A note from the founder

Own your algorithm.

I'm Bryce. I live in a van.

That isn't a quirk to file under "fun facts." It's the reason you should trust me with this.

For about four years now I've lived full time in roughly seventy square feet, with two cats, running my own infrastructure. My files, my photos, my music, my servers, all self-hosted on hardware I can physically put my hand on. Not because I'm a purist about it. Because once you've felt what it's like to actually own your stack, renting your digital life back from companies that quietly mine it starts to feel insane.

The idea behind AirIntent is not new for me. In 2013, in a Google interview, someone asked where software was headed. I said the interface would dissolve into your life, and that the thing software should organize itself around is intent: the actual why behind what you're doing. I didn't have the language for it yet. I've been building toward it ever since.

Here is what got built instead.

Every platform you use got very, very good at constructing an algorithm about you. It learns what you click, predicts what will keep you scrolling, and the model it builds is owned, monetized, and locked away by them. You are the single most-studied subject in your own life, and you never get a copy of the notes.

I've worked every layer of that problem. Twelve-plus years as a designer, an ADDY award, dozens of clients through my own studio. Product roles at Atlassian, TrustRadius, Nokia Bell Labs, finder.com. At TrustRadius I worked on B2B purchase intent, structured signal about what people actually want. At Atlassian I watched entire teams drown in tools that recorded everything about their work and understood none of it. Same gap, everywhere I looked: software that captures your intent and hands you nothing back.

AirIntent is the inversion.

It builds an algorithm for you. A living, portable model of your intent, captured from the tools you already use, kept in plain files you own, and served back to you as a feed, an AI team, and a digital twin that work toward your goals instead of somebody else's quarterly numbers. The core of it is an intent graph: a structured, compounding, user-owned substrate that gets more valuable the longer you use it. It's the thing I described in that interview, finally buildable, because AI made capturing and structuring intent cheap, and MCP made it portable across every tool you touch.

I'm not asking you to take a sovereignty pitch from someone who's never paid the cost of one. I sync my own intent to Markdown on a drive in my van. If this company vanishes tomorrow, I still have all of it. That's a requirement, not a feature. Your context should outlive any vendor, including mine.

I'm building this mostly solo, fast, and in the open. It's early, and I'd rather you see it honest than see it polished. If the idea that you should own the model of yourself lands for you the way it's never stopped landing for me, come build it with me.

— Bryce

Founder, AirIntent · Written from a forest road somewhere in the Pacific Northwest