- TLDR
- Instinct's founder explains a personal assistant that acts through text, email, and calls, with permissioned agent-to-agent coordination.
- Best for
- Builders designing proactive personal agents
- The tip
- Use familiar channels and explicit access levels instead of forcing every interaction into a new app.
- What you need
- Text, email, or voice access
- Permission controls
- Start here
- Choose the everyday channels the agent will use
- Give it a computer to complete tasks end to end
- Set different access levels for trusted people
- Filed note
- An 85-minute conversation with Instinct’s founder on building a proactive personal agent through text, email, and voice, including trust controls, agent-to-agent coordination, and why software may collapse into one interface.
