Three principles decide how we build
Ali SareiniCo-Founder & CTO, Nautilus
Nautilus is a small team in San Francisco, and we answer to car wash operators running real businesses on decades-old software.
Steal like an artist
Nothing we build needs to be original; it needs to be great. The best software companies have already solved most of our problems, so we steal from them the way Austin Kleon means it: we learn why something works, then bring it to an industry that never got that software.
Everybody rows
There are no passengers on this boat; everyone ships. Engineers talk to operators, and the person who writes the billing code explains the bill. That's how a team you can count on your hands runs payments, messaging and AI across a dozen POS systems.
Play to win
Playing not to lose means matching competitors and waiting for proof. We play to win: we bet on AI early, rebuild what the industry assumed was fixed, and ship to production every day, because we'd rather be wrong fast than right slowly.
— Ali