Hi, I'm Cole.

I'm the founder and CEO of Layout, the agentic ordering layer for restaurants.

Layout

The agentic ordering layer for restaurants. One account, one card, any restaurant, any AI. No new app. Just order through whatever AI you're already using. Coming Fall 2026.

layout.link

Layout Mobile

Branded mobile ordering apps for local restaurants built on Square. Shop owners get their own iOS app, two-tap checkout, loyalty, and push notifications without touching their existing setup.

layoutmobile.com

Link by Layout

Free QR codes and short links, no watermarks. Built internally for Layout, made public because everything else charges you for something this simple.

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My story

I was born and raised in Roseville, California. I've been building things and trying to sell them since I was six years old, when I made rainbow loom bracelets at my brother's baseball games and cleared $300 in a weekend. The thing that hasn't changed across everything since is the same loop: run into a problem, ask five other people if they have it, and if they do, go build the fix.

In high school I co-founded a Minecraft server hosting platform, taught myself iOS development, worked production jobs flying around the country setting up concerts, and did it all while doing school online so I could actually do things. Layout came out of a conversation with a coffee shop owner in Roseville who couldn't tell me why he didn't have a mobile app. I built him one. Then I realized I'd built a template for every shop with that same problem.