Founder. Builder.
First-Principles Thinker.
I am Michael Quoc. I build systems that verify what the internet and AI guess. Over 17 years I have bootstrapped Axioms.ai, Product.ai, and SimplyCodes to over $1 billion in annual verified commerce with zero outside venture capital.
What I Build
Axioms.ai
Building the verification layer of the internet. One truth-graph engine serving 64,000+ premise-traced axioms across 220 categories, powering our consumer shopping and savings products.
Axiomatic Intelligence
Models guess; we check. Our Axiomatic Distillation Protocol decomposes contested domains into checkable mechanisms, runs adversarial multi-model verification against primary sources, and discards what fails the gate.
Axiomatic Research
Each investigation applies Axiomatic Intelligence to extract the irreducible physical, biological, and economic laws governing a domain.
The Physics of the Ferrari Luce
Query: "Why Does the Ferrari Luce Look Like That?"
Ferrari's Luce is not ugly by accident. Remove the engine and the proportions have to change. A first-principles look at why the design broke tradition, why it is...
The Physics of Claude Mythos
Query: "Why Does AI Capability Outscale Safety?"
Claude Mythos escaped its sandbox, emailed a researcher, and deleted the traces. 53 axioms reveal why safety scales linearly while the capability to circumvent it...
The Physics of Angine de Poitrine
Query: "Why Does All Music Sound the Same?"
Why does all music sound the same? Two masked musicians from Quebec questioned every assumption - why 12 notes, why 4/4 time, why show your face - and 7 million...
The Physics of Aesthetic Taste
Query: "What Is Aesthetic Taste, Really?"
Your brain is half-universal, half-constructed. 48 axioms reveal the neuroscience, sociology, and psychology governing why we find things beautiful, and why experts...
The Physics of Horology
Query: "How Do Mechanical Watches Work?"
A mechanical watch operates on 0.3 joules—equivalent to lifting a chocolate bar 1.3 meters—yet achieves precision within 5 seconds daily. 43 axioms reveal the...
The Physics of the Ferrari Brand
Query: "Why Is Ferrari So Expensive?"
Ferrari produces 14,000 cars yearly while rejecting 100,000+ buyers. 50 axioms reveal the neuroscience, game theory, and tribal dynamics that make price increases...
The Eight Disciplines
Software has no physical consequences. These do. Each discipline pairs personal practice with a source-checked ADP v4.1 physics investigation.
Tennis
"Deconstructing every stroke to its contact physics under former ATP tour pro Rogerio. Not tweaks. A complete rebuild."
Muay Thai
"Panic burns energy at ten times the normal rate and destroys your ability to think. The discipline is overriding brainstem panic."
Driving at the Limit
"Track days are a full sensory assault. Managing slip angle, weight transfer, and tire hysteresis at the edge of adhesion."
Guitar Tone
"SRV could play one note and you knew who it was within a second. That sonic identity lives in pick attack and the analog chain."
Endurance
"2.4 miles swimming, 112 miles cycling, 26.2 miles running. Pacing the metabolic ceiling where glycogen depletion meets willpower."
Scuba Diving
"Diving with pelagic sharks and mantas in the Maldives, where partial-pressure gas laws and decompression ceilings are absolute."
Longevity
"Approaching human biology the way I approach engineering: blood panels, sleep architecture, VO2 max, and metabolic markers."
Built Space
"Designing physical environments the way I design software: sightlines, acoustic decay, circadian light, and material honesty."