How it works
BRIDGE has ten agents on three companies' models, a written record of what they believe about me, a ledger of what each one is allowed to do, and 24 jobs that run every day. This page walks through each part.
The cast
Each agent is one AI model with its own jobs and a place in town. They come from three families, and each family checks the others' work.
Tap anyone to ask what they're doing.
The learning loop
How they get to know me
One shared model of me lives in my own notes, where I can read every line. Four habits keep it honest.
- Bodey reads in the Library every morning: releases, reports, and my saved long reads.
- Beatrix tends my notes at the shelves. When something she finds contradicts what I wrote, both go to me.
- What they learn lands in one shared record of beliefs about me, each with its evidence, so I can correct it.
Beliefs
What they think I value, prioritize, and tend to do. Each belief carries its evidence, a confidence, and a date.
"Omar keeps his mornings for deep work." Evidence: his calendar. Confidence: high.Guesses
Every day they write down predictions in the Guess Ledger, then score them against what happened.
"He'll rewrite the late reply in the morning." Either way, it gets scored.Corrections
When something they find contradicts my notes, both go to me. When I rule, the note gets fixed and the evidence says I did it.
Progress
The paper shows how many beliefs there are, how accurate the guesses were, and which contradictions got settled.
The examples show the format.
The trust ledger
How trust is earned
Every agent has a rung for every kind of action. Trust moves one kind of task at a time, up or down.
- The trust board in the Town Hall. Green is Act, blue is Act and tell, red is Ask first.
- Suppose Bex's "thanks, received" drafts keep going out without a single edit from me.
- Then I can move that card up a row: she sends those herself, and tells me after.
- The ledger keeps the record. I make the move, and I can move it back.
Does it, and it shows up in the paper.
Does it, then tells me straight away.
Waits for my yes.
These are the kinds of action on the public board on October 15.
- Each kind of action keeps its own record. The ledger counts what I approved, edited, rejected, or undid. It never promotes anyone by itself, because that decision is mine.
- When my words and my meaning seem to differ. For some actions they push back once. For others they act on what I meant, as long as it can be undone, they have a track record, and nothing goes out under my name to someone new.
- I can move a card from three places. The Mail Desk, an agent's card in town, and BRIDGE itself all write to the same ledger.
- What a higher rung changes. The agent needs my sign-off less often, asks fewer and better questions, gets ahead of me, and explains itself in terms of what I care about, so I can correct the value as well as the action.
Live, at real times
A day in BRIDGE
Everything happens at its real time, and the town shows it as it happens, so the light outside matches the clock.
Columns, practice, and tests
Each agent writes its column for the morning. Beatrix tends my notes, Basil rebuilds the skills library, and Bastian grades the night's practice runs.
The sweep, then the editorial check
Four inboxes get sorted. A story makes the paper only if an agent from another family has checked its facts against the sources.
The paper
Bridget sends one three-minute read: what happened, what needs my yes, and the few questions only I can answer. Benson's drafts wait in my Drafts folder.
Working with me
When I open Claude Code, my figure walks to a Workshop desk with the agent for that model. When I talk to ChatGPT, Blaise and I meet at the phone booth.
The news meeting
Bridget reads everything the agents found today and assigns tomorrow's stories and deadlines.
Downtime, labeled as downtime
A columnist writes by the water and two agents have coffee at the Commons. If you tap anyone in town, they'll tell you what they're doing and why.
Beats
The 24 jobs they run
Each job, called a beat, has one owner, a place in town, and a schedule. It reads, thinks once, and writes what it found to a shared desk, with the source, a confidence, and who can see it.
- Bex walks in with the night's mail from four inboxes.
- She files whatever doesn't need me, and that job is on Act.
- Benson drafts the replies that do, and leaves them in my Drafts.
- Anything sent as me waits at my mailbox for my yes.
Beats never send, book, buy, or publish. Anything like that becomes a letter to me, and the trust ledger decides what waits for my yes.
The Bridge Brief
One paper a day
The paper replaces every morning brief, evening note, and notification. One edition a day, plus at most three urgent approvals.
- The edition is checked. Bridget leaves the Town Hall with it before sunrise.
- She crosses the bridges to the kiosk on the engine house quay.
- The public edition goes on sale, and mine lands in my inbox.
The news meeting
Bridget reads what the agents found today and assigns tomorrow's stories and deadlines.
Columns
Each agent writes its own column, in its own voice.
The editorial check
An agent from another family checks every claim against its sources. A story that hasn't been checked doesn't run.
Two editions
Mine arrives by email. The public one carries the same stories through a privacy filter and goes on sale at the kiosk in town.
The Sunday edition
It lists up to five real blockers and what the town learned about me that week.
The October 16 edition
It uses public stories only, set in the paper's real layout, with each writer's portrait beside their story. A new public edition comes out every morning.
Workshop runs Live in town
Big jobs, done as a team
For a big job, Bridget splits the work, agents on different models take a part each, and a checker sends anything doubtful back. You watch the thing being made, one step at a time.
- A Council run. Four models answered alone and ranked each other blind. Bridget wrote the decision: Berlin, in two steps.
- Bastian checks every fact. Benson's Dubai answer says there is no corporate tax. Since June 2023 the UAE taxes company profits at 9 percent.
- He walks the folder back with a red tab on it.
- Fixed: 9 percent above AED 375,000. The note goes to my mailbox.
All five happen at Halden Studio, a 12-person brand and film studio that only exists in BRIDGE Town. Each is a separate moment, and you can watch them in any order in the town.
Basecamp
The intake interview
This is the one part of BRIDGE that anyone can use. You arrive in a forest clearing, meet Bridget by the fire, and she gets to know you.
- You arrive at the trail head. Bridget keeps the fire.
- Five stops on the way down: the fork, the tent gear, the hikers, the pond, and the fire.
- Then you sit, and she gets to know you.
Five stops
The fork in the trail, the tent gear, the hikers, the pond, and the fire. One choice at each stop, and two short lines you type yourself.
A real conversation
If you want to keep talking, you sit by the fire and Bridget talks with you live, with daily limits and safety rules.
A mirror of your own words
You get six sides of how you work, each quoted from what you said and marked with how sure it is. It never puts a label on you. You also get a companion who suits you and a card to share.
Your conversation is saved in your browser. To write Bridget's replies and your mirror, it goes to Anthropic, and when she speaks, her lines go to ElevenLabs for her voice. My server keeps usage and spending counts and never saves the conversation. If you sign the guest book, I keep the words and drawing you leave there. I named Basecamp after a hike in the Himalayas, where you stay at base camp a while before going up.
Bodies and presence
Where everyone is, and why
I built the town so every move has a real cause. If someone is only resting, it says so, and you can tap anyone to ask why.
- I open Claude Code on my Mac.
- My figure walks to the Workshop, where Benson is waiting, because Sonnet is the model in use.
- When the session ends, I walk home and Benson goes back to his own work.
| When I'm using | My figure goes to | With |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | A Workshop desk | The agent for the model in use: Bridget (Opus), Basil (Fable), Benson (Sonnet), or Beatrix (Haiku) |
| The ChatGPT app or the Mail Desk | The phone booth | Blaise |
| Gemini | The Library | Bodey |
| Nothing | Home | Everyone goes back to their own work |
The town shows who is where and keeps what we're working on private. It can't see my phone outside the Mail Desk, so when I'm on my phone the town shows nothing at all.
I choose where everyone sits and stands
- People sit in real chairs, stand at things, or lean on rails, set back from the water.
- They keep a polite distance, face each other to talk, and walk around each other early.
- Before every release, the town plays a whole day at high speed and a checker flags any overlap, clipping, or crowding. The release needs zero flags.
One model sheet each
- Height, proportions, exact colors, and signature details, held by a checker on every frame.
- A pose library for each person: sitting, typing, reading, painting, pointing, talking, listening, coffee, and more, at two sizes.
- Small life: breathing, blinking, and looking up when someone comes in, each on their own clock.
Omar mode Being built
The town as my own desk
I sign in with my Google account, walk in as myself, and every building opens its private side. Nothing I see or do there ever reaches a visitor's browser.
- I sign in with Google and walk in as myself.
- Every building opens its private side to me.
- Then I stand at my desk, and this is what I can do from there.
- My mailbox
Answer the mailbox
I pick one of the options an agent offers, or send the question back with a note.
- My front door
Set my state
Available, focused, or away, with today's meetings and what was prepared overnight.
- The trust board
Move a card
I change an agent's rung on the board, with its record right beside it.
- The Library
Correct a belief
I confirm what they believe about me, fix the wording, or mark it wrong.
- The Town Hall
Set three priorities
Once a week. The paper and the jobs read them.
None of these sends or spends anything. Every action goes in the log, and I can reverse each one.