Dogfood before demo
Nothing is shown as working until it has run a real life, with real consequences, for weeks.
What exists, and what doesn't
Alfred is being built deliberately narrow: one excellent loop first, running a real life, before anything is offered to anyone else.
Phase 0 · in progress
Foundation
The stack running locally on the first Alfred Core. One mailbox and one calendar connected read-only. A working Today screen on top of the memory layer.
Phase 1
The core loop
Meeting transcription and commitment extraction. Draft replies with attributed sources. The approval centre, limited to prepare and assist modes. A document vault with OCR and expiry extraction. The desktop app replaces the development interface.
Phase 2
Demo-ready
A polished desktop app and an iOS companion covering Today, chat, approvals and notifications. The bar to clear: a machine we'd trust to run a real life for a straight week, and then a month.
Phase 3
First private installs
A handful of design partners, each set up in person: lifestyle, properties, travel, accounts and preferences captured; integrations connected read-only; three to five immediate-win workflows built; then observe, prepare, approve — one week at a time.
Phase 4
The Pen, and beyond
Hardware capture and wider availability, in that order, and only once real usage shows people want them. A version for family offices and small private staffs comes after individuals are properly served — not before.
Sequencing rules
Three commitments about how this gets built
No custom hardware on spec
Bespoke devices get built after paying users demonstrate they want them — a capital rule, not a preference.
Trust before autonomy
Higher autonomy modes ship after the audit, approval and revocation machinery is proven, not alongside it.
No dates are published here on purpose. A solo build against a real job produces honest sequencing, not honest calendars. Subscribers get the build notes as each phase actually lands.
Dispatches
Build notes, roughly monthly
What got built, what broke, what we learned from the first private installs. No launch hype, no forwarding your address to anyone.
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