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The industrial revolution organized companies around the production line. The computer revolution organized them around the database. What will be the organizing principle of the AI revolution?

Every era has a new bottleneck. In the industrial age, it was turning raw materials into goods. In the digital age, it was turning data into useful records. In the AI age, the bottleneck is context.

The tools we use today naturally separate context. They make working with context challenging. They naturally promote fragmentation, because this is how data was best organized for a computer. That’s historically been a blessing and a curse.

In order to unlock the full benefits of AI, we need new tools that allow us to bring together a unified view for a team of humans and machines, while keeping that context local-first and owned by the people creating it.

This is what I'm working on at @tonk.xyz . Tonk offers a local-first unified view over your data and makes accessing that unified view ergonomic to both the human and the machine.

You can read it like a document, edit it like a spreadsheet and ask AI to reason over it like a system. Every interaction sends a signal back to the system; where people and machines cultivate a unified context through shared objects in order to achieve a common goal set by you alone.