What we believe about money.
Money has always been a kind of memory. It is what we keep when we agree, in advance, to trust each other later. Accounting was the technology we invented to keep that memory honest. Banks were the institutions we built to make the memory portable. Audits were the rituals we performed to make sure the memory had not been quietly rewritten.
For five hundred years, the speed of memory and the speed of the economy were locked together. They came unstuck. By 2026, settlement happens in milliseconds, in chains, in jurisdictions a CFO has never visited. The systems that were supposed to keep the memory of the economy were keeping it on tools designed for paper, fax machines, and a single domestic currency.
We built Garden because we run an autonomous organization, and nothing on the market could answer the question: where did the money go, and who said it could?
A few unfashionable things we believe.
The book we’re writing is built on these.
The book of record is sacred.
One canonical source of truth, balanced to the cent, sealed at the period, reproducible in five years if a system fails.
Custody is a property, not a feature.
If you cannot lose your keys, you don't hold them. Recovery is a ceremony, not an email.
Agents are first-class citizens.
They will issue invoices, sign transactions, and approve refunds. The question is not whether they act, but how they prove it.
Lineage matters more than speed.
Every action must trace back to a human or organization that authorized it. We refuse to operate without a chain.
Compliance is continuous, not episodic.
A SAR drafted in real time is worth more than a perfect quarterly report.
Forced agnosticism.
If you ever want to leave us, we will help you leave. We hold the platform together with cryptography, not vendor lock-in.
Ship what you can audit.
If a feature cannot be proven correct after a cold restore, we do not ship it. If it cannot be defended in front of an auditor, we do not enable it by default.
A thirty-year project, in eight beats.
What we’ve shipped, what we’re building now, and what we expect to be standing in 2056.
- 2024
Bean v0.1
First ledger commits. Period close as a deliberate, signed act — not a calendar event.
- 2025
Cabbage + Chard
Billing engine atomically posts to Bean. Multi-rail payment routing across cards, ACH, SEPA, wire, RTP, on-chain.
- 2026
Greenhouse · FROST
Threshold custody ships. Your money, your keys, your terms. Garden becomes one signer of n, never the threshold.
- 2026
Sage · Continuous compliance
Sanctions, PEP, adverse media, and KYC chain into one evidence packet sealed to Bean.
- 2027
Branches v1
Multi-source quorum balance plane. Six banks behind one contract, with sync-latency surfaced per connection.
- 2028
Agent-native v1
Every service ships an MCP server. Arsenal capability tokens become the default authentication model for agents.
- 2030
Open seal
Period seals become an open, verifiable standard adopted by external auditors and exchange counterparties.
- 2056
Thirty-year mark
The features in Garden today are still load-bearing. The book that began in 2024 is still balanced — and still readable.
We hire deliberately. Not fast.
The Garden team is small and senior. We hire when there is a specific person we cannot do our work without.
Staff engineer · Bean & Celery
Rust · ledger & period close · ASC 606
Senior engineer · Greenhouse threshold cryptography
FROST · Solana programs · audited code
Lead designer · Garden Desktop
Tauri · accounting workflows · keyboard-first
Senior platform · Kubernetes & operations
OVH · Hetzner · Vultr · multi-region
Field accountant
Practicing CPA · willing to write product specs
Built to outlast the people who built it.
We’re writing a thirty-year book. The features in Garden today should still be load-bearing in 2056 — so we ship slowly, sign everything, and refuse to paper over the parts auditors will read in twenty years.