ArTi: Same streets. Fewer red lights.
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Anyone who drives in Los Angeles knows the feeling. You catch one green, then hit red after red, often with nobody crossing.
I'm Jon Covey. I've spent 39 years in construction, much of it building public infrastructure. For the last five years I've been developing ArTi, the AI Realtime Traffic Interface. ArTi coordinates the traffic signals along a whole corridor as one system. It uses AI to anticipate where traffic is headed and times the lights to keep it moving. It needs no new roads and no new signals, just smarter timing on what's already there.
Why LA? Its main streets are some of the most congested in the country, and the 2028 Olympics will put them in front of the world.
WHERE ARTI IS TODAY
I've built a working proof of concept, simulated on a real LA corridor, along with a white paper and a full pilot plan. Traffic signals belong to cities and the state, so ArTi can't run on a single real intersection without an agency partner. Getting one is what this campaign is for.
STEP ONE: $10,000 OVER THE NEXT SIX MONTHS
- Working demo that agencies can watch run on real signal hardware: $3,200
- Cloud hosting and software for six months: $900
- Application to the federal SBIR program (Small Business Innovation Research), which ArTi can apply to directly: $1,000
- Forming the ArTi company and first-year state fees: $1,200
- Travel to Los Angeles to meet transportation agencies, about four trips: $2,400
- Contingency: $900
- GoFundMe processing fees (about 3%): $400
STEP TWO
An agency partner and a test on one corridor, funded through SBIR and that partner. Anything raised beyond $10,000 goes straight here.
STEP THREE: THE MOON
The full California pilot: an 18-month program on LA corridors costing about $16 million, planned to be co-funded by agency partners and federal grants.
Your gift is a donation, not an investment, so there's no ownership or return. What you get is updates on the demo, the SBIR submission and every agency meeting along the way.
See how ArTi works, and where it stands today, at arti-drive.com.
If you've ever sat at a red light with nobody coming the other way, this one's for you.
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