One for you, a fleet for work

For your life, one assistant is enough. For your company, you want named with one job each, a log, and a person who approves.

November 1, 20264 min read5 chaptersBy Chris Johnston

01 · AAN

Everyone is shipping aan .

Every big AI company is racing to ship aan that works on your behalf. In the end aan is aan : a model with a harness, doing things for you.

The question is not which one. It is whose life it runs. Yours, or your company's. Those want different answers.

02 · YOUR LIFE

For your life: one.

For your personal life, keep it simple. Pick one mainstream AI app and use it as your assistant. Calendar, travel, the kids' week, the bills. One that knows you.

If you value privacy, host your own. It can run on a small box at home: Run it on a Mac mini.

One assistant. Yours. That is enough.

CalendarTravelGroceriesBillsThe kids' weekHealth notes

ONE ASSISTANT. YOURS. ILLUSTRATIVE.

03 · YOUR COMPANY

For a company, one is the wrong number.

At work, the risk is not too few AI tools. It is too many nobody chose. Staff copy and paste company data into whatever AI app is open in the browser. No log, no owner, no rules.

Banning it does not work. Giving them something better does. That is the whole case in Is it secure?

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ILLUSTRATIVE. NO LOG, NO OWNER, NO RULES.

04 · GOVERNED

Named. One job each. Logged.

A company wants a fleet, and a governed one. Each has a name, one job, the access that job needs and nothing more. Every action is logged. The risky ones wait for a named person to approve.

The rules are plain files your team can read and change, with a trust boundary written before anything runs. Keeping that in order over the years is something we help with for the long term: lobster herding.

JOBREADSWRITESASKS A PERSON
LeadsInbox, CRMDrafts, CRM notesBefore a quote
BooksInvoices, bank feedRemindersBefore a refund
ContentDrive, the brand guideDraftsBefore it posts
SupportTickets, ordersRepliesBefore a credit

EVERY ACTION LOGGED. ILLUSTRATIVE.

05 · ONE PLACE

One screen for the whole fleet.

Your team works with all of them in one place: Your Everything App. Records on one side, the on the other, every department on the same screen.

Why we call them lobsters, and how one is born, is in Why a lobster?

Give your company its fleet.

Named , one job each, rules your team can read and a log of everything they do. Built in ninety days, then yours.

Book a callYour Everything App

NEXT · SECURITY

Is it secure?

The risk is already inside your company: staff pasting work into AI apps nobody approved. A governed lobsteragent closes that gap, and in regulated work it is the one that ticks every box.

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EXPLAINER

Why a lobster?

METHOD

Run it on a Mac mini

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