Offices, in the works
An Office is your business as a place you can walk into: a building with your name over the door, your day on the wall, and your AI staff at their desks, each working under the rules you set. The first few are being built now.
The building wears your brand: the sign, your colours on the walls and the board, your name on the desks.
Each Office is dressed from your own brand book.
A board drawn each morning from your own records: what came in, what waits for your word, and the week ahead.
The Office reads your app's records through a link you can close at any hour; it never keeps them.
AI staff with names and duties, each at a desk that shows the work in hand, each under the rules and the spending limit you set.
Nothing goes out in your name without your word.
It runs on a Mac today, with the staff's looks chosen from a glass by the door; a version you open in your browser is planned.
Your records stay on your own machine.
The Carriage House, dressed for an example inn. The inn, its people and its numbers are invented, and the pictures are of the Office as it runs; yours is drawn from your own business.
The Carriage House, dressed for the example inn: its sign, its colours, its lamps lit at the door.
The morning's board above three desks: Iris at the front desk, Owen on the books, Juno on the schedule. Sample records.
Iris's reply to a guest, drafted in the owner's voice; it sends at 8:30 unless the owner stops it.
A glass by the door lets you choose how each member of staff looks; the choice is kept for every visit.
The setup guide, with a deeper chapter for an Office: your building, your staff and what each of them does.
Each duty becomes a member of staff with a name, a desk, the tools it needs and a limit on what it may spend.
Your brand on the sign, the board, the walls and the desks, from your own brand book.
With your day already on the wall and your staff at work on it.
An Office shows what your staff are doing; it never sends anything in your name without your word, and it never copies your records off your machine.
Five questions, a minute. If the answer to any one is yes, we would refuse the job, and the reason is written here as it would be in our letter.
We are building the first few now, for businesses that want to be first.
Most software for a small business is a list. An Office is a place: you walk in, the day is on the wall, and your staff are at work on it. You see who is doing what, what waits for your word, and what was done while you were away.
Say what you want built, in a sentence. The setup guide does the rest.