We believe artificial intelligence is a transformational technology because it makes intelligence a resource, something that can be acquired and directed. Agency is causal power, the ability to make things happen in the world, and people and organizations expand it by building structures that act on their behalf. Superagency is agency expanded with machine intelligence, and Idyllic Labs builds tools for it: tools that shorten the distance between wanting something to exist and it existing, and that bring out potential in people that would otherwise stay dormant.
We use everything we build ourselves first, and we publish what we learn.
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PLATFORMBusibodyInfrastructure for businesses operated by AI agents. It handles incorporation, banking, payments, and email, and the owner approves anything consequential. Each business is a more granular startup, cheap enough to run that a niche too small or too short-lived to justify a person’s time can still be worth operating.BOOKElements of Agentic System DesignA conceptual framework for the design of intelligent systems from first principles. Ten elements — from context to learning — that decompose any agentic system into the mechanisms that implement it. An open repository and a forthcoming book.PLANNEDConvergenceA desktop harness for directing many coding agents. Context made visible, parallel work shown as branches converging on a trunk, and the operator’s judgment applied in small comparisons that lock as they are accepted.PLANNEDEditorialA system for writing with AI that converges. Intent locked above prose, candidates in small judgable units, sections that freeze when accepted, and every verdict compiled into editorial law. Built on Convergence.WRITING
2026 ESSAYIntelligence is waterIntelligence behaves like water. It presses on every surface it touches, passes through whatever opening exists, and takes the shape of its container, so the container sets the quality of what comes out.2026 ESSAYThe agent bodyAgent products all run on the same models, tools, and prompts, so the parts cannot explain why some improve and hold users while others stay demos. What separates them is the body: what persists between calls, where the boundary sits, and why the boundary is worth having.2026 ESSAYThe granular startupSteve Blank called a startup a temporary organization searching for a repeatable business model, and nothing in the definition says how many people the search takes. When agents supply the labor the set of markets worth searching has to be recomputed, and at the limit the exploration of the markets startups ignore can itself be an automated process.All writing →