Platforms & Agents as Applications
We are on a mission to automate the tasks that currently demand our time but not our intellect. We envisage a future in which we each have a team of “remote” workers to which we can delegate those tasks, and we’re building a new platform to bring that future to a reality.
Platforms are the foundations onto which other applications are built. The computer or the smart phone provided a user interface, memory systems, networking hardware, compute and a kernel to application developers, who were then free to focus on building great applications.
Today, Agents are the new applications, but developers seem to be building the same components over and over again: reasoning capabilities (models), complex memory systems, preference management frameworks, authorization & authentication suites, temporal awareness and completely new user interfaces.
We’ve integrated all of these components into our platform, PersonaOS, and given it the interface of a “remote” human employee - with each Persona having it’s own identity, email address and phone number. We are making all of this available so developers can focus on building great Agents.
Like the developers of the personal computer and the smart phone, we recognize that we need to provide a core set of applications to drive initial user adoption, like the initial “Home Screen” apps on the iPhone. For that reason, we’re also building a suite of applications logically belonging to an executive assistant, including scheduling, expenses and reminders.
Join us as we build the future onto which the next century is built.
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Our goal is to automate all tasks that require a human’s time but not their judgement.
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It’s said that no decision gets to a President’s desk unless the choice is “51-49” - 51% in favor of one option, 49% in favor of the other. All day, the President makes judgement calls on which option is the 51% and which is the 49%. From the Chief of Staff to the Secretaries, a team of people works to filter out all of the “60-40” and the “70-30” decisions, but unlike the President, most of us don’t have a team and instead spend our days doing tasks that are “99-1”.
We do tasks like filling out expense reports (deciding which expense category “Coffee” goes into), scheduling meetings with clients (deciding if 8 am is too early) or booking travel (checking if the aisle is available). We don’t have a team of people that understands our preferences and can make those judgement calls on our behalf - and so we make them ourselves.
Our mission is to enable everyone to make only the “51-49” decisions in their lives. Today, we are automating the “99-1” tasks - like expenses, scheduling and travel - and tomorrow we’ll unlock the “98-2”. Then we’ll tackle “97-3” tasks, and so on.