A rusted steel burn barrel on a farm field at night, flames and sparks rising out of it.

Where ideas
stop being ideas.

The story ↓

It started with
a steel drum
on my grandpa’s farm.

His burn pile.

A farm at blue hour with a barn and silo in the distance and a small fire burning in a steel drum in the field.
Handwritten notes on old ruled paper, burning away as you scroll.

He burned every idea in it.

Bad ideas became ash.

Good ideas became real.

Either way,
the fire was the end.

Every idea ends in the fire.

Everyone thinks their idea is the one.
We dig in and tell you the truth.

You bring an idea
We dig in
The verdict
Evolve itNot ready yet
A handwritten note burned down to ash, the last ember fading.

It's not worth building

Burn it into ash.

We'll tell you straight.
Let it go, and make room for the next one.

Close-up of the rusted drum with fire glowing through its air holes.

It's ready

Burn it into reality.

We believe in it.
It goes in the fire and comes out built.

Have an idea worth burning?

hey@burnpiles.com

Burnpiles is the studio of Chadwick Turner. 20 years across startups, MrBeast, Amazon, and Meta.

A rusted steel drum standing in snow at dusk.

The original burnpile.