Introducing Workotron 1.0. Your private 24/7 AI computer in the cloud, with a chief of ops that runs your business for you. 70 workflows. Drives all your web apps. Smarter every day. In private beta. Message me if you'd like to try it out. workotron.com

Workotron 1.0.70 is out, rounding up everything since our last notes. The big news: your tasks come to you. Their questions and progress show up right in the chat, on your phone, in WhatsApp and on your Apple Watch. 🃏 Answer your tasks wherever you are ⏳ See every task working, live 🗓️ Long website tasks finish in a fraction of the time 💬 A faster chief of ops with a better memory Plus improvements across the web, iPhone, Android and Apple Watch. 🎉 Workotron 1.0.70 Full Release Notes 🃏 A task's question pops into the chat as a card with the best answer marked, so you decide in one tap. ⌚ The same questions reach your Apple Watch, WhatsApp or Telegram, so you can answer on the go. ⏳ A live line under the chat shows what each task is doing, and updates gather in one tidy bubble. 🚀 Your first conversation is three quick questions, then Workotron starts on the work that takes up your week. 🗓️ Dozens of changes in a booking calendar now finish in under an hour. 🔽 Forms full of dropdowns and pop-ups fill in much faster. 💬 Replies appear as they are written, and a quick hello gets a quick answer. 🧠 Your chief of ops remembers your whole conversation and stays quick all day. 🧩 Long tasks hold on to every detail and run to the end. 📬 Scheduled reports arrive on WhatsApp or by mail on their own, and night reminders fire on time. 🔑 When a service emails you a sign-in code, Workotron finds it and types it in. 📂 Your workflows read your documents with no setup, and files up to 128 MB open and upload, even on a slow connection. 📱 A website Workotron hands you fits your phone, with Back, Reload, pull to refresh and a Paste key. 🔗 Copy a page's address or bring it into the chat in one tap. ✂️ Copy, rate or discuss any message from its menu, or press and hold on your phone to copy a few words. 🪟 Close a tab a task opened and your chief of ops tells you what it showed and offers to pick up from there. ✅ When a new workflow's first try already did the work, you get the result right away. 💡 Ask how a task is going and you hear exactly what it reported. 🍏 Your iCloud workflows go straight to work when you are signed in. 🌙 Your nightly workflow improvements finish sooner. 👋 The phone app opens with a short welcome that says plainly where your data goes. 🧾 Reloading a page after paying never pays twice. 🎟️ Every account gets 3 invites a month to share Workotron. 🗂️ Say not to keep something and nothing is saved. 🛡️ Big downloads are checked for hidden malicious instructions, and the browser and servers carry this month's security fixes. In private beta. Message me if you'd like to try it out. workotron.com

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This week, we've onboarded our first 10 small business owners to Workotron, and now we're extending the private beta to friends and colleagues. If you're a solopreneur or run a small business, Workotron is free for as long as the beta runs, in return for your feedback. Running a small business comes with a pile of digital busywork: the inbox, unpaid invoices, supplier orders, the calendar, and a dozen web apps to keep up to date. Workotron is an AI chief of ops that takes that work off your plate. Unlike other personal agents, it gives you your own 24/7 private AI computer in the cloud, and it puts your security and privacy first. It works the web apps you already use, and asks you whenever it needs your decision. You get your time back for growing your business, for the creative work, and for your customers. ☀️ A morning briefing of who's waiting on you, before your first coffee 🧾 Follows up on unpaid invoices with a friendly note 📬 Sorts your email and drafts replies that sound like you 💬 Finds the WhatsApp chats waiting on you and drafts the answers 📊 A weekly report on your business, ready when you wake 📱 All of it from your phone, wherever you are 🚀 Frontier intelligence, free during the beta: heavy use at this level of performance and service costs at least $100 a month Private and secure by design 🖥️ Your work lives on your own computer, at its own web address 🧱 Every task runs in its own contained space and can reach only what it was given ☣️ Everything it reads from the internet is checked for hidden instructions before it acts 🧠 Your know-how stays yours: nobody sells the unique ways you run your business with AI 🚫 None of your data trains an AI your competitors use You tell it what you need in plain words, and there is nothing to set up or configure. What we ask: use it for a few days for some of your real work, and tell us what works and what gets in the way. We fix quickly what our beta users tell us, usually within days. We've shipped 59 updates since our 1.0 launch on October 5. Want in? DM me or email [email protected] workotron.com Not sure it's a fit? These questions will tell you 👇 xitter.cf/avive/status/210966845…

Linus's open source law as shared in 1999 by Erick S Ryamond's @esrtweet excellent classic book The Cathedral and the Bazaar states that given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. It turns out AI does the same but on hyperdrive as its eyeballs are cyber pilled, which is a good things in the long-run, as shallow means easier to give attention to, and ultimately fix. So after the noise, hype and scares quiet down, we'll get a better and a more secure Internet, and companies that still run PHP on Internet servers in 2026 will finally update their ancient stacks to modern and more secure ones.

🎉 Workotron 1.0.51 is out, with a round of quality of life updates for every Workotron user on the web, phones and tablets. 👤 Your account on workotron.com, laid out like Settings 💌 Invite friends and see who joined 📱 The phone, tablet, Mac and watch apps in one place 📄 Files you drop into the chat open on the first try 🎉 Workotron 1.0.51 Full Release Notes 👤 Your account on workotron.com has clear sections for your account, your Workotrons, invites, emails and payments. 💌 Invite a friend from your account page and see every invite you made, with its link and whether they joined. 📱 Find the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android and Apple Watch apps right under your Workotron when you sign in. ⌚ A short guide walks you through getting Workotron on your Apple Watch. 🔔 Every action on workotron.com tells you right away whether it went through. 📧 Links from Settings and from our emails open the right part of your account page. 📄 A file you drop into the chat is read on the first try. 🔢 Meeting links, IDs and passcodes stay word for word, even deep into a long conversation. 📊 When a dashboard needs a correction, the fixed page replaces the old one in your documents. 🌅 Your morning briefing arrives sooner when you chat with Workotron on WhatsApp or Telegram. 📋 Copy your Workotron's address and pairing code with one tap when you add a device. 🗣️ VoiceOver on the phone reads every button by its name, once. ⌨️ Leaving the chat on the phone closes the keyboard. 🗂️ Docs on the phone shows your newest files each time you open it. 📐 On iPad and Mac, Settings opens across the whole window. 🔒 Security updates to how Workotron reads Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. In private beta. Message me if you'd like to try it out. workotron.com

This week we are working closely with our first batch of Workotron users. We keep hearing that they want their Workotron to work faster. The thing is, other agents are misleading because they sacrifice security for speed. We made security and privacy our top priority so all user input and data from the Internet is sanitised to protect users from prompt injections and it adds few seconds to each operation. We spent lots of effort on optimizing this using a layered solution that involve fast and robust System One models as well as llm classifiers, as naive approaches don't work great. If your agents are fast but don't sanitise input you paste or text they read from the Internet on your behalf, then it is just a question of time before your business is going to be hacked. Expect many horror stories of people getting hacked via their agents in the media and here on X in the next few months.

🎉 Workotron 1.0.49 is out, rolling up the last two days of releases. The big news: Workotron now automatically improves your workflows every night, can post files and photos in messages for you when asked. What we shipped 🌙 Your workflows self-improve every night automatically 📎 Send any file or photo on WhatsApp, Telegram, email or post it to your socials 👀 Drop a screenshot and Workotron reads it 💬 Thumbs up or down and a quick utility menu on every chief of ops replies Plus a round of improvements for phones, tablets, Apple Watch and the web. Full Release Notes 🌙 Each night Workotron looks at how your workflows ran and improves the ones that hit trouble, then tells you in the morning what it changed. 📎 Name any file or photo in your documents, and Workotron sends it on WhatsApp, Telegram or email, or posts it on X, Facebook, LinkedIn or Discord. 📥 Ask for a photo or a document someone sent you on WhatsApp or Telegram, and Workotron saves it to your documents. 👀 Drop a screenshot or a photo into the chat and ask about it, and Workotron reads what is in it. 🖼️ Pictures and videos in your documents open right beside the chat. 🔄 When Workotron updates, your workflows take the improvements on their own, with your changes kept. ✍️ A change you ask for in one of your workflows stays, and the nightly improvements build on it. ⏳ A long task keeps going for as long as it is making progress. 🌐 News sites and other busy pages open in Workotron's browser just as they do in yours. 🛡️ Block web ads with one switch in Settings. 📋 Copy text from a page shown beside the chat straight to your clipboard. 🔑 "Sign in with Google" works on the pages Workotron hands you. 🗂️ My Docs shows your newest documents first, with a menu to sort them your way. 💬 Thumbs up or down on any reply, and a click on it to copy it, send feedback or chat about it. 🗣️ Tell us what you'd like Workotron to do for you, right from the feedback sheet. ✅ When something goes wrong, the message is short and plain and says what to do next. 🌅 Your morning briefing is ready sooner. 📱 A smoother phone app: swipe right for the menu, and long chats open at their newest message. 📐 On iPad, the board fits on the screen when you hold it sideways. ⌚ On Apple Watch, a tap on a question that is already settled shows what is still waiting. 🔒 Security updates to the connections Workotron makes. In private beta. Message me if you'd like to try it out. workotron.com

This is our vision for how the computer of the future will work and Workotron 1.0 already implements it. No terminals, no Linux commands, no Windows. Natural language and a kanban board are all you need. Your AI-native private computer works for you in the cloud, day and night. Your mobile phone, your tablet, your watch and any browser are simply how you reach it, from wherever you are. Here is one morning at a small New York bakery with Workotron, on a tablet, a phone and a watch 📱 ☀️ On the iPad, ask for the day in plain words and your chief of ops briefs you right beside your Board, where every task moves from running to done. ✅ Anything that needs you waits on its card: tap Go ahead or Do not, or answer in your own words. 🥖 On the iPhone, say "same again" and last week's flour is reordered, with the receipt in your documents. ⌚ On Apple Watch, hear what changed since the morning and answer by voice. Available in private beta. Message me if you'd like to try it out. workotron.com

Workotron 1.0.42 is out, rolling up a few days of releases and our work over the weekend. The big news: Workotron now has native apps for iPad and Android tablets, and long tasks finish much sooner. What we shipped: 📱 Beautiful native apps for iPad and Android tablets ⚡ Long tasks finish minutes sooner 🔔 Questions waiting for you get a reminder ⏸️ Pause a task and everything under it pauses 🧹 A cleaner board Plus a round of improvements on the phone, Apple Watch and the web. 🎉 Workotron 1.0.42 Full Release Notes 📱 Native apps for iPad and Android tablets: your chat and your board side by side on the big screen. 📲 A smoother phone app: the chat stays in view as you type, and files open in the right app. ⌚ Answer a task's questions on Apple Watch with clear options you can tap. 🔔 A question you missed gets one reminder, so your work never stalls waiting on you. ✅ Setup finishes on its own, even if you never get to its questions. ⏸️ Pause a task and everything under it pauses, so you stay in control. ⚡ Long tasks finish minutes sooner, with every number kept exact. 🌐 Long web pages are read in full, so nothing gets cut off. 💾 Save any web page to your documents with one ask. 🔐 Sign in to LinkedIn and Instagram through Workotron, with the sign-in tab open until you're done. 📧 Ask about a mailbox that isn't connected, and Workotron offers to connect it. ⏰ Ask for a report by a time, and it's ready by then. 🧹 A cleaner board that shows at a glance what's working and what's done. 💬 Your chief of ops speaks more clearly, and quietly tries again when an answer fails. 🔄 If your WhatsApp or Telegram chat with Workotron pauses, your chief of ops offers to pick it back up. 📂 Your documents are one tap away in the chat's menu. ✍️ Write Hebrew and Arabic right to left, and read Chinese, Japanese and Korean on every page. 📭 Unsubscribing from mailing lists catches more promotions, for a cleaner inbox. 🛡️ Web pages built to crash Workotron's browser are blocked, so your tasks keep running. In private beta. Message me if you'd like to try it out. workotron.com