Manifesto

AI compute demand is growing 5× per year, but finance operations still run on spreadsheets. Compute is the new balance sheet.

As AI reshapes every industry, compute has become the most valuable resource of our time, the fuel for intelligence, progress, and innovation.

Yet the financial rails that support compute are broken. Billing still runs on emails, spreadsheets and PDFs. Revenue leaks. Disputes drag out cash cycles. Operators and tenants lack real-time visibility into costs, usage, and ESG impact.

And when compute becomes foundational, the systems supporting it must evolve.

Today, quoting requires negotiation. Billing requires reconciliation. Visibility is fragmented.

Every operator and tenant holds their own version of truth and misalignment grows with scale.

This isn't just a technical gap; it is also a coordination failure.

The conditions are forming. But the rails are missing.

Innovation shouldn't wait for invoices to clear or disputes to resolve. Yet today, it does. And in a world where intelligence compounds, operational inefficiency becomes a silent tax on progress.

We are building something monumental on top of financial workflows built for a slower era. Data centers may be decades old, but AI rewrote their purpose.

Demand is no longer predictable, it is tidal, volatile, planetary.

If compute is the resource shaping the future, its financial systems must match its scale and rhythm.

gnomos is Internet Backyard's first foundational shift for the global compute economy.

To reach critical mass, a few conditions must align:

• Accuracy: Quotes, billing, and reconciliation must be 99% accurate and trusted.
• Workflow Depth: Financial operations must run end-to-end, enabling operators to scale tenants without expanding headcount.
• Integration: Seamlessly fits into existing ERP, CRM, and DCIM systems, not replace them.
• Network Effects: A shared language for usage and billing must emerge across operators and tenants.
• Financialization: Once usage and billing data become standardized and real-time, capital markets can price, finance, insure, and eventually trade compute like infrastructure.

When these align, a system becomes the default.

The future of AI isn't just more compute, it's compute that is legible, tradeable, trustable, and visible in real time.

The companies modernizing now will define the next era. Those who wait will rebuild later, at a far higher cost.

Compute is becoming the infrastructure of intelligence. And the world is waiting for the rails that let it move.