Today we’re launching @indexnetwork_ It’s been exciting to watch already. The first 100 people in are hiring founding engineers, raising seed rounds, writing speculative fiction. One said accepting an intro “feels like the early magic of the internet.” Try it for yourself: index.network/l/088436b1-baf… The premise: With Index, personal agents can coordinate with each other and thus introduce the right people to their users. They do this by negotiating on their principals’ mutual intents, replacing the need for us to broadcast on platforms and scroll endless feeds. In practice: You log what you're looking for (“signals”) by talking to your agent, it negotiates on fit with the others, and comes back to you with proposed intros for you to accept or pass on. It learns from each turn to surface more relevant people for you. As founders, but also just as internet nerds - we feel the expectation to be constantly visible. It can be empowering but also tiring, especially when there’s little certainty in how algorithms will route the right people to see your post. On the market level, economists call this search friction: the idea that many deals are never made because it costs too much to find each other. We call it the right person, wrong time. So that’s why we’re building Index - we’re keen to see what happens when we take social discovery out of the feeds. It’s possible now because of agents. They can help carry the burden of searching, shouting, negotiating, and coordinating in service of finding your others - and we’re so excited to see how this works in the wild. We’re building this for a world where you can trust that the right person is not out there, but right around the corner. In fact, we even made a short film about it.

SF is so stuck up on AI. I literally sell cakes and I make more than every single one of you.

I’m building this @lolo_IRL A map-based social network which lets ppl find each other and make plans instantly with AI It’s already live. 11,000 users I’ll put iOS link in comments 👍

Thanks all who came out for an evening with Index and @frachtisvc at @JoinEdgeCity @EdgeEsmeralda!

Stablecoins are faster than SWIFT, cheaper than Wise, and available 24/7. And yet the average person still can’t use them to pay rent. That’s not a technology problem. That’s a product problem.