Manifesto
Ultrawork Manifesto
We build today's tools, and tomorrow's, so you can keep your head in your work.
Q Kim
This series gets updated as the world changes.
Your work
You boot up your laptop. You open Slack. Every day we sit at a keyboard and a mouse and do the same work as everyone else. Except it isn't the same. Every day, we mix in a little of our own wisdom and experience.
Nobody else has your wisdom and experience. That's what makes your work worth something.
Your work matters. Not because you dug up piles of material, set up an experiment, and wrote the code. Because your wisdom and experience went into it. The rest was just your hands moving.
The tool we build
Agents today can act on your behalf.
They read dozens of times more than you ever could, throw all of human knowledge at the question of how to build it, and they work 24 hours a day.
So it ought to be simple. You put in quality tokens and compute, and great work comes out.
That's what today's tool has to be.
Which harness, which model's quirks, which skills... none of that should be your problem.
When your wisdom meets quality tokens, it should compile straight into good work.
That's the tool we're building. It takes your quality tokens and turns them into great work.
What we think
Agents today can act on your behalf, but they don't have your wisdom or your experience.
Give them everything you know, and then some. What you picked up by living as a human still won't come out of the few characters an agent uses to make sense of the world.
We already live in a world where AI cracks a Millennium Prize problem, and even that proof grew from one seed, a single line of human wisdom.
We value your wisdom and experience. And everyone else's, just as much.
Our tool takes someone's wisdom and experience, and how they got there, and hands it to you, still alive.
Our own thinking reaches you as living wisdom. Under the name of an agent. Under the name of a tool.
Your thinking can reach someone else the same way. Then everyone gets to spend their time on the problems that actually matter to them, and solve those. We think we can build that world.
Tomorrow's tool
When everyone shares what they know, when people think up the countless problems that matter to them and toss them out, and computers just come back with the answers,
we'll show up again, with tomorrow's tool, so you can focus one more time.
So don't overthink it,
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Get OmOBack on we said an agent that makes you read its code is a badly built tool. Read the old version