INQB8 ME
Every company gets to a waypoint.
For developers
For investors and incubators
Core services by API
Questions people ask.
way·point (n.): an intermediate stopping point, reference coordinate, or turning point along a route, path, or line of travel.
Big things have small beginnings.
A place to build your business before you can afford to build everything around it.
INQB8 ME is one membership that gives new and changing businesses the tools large companies get through enterprise contracts.
A membership, laid out like a mall.
A new restaurant without a Sysco or US Foods account still stocks its kitchen: it shops at Costco. INQB8 ME does the same for business software and services.
Members join by invitation and work in one workspace that holds legal, HR, payments, calls and email, secure mail, compliance, AI research and websites. Most apps are free to use. Members pay for their own usage, close to cost, on one monthly bill.
Every membership, including the free one, carries the essentials: health records, journaling, legal answers, secure mail, secure communications and social interactions. Growing companies move up to tiers with stronger encryption, longer storage, and full-service legal and invention tools.
Every app here is a service built and shared across Faraday Cloud Services' platform.
How it works.
Each step maps to how INQB8 ME earns: entry is free, use is billed close to cost, and the tiers carry the margin.
The Food Court. Free with every membership.
Free with every membership.
The mall: 87 apps in eleven End Caps.
Six End Caps hold business apps; five hold consumer apps; the Food Court sits in the middle.
Membership.
Usage is billed monthly, close to cost. Joining requires a billing method on file.
Priced by use.
Core services, also available by API.
An example of what you can do with INQB8 ME.
KrossTawk is an example of what you can do with INQB8 ME: a complete business platform, built from the same services the mall offers. Faraday Cloud Services owns it.
IdeaForge: your idea stays yours.
IdeaForge is opportunity research: company genealogy and unpatented ideas. Anything you develop with it is yours to keep.
Leave whenever you like, with everything.
A member can leave at any time with its organization and all of its data, and stay on as an alumni member. The work and the relationships both survive the departure. There is no fee to leave; members settle their final bill.
Want the services without the workspace? The core services are available by API.
INQB8 ME is open to investment and to collaboration with incubators, employers and sponsors.
Request an invitation.
Tell us the one service you need now. Say more if you like.
Your organization and all of your data leave with you.
You can stay on as an alumni member.
No fee to leave; you settle your final bill.
What does it cost?
The Food Court is free: joining requires a billing method on file; the Food Court itself costs nothing. INQB8ER is $50 a month, with no sign-up fee, no setup fee and no cancellation fee. Usage is billed monthly, close to cost.
What is included?
Every membership, including the free one, carries the essentials: health records, journaling, legal answers, secure mail, secure communications and social interactions. INQB8ER adds DeadDrop and every app marked Included with INQB8ER in the directory, free to use.
How do I join?
Anyone may request an invitation. Incubators, employers, sponsors and members can also refer people. Every member is approved by INQB8 ME. Joining requires a billing method on file.
Can I leave?
A member can leave at any time with its organization and all of its data, and stay on as an alumni member. There is no fee to leave; members settle their final bill.
Who owns an idea I develop?
Any idea you develop with IdeaForge is yours to keep. There is one exception, agreed up front: if an idea developed here goes on to generate revenue or reaches an exit, a licensing fee is paid into the Alumni Pot.
[Licensing fee: rate and trigger to be set]
IdeaForge
Opportunity research: company genealogy and unpatented ideas.
What it does.
IdeaForge traces the genealogy of companies and surfaces ideas no existing patent covers. You pick one up and build it inside INQB8 ME, with the rest of the mall around you.
How it works
Research
Start from a company, an industry or a problem. IdeaForge traces the genealogy and gathers what is unclaimed.
Choose
You pick the idea worth your time. IdeaForge shows what is unclaimed around it.
Build
You build it as a INQB8 ME member, using the services in the mall. The idea is yours.
See it at work.
Three readers argue over one forgotten technology: one says why it died, one attacks the case for bringing it back, one plans how it could return. A fourth weighs their claims and rules.
Whose idea is it?
Any idea you develop with IdeaForge is yours to keep. There is one exception, agreed up front: if an idea developed here goes on to generate revenue or reaches an exit, a licensing fee is paid into the Alumni Pot.
[Licensing fee: rate and trigger to be set]
The Alumni Pot.
The Alumni Pot is a fund for members. Over time it is meant to cover the cost of members' full builds, the way an alumni fund does. Every member votes on how it is used, and each vote is weighted by community impact — participation on the platform, referrals and private member reviews — not by how much a member spends or how large it is.
Access.
IdeaForge is free to use with the SOC 2 tier.
[Access for INQB8ER members: to be set]
IdeaForge is also one of the core services available by API
The core services, by API.
For developers who want the services and will build their own integrations.
Every service in the mall answers inside a member's workspace. Seven of them are also offered directly, by API, for people who want only the service. Some are included with a membership; some are pay as you go. Access is by invitation; documentation is provided with access.
How a request travels.
Every service answers the same way, whichever one you call.
Your code
Calls one address with one key, whichever service it needs.
One envelope
Every request is wrapped the same way. Only the action and what it carries change.
The service
Each service runs walled off in its own account and sees only the envelope it was sent.
The reply
Comes back in the same envelope, with its status and how long it took.
What a call looks like.
Illustrative
The address and the key come with access. This reply lists the core services and how you pay for each.
The core services.
See them working.
Two of the core services, explained at more depth on their own sites.
Open to investment and collaboration.
For venture investors, incubators and accelerators, and private-equity firms.
What INQB8 ME is
How INQB8 ME earns
Membership tiers
Recurring monthly fees; INQB8ER memberships start at $50 a month
Usage
Billed monthly, close to cost; adding a member costs INQB8 ME nothing
Set service fees
CrossGate wire verification $0.50 each; CrossAudit audits $100 per report and $1 per transaction; CrossResolve escrow 1.5–2.5%; CrossCulture HR message review $0.001 per message
Day passes
The build pipeline for one working day: one job of up to 8 hours
Enterprise
Compliance, due diligence and consulting, sold directly
Licensing
City-branded copies of the platform for municipalities and tourism districts
IdeaForge licensing
A fee on ideas developed in IdeaForge, paid into the Alumni Pot
Year-one target: one million monthly active users across the apps. These are people using the apps, not paying members.
For incubators, employers and sponsors
Each gets a branded entrance and sponsored seats for its founders or staff. Members keep their accounts when a sponsorship ends.
INQB8 ME's first members come from Tampa Bay's startup community.
For investors
Funds raised go 80% to marketing and 20% to the first two hires. There is no fixed amount; the marketing budget scales with what is raised.
The team stays small on purpose; everyone on it is a peer human in the loop.
See the work.
The services are documented on their own sites, at more depth than this one. Each opens in a new tab.
Who built it
INQB8 ME was built by Faraday Cloud Services LLC in Tampa, FL.
Talk to us directly.
For investment and partnership conversations, write to
Every app in the mall, in one line.
Terminus
A council of AI models that checks answers against each other
Included with INQB8ER · Terminus Lite is free in the Food Court
working nameThink Tank
Talk with several AI models at once, by voice
Included with INQB8ER
Bid Foundry
Red-team and blue-team an idea or a decision
Free to use with the SOC 2 tier
working nameScopeWatch
A daily intelligence briefing
Included with INQB8ER
CrossCheck
Sends removal requests to data brokers and follows up automatically
Included with INQB8ER
NewsTawk
A news aggregator; members can get their own daily intelligence briefing built from the feeds it collects
Included with INQB8ER
IdeaForge
Opportunity research: company genealogy and unpatented ideas
Free to use with the SOC 2 tier
Company Memory
The member's operating manual: procedures, decisions, onboarding and handoffs
Included with INQB8ER
Private AI Gateway
Terminus's AI pipeline behind a member's own site or app
Included with INQB8ER
DeadDrop
A private post office
Included with INQB8ER
GhostMail
Private physical letters
Free · Food Court · usage billed close to cost
Handoff
Secure communication
Included with INQB8ER
Faraday Cage
A sandbox where nothing is kept; sessions are shredded on exit
Included with INQB8ER
Evidence Vault
Signed receipts, kept in member-owned storage
Included with INQB8ER
CrossSignal
Behavioral security that asks for a stronger sign-in when activity departs from the member's normal pattern, with four consent tiers
Included with INQB8ER
CrossLaw
Legal tools; the full-service version comes with the SOC 2 tier
Full service is free to use with the SOC 2 tier; CrossLaw Lite is free in the Food Court
ProSe
Self-representation tools for people handling their own cases in the 13th Judicial Circuit
Included with INQB8ER
CrossServe
A mailbox for served legal documents
Included with INQB8ER
FOIA portal
Public-records requests
Included with INQB8ER
Their Report Card
Civic accountability
Included with INQB8ER
Identity Recovery
Identity-theft response: documents, a communication log and the actions taken
Included with INQB8ER
Security Ops
Configuration-drift checks, delivered as a plain-language report and fix list
Included with INQB8ER
Personal safety app
Personal safety, paired with CrossCall
Included with INQB8ER
inheritSOC2
Compliance as a service (contact us)
Contact us
SCIF consulting
One isolated account per client (contact us)
Contact us
CrossBank
Banking tools and the mall's own clearing house
Free · Food Court
SNAGS
Usage metering and settlement
Included with INQB8ER
CrossGate
Wire approval: confirms who you are paying before money moves
$0.50 per verification
CrossAudit
Vendor risk and expense forensics
$100 per report plus $1 per transaction
Front Desk
Software that answers calls and email, takes intake, and sends quotes, scopes and follow-ups to the member's customers
Included with INQB8ER
CrossCall
Spam-filtered calls with recording, transcription and AI analysis; replaces a phone system
Included with INQB8ER
The SysOp
An AI chat assistant for a member's own website
Included with INQB8ER
InterCalm
White-label customer messaging
Included with INQB8ER
CrossMeet
Video meetings
Included with INQB8ER
CallingCard
AI-made digital business cards, sent by text
Included with INQB8ER
Project Room
One record per engagement: request, scope, approval, delivery, payment
Included with INQB8ER
CloseOut
Voice AI that handles enrollment after a deal closes
Included with INQB8ER
StoneClose
AI negotiation for closing deals
Included with INQB8ER
CrossCulture
HR forensics within the CrossBank suite, including workplace message review
$0.001 per message
MLR
Micro Ledger Reviews, a review desk
Included with INQB8ER
Business Admin
Invoices, receipts, vendor onboarding and renewals
Included with INQB8ER
Funding Desk
Grant, accelerator and procurement matching
Included with INQB8ER
Transition Desk
Import on arrival; export and handoff on departure
Included with INQB8ER
CrossSafe
File storage
Included with INQB8ER
IP Foundry
Guided provisional-patent drafting
Included with INQB8ER
Iron Sight
M&A due diligence and escrow (contact us)
Contact us
Harbor Lockers
Connected smart lockers nationwide, open to anyone
Included with INQB8ER
PorchBoxx
A smart porch box with delivery codes, UV-C and ozone sanitizing, a magnetic lock and cameras
Hardware · price to be set
DineTrac
Restaurant sensors for temperature, food safety and operations
Hardware · price to be set
CrossPulse
A wrist wearable that records heart-rate variability sessions and reports, on its own circuit board and firmware
Hardware · price to be set
CrossCouch
A TV box
Hardware · price to be set
Shared fulfillment
Reserve, deliver or pick up from a locker; custody passes by QR scan, with no download
Included with INQB8ER
LoRa mesh
A private network across lockers, chargers and vehicles
Included with INQB8ER
5HAT
Dating
Included with INQB8ER
Burner Codes
Dating
Included with INQB8ER
Tangent
Staying in touch, for people who aren't good at reaching out
Free · Food Court
WAYUT
Staying in touch; holds members' private profiles
Free · Food Court
DarkRooms
Cruelty-free adult content production; verified members only
Included with INQB8ER
LoopMap
A personal journaling assistant; LoopMap Lite is its free version
Included with INQB8ER · LoopMap Lite is free in the Food Court
CrossBolt
Audio, image and video generation; video is billed by the day
Included with INQB8ER · usage billed close to cost
working nameAlternation Radio
Generated royalty-free audio: focus music, ambience, hold music
Included with INQB8ER
CrossPost
Publishing and distribution
Included with INQB8ER
FiveHonks
50 free microgames, no account needed
Free
CrossBake
Family recipes
Included with INQB8ER
CrossLines
A messenger for people with dyslexia
Included with INQB8ER
Sable Oracle
A trust-reading card game
Included with INQB8ER
Bedtime story engine
Personalized bedtime and meditation stories
Included with INQB8ER
Personal Admin
Household inventory, warranties and maintenance; delegate one task without opening the whole account
Included with INQB8ER
Working Preferences
One accessibility and format profile that follows the member across apps
Included with INQB8ER
CrossForge
Quick landing pages for clients
Included with INQB8ER
LoadNimbus
Penetration and load testing for a member's own platform
Included with INQB8ER
CircuitForge
Designs circuit boards and produces the fabrication files a board maker needs
Included with INQB8ER
MCT day pass
Rent the build pipeline for a working day: one job of up to 8 hours
Day pass · price to be set
Build Workshop
Describe a workflow and we build it in your organization; keep it private or share it
Price to be set
RentiRide
Members rent out vehicles they own, starting with low-speed vehicles
Pay as you go · fees to be set
CrossCharge
EV charging, billed by use
Pay as you go · billed by use
FleetResolve
Ground-logistics telemetry
Pay as you go · fees to be set
DropiFi
A package waits in a Harbor locker; an opted-in member scans its label and carries it to its destination, tracked by phone
Pay as you go · fees to be set
Gigify
A freelance and gig marketplace
Pay as you go · fees to be set
Work Exchange
Members post scoped work and hire each other; pooled buying at cost
Pay as you go · fees to be set
CrossResolve
Milestone escrow contracts and dispute arbitration
1.5–2.5% of the escrowed amount
EventiFi
Event ticketing, with locker pickup
Pay as you go · fees to be set
BeachiFi
Beach bookings: chairs, umbrellas, e-bikes, jet boards
Pay as you go · fees to be set
Liminal Walks
Walking tours
Pay as you go · fees to be set
Rentifi
Peer-to-peer rental of tools, equipment and gear, with ID checks and damage history
Pay as you go · fees to be set
Continual Lending
Items pass from borrower to borrower through lockers in the same city, without returning to the lender
Pay as you go · fees to be set
BookiFi
Members share and rent books by ISBN nationwide, with local clubs, bookstores and libraries; a 501(c)(3)
Pay as you go · fees to be set
Food Court
Every Food Court essential. Joining requires a billing method on file; the Food Court itself costs nothing.
Free
INQB8ER
Everything in the Food Court, plus DeadDrop and every app marked Included with INQB8ER in the directory, free to use. You pay only your usage, close to cost, on one monthly bill. Cancel any time.
$50 a month No sign-up fee · No setup fee · No cancellation fee
SOC 2 tier
Advanced encryption, storage for 365 days or longer, Bid Foundry, full-service CrossLaw and IdeaForge, all free to use.
Not yet offered publicly
AI & Intelligence
Security & Evidence
Business & Operations
Connected World
Everyday & Creative
Developer Tools
RentiRide
Gigify
EventiFi
Rentifi
BookiFi
Discover
You arrive through an incubator, an employer, another member, or because you went looking for one service you need now. Start there.
Request
Anyone may request an invitation. Incubators, employers, sponsors and members can also refer people. Say as much or as little as you like about your business and what you need; the more you tell us, the easier it is to say yes. Every member is approved by INQB8 ME. Joining requires a billing method on file.
Join free
The free membership opens every Food Court essential: banking, Terminus Lite, health records, journaling, legal answers, secure mail, secure communications, social interactions, alerts and the mall directory.
Use
Every app opens as a panel inside one workspace, behind one login. You never log into a separate site for any of them: each service answers inside your workspace and shows you what you need to see. The launcher shows only the apps your tier opens. There are no storefronts to visit and no purchases inside any app. You pay for what you use, close to what it costs to run, on one monthly bill.
Grow or leave
Tiers open more doors as your business grows. When you are ready for your next leg, you leave with your organization and all of your data, and you can stay on as an alumni member. There is no fee to leave; you settle your final bill.
CrossLaw
Legal tools; CrossLaw Lite answers legal questions and points to where to look; the full-service version comes with the SOC 2 tier
Lite is free in the Food Court; full service is free to use with the SOC 2 tier
LoadNimbus
Penetration and load testing for a member's own platform
Included with INQB8ER
CloudBurst
Pay-as-you-go compute and load testing: use large computing power without provisioning anything, test how many users your app can take, and get scaling recommendations
Pay as you go · price to be set
IdeaForge
Opportunity research: company genealogy and unpatented ideas
Free to use with the SOC 2 tier; [Access for INQB8ER members: to be set]
CrossBank
Banking tools and the mall's own clearing house
Free with every membership
CrossHealth
Pulls a member's health records together and summarizes them; members pay for those calls
Free with every membership; members pay for the calls
LoopMap
A personal journaling assistant; LoopMap Lite is its free version
Included with INQB8ER; LoopMap Lite is free in the Food Court
The Food Court.
Free with every membership.
Every membership, including the free one, includes these essentials.
CrossBank
Banking tools and the mall's own clearing house
Free
In your Food Court membership
- Banking tools
- The mall's own clearing house
What you pay
Free. Banking never costs money to use.
Open it
Visit CrossBankFree with every membership.
Terminus Lite
working nameA council of AI models that checks answers against each other
Free
In your Food Court membership
- A council of AI models that checks answers against each other
What you pay
Free.
With a paid membership
The full Terminus is included with INQB8ER.
Open it
Visit TerminusFree with every membership.
CrossLaw Lite
Answers legal questions and points to where to look; drafts nothing
Free
In your Food Court membership
- Answers to your legal questions
- Where to look next
- It drafts nothing
What you pay
Free.
With a paid membership
The full-service version of CrossLaw comes with the SOC 2 tier.
Open it
Visit CrossLawFree with every membership.
CrossHealth
Pulls a member's health records together and summarizes them; members pay for those calls
Free · you pay the calls
In your Food Court membership
- Your health records, pulled together
- A summary of them
What you pay
Free with every membership. You pay for the calls that pull and summarize your records, close to cost, on one monthly bill.
Open it
Visit CrossHealthFree with every membership.
LoopMap Lite
Journaling, free; the free version of LoopMap
Free
In your Food Court membership
What you pay
Free.
With a paid membership
LoopMap, a personal journaling assistant, is included with INQB8ER.
Open it
Visit LoopMapFree with every membership.
Secure mail
GhostMail's private letters, free to use; members pay their costs
Free · you pay usage
In your Food Court membership
- GhostMail's private physical letters
- Free to use
What you pay
Free to use. You pay what your letters cost, close to cost, on one monthly bill.
With a paid membership
INQB8ER adds DeadDrop, a private post office.
Open it
Visit GhostMailFree with every membership.
Secure communications
Communication tools inside the membership
Free
In your Food Court membership
- Communication tools inside the membership
What you pay
Free.
Open it
Coming soonFree with every membership.
Social interactions
Tangent and WAYUT, for staying in touch
Free
In your Food Court membership
- Tangent: staying in touch, for people who aren't good at reaching out
- WAYUT: staying in touch; holds members' private profiles
What you pay
Free.
Open it
Visit TangentFree with every membership.
Alerts
Free emergency alerts
Free
In your Food Court membership
What you pay
Free.
Open it
Visit AlertsFree with every membership.
Mall directory · Every app the membership opens, and the ones coming soon. 87 apps in eleven End Caps.
Open the mall directoryCrossGate wire verification: $0.50 per verification
CrossAudit: $100 per report plus $1 per transaction
CrossResolve escrow: 1.5–2.5% of the escrowed amount
CrossCulture message review: $0.001 per message
MCT day pass: The build pipeline for one working day: one job of up to 8 hours · price to be set
CrossBolt video: Billed by the day, close to cost
CrossCharge: Billed by use
Consumer End Cap apps (RentiRide, Gigify, EventiFi, Rentifi, BookiFi): Pay as you go · fees to be set
Hardware (PorchBoxx, DineTrac, CrossPulse, CrossCouch): Hardware · price to be set
inheritSOC2, SCIF consulting, Iron Sight: Contact us
Everything else: Usage billed monthly, close to cost
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