Hi, I'm Cole.

I'm the founder and CEO of Layout, the transactional infrastructure for AI food ordering.

Layout

Layout is the transactional infrastructure for AI food ordering. When you ask ChatGPT or Claude to order you food, right now it can't transact. We're the platform-agnostic layer that lets any software place food orders for you end-to-end.

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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.

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Morell

Backing ambitious young founders with one-hour decisions. The first check for 18 to 22 year olds building in the US, when no one else will write it.

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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 started as a mobile ordering app for local restaurants, grew into a real platform, and has since pivoted into something bigger: the transactional infrastructure for AI food ordering.