders Breakfast
• IT Curry Meetup
• AI Meetup
• Westpac Smarts
• WordPress Meetup
• BDI
• Interested people
• ChristchurchNZ
• Business Canterbury
• NZTE
• Ministry of Awesome
• Epic Innovation
• Collaboration with University of Canterbury Faculty of Engineering
• Libraries, legal, commercial office, printing, banking, transport options, data centre, and electrical services

The CBD is compact, with good public transport that makes walking easy and simplifies collaboration and access to resources. Much of the built infrastructure is new, and Christchurch has become a magnet for technical talent.

One thing Mike learned was the importance of being surrounded by good people, and that getting the culture right and building a great team will take time. This is a critical foundation for scaling.

A big hard problem

Global IT waste from project failure exceeds $100 billion annually (IEEE).

• https://www.blog.ajabbi.com/2025/12/why-software-fails.html

AI slop will only add to the problem.

Why Ajabbi

Ajabbi exists to reduce failure in massive enterprise systems for socially useful critical infrastructure. Ajabbi is a bootstrapped, mission-led organisation with no investors. All future profits will go to a yet-to-be-established non-profit foundation to fund open research, science communication, and support for the Pipi user community.

Origins

Pipi originated as a national platform for community-led ecological restoration in New Zealand, built and operated by NZERN. Mike founded NZERN and served as National President and software architect. The NZ government funded Pipi version 4 and later valued it at $3M, with a great team, 300K lines of code, and a 3-rack data centre. A bad business model, the Christchurch earthquakes, and a change of government funding ended it all.

In Invercargill in 2017, Mike rebuilt Pipi from memory as version 6, then refactored and merged it with open-source biological cell simulation software, eventually making it a self-managing complex adaptive system (CAS). The intent was to make Pipi self-funding by being useful in multiple domains, solving the business model problem. Invercargill was a great place to do the initial work because of the city's obvious critical infrastructure problems.

10 years later, at version 9, it has become a non-LLM SaaS platform that runs 3,000K lines of code on CPU, is constrained by the laws of physics, and can self-manage, learn, evolve, and replicate; it is designed to host large, complex systems and gives them the same properties and real-world model context. It has a large closed core, and Pipi can automatically generate many open-source SaaS applications from ontologies and configuration.

• https://www.blog.ajabbi.com/p/pipi.html

Pipi also has many other unique capabilities to explore, offering other possible income streams to support the mission.

Stealth mode

Ajabbi and Pipi operate in stealth mode, with 99% of the system hidden. Mike keeps research notes on the build-out for his own use in an engineering blog, "On a Sandy Beach". Still, a community has grown, with a waitlist. Blog traffic is growing rapidly. Initial community testing with a closed beta has been roughly successful. It's good enough to move forward confidently, solving issues as you go. Because "an exit" isn't the goal, the biggest threat is getting swamped by rapid growth, so stay in stealth mode.

Now prove it

Pipi makes a big claim: Developers will need to prove the black box works by testing, using, and then telling others. With a long runway from upfront usage fees, it's cash-flow positive from day one and covers its very low costs. It's ready to go live, staying 100% reliable, secure, and safe while slashing customer costs. It is a SaaS platform for developers to build reliable, self-managing enterprise systems using no-code, plugins and API.

Slow and steady, community-driven, it can expand to many cloud platforms, human languages, and writing systems, with a highly adaptive, accessible UI for everyone. Eventually, the enterprise layer can be donated to the Cloud Native Foundation.

• https://www.blog.ajabbi.com/2026/03/the-accessibility-issue.html

Next steps

This is a rough sketch that will no doubt change along the way.

1. Carefully complete setup of legal, tax, banking, etc.
2. Lead with developer docs, training videos, recorded live demos, polished Ajabbi websites, recorded slide talks, white papers, newsletters, logo, business cards, and recruiting for the mission.
3. Stay in stealth mode.
4. Move Ajabbi onto an Ajabbi enterprise account to become self-managed using Pipi (Dogfooding).
5. Go live for a single customer carefully chosen from the waitlist. Prove it. Refine. Repeat. Grow by one customer at a time so that they all succeed.
6. Growth by word-of-mouth referrals among developers while staying in stealth mode. Accumulate funds. Grow the ecosystem. Build a great team.
7. Resource and configure Ajabbi and Pipi to rapidly scale without limits.
8. Escape from stealth mode.
9. ...