AI-native venture studio  ·  Indiana

We build software companies, a portfolio at a time.

Crossroads designs, builds, and operates ventures in parallel on shared infrastructure — so each one reaches production in months instead of years.

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Products live
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Ventures
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Markets
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Built in Indiana
Manifold.FM live product siteLive

Manifold.FM

Facilities-management technology

Modern software and service for the operators who keep buildings and equipment running.

manifold.fm ↗
Torus live CMMS platformLive

Torus

CMMS platform

Manifold's maintenance platform — one shared system of record for operators, vendors, and field technicians.

torus.fm ↗
Huzzah! live event capture siteLive

Huzzah!

Live event capture & streaming

Captures, clips, and delivers live-event video to families — recitals, tournaments, graduations.

huzzah.live ↗
Tare personal finance, private betaPrivate beta

Tare

Transparent personal finance

Shows your true discretionary balance — not just what's sitting in the account.

tare.money ↗
Jaro AI portfolio agentWaitlist

Jaro

AI portfolio agent

A professional portfolio that maintains itself — designed, updated, and kept in sync from your work.

jaro.works ↗
Pre-launch

Nowi

Transparent local delivery

Zero-commission restaurant delivery for Northwest Indiana. Drivers keep 100% of tips; every receipt is itemized.

Launching in Crown Point
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Shared infrastructure

Every venture begins on the same foundation — a common stack, a shared design language, and the studio's own AI tooling. Nothing starts from zero.

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Production in months

AI-native building turns a team-year of work into studio-months — and we ship to real users, not demos. Five products are already live.

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A compounding advantage

Each venture we ship makes the next one faster to build. The portfolio isn't a set of bets — it's an engine that strengthens with every launch.

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Built, then operated

We don't hand off and walk away. Crossroads runs its companies — brand, go-to-market, and operations — long after the first commit.

Stack

Production infrastructure

Infra, auth, payments, and data — built once, reused everywhere — so a new venture launches at production quality on day one.

Design

A shared design language

One component system and design discipline across the portfolio, applied to each venture's own brand.

AI

The studio's own tooling

Proprietary AI tooling built in-house that compresses the build loop — the reason a small team can run a portfolio.

GTM

Go-to-market & operations

Brand, launch, and operating support. Each venture gets a real path to customers, not just a codebase.

Local logisticsTransparent delivery that keeps more of every dollar local.Nowi
Facilities technologyThe operators who keep buildings and equipment running.Manifold.FM
Maintenance softwareA multi-party system of record for field work.Torus
Live event mediaCapturing the moments families actually want.Huzzah!
Consumer financeHonest numbers about where the money really is.Tare
Creator toolsA professional presence that maintains itself.Jaro
Why Indiana

We build at the Crossroads of America — on purpose.

Close to the operators we build for: the restaurants, the maintenance crews, the dance studios. At a fraction of coastal cost, in markets the coasts overlook. Great software companies don't have to come from California.

What is Crossroads Accelerator?
An AI-native venture studio. We originate ideas, build the products, and operate the companies — a portfolio of software businesses running in parallel on shared infrastructure.
How is a studio different from an accelerator or a fund?
An accelerator advises; a fund invests. A studio builds. Crossroads creates the companies itself and runs them, with a shared engine that makes each one faster than the last.
How can one studio run six companies at once?
AI-native building. Work that used to take a full team a year, a small focused studio now ships in months — on a common stack, a shared design system, and our own AI tooling.
Are these real products?
Yes. Five are live today — Manifold.FM, Torus, Huzzah!, Tare, and Jaro — and Nowi launches in Crown Point. Every link on this page goes to a real product.
Why build in Indiana?
It's the Crossroads of America. We build close to the operators we serve, at a fraction of coastal cost, in markets the coasts overlook.
Get in touch

Building in Indiana. For partnerships and ventures.

me@jarodbarrera.com