KyrosWorks
AI-native software for the kind of problems people reliably forget to solve, sustain, or get right by hand.
Products
Software that does the thing, end to end
Each product solves a problem its users had been hand-piecing together for years. The math has been figured out. The interfaces are calm. The work that should have been infrastructure is now infrastructure.
Shipping · iOS
Open Road Ace
Pacing app for open-road time-trial racing. Replaces a human navigator with a virtual rabbit and millisecond-accurate finish-gate detection.
openroadace.pages.dev →Beta · Desktop
Procurement Helper
Desktop tool that automates the construction-procurement workflow that estimators spend their evenings doing by hand.
Internal · Infrastructure
Open Brain
Persistent memory layer for AI agents — captures decisions, preferences, and context across sessions so coding agents and assistants stay aware of what matters.
People
One builder, building deliberately
KyrosWorks is a one-person operation focused on shipping software that holds up under the conditions where it's actually used.
Will Hays
Founder · Builder · Open-Road Racer
Will writes the code, ships the products, and races the cars they're built for. Open Road Ace exists because he got tired of pacing a stopwatch and a paper chart at 100 mph; Procurement Helper exists because the construction estimators in his network spent their evenings doing arithmetic the computer should have been doing.
Each product begins with a problem Will personally has, validates with a small set of users who have it too, and ships when it works under the conditions where it actually fails. That's the whole methodology.
Houston, TX.
AI
AI-native development, end to end
KyrosWorks builds with AI as a primary collaborator — from architecture decisions and code review through testing, marketing, and customer support. The AI is the second engineer, not a feature you turn on.
The pattern
AI in our stack does specific work: writing code from a clear specification, parsing data we'd otherwise process by hand, drafting marketing copy from verified facts, reviewing pull requests against project conventions, maintaining a memory layer that survives between sessions, and orchestrating multi-agent workflows when problems span more capability than one model can fit. None of this is a chatbot.
Inside the products
Where AI shows up in shipped products, it shows up quietly and where it changes the outcome — not as a marketing feature. Open Road Ace doesn't have an LLM in it; it has a deterministic timing engine that AI helped build, validate, and calibrate against ten years of historical race data. Procurement Helper uses LLMs where the workflow is unstructured text and rule-based code where it's deterministic. The line is drawn at where AI actually performs better than the alternatives.
What this means in practice
Smaller team, faster cycles, deeper testing than a single human could produce alone. The products ship more thoroughly tested than most companies ten times the size. The marketing copy is rigorously verified against primary data. The code review is two-pass. The memory persists. None of this is achievable without AI as part of the workflow — and none of it is hidden behind it either.
Talk to KyrosWorks
For partnerships, product questions, or interesting problems: will.hays@gmail.com