KIZAKI

For twenty-five years, computing was something institutions ran and everyone else received. Banks were clearing your checks by 1959. Airlines were booking your seats by the early sixties. Companies too small for a mainframe rented computer time by the hour. Then came 1979 — VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet, and people start buying $2,000 Apple IIs just to run a program. The personal computer brought something different: computation you operated yourself.

Today, there's an increasing number of service companies seeking to employ AI (instead of humans) to get better and faster outcomes. While there are reasons to believe this will be impactful, there are simply tasks that benefit from being owned by the user and not by a service company. Some work runs on personal judgment, and personal judgment cannot be outsourced by definition. The moment your taste is decided by a vendor, it is no longer your taste. AI can automate a great deal of tasks, but it doesn't know what it cannot know. What you'd flag, what you'd wave through, what you'd never touch. The standards you have and the exceptions you make. Why this one, and not the nearly identical other one. That knowledge exists only in you, and it's the difference between an answer and your answer.

The current ecosystem overlooks a missing category: the parallel to the personal computer. Software that you own and operate instead of relying on a third party to decide what works best for you. What if software could better reflect your judgement, being shaped around what you want in the way you want it?

We call this personally authored computing, or PAC. You start with a base workflow and simply use it. Agree, disagree, say why, and the system's judgment bends toward yours. The corrections accumulate into a working model of how you decide. Instead of automating tasks away, PAC seeks to enhance your thinking, helping you understand how you, and others, best like things done. We believe PAC will allow AI to help us gain control over our decision making.

Kizaki is the platform for PAC. Built-in workflows solve pain points from day one, before it knows anything about you. Value then compounds: every correction — what the system saw, what it decided, what you changed, why — is visible, testable against your own history, yours to own. When your workflows need to change, Kizaki reshapes with you, collaboratively and securely, without losing what you've taught.

We're building Kizaki to help people gain control over this new type of software. If you're interested in this mission, we'd love to have you join our waitlist.

Cheers!

Joshua, Andy, and Bernice

The Kizaki Team