A building designed for focus and wellness, with a personal AI woven into every room. Two parts, one system, so your hardest problem gets your best hours.
Ask a founder where the day went and most can't tell you. Two things leak out of every founder's day, and almost nothing about the way we work was designed to stop either one.
Where your energy goes
Where your time goes
A room designed for the work, and a team that handles everything else. The pit lane and the pit crew. The operating theatre and the surgical team. Company building is the only one where we hand people a desk and wish them luck.
Apply for MembershipFerris is a double helix. A building designed for focus and wellness, and a personal AI woven into the building itself. Neither works alone. Where the two meet, in every kind of room they compound.
Building a great company asks more of your mind and body than any job you've had. So we designed Ferris as a eudaimonia machine, from the Greek for flourishing, with a room already built for every need you hit during the day. Select one to see where it lives.
Every member is paired with their own Ferris, same name as the building, because they're one system. A team of three to six, working with Ferris, operates like a team of thirty to ninety.
Ferris speaks and listens through voice, wearables, and screens built into the building, so it's in the room before you need it.
| Room | What Ferris does there |
|---|---|
| Gallery | The mirror at the entrance greets you with your day, prepared overnight. |
| Salon | Your usual order reaches the kitchen mid-conversation. The long table stays a table, not a meeting. |
| Library | It keeps the record for you: every decision, draft, and exchange, ready when you need it. |
| Office | Follow-ups, research, and scheduling, handled. The few emails that actually need you, flagged. |
| Deep work | It holds your messages until you surface. |
| Body | Your workout, built from your goals, waiting in the gym. |
Most of us started in a spare bedroom, a hot desk, or the corner of an open plan with a queue for the phone booth, and wrote our own follow-ups at midnight. The work still got done. It just cost more than it should have, in energy, in hours, and in the ideas that never got a quiet afternoon.
Ferris exists because that cost is fixable. It had never been fixed, because no one had built the building and the AI as one thing.
David Dewane created the Eudaimonia Machine, the workplace model built around sustained concentration. It was taught and cited for a decade before anyone built one. Ferris is the first, designed with a team at the top of architecture, hospitality, and operations.
Plenty of offices have Wi-Fi and an app. Ferris was designed around a personal AI for every member, from the mirror at the entrance to the focus rooms upstairs. Nothing like it has been built before.
1 W Monroe was a Chicago WeWork. We rebuilt every floor around one question: does this help founders build great companies? The last tenant rented desks, we admit founders.
“I got six weeks of work done in six days. Same company, same laptop, different building.”David S. · Ferris member
“On any given day, I'm working through a problem with someone who knows Bitcoin, agentic tooling, growth, security, or content better than I do. Those conversations are hard in the best way. That's the room I was missing.”
“Every other space rented me a desk. Ferris put me in a room with founders working through the same problems I am, and I've learned more here than anywhere I've worked. The building isn't even finished yet.”
Ferris is a members' club. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and membership is intentionally limited to about 125 founders and founding team members.
Ten minutes. What you're building, who's on your team, and what you'd bring to the floor.
Come to a Preview Day. See the floors, meet the team, and get a feel for who else works here.
A real conversation about your stage and your goals. We decide together whether this is the right room for your next year.
Your office, your access, and your Ferris are configured before your first morning. You begin with the work, not with setup.
Your place at Ferris, at our under-construction rate. Pricing will rise as new amenities open.
Greek, flourishing. Not a good day, but the trend of a life.
You built somewhere that was on your side.
You had more uninterrupted afternoons this quarter than in all of last year. You trained before your first meeting instead of after your last. The follow-ups went out the day you promised them, and you didn't write most of them.
The hardest problem in your company got the best hours in your week, every week, and it shows in what you shipped.
The gray middle. Nothing went wrong, and nothing moved.
Or you spent another year being busy.
The hard thing kept sliding to next week. The afternoon you blocked for product went to scheduling and the inbox. The gym kept losing to the calendar. You met the same forty people you already knew.
Not because you didn't work hard enough. Because nothing around you was designed to help.
You can't control the market, the round, or the hire that falls through at the last minute. You can control how much energy you bring to the work only you can do, and how many hours it actually gets. Almost every founder leaves both to chance.
Ferris is the alternative, a building that gives you energy, an AI that gives you time, and a club of founders who make both worth more. Whether it's your first company or your fifth, you get an environment that returns more than it takes.
Extraordinary companies are not built on extraordinary effort alone. They're built by founders who stopped fighting the room.
Ferris is a founders' club, by application. We're looking for founders building with AI who will make the building better for everyone in it.
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