Introduction

I believe there’s a wave coming. Roaring into our everyday lives.

It’s a conviction of experience. I can see people on the edges building their own systems, toying with cloud servers, local AI, these systems that make the future cohesive operating systems.

A personal web app that was previously too costly and time-intensive to be worth it in the past is now easily within scope. I can spin up multiple apps, clone and migrate them, and create new workflows for myself using agile coding in a day. I can build the exact app I want and the investment pays off long term. It is the way I work. It is the way I act, create, and build.

My unique outlook on tools is that everything revolves around the interaction of an experience. Web apps like this AI OS I’m writing this essay on are the core loop that creates an emotional state of clarity.

I can notice something I don’t like and edit things to work better. I can find the aspects of my life that I want to improve and clarify, then create an interface to support it while not taking away any of my human agency.

This is the future of personal and business productivity.

For Businesses

I have this vision of the future where an HVAC company or a construction company or otherwise has all of their workflows, SOPs, marketting, etc all cohesively constructed on an AI OS that supports and energizes all aspects of the business.

Further, this allows the entirety of the systems, workflows, and ideas that are not taste-based to be externalized and easily transferred. A workflow of calling a shop to negotiate a deal, then updating some database elsewhere, becomes a game of opening a component of the AI OS, updating fields, and having pieces automatically launch away.

For Purpose

This makes one question how to think about a business system, how to create satisfaction in the processes, and how to create tools that encourage human creativity. A future where all proceses are just routine procedure following activities seems bleak, turning the future into a factorized version of knowledge work where we control small human components of a completely automated business process.

Architecture

A future that is not far off is a network of isolated business nodes where each enterprise has its own “AI node.” At the core, these systems would have their own local AI models, GPU cluster, servers, and knowledge bases that form a multilayered context of the business. A layer for core philosophy, webhooks, workflows, intelligence gathering from communication platforms, and AI solutions on top. These systems would supercharge each other, creating an automated business system that can easily be copied, reproduced in other demographics, locations, and with different groups of people.

If HVAC company A has all of its workflows, marketing, systems, customer knowledge bases, SOPs, and history stored on a local server web-app, what is to stop HVAC company B from creating a deep copy, spinning up the exact same processes, and operating at the same efficiency?

To that end, if a private equity firm buys HVAC company A, which has an AI OS completely describing the systems and architecture of the company, any future HVAC company in the portfolio gets a one-click installation of the same system.

Conclusion

AI operating systems seem to be a powerful wave of edge-behavior that’s capturing the minds of engineers all over the world simultaneously. I see it as the natural end result of automations, integrations, and standalone AI tooling.