Joe Kumph

Joe Kumph

Building things at the intersection of AI, resilience, and infrastructure.
Based in New Zealand
Founder & CFO
An AI-native corporate catering platform delivering tens of thousands of personalized meals per day across the US — and growing fast. Forkable matches companies to restaurants, then suggests individual meals based on each person's dietary needs and preferences, handling the logistics, scheduling, and operational complexity automatically behind the scenes. Bootstrapped and profitable, with a core team of about 30 running the entire operation.
Bootstrapped on $315K total
~30 people running everything
Tens of thousands of meals/day
Founder & Director
An operating foundation working to make civilization more resilient to catastrophic risks. Recoverable funds research and develops practical intervention strategies — using AI tools to do work that would traditionally require large teams and years of funding. Current projects include a recovery scenario library for New Zealand and probabilistic modeling tools for catastrophic risk analysis.
Post-catastrophe recovery focus
AI-accelerated research
171 docs in the Recovery Library
Founder
Developing privacy-first AI inference infrastructure in New Zealand — positioned at the intersection of commercial demand for jurisdictionally independent AI computing and long-term resilience. New Zealand's political stability, strong privacy law, and geographic isolation make it uniquely suited as a neutral home for sensitive AI workloads, serving a growing global market of organizations and individuals seeking sovereign compute.
NZ-based sovereign compute
Dual-purpose commercial + resilience
Privacy by architecture not policy

These three efforts share a common thread. Forkable proved that an AI-native approach could build a profitable, capital-efficient platform for an operationally complex industry. Recoverable applies AI tools to accelerate research that matters for humanity's long-term future. ShutAI provides the physical infrastructure that makes private, sovereign AI capability accessible to anyone who needs it.

I built Forkable's initial platform as a solo technical founder, later partnering with co-founder Nick Naczinski to scale the business to profitability — all on $315K in total outside funding. When not building companies or foundations, I sail True Love, a 55-foot steel-hulled cutter, and plan offshore passages — useful reminders that complex systems require both careful preparation and the ability to adapt when conditions change.