Executive Statement

Executive Statement

It’s time to make a big company. The next big AI company — one of the largest to come out of Austin, TX. The path: create new value, prove it, capture its market share.

We do not compete with existing services. We are their evolution: social networks, education, cloud storage, social media.

We are giving the internet another chance to be what people first imagined it to be.

First: I hope, on its surface, this is the most interesting view of the future you can imagine.

Second: I hope, after investigation, it is the most plausible.

Why plausible? Because the best way to predict the future is to create it.

Vision

Most people speak about AI as a problem. Few speak about its potential to create so much value that people may never have to work. I am in the value camp — and I see why others aren’t, given the mass layoffs, the strain of data centers, the threats to human life. Those things are undeniably bad.

The gap: no one has painted what a good future with AI looks like — or, where they have, no one has outlined the path to it. The outcome sits so far from people’s lives that its possibility is not taken seriously.

I wish to illuminate that path: a set of tools with minimal adoption cost that get early starters into that future, prove it works, and invite others to follow.

I want to show a new renaissance era is possible — with the products we create as its backbone.

That has been my mission for 10 years. I am not a new convert. Desire, curiosity, and research drew me into language models in 2016, where I learned their value and practiced steering them to raise the quality of person-to-person communication.

My goal was to augment humans with an AI designed to be the better angel of our nature. Widely adopted, it would make humankind less noisy and more harmonious — with one another and with its environment.

I recently left a role building the most real AI experiences — AI that acted as a human might in genuinely tough situations, adapting its performance to the relational skills of the person it spoke with.

I specialize in relational AI systems, built on game theory, systems theory, and information and context theory.