Meeting Summary: Zero-Trust Truth Platform and Kingdom Strategy

Overview

Extended strategic session with Mike Ajouz and Santiago Montoya at Trianon Coffee and Texas Honey Ham covering Gary's 2026 vision, Mike's revolutionary "zero-trust truth platform" concept combining prediction markets with journalism and AI-generated narratives, and the formal proposal of Gary as the founding "Ajouz Fellow" to gather and empower young Christian builders. The conversation spanned personal life (wife-finding strategy), ministry tactics, kingdom economics, and sophisticated analysis of Christian strategic positioning versus secular/progressive forces.

Key Topics Discussed

Gary's Personal Life & Austin Commitment

Wife-Finding Strategy:

• Gary expressed conviction that 2026 is the year to find a wife
• Archetype identified: "devoutly faithful woman" who is "working, smart" but "still very feminine"
• Inspired by Prenda head of sales: mom of 4-5 kids, works remotely, clearly happy and active
• Third variable: culturally open-minded, "not racist against Asians"
• Age preference: mid-20s, younger than Gary (32)

Santi's Counter-Strategy:

• Suggested avoiding the "Austin Stone move" (biggest young people's church where everyone goes)
• Proposed "convince all the families that you need to find a wife" approach
• Recommended Tarrytown Church: small, young families, "super sweet people"
• Life goal: have marriages he helped create represented at his funeral

Church Commitment:

• Tarrytown Church: Sundays 10am
• Bible study: Thursdays 7:30am, Mondays 4pm (Mike's group)
• Santi shared Tarrytown origin story: COVID breakaway, Blake brought keys back to dead church, $10M property, dynamic leadership including Chief Justice of Texas Supreme Court

Gary's 2026 Vision Update

Applied AI Society:

• Travis Oliphant supporting Gary building applied AI community
• Engineers learning to help real industry businesses apply AI
• Fits Gary's community-building gift

Catholic Micro-School Work:

• Just visited St. Teresa Catholic School
• Forward-thinking principal (Brian Wheeler) and COO (Chris Treadaway, met in Rome)
• Vision: micro-school pod for gifted kids doing entrepreneurial work
• Gary's innovation: students as church leaders (marketing, CRM, school garden, parish operations)
• "The whole, like, school, faith-based school revolution that's, like, AI-forward... It's not going to happen without people like me"

Prenda Connection:

• Head of sales liked Gary, told CEO
• Call with Prenda CEO scheduled for 5:30pm same day
• Gary confident he could "blow it up" in Texas

Mike's Zero-Trust Truth Platform Vision

The Problem:

• Trust in media at historic low (28%, down from 40% five years ago)
• Fractured landscape of economically/politically motivated news sources
• Engagement/outrage-driven business models
• No central point of truth creates polarization driving hate and violence
• "If we do not get something in soon enough... we're in deep trouble"

The Solution Architecture:

Layer 1 - Content Creators (Journalists as Hedge Funds):

• Journalists stake capital and make predictions/claims in structured format
• Market cap rises/falls based on accuracy
• Better than Substack begging model
• Skin in the game creates accountability

Layer 2 - Investor/Trading Layer:

• Others can bet on journalists' positions
• Short or go long on claims
• Financial consequences for lies
• "On market vs. off market" distinction for journalists

Layer 3 - Editorial/AI Layer:

• AI narrates market signals into digestible stories
• Creates "glossy newspaper corner" UI
• Double-click to see underlying data and liquidity

Key Quotes on Truth Platform:

"The markets take the absolute self-interest of humans and turns it into a public good. I mean that's why I find that so beautiful."

"It's not really true. It's consensus. It's like a price that the price isn't actually true. It's just the best possible view of the market."

"Truth has zero value with no consequence. Unless there's a consequence, truth is irrelevant. It's creating consequence to truth that changes everything."

Differentiation from Polymarket:

• Not random hypotheses - editorial structure like newspaper
• Individual journalist vehicles that trade
• AI-generated narratives from atomic truth elements
• Accessible to average person, not just bettors

Mike's Analysis of Christian Strategic Failure

Historical Retreat:

"From the 1850s onward, they have basically ceded space. We created all the great institutions of higher learning. They were all Christian organizations to start. And we ceded all that. Didn't fight for it."

Modern Church Problems:

• Doesn't understand it's fighting an enemy
• Cottage/calcified thinking
• Compartmentalized secular tools out of consideration
• Rapture theology causing passivity: "Just save yourself. Leave this to the... This is fallen."

Enemy's Tactical Superiority:

• Lobbyists and influencers state by state
• Curricula designed by California non-profits
• Distribution through every public school
• Binary win metrics: elections, CEOs, policies, dollars

The Corrupted Church:

"The way cults entrain and indoctrinate. There's no doubt in my mind the early church was just a very positive cult for God... The devil takes what God does and flips the cross over. They're literally using the exact same methodologies that the early Christians used."

Ajouz Fellowship Proposal

Santi's Pitch:

• Gary as "original and first founding fellow"
• "Anointed at the honey hat today"
• "Ajouz Fellowship" (jokingly: "secretly funded dark money")

The Gary's Concept:

"Gary, you and the community of Gary's is a good idea."

• Young, dynamic, leveraged, tech-forward people
• Want to "go to war in a way that is very commercial"
• Gary gathers human potential; Mike provides ideas, capital, mental models
• Single-threaded leadership on specific initiatives

Santi's Framework:

"Part of the unit of one that might prove that the system might work is something really fun. Is to take ideas through the Mikey filter and have Mikey just threaten you. Because at the other end of that is something super interesting."

Mike's Strategic Framework for Gary

Platform Before Projects:

"When you build your platform, all of these ideas will have higher optionality. Because your platform improves the likelihood that every single thing you drop on it germinates."

Quality Story Requirement:

"If you just told me about micro-schools, I'd be like, okay, it's fine. There's nothing wrong with it. But I'm not sitting there saying that I have to tell all my friends about it... However, if you do do that thing, and we are able to collect that table, then you can do all of these micro-schools every single day."

Accountability Challenge:

"What is a tangible thing that we can commit to? In a period of time, you pick. Because in the end, this is my problem with NGOs, the church, etc. Everybody always talks about, isn't it great we're going to do this? And in the end, nothing fucking happens."

Temporal Strategy:

"All of your ambitions, it's not simply line them up at a point in time, but stretch them over a temporal space. What maximizes the whole area? And how do we start?"

Hackathon/XPRIZE Model

Proposed Mechanism:

• Non-profit sponsors hackathons around kingdom-important topics
• Develops relationships through execution toward problems
• Winners get incubation, funding, scaling support
• Creates virtuous cycle: hackathons → relationships → enterprises → back to fund kingdom

Why It Works:

"You develop relations differently when you're working towards a problem. When you're executing towards something, it's like a game. It's a sport."

Dan Sherman Introduction

Mike's New Contact:

• 78-year-old Christian businessman, written 4-5 books
• "Fully integrated Jesus life" - giddy for Jesus
• Focus: Christianity as real relationship, not ritual
• Problem: language/framing calcified for already-believers
• Wants to digitize/productize his approach
• Connected through TJ at The Ridge

Key Insight:

"He loved Jesus for so long. He forgot what it's like for those people who don't love Jesus."

Brief Israel Discussion

Gary's Update:

• Connected with new media squad (Ian Carroll, Tiffany)
• Mostly anti-Israel independent journalists
• Christian-adjacent or Christian
• Friend Isaiah returning from Lebanon - noting no Western Christian beat covering Christian population affected by Israeli actions

Mike's Principle:

"Truth has zero value with no consequence. Unless there's a consequence, truth is irrelevant."

Key Quotes

Mike on Christian Competition:

"Christianity is competing with paganism. That's it... The other side, absolutely, through lobbying, influence, media, regulation, is fundamentally not neutral... is blatantly against this."

Mike on Feedback Loops:

"Tell me a situation that is dysfunctional. And I'll tell you a situation where the feedback loop is wrong."

Mike on Scale:

"If there's a scale problem, you can't have a linear solution to a geometric problem. Your economics just won't work."

Mike on Independence:

"I still believe that. I really do believe that. But what I'm trying to say to you is this. When you build your platform, all of these ideas will have higher optionality."

Santi on Gary's Gift:

"There's not a lot of good systems and communities that gather human potential. They're shit. And that's your gift."

Mike on Unique Positioning:

"That's where I think God put you. Not to just do what someone else can do, but to do it your way. You have a way."

Gary's Three Threads Identified

1. Applied AI Society: Engineers converted to Christianity, practical AI discovery, hackathons
2. Seeker Society: Mike and Santi's strategic fellowship
3. Micro-school movement: Faith-based AI-forward education

Action Items / Takeaways

1. Gary to attend Tarrytown Church: Sundays 10am, Bible study Thursdays 7:30am, Mondays 4pm
2. Ajouz Fellowship formation: Gary as founding fellow
3. Develop "unique story": Something that makes people say "oh shit, I have to tell everyone"
4. Hackathon model exploration: XPRIZE-style events around kingdom priorities
5. Truth platform development: Gary potentially to help prototype using Polymarket data
6. Isaiah connection: Bring journalist friend into truth platform discussion
7. Brian Bigelow introduction: Santi's friend interested in micro-schools
8. Evan Bear connection: Potential space/network for community building

Observations

Mike's Mentorship Style:

• Intensely strategic, PE/VC thinking applied to kingdom
• Challenges Gary to think bigger, more systematically
• Emphasizes platform before projects, independence before dependence
• Draws on cult/propaganda/influence research for Christian application

Santi's Role:

• Connector and catalyst
• Practical operator perspective
• Challenges Mike's ideas with implementation questions
• Invested in Gary's personal success (wife-finding, church)

Gary's Positioning:

• Community builder gift recognized and validated
• Need to develop "unique story" beyond generic education pitch
• Three threads identified: Applied AI, Seeker Society, Micro-schools
• Encouraged to think temporally about maximizing impact over time