I think we’re heading towards a world where change happens faster than any individual can reasonably keep up with. Reading more news won’t be enough. We’ll need help understanding what those changes mean for us personally and deciding what to do about them.
This is the longer-term vision behind Kairo and the Ambition Graph. The more the system understands your ambitions, circumstances and experience, the more useful its thinking about your future could become.
The Doctor Strange example
The image in my head is Doctor Strange exploring possible futures. In Kairo’s case, that would mean taking a meaningful goal and exploring thousands of routes towards it, comparing the trade-offs against what it knows about you.
Say you want to start a business. The route that makes sense depends on much more than the idea. How much time do you have? What experience can you build on? What financial commitments do you need to protect? How much uncertainty are you comfortable with? What else matters in your life?
The Ambition Graph would connect those things. Kairo could explore starting alongside your current job, testing a smaller version first, finding a partner, developing a missing skill, or changing the idea altogether. It could help you understand which routes look strongest given the information available, and why.
These would be scenarios to help you make decisions. Your choices, and what actually happens when you act, would keep changing the picture.
The thinking keeps going
The part I find most compelling is what happens afterwards. Your priorities change. A new opportunity appears. Something you try doesn’t work. AI changes what customers will pay for, or makes a business possible that wasn’t practical six months earlier.
I want Kairo to keep reconsidering the routes with you, and to do useful work between conversations. It could notice that an assumption behind your plan has changed, explore the consequences and bring you a decision while there’s still time to act.
If the world is moving at the speed of AI acceleration, I think we’ll need a machine helping us think at that pace too. It needs to understand what we’re trying to achieve well enough to connect that change to our own lives.
Why knowing the person matters
A goal sits alongside other goals, relationships, responsibilities and limits. A route that looks impressive on paper may be completely wrong for the person expected to live it.
That is why the Ambition Graph matters so much to this vision. Over time, with information you choose to share and can correct, it could develop a deeper understanding of your decisions, what you’ve learned, what has held you back and how your ambitions are evolving. The scenario planning would have that personal context behind it.
The economics have to work
Exploring thousands of routes continuously is a much bigger proposition than answering occasional questions. For this to become something ordinary people can use, the cost of useful AI computation needs to fall considerably.
I’m interested in the full cost of doing that thinking well: exploring alternatives, checking assumptions, revisiting plans and keeping the result useful. It has to fit inside an accessible subscription.
My bet is that something like this becomes accessible around 2030. That timing depends on capability improving and the economics making it practical. It is the future I want us to build towards with Kairo.
A longer-term vision, recorded on 15 September 2026. The capabilities described here are aspirations for Kairo’s future, rather than a description of today’s product.
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