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We are building Aonic Club: the club contract Costco proved over four decades, rebuilt online and AI-native - an annual membership that gets Americans elevated everyday products at cost, starting with functional nutrition.\nWe make the products ourselves and run sourcing, content, forecasting and service with AI agents, which deletes the 30-40% of retail and marketing layers inside every consumer price. The savings go to members, not margins: under Kirkland wherever Costco competes, and on average 80% below the brands.\nOur ambition is big: 1 million members and a $10 billion company within a few years, built by a handful of humans with extreme leverage - AI agents running the operations, a community as the channel, and the AI dividend delivered to everyday America.\nYou can find our company introduction here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y6DHqUCN-TJIfpi8D4ElOyDw_7cwXip3/view?usp=drive_link\nLearn more about Aonic in our company presentation: https://aonic.docsend.com/view/hpd7m7sjxfpbswea\nThe Role\nAs our AI-Native Founder’s Associate, you will work directly with the CEO on the highest-impact problems across operations, growth, and finance.\nYour job is to take ambiguous, high-stakes problems and turn them into structured analyses, decisions, and execution - often by building AI-powered systems and workflows yourself.\nThis role is intentionally broad and demanding. 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