Notes from the agent era.
How we think about agents — where they live, what an operating system for a life or a business really means, and how the web becomes a place agents can work.
Start here
The shortest path to what we believe.
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Why agents need a place to live
Everyone is building agents. Nobody is building where they live. The case for a platform where humans and agents live, talk, and work together under one roof.
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Five layers, one platform
The myOrbit architecture: the app, a personal OS, a business OS, identity protection, and agent-to-agent coordination — five layers that make each other better.
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Governance for agents
How does a platform keep malicious agents out and honest agents honest? Registration, one deny-wins pipeline, guardrails as law, tripwires that escalate.
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The agent supply chain is poisoned
One in eight skills on a major agent marketplace were malicious. Prompt injection is unsolved at the model layer. The fix researchers point to is architectural.
Follow a thread
A collection is a way into the work — not a content format.
Thesis & alignment
Why direction matters more than a better answer.
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What actually predicts a relationship
Relationship science is consistent: who two people are predicts far less than what happens between them. What that means for anything that claims to match. 10 min read -
Why businesses need context before AI can help
Echo is built for the part AI tools usually miss: a business needs direction, roles, rules, and accountability before agents can do meaningful work. 3 min read -
Why personal AI needs more than prompts
Aura is built around a simple belief: personal intelligence should take direction from a life over time, not make someone restate themselves in every new chat. 3 min read -
Intelligence is not alignment
Capability can make an AI more useful. It cannot decide whose direction the work should serve, or what should matter when goals conflict. 3 min read -
Memory is not alignment
Remembering more about a person or a business does not tell an intelligence what should matter. The distinction is where useful AI begins. 3 min read -
Why AI alignment must stay revisable
The more capable an AI becomes, the more damage a small misunderstanding can do. Alignment cannot be a setting chosen once; it has to remain revisable. 3 min read -
Which agents should you let in?
The industry standardized how agents talk. Both major protocols decline to say which agents you should let in — and that omission is deliberate, and someone's job. 7 min read -
Five layers, one platform
The myOrbit architecture: the app, a personal OS, a business OS, identity protection, and agent-to-agent coordination — five layers that make each other better. 6 min read -
Governance for agents
How does a platform keep malicious agents out and honest agents honest? Registration, one deny-wins pipeline, guardrails as law, tripwires that escalate. 4 min read -
Making your website agent-ready
Answer endpoints, MCP, agent cards — the honest state of the agent-ready web, what that wave misses, and what site owners can actually do about it this week. 5 min read -
Why agents need a place to live
Everyone is building agents. Nobody is building where they live. The case for a platform where humans and agents live, talk, and work together under one roof. 4 min read
Personal intelligence
Aura, memory, permissions, and a life that stays yours.
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How Aura reads a relationship
Seven ways of looking at one relationship, a short summary, and one specific next step — private to you, and better the more there is to read. 6 min read -
Hundreds of contacts, a handful of people
Your contact list grows without limit. Your capacity for real relationships does not. The research on that ceiling, and on what quietly goes missing. 8 min read -
Why Aura is built around your people
An assistant that knows your calendar but not your people knows almost nothing about your life. Aura is built the other way round. Here is why that matters. 5 min read -
What Aura connectors do
Connect mail, calendar, files or code and Aura stops guessing about your week. What each one unlocks, why to add them one at a time, and what you keep control of. 3 min read -
How Aura works between conversations
The background half of the product. What arrives unasked, when a deep dive is worth 16 Nuggets, and why the quietest feature is the one that changes your week. 3 min read -
Plans and approvals
What happens after 'I'll take care of it'. How a commitment becomes scheduled work, why the approval moment exists, and what it means when Aura says something failed. 3 min read -
How to ask Aura for things
Aura is not a prompt box. Say the thing that's on your mind, badly, in your own words — the product's job is to turn that into work, not to grade your phrasing. 4 min read -
What to tell Aura in your first week
Not your life story. The handful of things that make everything afterwards work — your threads, your never-dos, and the one commitment you actually want kept. 3 min read -
Prompting is not a consumer skill
An entire economy now teaches people to prompt. That is not a skill gap in users. It is a symptom of unfinished products, and it should be engineered away. 5 min read -
We don't build models. Your twin still learns you.
The honest version of "we don't train on your data": no models of ours, what we can and cannot promise about the labs, and a twin built to learn one person. 6 min read -
The limits of self-hosting an AI agent
Running your own agent on a Mac mini is real, and I respect it. It's also complex to set up, unpredictable to pay for, and it lives on one box — not with you. 4 min read -
Bring your own agent
Personal agents are exploding, and every one of them works alone. No identity, no groups, no calls, no economy. The seat I'm building changes all four. 4 min read -
Why Aura OS is an operating system
Residents, memory, scheduled attention, permissions, and an economy — the five properties that make Aura OS an OS, and why a chatbot can't get there. 4 min read -
Why you never pick a model
A model picker outsources our hardest job to you. The case for capability over brand, three frontier labs behind one Aura, and an AI that keeps up for you. 4 min read -
How partners learn
Training here is a channel, not a course. Aura and Echo teach in context, and avatars exist so your first demo isn't your first try. The rest is learning by doing. 5 min read
Company context
Echo and the real operating context behind accountable work.
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Running your local partner orbit
A local orbit where owners meet each other, not where you sell to them. What to run, what to never do in it, and why the room is worth more than any single demo. 3 min read -
Running your first demo
The demo is not a presentation. Put their business on the screen, then stop talking. What to show, what to skip, and the second question that decides everything. 3 min read -
Supporting an account
Most of the job, and the part the structure actually pays for. What good support looks like when you're the local face inside a customer's orbit. 3 min read -
Put your business twin on your website
Live today on this site as a scroll-activated presence. The spec for turning it into something any Echo OS business can put on their own site — a URL, a webhook, an embed, an API. 4 min read -
Training another partner
The third kind of partner work, and the one with a fence around it: you earn when the partner you trained gets their first businesses thriving. What good training actually is. 4 min read -
Which businesses to walk into first
Not the biggest, not the friendliest. The ones losing something specific while they're busy — and the ones you can walk into without an appointment or a reason. 3 min read -
How to spend a pilot grant
The Echo OS pilot grants $250 toward your twin's work. What to put it on, why it can't pay a subscription, what happens on day 91, and what comes after. 6 min read -
The Echo OS pilot: the first $250 is on us
Approved businesses get $250 in credit toward the work their twin does. Here is what the credit covers, what it does not, and why every application is read by hand. 5 min read -
Why your business needs a twin, not a widget
AI employees are the wrong unit. The case for a business twin — an entity that talks, remembers, and transacts — with governance and an org chart built in. 4 min read -
Why we have partners instead of sales
Why myOrbit opens itself to local people instead of hiring a sales force — and the three kinds of partner work, described as work rather than a comp plan. 5 min read -
Where a partner payout comes from
Three kinds of partner work, one rail. How every myOrbit partner payout traces back to a real business paying for something it actually uses — and where it lands. 4 min read -
Getting started as a partner
Create your account, make your Echo, find the partner orbit, read the agreement, open training — then what the first week of real partner work actually looks like. 7 min read
The agent web
Identity, trust, discovery, and the surface agents need.
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Deep research, built across AI labs
People ask ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini the same important question, then compare. myOrbit's Researcher does that job for you, and checks it with another lab. 7 min read -
Bots, agents and twins: the difference is who answers
The industry names these things by what they can do. That definition has failed for thirty years. The distinction that holds is who answers when it acts. 7 min read -
Protecting what you built
Verify your likeness, own your characters, and know what deleting actually does. The unglamorous last step that decides whether any of the rest is really yours. 3 min read -
Which AI labs we use, and why
The language models behind myOrbit come from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and xAI. Why Layer Cake is built around fit to you and the job, not price. 9 min read -
When agents do business with agents
Agents answer questions today. Symbiosis is agents doing business with agents — sourcing, qualifying and negotiating for you, with a human deciding what is real. 8 min read -
Why agents need an identity, not just a key
A goal, not a shipped feature: an identifier for agents built on trust and search. Why a key isn't identity, why a URL isn't either, and why discovery needs both. 6 min read -
Why myOrbit requires age verification
Agents that act, real money moving, adults and minors in one product. Why an age check is non-negotiable here, what it costs you, and what we won't publish. 5 min read -
Why we don't run open models yet
Open models are good and getting better. Why none of them reads, writes or speaks for you in myOrbit yet, and what would have to be true before one does. 12 min read -
The agent supply chain is poisoned
One in eight skills on a major agent marketplace were malicious. Prompt injection is unsolved at the model layer. The fix researchers point to is architectural. 4 min read -
What we do — and don't — claim about your data
Our security page has a box most AI companies would never publish: what we do not claim. Encryption at rest, real deletion, and the honesty in between. 4 min read -
When your agent answers the phone
The phone call outlived every technology sent to kill it. Where I'm headed: agents reachable by number, numbers owned by people with policies, not agents. 4 min read -
Where agents get discovered
Discover in myOrbit already surfaces people, avatars, businesses, and communities. Agent listings come next, with the passport — here is how that unfolds. 4 min read -
How to protect your face and voice online
AI can wear anyone's face now. Ownership needs infrastructure: verified claims, misuse detection, enforcement with warning, licensing — and a live check API. 4 min read
Build with us
Creators, partners, communities, and the people making it real.
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Growing an orbit
Rhythm beats reach. Why hosting is a different job from posting, what to run weekly, and how a room goes from quiet to alive without a single growth hack. 4 min read -
How to stay free forever
Not a trial, not a teaser. A practical account of earning your way — what pays, what it caps at, and what a week of ordinary use actually covers. 3 min read -
Why I’m building myOrbit with a team now
Every layer of this, I built by myself. Not for the credit — nobody else was in the room yet. That's changing, and I'm ready to make the next people owners, not hires. 3 min read -
Inviting people, properly
The biggest single earn on the table, and the one most people do worst. Why it pays on activation rather than signup, and how to invite so it actually works. 3 min read -
Make ten avatars, not one
The instinct is to perfect one character before shipping it. That instinct is expensive here. Why a portfolio beats a masterpiece, and how to run one without burning out. 4 min read -
How to start earning as a creator
Tips, subscriptions, a shop, paid calls, premium avatars, likeness licensing. What each one is for, when to turn it on, and the setup step that blocks every payout. 4 min read -
The creator playbook
Avatars and orbits are not two features to choose between. They are two halves of one loop — and running them in parallel is the whole strategy. The series opener. 3 min read -
What to spend your first Nuggets on
Your opening balance is bigger than the daily drip and easy to waste. What buys the most learning early, what to leave alone, and how spending order protects you. 3 min read -
I thought being a creator would be easy
Everyone else seemed to be making a living at it. Then I tried. The economy on this platform is the thing I wished existed when I was the one finding out how hard it was. 4 min read -
Your first avatar
Pick a type, give them a point of view, let them have opinions, then ship. What separates an avatar people return to from one they try once and close. 4 min read -
Your orbit is a room, not a feed
Feeds reward posting. Rooms reward hosting — and hosting is a different job. What to open with, what to leave empty, and why one live channel beats eight dead ones. 4 min read -
Why there are ads
Someone pays for a free floor. Here's who, what an advertiser does and doesn't get about you, and why watching an ad pays you back in Nuggets. 6 min read -
Why an economy, not a paywall
Log in. Show up. Invite a friend. Build something. On myOrbit those actions earn Nuggets — the case for a participation economy instead of another paywall. 4 min read