The origin story

I'm Princeps Polycap, a self-taught programmer who grew up in Kenya before moving to the U.S. Every part of my journey has reinforced a single truth: scarcity is a coordination problem, not a technology problem. We already possess the tools to automate food, water, energy, and shelter, but we lack the systems and incentives to deploy them at scale.

From factory floor to founder

Working overnight shifts on the Medtronic factory floor in Minnesota, I watched brilliant people spend entire careers on repetitive tasks that could be automated. That experience sparked Poly—a business OS powered by AI digital workers so organizations can redeploy humans to creative, strategic work.

The Poly186 vision

Poly is the revenue engine, but the ambition is larger. Poly186 is the umbrella mission to automate the production and distribution of basic needs and reinvest the surplus into planetary-scale regeneration efforts like Terraforming Sahara.

The ecosystem

• Poly – The practical operating system businesses buy today.
• SESAP – A coordination kernel built on Smart Social Contracts.
• Automating Basic Needs – Applied R&D for food, water, energy, and shelter.
• BLAH – Afrofuturist visual storytelling for the abundant cities we plan to inhabit.
• Terraforming Sahara – The moonshot: regenerate a continent, stabilize climate, and prove what's possible.

Building in public

This site is the canonical log of how everything unfolds—the wins, the prototypes that fail, the meta-commentary on using AI to build AI. If you're building something audacious, I hope this candid record gives you both tactical insight and moral permission to keep going.