SECONDLY · MARK 001

The next interface for AI
is presence.

AI is moving beyond chat windows and into the continuous environment of human life: screens, rooms, devices, memory, relationships, and the physical world. We build the foundation for AI that can see, hear, remember, understand context, and act across it.

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SHIFT / 002

From a tab on your screen to a presence in your world.

Today's AI is powerful, but trapped in the wrong surface.

A chat window can answer a prompt, but it cannot understand the continuous environment around you. It cannot hear what just happened, see what changed, remember what mattered last week, know when you left the room, or decide whether now is the right moment to interrupt.

To become useful in real life, AI needs a new foundation. It needs senses, memory, local awareness, permissioned action, hardware to live in, and a runtime that can stay continuous.

Chat-window AI
Presence AI
Lives on a screen, in a tab.
EmbodiedLives in the room, on devices, in the environment.
Sees only what you paste in.
PhysicalSenses the environment through cameras, mics, and sensors.
Forgets between sessions.
MemoryRemembers what happened yesterday, last week, in this room.
Waits for you to start a conversation.
ProactiveNotices what changed and speaks when it matters. Stays quiet otherwise.
Streams everything to the cloud.
EdgeRuns perception locally, on the edge. Raw sensor data never leaves the device.
Acts only in the digital world: browses, fills forms, calls APIs.
AgenticActs in the digital and physical world: APIs, devices, lights, doors, calls.
STACK / 003

The presence stack.

Presence is not one feature. Embodied AI needs every layer of the stack to work together: sensing the world, understanding what matters, remembering over time, running on the edge close to the user, acting across devices and environments, and knowing when to speak, wait, or stay quiet.

CHARTER / 004

AI that is present in the physical world.