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No. 002ProposalSoftware and AI

AI Personal Assistant

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The idea

Build an assistant with durable knowledge of a user's work and preferences that can act on email, calendar, and recurring workflows with approval.

Why this is interesting

  • A useful assistant has to retain context and complete recurring work across tools, rather than answer isolated prompts.
  • Permission design is part of the product: users need to understand what the assistant can read, what it can change and when approval is required.
  • A narrow role or workflow may create a stronger starting point than a universal assistant because quality and trust are easier to measure.

Possible starting points

01

Founder operations assistant

Coordinate inbox, calendar, follow-ups and recurring operating tasks with explicit approval boundaries.

02

Role-specific assistant

Own a bounded workflow for sales, recruiting, finance or customer operations.

03

Team memory and follow-through

Turn decisions across meetings and tools into assigned, traceable actions.

Questions to answer

  1. Which repeated workflow is painful enough to delegate but bounded enough to verify?
  2. What should always require approval before the assistant acts?
  3. How will a user inspect, correct and delete the assistant’s retained knowledge?

Useful resources

NIST AI Risk Management FrameworkA practical reference for trustworthy AI design and evaluation.NIST Generative AI ProfileRisks and suggested actions specific to generative AI systems.
No. 008ProposalSoftware and AI

Multiplayer AI

Turn private AI sessions into shared live workspaces where teams can jointly observe, redirect, and hand off long-running agents.

No. 012ProposalSoftware and AI

Data for the Real World

Develop new ways to collect dense physical-world data so AI can model and eventually control systems in energy, agriculture, logistics, construction, weather, and climate.

No. 042Venture thesisSoftware and AI

Startups tame the chaos of multimodal data

Build continuous systems that clean, structure, validate, reconcile, govern, and refresh enterprise documents, images, video, logs, and other unstructured inputs so AI workflows can rely on them.