# AE Studio recruiting pirates to recover treasure located by AI > Source: > Published: 2026-07-28 23:03:12+00:00 An expedition to recover what bureaucracy quietly buried. The model finds it. You bring it home. Remote (extremely)Founder-level equitySalt water required ❦ AE Studio is mining roughly eighty million pages of Spanish colonial bureaucracy, ship manifests, admiralty filings, and insurance records with large language models to triangulate the locations of undiscovered shipwrecks and lost cargo. The model produces coordinates. The model does not swim. That is where you come in. Corpus 80M unread pages Equity 100% retained on spin-out First targets Within the year Expected dry runs A few I.The thesis Treasure exists because people systematically distorted reality under incentive pressure. So do alignment failures in modern AI. Both are governed by the same mathematics: holonomy on incentive-deformed representations. We are testing the operator on archival data where it is unusually clean, and the payoff happens to be physical. What an individual human cannot read in a lifetime, the model can read in an afternoon. Cross-referencing five centuries of cargo lists against weather logs, court records, insurance disputes, and surviving letters yields a probability surface over the Atlantic and Caribbean floor. The peaks of that surface are what we are hiring you to dive on. II.Articles of service Required of the applicant Lifetime nautical experience. Open ocean, blue water, multi-day passages. Demonstrated ability to dive in conditions insurance companies decline to cover. Salvage, free-dive, or commercial dive certifications, or the lived equivalent. Comfortable with cold-start expeditions in unfamiliar jurisdictions. You handle permits, port officials, customs, and the occasional moray eel. Bias toward action. You read the coordinates, you go. Willing to be wrong publicly. Expect the first sites to be empty. The hit rate improves. Discretion. The find is the only thing that matters until it is secured. Physically capable. This is hard work in salt water. Counted as merit Prior salvage of anything older than 1800. Working Spanish, Portuguese, or Dutch. Most of the corpus is in these languages. Existing relationships with admiralty lawyers in Spain, Portugal, the UK, or any Caribbean state. Hands-on experience with side-scan sonar, magnetometers, or sub-bottom profilers. Sailing certifications above bareboat. Operational experience in Somalia, Hormuz, or Malacca. You already own a seaworthy vessel. You have read Peter Turchin or read Asimov's Foundation for fun. III.Articles of compensation Modeled on the privateer commissions of the 17th century. Updated for the requirements of a US-incorporated venture capital structure. § 01 Equity Founder-level stake in the venture. Granted at price zero for tax purposes. 100 percent retained on Skunkworks spin-out. § 02 Cash Advance for gear, vessel hire, and crew. Base salary $50,000 to $500,000, weighted heavily toward upside. § 03 Recovery share Profit share on recovered cargo, settled after admiralty proceedings and finder's costs. Structure modeled on Odyssey Marine and similar precedents. § 04 Title and insurance Jurisdiction-dependent and handled by counsel before any vessel leaves port. We carry the legal cost. You carry the rope. IV.From the model's log Four sample candidates the corpus has surfaced. Full coordinates released upon signed engagement. 1622 A vessel sailing under royal manifest, recorded as wrecked in a documented hurricane. Surviving insurance correspondence shows cargo weight inconsistent with the official record. Probable underreporting. 24°N 52'14" · 81°W 39'08" 1715 A scattered fleet on a known route. One of the wrecks recovered. Court testimony from a surviving boatswain references a sister vessel that the colonial record never accounts for. Off-manifest cargo. 27°N 21'02" · 80°W 17'55" 1739 A merchantman lost in a documented chase. Crown filings list a value the surviving log entries contradict by an order of magnitude. Provenance laundering. 15°N 04'31" · 75°W 58'12" 1798 An unnamed brigantine referenced in three separate East India Company letters, never logged at any port of arrival. Reading the letters together resolves the route. Unrecorded loss. 06°S 12'47" · 38°E 22'04" Sign the articles Send a one-page brief on the most interesting wreck you would chase if we handed you a vessel tomorrow. Tell us why that one. Include your nautical record, your dive log highlights, and any salvage you can talk about publicly. Be it known that AE Studio, having identified an extraordinary opportunity in the application of large language models to forgotten archival corpora, doth establish a Skunkworks venture for the recovery of cargo lost to the sea and to bureaucratic obscurity. The bearer of this commission is empowered to act on behalf of the venture in all reasonable matters pertaining to the location, recovery, and lawful disposition of said cargo, subject to the laws of all relevant admiralties. J. Rosenblatt Captain · AE Studio Latitude tracking active●Corpus indexed at 1.4M records per hour●Last candidate flagged 00:12:47 ago●Pending dive windows: 3●Vessel deposits clear●The model is reading right now●You should be applying right now●Latitude tracking active●Corpus indexed at 1.4M records per hour●Last candidate flagged 00:12:47 ago●Pending dive windows: 3●Vessel deposits clear