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ASI — Artificial Systems Intelligence

Get more out of community.

Topos creates systems intelligence — so people contribute more to, and get more from, the systems they belong to.

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signals out, value back — the center charges

Individuals

one person everything they point it at one node on their own machine the people around them colleagues, friends, family they run nothing · no layer

One person, one node, running on their own machine. It takes in everything they point it at, and it keeps the people around them up to date — the people they work with, and the people they keep meaning to call.

  • 1 node — theirs
  • 0 other people need Topos
  • Runs today
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Small Business

a team the apps they already use one node the business’s the owner what moved the team the weekly nobody installs anything

The apps the team already works in feed one node. It tells the owner what is actually happening across the business, and sends the team a weekly read they will actually open.

  • 1 node — the business’s
  • 0 employees install anything
  • Runs today
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Organization

A · DIRECT members B · MEDIATED members a coordinator a node a node a node the layer between them we build this with you members their own week leadership for funders the only shape with a layer between nodes

Members hold their own. Coordinators bring in what people tell them face to face. Everyone gets a read of their own week — and leadership gets the evidence the next grant application needs.

  • many nodes
  • + the layer that works between them
  • Built with you
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How to read the diagrams six components and two ways in — the same notation on all three patterns
A · DIRECT 1 · USERS the people the value is for they say it once 4 · CONNECTORS voice notes, a calendar, a Notion workspace 3 · THE TOPOS NODE one per person co-located, hosted, or local 5 · COMMUNITY INTELLIGENCE WE BUILD THIS with you, across nodes 6 · THE FEEDBACK LOOP the Topos app, a notification, or back inside their own tools B · MEDIATED 1 · many users 2 · a coordinator Notion, a sheet, a case system the app they already use — and the raw text stays there too answers come back to the people who wanted them — and to the coordinator

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  • 1Individual users — the people the value is for
  • 2Coordinators — organizers, managers, whoever routes today. In lane B they are also the way information gets in
  • 3The Topos node — one per person. Co-located, Topos-hosted, or local data with a shared GPU
  • 4Connector applications — what brings data in, from a voice note to a whole workspace
  • 5Community intelligence — the layer that works across nodes. Third-party, or the community’s own
  • 6The feedback loop — how an answer gets back, including into the app it came from
Lane A is the strong version; lane B is how most places start. Nobody has to install anything on forty machines to begin. The trade is in the drawing: through lane B the raw text also sits in that app, outside the node’s line and outside its rules.