The website [1] is very strange. What does U.S. stand for? If I were to stumble on this I'd assume it was a fishing / scam website trying to impersonate the government. Bad vibes all around.
[1] - https://us.ai/
[1] - https://us.ai/
Their website doesn't even mention 73signals: https://claudemind.com/
Surely Anthropic must have an issue with this use of their trademark? And 73signals seems so similar to 37signals as to be intentional.
I've been working at this startup for almost two years now and that page and branding etc has been changing a lot as you can imagine ...
United States AI?
Like the premise of the company name is bad. Real bad.
B) I'm also a little confused. Surely that domain cost(s) $$$ -- why not go with a cute "us" branding rather than "U.S."? Unless you're looking to sell in other countries where maybe U.S. expertise is a selling point, this definitely comes across like you're pretending to be part of the government.
EDIT: For comparison, we.ai costs $500,000/y (!!!)
EDIT2: It looks like you're positioning yourself as a defense/govt contractor, thus the branding? That's certainly cool, but IMHO, if I were you and owned that domain, I'd offer it to Palantir for $$$$$ and just go with your second choice. They're currently starting in on a whole genocide/global war thing, so they have cash to burn!
The name was always a corporate placeholder and I liked the idea of US Steel or General Electric type names. Some startups have done similar things, and many people actually like the name a ton. But I know it's controversial and so any products I made have their own names and branding that's pretty separate (see: Abbey).
Over the past few months I've gone the gov contracting route and the name actually made some sense, so I've used it raw. Still, the plan is to get a DBA in the near future and switch it up. Thanks for the advice!