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An AI-first venture studio

All in on the frontier.

We’re an AI-first lab. We build with AI to do bolder work, faster.

Internal referenceFour pillarsFirst draft for discussion
01What we believe

We embrace AI, and we protect what matters.

Six positions behind how we build.

01

Lead with AI.

We're a lab, and building with AI is the work. Reach for it, test what's possible, move fast — we lean in because it makes the work better.

02

Know where the data goes.

What matters most is the data — what's inside a prompt, and where it travels once it leaves us. Before sending anything to a third-party model, it's worth a beat to ask what's in it and who can see it.

03

Using and wiring-in are different.

Reaching for an AI tool in your own work is one thing. Handing an autonomous agent standing access to shared systems — email, calendars, deals, money — is another. Both are welcome; the second just deserves a closer look before it's switched on.

04

Access is its own decision.

We trust each other — that part isn't in question. Trusting a colleague is simply separate from the access their tools are given. We grant standing access deliberately, one integration at a time, because the tricky parts often sit outside any single person's expertise.

05

Give agents their own identity.

When a tool starts acting on its own, we set it up the way we'd onboard a teammate — its own account, its own scoped permissions, its own trail — rather than running it on someone's personal access. An automated worker gets the access its job needs, and no more.

06

We set our own pace.

The lab moves quickly — adopting and automating early is part of the job. That pace is a choice we make here, and it doesn't automatically carry to every context we work in. Each one gets to decide how fast is right for it.

The line we draw

Using AI, vs. wiring AI in

Both sides start the same: a person and an AI assistant. What happens next is the whole difference.

Use AI in your own work and it’s a clear go. Hand an agent a key to email, calendars, deals, or money, and that key is what we look at — set up with its own identity before it turns.

Use · in your own work
A teammateAny of us
AI assistantIn your own instance
DraftResearchSummarizeCodeAnalyze

No new standing access. Use freely.

Wire-in · a closer look
Autonomous agentHermes, co-work, a VA
Technical review
EmailCalendarDealsMoney

Standing access to systems. Review required.

Using AI in your own work is open. Granting an agent standing access to systems is where we take a closer look — at the integration, before it's switched on.
One source of truth

We own it, and we keep it current.

Curated on purpose — one place that stays current, instead of scattered docs.