Building Typeahead from -1 to revenue changed my definition of an AI-native company. Today we’re releasing Typeahead 2.0 on Product Hunt. It is the first product from the new company I am building that people can buy. producthunt.com/products/typ… For months, I have been writing publicly about using AI to do better product and marketing work. The work has ranged from audience research to positioning, websites, launch systems, content, and demos. Typeahead is where we put those ideas under pressure. The product started with a belief. AI is going to move closer to the work. Cloud AI is already part of my daily workflow. Local AI is where I think a lot of personal software starts to feel different. That is the bet behind Typeahead. We wanted AI writing help at the cursor, inside the apps where writing already happens. Getting there took more than building the app. First, the thesis had to become positioning people understood. From there, the positioning had to become a website that could sell. Demos needed to make the behavior obvious. Launch materials had to make the bet legible. And the product had to become something people could actually buy. AI helped with all of that. It helped us research the audience, test angles, shape pages, create assets, draft copy, pressure-test the story, and move through weak versions faster. The surprise was where the work got harder. AI made more directions possible. That meant our taste had to get sharper. We had to decide what was true, what sounded like us, what customers actually cared about, and which details deserved more time. As the product improved, the launch got sharper. The loop got tighter. That is the lesson I keep coming back to. AI-native company building is about shortening the distance between learning and shipping. Research sharpens positioning. Positioning shapes the website. The website exposes what people understand. Demos make the product promise visible. Feedback changes what gets built next. Each pass leaves better evidence and a higher bar. Typeahead 2.0 is the clearest result of that loop so far. It is AI autocomplete for every app on your Mac. You type where you already work. A suggestion appears inline. You accept what helps and keep moving. It runs locally, works offline, and keeps your writing on your device. The first version proved people understood the behavior. This version is faster, more native, easier to control, and much closer to the product we wanted from the start. For me, this launch is proof of two beliefs. AI-native companies are going to learn and ship differently from day one. Local AI software is going to matter a lot more than people think. We are live on Product Hunt today. I would love for you to take a look and tell us what you think. producthunt.com/products/typ…

The AI surface most people are sleeping on is the computer they already use all day. Open apps, half-written drafts, recent messages, nearby files, and visible intent all live there. That matters because useful AI is usually about timing. Help is better when it shows up inside the work, at the moment you can use it, with the context already in front of you. That is why Sam and I started with the Mac. Typeahead is our first product from that thesis.

Today @samasante and I are releasing Typeahead 2.0 on Product Hunt. Sam and I started this company because we think local AI software is going to become a much bigger part of how people use their computers. Typeahead is the first product from that thesis. The first version made the idea clear. AI autocomplete should work in the apps where writing already happens. Since then, we have been shipping toward the product that idea deserves. The app feels faster and more natural. Suggestions are easier to control. The experience is more native to the Mac. It's getting better at staying out of the way until the exact moment it can help. That matters because writing is personal. The best AI writing help keeps you in the sentence. You stay in flow and keep your voice. The machine helps without taking over. Typeahead works across your Mac, runs locally, works offline, and is built to feel like software you own. We’re live on Product Hunt today. producthunt.com/products/typ…

One week ago, we launched Typeahead. The product is already meaningfully better. We’ve shipped new features, Typeahead 2.0 is almost ready, and we’re already planning 3.0. 3.0 is going to be big. That pace is part of the point. @SamAsante and I started a new company together because we wanted to see how far we could push local AI software. Typeahead is the first thing we shipped. It is a local AI writing app for Mac. You type, suggestions appear inline, and it learns how you actually write. It works offline. You pay once. $79 and you own it. The product is intentionally simple. The thesis behind it is bigger. We think local models are going to create a new class of software. Fast, private and offline. By default. Personal without being creepy. Useful without turning everything into a subscription. Most AI products today assume the model lives in the cloud. That will not be the only path. The machines we already own are getting powerful enough. The models are getting small enough. And the experience can start to feel less like chatting with a remote service and more like using software that belongs on your computer. We have already built a few fully local experiments together. @TypeaheadAI felt right because the value is immediate. A few people have asked me how this fits with @CrazyEgg. Crazy Egg is still my main work. This is a focused company with Sam, built around a thesis we both believe in. I’ve learned that the people I work with shape the work more than almost anything else. Sam was already on my short list of people I wanted to build with. Typeahead is the first public proof of the thesis. Watch the video. Get it here: typeahead.ai

We just released Typeahead v1.8.0! Writing Styles is a new feature that enables you to customize your own style and switch between them in a couple of clicks. In addition, Typeahead is now a lot smarter. It ignores certain types of text such as links, emails and more. We made a few other tiny improvements to when and how completions show up too. And finally, Suggestion Timing lets you adjust exactly when completions show up.

If you know me, you know I love data and analytics. So, I couldn’t resist this one. Coming very soon to @TypeaheadAI…

Every AI product makes a quiet decision about where the work happens. For Typeahead, that decision mattered more than usual. A writing tool sits between thought and record. It sees the sentence before it is ready to defend itself. A customer reply can carry names, history, tone, obligations, and context that belongs to the customer. Hiring notes often begin as a first reaction that deserves a second read. Investor updates have numbers still settling. Legal thoughts need careful language before they become advice. A Slack message can take three rewrites because one word changes the relationship. That is the private workshop where writing gets made. Messy. Tentative. Personal. Yours. If a Mac can run the model locally, the draft should not travel by habit. So Typeahead keeps the work on the machine. Suggestions are generated on your Mac. The app ships without telemetry, analytics, anonymous tracking, or account requirements. After activation, it works offline. That is the privacy model. It is also the product philosophy. Good software should ask for the minimum required to do the job well. Typeahead has a focused job. Help you finish the small sentences you write all day, across the apps where writing already happens. Ghost text appears in the field. Tab accepts the suggestion. Right arrow takes one word. Esc dismisses it. The sentence stays where it began. The writer stays in charge. That same philosophy shaped the pricing. $79 once. If the core value can live on the computer you already bought, renting it back to you every month felt like the wrong relationship. We wanted Typeahead to feel like a tool. It earns its place through daily use and disappears the rest of the time. Owned once. Private by architecture. Built for the messy, unfinished, very human work that happens before writing is ready to share. We’re live on Product Hunt today. If you write a lot on a Mac, I’d love for you to check it out. producthunt.com/products/typ…

Been working with @SamAsante on a new company. Today we’re releasing our first product. It’s called Typeahead and we’re live on Product Hunt. You type and inline suggestions appear right in the text field. Tab to accept the full suggestion or right arrow for one word at a time. It learns how you actually write. Everything runs locally on your Mac, works offline, and you pay once. $79 and you own it forever. If you write a lot on a Mac, check it out and let us know what you think. Live on Product Hunt right now → producthunt.com/products/typ…