David Timarchi.

David grew up around stone. His grandfather ran a fabrication shop in Long Island City in the 1960s — granite, marble, the occasional limestone hearth. His father took over when the neighborhood started turning over and a third generation of fabricators wasn’t in the cards.

By 2010, David was building software — first inside agencies, then on his own. He kept getting calls from the family network: design firms asking if his cousin’s shop could do this slab, fabricators asking if he knew anyone who carried that lot, distributors asking him to pass a lead along because the lead was “your kind of client.”

None of it was on a screen. None of it was searchable. None of it survived past the install. The institutional memory of who-sold-what-to-whom lived in his cousin’s text messages and a manila folder labeled Stone'25.

In 2024, he started writing it down. By 2025, the family network had stopped calling him for favors and started using the prototype. By 2026, the prototype had become Honed Earth.

“If you can hold the trail, you can hold the trade. We held the trail.”