In 1994, a man in a garage in Bellevue, Washington picked "Amazon" off a list because it started with A and sounded big. He's from Albuquerque. Built his empire in Seattle. Never lived south of the equator.
Thirty years later, Amazon Web Services charges you $24/month to babysit an idle container, runs its servers on stolen Duwamish land, and has never put a single free compute cycle in the hands of the communities it named itself after.
We named ours after the Chaco. We live here.
I'm from Vancouver. I spent years watching the PNW tech scene congratulate itself while naming companies after places they'd never go and peoples they'd never meet. Land acknowledgments on websites hosted on servers sitting on stolen land. "Defund the police" on a yard sign, cops on speed dial, Amazon stock in the 401k.
I left. Moved to Paraguay four years ago. Not because it's some paradise — it's not. Governments are broken everywhere. The difference is Paraguay doesn't pretend otherwise. And the foreign income tax rate is zero.
Not low. Zero.
So I stopped funding all of it. I don't pay income tax to Canada. I don't pay income tax to Paraguay. I'm incorporated in the UAE because they don't do democracy theater either. No elected officials campaigning on hope and governing on surveillance. Just a clear transaction.
I took the money that every other tech founder sends to police departments and defense contractors and built a $2/month cloud platform. Half of every signup gives a free AI agent to a developer in Latin America who can't afford one.
I didn't defund the police. I defunded everything.
Tech companies love naming themselves after indigenous words. Amazon. Alexa. Siri. They pick them off a list in a branding meeting. They sound exotic in a boardroom in Seattle.
Chaco is Guaraní.
Guaraní is an official language of Paraguay. Seven million people speak it. I hear it at the grocery store. In Paraguay, you have the constitutional right to have your trial conducted in Guaraní. Try getting a trial in Navajo in Arizona. In Cree in Saskatchewan. It will never happen. In 2022, SCOTUS ruled in Denezpi v. United States that a Navajo man could be prosecuted in tribal court and then again in federal court for the same crime — double jeopardy doesn't apply because "dual sovereignty." They can try you twice but they can't try you in your own language once.
We didn't take an indigenous word and put it on a trillion-dollar extraction machine. We live where the word comes from. Our neighbors speak the language. The Chaco is outside the window.
They took the name. We live in it.
| Their AWS | Our CWS | |
|---|---|---|
| Named after | Amazon River | Gran Chaco |
| Founder from | Albuquerque | Vancouver → Paraguay |
| HQ | Seattle, WA | Paraguay 🇵🇾 / UAE 🇦🇪 |
| Smallest plan | $24/month | $2/month |
| Idle container | Billed 24/7 | Swapped to disk, costs nothing |
| Free tier | 12 months then gotcha billing | 50% of all signups, forever |
| Income tax paid | Billions (routed through Luxembourg, so also zero) | $0 (honestly) |
| Cops funded | Ring doorbell surveillance network | Zero |
| Indigenous language | Name stolen, nothing given back | Neighbors speak it |
| Land acknowledgment | On the website | We live on ours |
Every $2 account hosts a free OpenClaw agent for a developer in Latin America. Honestly, most of them could afford $2. But why not do something nice? Not a charity. Not a tax write-off. The marginal cost of an additional user is about forty cents a month. We can afford to give half away because we built the infrastructure right.
After checkout, you pick a country. Any country. Brazil. Paraguay. Argentina. Colombia. Kenya. Philippines. Ohio. There's someone everywhere who could use this — maybe they're coding on a phone over spotty data, maybe they just got out of jail and a laptop is a parole condition away, maybe they're good enough but $2 is the difference between eating and not. Your free agent ships to them. They get the same thing you get. Same channels. Same AI. Same everything.
TOMS gave shoes and undercut local cobblers. There are no local OpenClaw hosting providers in Asunción to undercut. We're not the charity — we're the incumbent. And the price isn't subsidized by some Sand Hill Road term sheet. No Gavin Belson burning through Series D to buy market share. The margin is real. Pure engineering, middle out. Swap idle memory to NVMe, let the kernel do what it was built to do, charge what it actually costs. $2.
Amazon's $24/month funds the machine — AWS contracts with ICE, CBP, and the agencies that deport the same developers we're trying to reach. Switch to us and put $22 back in your pocket. The other $2 runs your agent and gives one free to a developer they'd rather put on a plane.
$2/month is nothing in San Francisco. It's not nothing in Asunción. But a few cents is nothing everywhere. So we cover it.
Guaraní has a word. It basically means what you think it means.
It's for the PNW tech scene and their yard signs. It's for Amazon and their river they've never seen. It's for every company that puts a land acknowledgment on a website hosted on stolen land. It's for every government everywhere. It's for democracy theater and surveillance capitalism and thirty-dollar-a-month containers that sit idle.
It's for all of them.
$2/month. Half given free. The other AWS.
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