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

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

We're opening Workotron to another wave of users. Is Workotron right for you? • Do you run a family business, or are you a sole proprietor? • Do you find AI agents confusing and hard to use? • Do you worry about your privacy and security with AI? • Would you like one browser tab instead of fifty? • Would you like to never chase an unpaid invoice again? • Would you like to know who's waiting on you before your first coffee? • Would you like your morning laptop ritual done in a fraction of the time, leaving you time to grow your business? • Would you like to leave the laptop closed and run your business from your phone, wherever you are? If that's you, Workotron may be a good fit: an AI chief of ops that runs your business operations 24/7, simple to use and private. It's a private beta. Want to take it for a spin? DM me or email hello@workotron.com. Not you, but you know someone who fits? Send them this post. 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

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Workotron 1.0.12 is out. Here is what shipped since 1.0.1 on Tuesday. New: 🏷️ Rename a document by asking. Tell your chief of ops the new name, and its open tab follows. 🔄 Clearer updates. Settings checks for a new version when you open it, Update shows its progress until it is done, and a tab left open across an update loads the new version on its own. Better: 🔎 Facts you can check. When Workotron reads websites for you, it writes down what each page says before it moves on, reports only what the pages showed, and names the page each fact came from. When a page does not show what you asked about, it says so instead of filling the gap. Your morning briefing and dashboards carry the page's address on every item. Running a dashboard again the same day makes a new page from fresh data and keeps the earlier one. 🧠 Your corrections reach every workflow. Correct a fact and every workflow that remembered it learns the correction. Ask Workotron to forget something and it is cleared everywhere, with a count of what was removed, and your chief of ops offers to delete your own documents that mention it. Overnight, Workotron now reads every one of the day's tasks in full to learn from them. ⚡ Faster answers. Ask for your newest files, mail or messages and Workotron reads the top of the list, or back to the time you named, instead of scrolling through everything. Twenty-one workflows, from mail and calendar to Drive, WhatsApp, Telegram and X, now go straight to the work on a website instead of opening it and looking around first. Questions that only look something up are answered sooner. 💬 A smoother app. Tabs you close stay closed after a reload. The conversation stays connected after hours idle, so your next message goes through. The notice for an unsent message stays readable in a long chat. Passing warnings are short pop-ups instead of lines in the chat, and pop-ups are solid, not see-through. Messages in Hebrew read right to left. CSV files show row by row. Settings shows when someone you invited has joined. The sign-up screen's passkey step reads plainer, and each workflow's emoji lines up with its title. Privacy and security: 🛡️ The servers Workotron runs on now carry the latest security fixes for the parts that keep each person's Workotron separate from everyone else's. 🔌 A to-do list you keep only in Workotron is set up with no internet access at all. 🗑️ Deleting your account now also removes your records at Stripe, our payment provider. In private beta. Message me if you'd like to try it out. workotron.com

Workotron 1.0.15 is out. Three things changed this week: • The chat got faster • Your chief of ops stays available while it works on long jobs • The safety check that reads everything before Workotron acts on it runs three times faster Plus a round of small improvements you will feel day to day. 💬 Answers appear as they are written. You see the first words right away. 🛡️ Everything Workotron reads, every page, email and message, is checked for hidden malicious instructions first. That check now takes a third of the time. ⚡ Research runs its searches at the same time instead of one by one. Checking a finished job's work takes a third less time. 🧭 Your chief of ops keeps answering you while long jobs run, and tells you the moment one is done or needs you. 🔎 Not sure about a fact? Ask. Workotron goes back to where it came from, your mail, the page or the record, and says where it looked. 🌐 Workotron works a service through its website, the way you do. No API setup unless you ask. ✉️ You see a mail draft exactly as it will go out. Workotron asks which mail account to send from instead of guessing. 🌍 Any language, both ways. Write to it and send it documents in any language, and ask your chief of ops to talk to you in yours, not just English. ✍️ It writes plainly, without the tells of machine-written text. 🔑 When a service hands you an API key, Workotron takes it straight off the page. No AI ever sees the key. 🔒 Settings has a Privacy Center. And once you sign in to a site and press Done, nothing touches that tab. In private beta. Message me if you'd like to try it out. workotron.com

Workotron 1.0.20 is out. Three things changed this week: • Quick questions get quick answers • The app opens faster and keeps up as your work grows • Long reads of Gmail, WhatsApp and Notion stay fast to the end Plus a round of improvements you will feel day to day. 🔎 Ask about the weather, the news or anything happening this week, and the answer comes in a few minutes. A weather check that took 9 minutes now takes 3. ⚡ The app opens faster and stays quick as your board fills up. 📖 Long reads of your mail, chats and Notion pages stay fast to the end, and everything already read is kept if one stops partway. ☀️ Your morning briefing covers only the sources you chose, and can add the weather and the news. Ask for one any time and you get it right away. 📬 Ask Workotron to check your inbox and it checks it then and there. Questions about your mail are checked against your mailbox itself. 💬 Your chief of ops picks up where your first conversation left off, saves a correction to your profile the moment you make it, and can tell you how any finished task went. 🗂️ Deleted a document? Workotron tells you it is gone and offers to run the task that made it again. ✏️ Rename a workflow and the new name shows everywhere. 📱 The chat and the board fit your phone's screen. 📄 Word, Excel and PowerPoint files open beside the chat and download as they are. 🛠️ New workflows Workotron builds for you are ready sooner, and every task shows what it is doing while it works. 🌙 The nightly upkeep is quicker, and on a quiet night it barely runs. 🧠 What Workotron remembers about your world is more accurate, with dates exactly as your mail showed them. 🖱️ Every click Workotron makes on a website lands on what it meant to press, even when the page changes under the pointer. 🛑 When you say stop, it stops right away, even halfway through filling in a form. 🛡️ The safety check that reads everything first now keeps useful answers from services like Notion whole, and catches more hidden malicious instructions. 🔒 If signing out of a borrowed computer does not finish, Workotron tells you and lets you try again. In private beta. Message me if you'd like to try it out. workotron.com

Workotron 1.0.30 is out, and it's a big one: a major intelligence update. Every Workotron now runs on frontier intelligence, and it's faster too. Every user gets it automatically and for free, with nothing to set up. • Frontier intelligence for every user, automatically and for free, and faster • After an update, one yes takes every improved workflow • Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneDrive on the web • The spam cleaner moves scams dressed up as bills Workotron 1.0.30 Release Notes 🧠 Frontier intelligence behind every task and every answer: your chief of ops, your workflows and the research they do all run on it from today. Replies come back about 40% sooner, and whole jobs finish about a third faster. You don't need to change anything. 🔄 After an update, your chief of ops already knows which of your workflows have a better version waiting. It offers them all in one question. Say yes and they update in seconds. Name a few and only those change. A workflow you changed yourself keeps your changes. 📄 Workotron opens, reads and edits your Word documents, Excel sheets and PowerPoint decks on the web, and keeps your OneDrive in order. 🛡️ The spam cleaner moves the obvious scam: a fake invoice or alert sent in a well-known company's name from a lookalike address or a free mailbox. Mail it is not sure about stays in your inbox, named for you to check before you click or pay. 📋 Your chief of ops reports back in full: every finished task's result is told, and a long one is saved as a report for you to open. 📖 Ask your chief of ops to read you a document and it answers in the chat, word for word when you ask for it. 💶 Ask how much a contract or invoice adds up to and you get the sum, not a list of lines. 📥 Bringing a file down from your drive into your documents is a quick ask, done right away. 🌐 Research reads all the pages it found at once, so answers come back sooner. In private beta. Message me if you'd like to try it out. workotron.com

Workotron 1.0.36 is out, rolling up a few days of releases. Four things changed: • You don't need a laptop anymore: Workotron is on your phone and your wrist • Your work keeps going when AI models are having a hiccup • Finished results reach your chat in seconds • A new look, with your documents a tap away beside the chat Plus a round of small improvements you will feel day to day. Workotron 1.0.36 Release Notes 📱 You don't need a laptop anymore to use Workotron. The new iPhone and Android app lets you chat with your chief of ops, follow your tasks and open your documents from anywhere, and a sign-in your chief of ops hands you opens right in the app. Pair it once from Settings, Devices, with a code your phone scans. ⌚ On Apple Watch, raise your wrist, tell your chief of ops what you need, and hear the answer. Yes, just like in the movie Her. 🔁 When AI models are having a hiccup, Workotron asks a backup model, so your task goes on instead of failing. 💬 Chatting with your chief of ops on WhatsApp or Telegram, an AI model's hiccup no longer stops the conversation: it rests a minute and tries again on its own. Long conversations there stay quick, too. 🗨️ In the app, your chief of ops tells you when it's having trouble, instead of showing "thinking" for minutes. 📄 When a task finishes, its result reaches your chat in seconds. 🧰 Your chief of ops works with a handful of clear tools in place of dozens, so it picks the right one more often. 🔷 Workotron has a new logo, the hexagon W. The header's first o turns green, orange or red to show whether you're connected. 📂 Type /docs and your documents open in a tab beside the chat, with a download for each file and an upload for new ones. 🧹 The spam cleaner reads only the mail that came in since its last run, so a daily clean takes minutes. Unsubscribing from your mailing lists goes through every list in one run. ⚡ Workflows that read many emails or documents finish sooner. ✅ A to-do you add or check off reaches your own tasks app too. 📑 With one document open, "make this a PDF" makes that document's PDF without asking which one you mean. 📊 Your morning dashboard's numbers match the items on it, and a contract sent to you to sign shows as mail to act on. 🗂️ Deleting a document you downloaded removes everything that came with it. In private beta. Message me if you'd like to try it out. workotron.com

Workotron is now on your phone 📱 Native apps for iPhone and Android, so you can run your business from wherever you are: • You don't need to open your laptop to work with Workotron anymore • Talk to your chief of ops by typing, by voice, or by sending a photo • See every task on your Board and answer its questions right on the card • Open your documents and reports in the app • When a task needs you to sign in to a site, do it from your phone • Lock the app with Face ID or your fingerprint And on Apple Watch ⌚ when you need a quick answer, just talk to your chief of ops, like in the movie Her, and it talks the answer back to you. Available in private beta. Message me if you'd like to try it out.