In 2019 I spent three months in a room drawing a 200-page blueprint for a company called BRIDGE. It had pixel art, comic panels, my grandmother's savings circle, and a cast of AI companions. The AI to run it didn't exist yet, so I put it in a drawer.
Seven years
I drew BRIDGE as a town of AI helpers, led by a router called Bridget, to help people across the gaps in their working lives.
I took it out of the drawer and rewrote it smaller: one person, one house, and me as the first test subject.
Ten AI models have jobs on my Macs. They sort my mail, read my notes, write a paper every morning, and build things in teams. I still press send.
In 2019 she was the AI behind the whole platform. She ran intake, onboarding, logistics, and feedback, and she existed only on this page.
Now she runs on Claude Opus. She plans the big jobs, hands out the pieces, checks the work, and edits the paper every morning.
There were three of them, one for each stage of a working life: Beatrix for starting out, Benson for when you know where you're going, and Basil for bringing other people with you.
Each one is now a model with a job. Beatrix runs on Claude Haiku and tends my notes, Benson runs on Claude Sonnet and drafts my email, and Basil runs on Claude Fable and checks a plan for holes before a build starts.
The whole platform was a game, with levels to clear, boss battles, and a Buddy at your side.
Now there's BRIDGE Town, a painted Amsterdam and a painted Cairo where my agents work in real time. You can walk around either city and meet Bridget at Basecamp.
The 2019 Blueprint
This is the plan I drew before the AI to run it existed. You can turn the pages with the arrows, your keyboard, or a swipe.
Then and now
The 2019 plan was one big machine. I'm building it piece by piece, on myself first.
A mail desk sorts my four inboxes every morning, and Bridget plans the big jobs.
There are ten characters, each one a model I use, from three model families.
BRIDGE Town is live, with each agent where their work really is.
Basecamp is a walk and a talk with Bridget that anyone can sit through.
These come after the house works for one person.
What I wanted in 2019 still holds: help people get where they're going faster and enjoy the way there.You can see how the pieces work today on How it works.
