OakBeyFamily Office

Investment focus

Six domains of
human time.

We organise around what a person will need in the autonomous era, not around a technology stack. The technology is assumed. The need is the investment.

Domain

Instruments

Tools that raise the ceiling on what one person can decide, make and run. The autonomous era does not need more dashboards. It needs instruments a person can hold.

What we look for

  • Agent supervision, review and accountability layers
  • Design, fabrication and small-scale manufacture put within reach of one operator
  • Personal infrastructure: memory, filing, negotiation, household administration
  • Verification tools for a world in which anything can be generated

Structures we will consider

  • Equity in private companies, from first cheque onward
  • Co-build and joint ventures where we contribute people as well as capital
  • Licences, royalties and intellectual property positions
  • Tokens and protocol positions where the asset genuinely requires one
Domain

Learning

Education for a world that no longer trains people for a job. If the purpose of schooling was employment, the purpose has to be rewritten, and somebody will build what replaces it.

What we look for

  • Teaching judgement, taste, attention and physical skill rather than recall
  • Credentials that still mean something when a degree no longer signals capability
  • Learning for adults with decades of life and no occupation to fill them
  • Tuition for children whose parents cannot describe the world they will enter

Structures we will consider

  • Equity in private companies, from first cheque onward
  • Co-build and joint ventures where we contribute people as well as capital
  • Licences, royalties and intellectual property positions
  • Tokens and protocol positions where the asset genuinely requires one
Domain

Care

Support, companionship and health for a population with more hours and fewer colleagues. Work supplied most people with structure, status and company. Losing it is a health event.

What we look for

  • Mental health provision built for isolation and loss of role, not only for crisis
  • Caregiving: logistics, respite, and the economics of looking after the old and the young
  • Companionship products that are honest about what they are
  • Longevity and daily health for people who will live a long time with time on their hands

Structures we will consider

  • Equity in private companies, from first cheque onward
  • Co-build and joint ventures where we contribute people as well as capital
  • Licences, royalties and intellectual property positions
  • Tokens and protocol positions where the asset genuinely requires one
Domain

Provision

Income, identity and benefits for lives that are not organised around a wage. Almost every welfare system in the world asks what you earn and who employs you. Those questions are going quiet.

What we look for

  • Identity and proof of personhood as the baseline for any claim or payment
  • Income from ownership, royalties, data and licence rather than hours
  • Benefits, insurance and pensions redesigned for discontinuous working lives
  • Household financial tooling for volatile, non-salary income

Structures we will consider

  • Equity in private companies, from first cheque onward
  • Co-build and joint ventures where we contribute people as well as capital
  • Licences, royalties and intellectual property positions
  • Tokens and protocol positions where the asset genuinely requires one
Domain

Play

Entertainment, games and worlds worth the hours people will actually have. Most of today's entertainment is designed for an exhausted person with two spare hours. The next generation may have twelve.

What we look for

  • Worlds and games with depth enough to hold an adult for years
  • Live, social and physical formats, not only feeds
  • Creation tools where the audience is also the author
  • Honest attention products: we will back distraction, but not deceit

Structures we will consider

  • Equity in private companies, from first cheque onward
  • Co-build and joint ventures where we contribute people as well as capital
  • Licences, royalties and intellectual property positions
  • Tokens and protocol positions where the asset genuinely requires one
Domain

Belonging

Status, purpose and community when the job no longer supplies them. People will still want to be needed and to be counted. That demand does not disappear with the payroll.

What we look for

  • Membership, guilds, orders and clubs rebuilt for a non-working population
  • Contribution and reputation systems with real standing behind them
  • Local institutions: sport, faith, craft, mutual aid, civic work
  • Rites of passage for lives with no first job and no retirement

Structures we will consider

  • Equity in private companies, from first cheque onward
  • Co-build and joint ventures where we contribute people as well as capital
  • Licences, royalties and intellectual property positions
  • Tokens and protocol positions where the asset genuinely requires one

What we pass on

Honest about the exclusions.

  • Products whose only durable advantage is a model someone else owns
  • Attention businesses that depend on the user misunderstanding what is happening to them
  • Care, education or welfare propositions that cannot survive contact with a regulator
  • Token structures designed for liquidity rather than for the asset
  • Anything we would not be content to hold, and explain, in twenty years

A note on distraction

We will back play. We will not back deceit.

An autonomous future gives people hours, and some of those hours should be spent on nothing in particular. Distraction and entertainment are legitimate, large and badly served markets, and we invest in them deliberately.

The line we hold is disclosure. A product may compete for attention as long as the person can see what it is doing and could stop. Designs that rely on the user not knowing are a different business, and not one of ours.

How we decide