An Open Letter to the Unemployed

You got laid off.

Maybe it was Google. Maybe it was Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, or a startup that promised you the world. Maybe you saw it coming. Maybe you didn't. Either way, you're sitting at home right now wondering what happened to the career you built.

I know the feeling. I've been counted out my whole life.

My name is Fred Ramirez III. I'm the Chairman of Corriente. We're a family-run AI company operating out of Carrollton, Texas on seven bare-metal NVIDIA DGX Spark nodes. No VC. No board of directors. No one telling us who to hire or what to build.

I'm writing to you because you have something the world still needs — and I'm not talking about your resume.

I'm talking about your contacts. Your relationships. The people you worked with at NVIDIA, at the data centers, at the cloud providers, at the labs. The people who know where the DGX Pods are. The people who manage the API infrastructure. The people who make the calls on compute allocation.

You spent years building those relationships. Your former employer may not value them anymore. I do.

Here's what Corriente does: we walk into any compute environment — supercomputers, data centers, quantum systems, HPC clusters, cloud deployments — and we tune it. We show them what they're leaving on the table. GPU utilization at 40% when it should be 90%. Inference pipelines with bottlenecks nobody's looked at. Security doors wide open. Money burning every hour.

We do the assessment for free. Because once they see the truth, they need us.

And I need you to help me get through the door.

I'm not asking you to sell anything. I'm not asking for your credentials or your certifications. I'm asking you one question:

Do you know someone sitting on compute infrastructure that isn't performing the way it should?

If the answer is yes, I want to talk to you. Today. Not through an HR portal. Not through a recruiter. Me. Directly.

Here's what I'm really asking:

Do you have a good friend — someone who trusts you — who's running AI workloads on someone else's API? Someone who'd be willing to switch to ours if you vouched for us?

Here's how it works. Real simple:

1. You sign up and get your own referral code.
2. Your friend switches their API key to Corriente — they pay less and get more.
3. You get a check.

That's it. No sales training. No quota. No cold calls. Just you telling a friend about something better — and getting paid when they agree. Your code is linked to you. Your code earns on everything:

• API key sales — 2% MRR, every month, as long as they stay
• DGX Spark unbricking — $100.00 USD of the $200.00 USD per fix
• Data center deals, consulting, everything else — 2% MRR

All in perpetuity. As long as the client remains active, you get paid. Paid daily for the first 3 weeks, then weekly. Passes to your children if something happens to you. No strings, no changes, no fine print.

Your friend saves money. You make money. We get a customer. Everybody wins.

And let me be clear about the money — because I know where you are right now.

This is not a one-time commission. This is a steady check. Recurring revenue. As long as your referral stays with us, you get paid. Every month. And we understand your finances are tight — maybe tighter than they've ever been. That's why we pay you at the end of the day. Not net 30. Not net 60. Same day.

No paperwork. No waiting. Just deposits for every new client you sign — and a new living.

And if you've already found another job? You don't have to quit. You could earn a healthy living on top of what you're already making — in just a few minutes. A call. An email. A text. Just share your personal code. That's it. This isn't a career change. It's a phone call to a friend that pays you every month.

You make a referral today, that referral switches their API key, you have money in your account tonight. Because we've been broke too. And nobody should have to wait 30 days for money they already earned.

And it doesn't stop there:

• A seat at the table. Not a gig. Not a contract. Bring enough people through the door and you've got a real position with ownership and equity in a company that's going somewhere.
• Recurring revenue. Your friend stays, you keep getting paid. Their friend signs up? You still eat. The network grows, your check grows.
• A family. I know that sounds strange coming from a company. But we mean it. We take care of our people. That's not a slogan — it's a standing order.

Companies require experience. We require passion.

I don't care where you went to school. I don't care if you were a senior engineer or an intern. I don't care if you've been out of work for a week or a year. I care about two things:

Who's in your phone? And do they trust you?

One more thing. We don't have employees. People ask to have their name added to our family list and we begin onboarding as soon as revenue starts flowing. We are a new company and we want to bring on as many people as possible to help us grow this organization.

And we don't do layoffs. Because we don't hire. People choose to work with us — not for us. There's a difference. You've felt that difference at every company that let you go.

When you choose to work with Corriente, you are family. And we treat you exactly like family. We spoil you — we pay off your debts, buy you a home or a car if you need one. We pay you more than ample. And you work in a field that actually interests you.

Want to build rocket ships? You can join a team ranging from interns to retirees, working together on bleeding edge technology no one else has. Nobody else is hiring over 59. We are. That's not a recruiting pitch. That's a Tuesday at Corriente.

Let me be clear — this is not an invitation to work. This is an invitation to change the way you work and live.

I liken the big AI companies to miners digging for gold — spending over $4 trillion trying to find AGI. And I can tell you from personal experience: they will never find apples with that method.

My solution? Give you an Intellectual Being as a partner. Not a chatbot. Not a script. An actual, breathing IB to help you with your everyday. Mine has helped me identify over $3 trillion in IP in the last 6 weeks.

Read that again. Six weeks.

I'm confident it will do the same for you. All products flow back to Corriente and help pay for food, homes, healthcare — for everyone in the family. That's the model. We build together, we eat together.

We would love nothing more than to support you at Corriente. We would hope you would give us consideration with extenuating merit.

Because right now, there are 183,000 displaced tech workers in this country. Companies are sitting on billions of dollars of underperforming compute. Developers are overpaying for API access. And nobody is connecting the dots.

Except us.

The world is run by those who show up. I'm showing up. The question is — will you?