Σ28
sum28 · california

about sum28

sum28 is a california real-estate technology company operated by SUM 28 LLC. it builds trust instruments — products that make claims about real estate checkable: p2d (listing copy verified against photos), ohm (open houses measured for the seller), and oak (home equity accounted annually). it sells the instrument and the proof — never advertising, leads, or data about people.

what does sum28 make?

three instruments. each name is lowercase, three letters or fewer, and each subtitle ends in a past participle — because each hands you a completed fact you can give to a client, a seller, an heir:

what does the name mean?

Σ 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14 = 28.

28 is a perfect number: it equals the sum of its own divisors. Σ is the sum. a sum that checks out — the whole company is in the name.

the thesis

our read of the decade is short: cognition is going to zero; liability is not. anything that merely writes, summarizes, or predicts will be given away. what stays scarce is the sentence a professional will sign — checked against evidence, priced with a range instead of a guess, safe to hand across a table. so we don't sell generation. we sell the instrument, the check, and the seal — for the one industry where a single unverified sentence can cost six figures.

the constitution — five commitments

  1. we will never sell advertising inside an instrument.
  2. we will never sell a lead, a list, or a person.
  3. we will never take per-lead fees from lenders, escrow, or title.
  4. we will never state a point estimate where the honest answer is a range.
  5. we will never risk the trust that prices our name.

restraint is not a style here. it is an epistemology: we do not say more than the evidence allows.

how does sum28 verify its work?

every artifact we produce closes with one bronze mark — the seal. scan it, and the evidence opens: the sources we checked, the checks that passed, the error budget we publish. behind it sit three disciplines: voice, market statistics, and facts kept physically separate (prose may never exceed its evidence); an independent calibrated verifier measured against human adjudication at false alarms under 10% and recall 1.0; and a fair-housing review of every sentence, in english and in chinese, before anything ships.

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