Switchboard

What it does

Switchboard turns a business's real-world outage exposure into a hedged portfolio. You describe your business in plain language, for example "an AI support desk that depends on one LLM API", and AI does the rest:

1. Analyze: maps what an outage would cost you and which dependencies are single points of failure
2. Find markets: searches an XRPL EVM exchange for hedge contracts and backup services that match that exposure
3. Approve: you review the proposed portfolio and approve the trade
4. Outage drill: simulates a failover so you can see the backup kick in

The problem

Businesses now depend on a handful of cloud and AI providers. When one goes down, they lose money every minute. Insurance exists, but it pays you after you're already down. There's no easy way for a normal business to see its exposure and hedge it with real substitutes and failover capacity.

What makes it special

• Remediation as opposed to reimbursement. Insurance compensates you, while Switchboard builds a portfolio of contracts, substitute services, and failover capacity so you can keep running in the moment.
• Plain-language in, portfolio out. No risk modeling or derivatives knowledge needed.
• Human in the loop. AI proposes, you approve.
• Built on XRPL EVM with Mastercard AP4M agent payments for the failover flow.

Current status

The demo runs Analyze → Find markets → Approve end to end on testnet. The outage drill currently ends at a signed payment voucher; live AP4M settlement is the next integration, followed by AWS AgentCore and Ledger signing.

Built with

TypeScript, Next.js, Solidity, XRPL EVM testnet, Mastercard AP4M, QuickNode, Vercel