Computable – Buy, sell, and redeem GPU for the exact weeks you want
Hey we are Computable. We spent years building trading infrastructure at Jump Trading and Coinbase. From that point of view, compute looks like energy markets before 2000: everything trades through private bilateral leases, there’s no visible price, and nothing can be resold. The same H100 rents at a 2x spread depending on who’s asking, and once you sign a 24-month lease, it can never change hands.So we built a market for GPU nodes, sold by the calendar week. Here are three things you can do on it that you can’t do anywhere else:- Buy exactly the weeks you need. Three nodes for the last two weeks of October means you pay for those two weeks and walk away when the run is done. You don't have to commit to 6-24 months, and there's no flexibility premium.- Sell back what you don’t use. If your plans change, unused weeks turn back into cash: we keep a market quote posted on every position, so there’s always a price to hit.- Buy (or sell) the future. Lock January in July at a price you set, so the cost of a future run is known before another 40% H100 rate jump makes it not.The first auction is live now at https://market.getcomputable.com: a block of nodes, August through the end of January. Bidding closes July 31. The bids are sealed. You bid how many nodes, which weeks, and your price. Every clearing price gets published after settlement, because nobody knows what a GPU week is worth and we want the prints to exist in public.Happy to go deep in the comments on anything, including the clearing mechanism, which is a packing problem and was fun to design!
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A weekly GPU futures market that lets AI companies buy exactly the compute they need without long-term commitments or resale restrictions.
The pain
The gap
Build angle
Strengths
- Founders have deep trading infrastructure experience from two of the best execution shops in crypto/finance
- Solves a real coordination problem: GPU scarcity creates artificial long-term lock-ins that don't reflect actual demand patterns
- Market design is non-trivial (packing problem for weekly allocation) which creates defensibility
- First-mover advantage in price discovery, once public clearing prices exist, they become the reference rate
- Live auction already running with real bids, not theoretical
- Addresses both spot and futures demand, creating network effects as more participants join
Risks
- GPU supply is controlled by cloud providers (AWS, Lambda, etc.) who may not want a transparent secondary market undercutting their margins
- Liquidity chicken-and-egg: needs enough sellers and buyers simultaneously for market maker to function; early auctions may have wide spreads
- Regulatory uncertainty around commodity futures markets for compute; CFTC may require registration
- Demand is cyclical and concentrated (AI training runs, not steady-state); off-peak weeks may have zero bids
- Clearing mechanism complexity could create settlement failures or disputes if not executed perfectly
- Competing against entrenched bilateral relationships where buyers and sellers already have trust and custom terms
Fly Labs Method
Is the pain real, is there a gap, is it the right time, can one person build it.
Value Equation
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One-Person Business
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