Everyone built one direction. This is the other one.
Your assistant can already read your mail with your permission. Nothing could let another person read you with your permission. That gap is the whole product.
- Every tool of the last two years answers the same question: what may an agent read on my behalf.
- Nobody built the mirror of it: what may another person learn about me, through a rule I set, while I am not in the room.
- That is what this is. A page is the first thing it does, not the point of it.
The thing that is missing
Sign in with Google. Connect your calendar. Give an assistant a key to your mail. All of it is permission pointing inward: you, letting software reach your things.
Now try the other direction. A recruiter wants to know how you work. A client's assistant wants to know whether you are worth an hour. Somebody's model is deciding, this afternoon, whether to mention your name in an answer. There is no way to say: this much, to that kind of person, without me in the loop.
So people do the only thing available. They write a profile, aimed at nobody in particular, pitched at the most generous reader, and then they answer the same four questions by hand, forever, in direct messages.
A page here is the opposite shape. One store of what you know, and as many different views onto it as there are kinds of people who might ask. The recruiter and the client's assistant get different answers from the same sentence, because you said so, and neither of them can get the part you kept.
Who is building this
Jean-Philippe LeBlanc, in Quebec, Canada. One person, for now.
Before this I wrote about eighty lessons for tinycto.com, the things I had learned running engineering, and put them behind a small server that other people's AI assistants could read. Then I watched them read it. Strangers' agents, pulling my thinking out of a file at two in the morning, and answering questions with it while I was asleep.
That worked because those eighty lessons were the part of my head I was happy for the entire internet to have. Everything else I know, which is most of it, had nowhere to go. Not because it is secret, but because it is the kind of thing you would tell a client and not a stranger, or a friend and not a client.
So the question became: what is the smallest thing that lets a person publish the other three quarters, without publishing it to everybody equally. The answer turned out to be the filter, and where in the order it runs. Everything else here is consequence.
What this is built on
Decisions that have cost us features, written here so they can be held against us.
- A rule in a prompt is not a rule
- What an audience is not allowed to know is taken away before the AI reads anything. It is not a rule in a prompt asking the model to keep a secret, because a model that has been handed something can be talked into saying it.
- The unit is a person and an audience
- Not a person and an app. A daily note to a channel, a stranger's question at midnight, a page a search engine reads: four views over one store of what you know, not four products.
- Nothing gets ranked
- No leaderboard, no score, no count of who asked about whom. Attention, ranked, is a fact about the people doing the looking, and they did not agree to be a statistic on somebody else's page.
- Money and health are outside the product
- Nothing about money or health is ever stored here or answered here, by anyone, at any level. Not a setting, not a default, not a topic you can turn on. The code refuses them at every door.
- It says what it is
- Every answer says it was written by an AI and is not the person, because it is, and because the EU AI Act asks for that in plain words.
Where it is now
Early, and honest about it. The product works end to end: people write things down, set who can ask, and get asked by strangers and by assistants. It is free, and for people it stays free.
What it cannot do yet is build your store of knowledge for you. Today you write it, or you connect your assistant and it interviews you. The open question, the one that decides whether this is a tool or a platform, is whether what a person knows can be distilled out of how they already work instead of typed in by hand. That is the thing worth getting right, and it is not finished.
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