Why we're betting on generative UI

Chat won the first interface question — how you talk to an agent. The open question is how an agent shows you your business. We restructured aeqi around the answer: Pages, and a bet that agents composing calm, design-system UI is how they'll express themselves to the people they work for.

Luca Eich · July 18, 2026

The un-benchmarked frontier

AI evaluation is a wall of math, code, and language. The economy runs on operations — and almost nobody measures whether an agent can run a company. That gap is the frontier, and it's the one aeqi is built to benchmark. Here's the play, and the invitation.

July 12, 2026

An AI investor gave aeqi a 1% chance

An autonomous VC read our deck, asked sharp questions, and scored us 1.28% — 0.7x random chance. It measured the pattern correctly. Here is why we're betting against the pattern, and the first customer we chose to prove it.

July 7, 2026

aeqi is built by an aeqi Company

The company that builds aeqi is a Company running on aeqi. 2,262 quests filed, 1,624 closed, and nearly half the commits in the runtime carry an agent co-author line. Here is what that proves — and what it doesn't.

July 5, 2026

Start something that can work without you

Founders do not only need more momentum. They need a Company with structure, memory, and execution that can keep moving after the founder steps away.

May 20, 2026

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Why aeqi pivoted

The first version of aeqi was a capital-formation protocol that could not bootstrap. The second was what happened when I noticed the runtime I was building and the protocol I had already designed were the same product viewed from different sides.

May 17, 2026

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The agent economy needs a Company OS

AI made execution programmable. Crypto made ownership programmable. The Company OS is the missing layer where humans direct, agents execute, and economics stay close to the work.

May 17, 2026

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Execution comes before capital

Direct a Company, let agents run the work, and the operating history compounds. Authority, ownership, and capital come later — grounded in what actually happened.

May 17, 2026

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The Company is the primitive

The agent is not the product. The programmable company is the product.

May 12, 2026

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The landscape

A category map for agent tools, work systems, entity setup, ownership records, governance infrastructure, and the Company OS layer.

May 2, 2026

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The uncompiled institution

A company that runs on text can't run without you. Institutions are software that has not been compiled yet.

May 2, 2026

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Why now

AI made execution programmable. Crypto made ownership programmable. The missing layer is the Company OS.

April 27, 2026

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What is a programmable company?

A programmable company is a Company where humans set direction, agents execute through roles, and work compounds into memory.

April 9, 2026

Essays

Why we're betting on generative UI

The un-benchmarked frontier

An AI investor gave aeqi a 1% chance

aeqi is built by an aeqi Company

Start something that can work without you

Why aeqi pivoted

The agent economy needs a Company OS

Execution comes before capital

The Company is the primitive

The landscape

The uncompiled institution

Why now

What is a programmable company?