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Hey guys, this is David from the
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screenless dad and today I'm going to
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show you the world's first agent that on
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boards itself. You do not need to
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provide any context about your life
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because Alfred Black has been designed
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to get it for you. So when you go on the
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Alfred Black website, you're going to
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sign in with Google because email is
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still the single most representative
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thing that can show anybody the surface
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of your life. Although it's very noisy,
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but thankfully Alfred is really good at
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discerning signal from noise. So, we're
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just going to s sign in with Google. And
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when we do that, what happens is that a
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dedicated agent computer is provisioned
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and Alfred is born. This is going to be
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your specific personal Alfred and nobody
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else gets access to it. It's not a cloud
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container thing. It's your dedicated
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agent computer that is powering Alfred.
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And next, what's going to happen is that
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now your Alfred is going to start
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looking through your last 100 days of
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email inbox. All the emails you
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received, all the emails you sent, all
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the things that you read, all the things
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that kept on unread, and all the things
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that you kept rescheduling, what are the
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things that you were actively avoiding,
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all sorts of those things. What happens
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here is that there are a couple of
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machine learning libraries that create a
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profile of all the different behavioral
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patterns that it can build from the
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metadata of your emails. And
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concurrently it starts extracting facts
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about you using large language models so
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that we also understand who is part of
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your life. What are the the different
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companies that you interact with? What
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kind of services do you use? Who are the
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different people in your life? And
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usually from about 100 days of email,
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Alfred can extract about 4 to 500 unique
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facts about you. And out of those four
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or 500, we're going to extract 10 to 12
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that are key identity facts. This is our
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first attempt at grounding Alfred so it
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gets the basics right. Who are you?
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Where do you live? How does your family
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look like? What's your wife's name?
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What's your daughter's name? Your son's
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name? When do you like to get your
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morning briefing? What's your company's
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name? These are basic personal
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identity facts that we want to use so
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that Alfred grounds them. In my
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experience, Alfred gets these right
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about 80% of the time. So, there is just
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one or two that you may need to edit
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yourself. If you want to add it, just
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click on edit and confirm and that's it.
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You can also add some extra sentence
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context if you want, saying, let's say,
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yes, I do decline meetings before 9:00
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a.m., but that's because this and that.
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And that will give Alfred the extra
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context. And then once that's done,
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Alfred is going to compose your first
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brief. This is important because I want
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you to have a feel for what it's going
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to look like to work with Alfred. So,
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you're going to get an email that is
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specifically written for you and it's
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going to give you an introduction from
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Alfred, but also a quick run through of
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your life right now as seen by Alfred.
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So, you can see that all the different
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stuff about today and what are the
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things that have been waiting for the
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for you. what are the different drafts
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that may be there in the system and a
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couple of quiet notes that Alfred has
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identified and just a simple
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introduction. You're going to get one of
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these every single day from now on. And
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it's it's a good way to get a feel for
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what it likes to have Alfred in your
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life. Now, when you go into your
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household, this is the last part when
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you want to confirm your the surface of
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your life. So Alfred thinks in terms of
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four things but the fourth is not shown
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here and I'm going to explain to you
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why. The first is matters. Now this is
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not a task. A matter is not a project.
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Matter is a matter. It's an ongoing
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concern that matters to your life
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because I have about 35 different
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project. But I only work on one or two
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of them actively. And yes, I guess you
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could say it's an active project that
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has active tasks. But the thing is that
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sometimes I have like short-term
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projects and and I have completely
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unrelated stuff that occupy the real
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estate in in my in my mind and I want
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Alfred to have the same understanding of
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what's in here than I do. So I want
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Alfred to have a good understanding of
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what are the matters that occupy real
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estate in here. What are the matters
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that demand my attention? So, for
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example, you might have the Carter
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sprint. That's important. Eliza may be
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having a wedding in September, which
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obviously is something that you're
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preparing for. And then there is an
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ongoing correspondence with the Hol
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Council. And this is just an example
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demo, but I think you get the idea. And
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sometimes Alfred will find out some
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matters that make no make no sense. You
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just remove them. Or maybe Alfred
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figures something out, but it's wrong.
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Like Eliza's wedding may not be in
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September. It may be next September.
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It's actually not that important. So I
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can just say it's next September. So not
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relevant yet. And then right and then
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all I need to do is just edit these
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things. Click on edit. So now it's
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saved. I can remove the Carter sprint
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because that's not important yet. And
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then also chores. These chores are the
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recurring tasks that are important to
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you and these chores are going to be the
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baseline for Alfred to start building
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its own chores. So these are the things
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that Alfred realizes. Let's say you like
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to take a walk between 2 and 3 weather
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permitting. So, Alfred will create a
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chore for itself to check the weather
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every every day at 150 and then send you
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a notification to nudge you to go to a
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for a walk or not nudge you because say,
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"Yeah, weather is not nice. I don't
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think you should go for a walk." These
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chores are automatically created by
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Alfred. And again, if you want, you can
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add notes. You can remove stuff from
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here. You just confirm the baseline. And
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then there are a couple standing rules
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that Alfred populates. These are the
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things that it looks like kind of
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ongoing standing rules that will make
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sure that Alfred's work with you or or
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is smooth. The fourth thing, you can
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always also edit these as well or remove
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them as you wish. The fourth thing that
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does not exist in here yet, but it will
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be built over time are patterns. And I'm
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going to talk about patterns in just a
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minute. But once you have this, you can
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go to the today section where Alfred
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sets the table, sets your desk, and this
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is how Alfred sees your day every single
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day. Now, it's important that this is an
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anti- dashboard. In an ideal world, you
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should not open this ever. But if you
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want, you can still use this as a
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control center. But you don't have to
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because Alfred can always come to you
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where you are. Alfred creates your daily
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briefing every morning and Alfred can
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deliver that daily briefing where you
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want it to. You will get the web app
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that I'm demoing right now. You also get
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Alfred's own email address. So you can
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always email Alfred and Alfred also can
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email you. So if you want, you can get
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your daily briefing via email and you
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can just respond to that. Same can
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happen through a text and same can
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happen through a voice. So, my preferred
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way of working with Alfred is to get a
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voice call from Alfred. When he calls me
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on the phone, I pick it up and then
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Alfred walks me through the daily brief
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and asks me if there are any decisions
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that I want to make. So, basically, I
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don't need to open this because Alfred
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can just walk me through these items and
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ask, "What do you want to do, David?
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Smithson is owed 142 days late. It is
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within your standing limit of 500. So I
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would actually uh settle this. What do
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you want me to do? And then I can say I
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want offer you to do it. So I'm just
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going to delegate it to you and give you
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the instruction. Or I can say let's come
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back to this. Let's put a pin on that.
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Let's come back to this in a week. So I
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defer this or I'm I can say I don't want
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to do this anymore. This is not relevant
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anymore. Get rid of this. I can click on
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delete. Or I can say I'm going to do
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this myself. So I'm going to click on
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do. And I can do the same thing over the
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phone. Right? And when I do that, Alfred
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comes back with the next next thing. Tom
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Ashworth at the school asks for a word
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about your boy. Okay, let's see what we
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want to do. Obviously, I will just want
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Alfred to send a message and say
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something about when to talk or
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something. Now, as you go through this,
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what you're going to see is that Alfred
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will do a bunch of actions on your
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behalf. Some of them are going to be
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specifically delegated to him and some
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of them Alfred is doing on its own. And
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you can see that all the decisions that
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are being made that you are making and
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Alfred is making is always about the
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different stuff that surfaces in your
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life. What happens to them? Is this
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something that Alfred can handle or is
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it something that Alfred needs to ask
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you to do or ask instructions on? or is
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this something that needs to be held?
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Because Alfred looks at it and says, "I
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have no idea what to do with this, so
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I'm just going to put a pin on it." Now,
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what we want is the more you use Alfred,
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the more relevant this white bar becomes
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because we want Alfred to start handling
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more and more stuff the exact way we
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want it to happen. And in order to do
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that, in order to do that, well, Alfred
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will always analyze the confidence level
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of how confident is Alfred in saying
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that whatever suggested action Alfred
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thinks would be the right one, how
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confident is Alfred that that's indeed
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the right one. So that's what we call
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progressive autonomy. And what happens
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is that every time you make a decision,
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that decision gets saved as an
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observation. And when that observation
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starts piling up in the system, Alfred
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starts creating these patterns. And
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these patterns are living organic tools
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that Alfred extracts from your and his
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behavior over time. That's why you don't
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get patterns just at provision. patterns
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are things like an email where that says
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receipt that got filed as as an expense
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item in your financial records on the
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27th of April and that automatically
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gets pulled into Alfred's system and
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extracted as an observation. So Alfred
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can file it under this specific pattern
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and then once observations start piling
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up these patterns are automatically
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created and start populating and
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patterns can have three different levels
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of maturity. Once a pattern is born
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Alfred notices that pattern but it
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starts asking things about it because
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it's like I notice this is recurring but
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I'm not sure about it. And then as
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observations keep coming in, Alfred will
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update it to a confirming state where
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Alfred says, "Look, this is something
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that you're doing pretty regularly and
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consistently. So I think this is what
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the next thing should be, which means
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that the decision is coming in and
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Alfred already can match it with a
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pattern. So you don't have to think
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about what the decision is is suggesting
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that decision, but you still need to
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give the go-ahad." And then once enough
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observations built up, which means that
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Alfred has suggested the right thing to
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do enough times, it can move over to
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acting, which means that over time,
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Alfred learns the rule that every
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receipt from bold is treated as an
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expense item. So it won't even ask you
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about it. It will just do it in the
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background. And if there is a pattern
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that I know for a fact is getting
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deprecated, I can just ask Alfred to
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forget the pattern. So this is a living
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thing that gets updated all the time on
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its own. Now let's take a look at these
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matters again. So these ongoing matters
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are really the centerpiece, the
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gravitational epicenter of your life. So
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let's say we had the Carter sprint and
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we can see all the different
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conversation all the different decisions
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that have been made all the different uh
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uh tasks and all the different drafts
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that belong to this specific sprint and
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Alfred keeps the the state or tracks the
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state of this so it's always completely
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up to date and if you want you can go in
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and see what is what because you can go
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into Alfred's long-term structured
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memory which is the vault which is
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compatible with obsidian which means
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that you can just sync with obsidian and
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then you can open the vault items and
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edit them as you wish but you can also
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edit them in here. So in this vault you
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can have all the different things in
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your life including all the stuff that
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Alfred has identified from onboarding to
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your life through email. It will create
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these vault items and you can start
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looking at them and these are interlin
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and having the proper front matter and
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and wiki links so it has the proper
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structure. This is basically a markdown
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filebased knowledge base of Alfred's
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understanding of your life. The
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important part of this is this all lives
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in your agent computer. You have full
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access to it. You can download it. You
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can take it to wherever you want to. Now
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let me talk to you about two other
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channels which is Slack and Telegram.
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These are running through the runtime
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that powers offered in the background
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which means that you can also make use
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of any other of the channels that open
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crew allows. If you want me to I can I
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can set this up for you. This is
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something that I need to do personally
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for for my users for now. And then as we
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as I discussed so every morning 7:00
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a.m. there is a morning email etc. uh
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you get a simp simple readable version
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of what these chores are and you can
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edit them, you can delete them but in
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the background these are running through
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a durable temporal schedule and if you
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want you can also check and edit the
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code itself but that's not something
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that you will probably do very often. So
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that's mainly it but the one thing there
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are two other things that I want to show
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you. One is apps. So Alfred can connect
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to all sorts of different external
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applications that will start sending
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signals to your life to your agent or
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also give offer the ability to use those
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those apps for example you use Gmail but
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let's say you also use notion and GitHub
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and linear and all sorts of other things
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now comes combo off Alfred comes with an
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integration that gives you over a
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thousand different apps to be integrated
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on demand. So you don't actually have to
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think twice about how do you create an
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MCP server connection to your openlow
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instance or whatever. You literally just
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click on connect and Alfred learns how
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to use those apps on its own. You don't
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have to deal with any of those things.
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Now the other thing with about apps is
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there are four core services which I'm
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going to walk you through in a separate
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video. But Alfred comes with four core
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services. is now obviously the open claw
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itself you can have full access to the
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open claw web user interface if you
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prefer that uh Alfred comes with a
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secret management which is vault v world
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warden an open-source uh one password
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alternative that allows you to store all
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your credentials securely so Alfred
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never actually gets access to your
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credential but uses everything through
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vault warden there is a financial
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tracker which is called shore
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also running on Alfred's computer and
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it's completely integrated. So if you
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want to connect your bank accounts so to
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give Alfred a good idea of how your
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financials look like which I sure like I
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definitely recommend you do then you can
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connect your bank accounts to shore and
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then has a bootstrap skill when it does
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the exact same thing it did with your
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emails. It runs a bunch of machine
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learning libraries to build the surface
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level model of your financial life, your
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habits and everything and configures the
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app for you. So it creates all the
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tagging rules and all the categorization
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and everything and starts managing and
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maintaining this financial tracker app
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for you. The same thing happens with
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plane. Plane is a project management
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tool. I will do a separate video about
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it and offer it comes with plane
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pre-installed. So all the decisions that
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you see in here all the decisions are
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basically tasks inside plane. All your
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matters are exist as in plane which
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means that if somebody prefers using
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project management tool to all of this
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you can use plane but the clear
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distinction here is that you do not need
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to do any data entry because plane
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maintains itself through Alfred. All you
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need to do is open an issue and comment
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on it delegating something to Alfred
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because there is an at Alfred user in
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plane. Again, in a separate video I'm
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going to walk you through. And if you
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don't like to use OpenClue integration
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at all, then you still have the option
18:10
of making good use of cloud. Now you
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cannot use subscriptions with open clue
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or any other third party agent but you
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can use Alfred with code and that is
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because Al alfred exposes a set of MCP
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servers in fact there are five of them
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which are not shown in this in this
18:32
demo. There are five MCP servers, five
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specific skills, and I'm going to set
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record a separate video on how you can
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configure code to act as Alfred and have
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full access to Alfred and that will
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solve all your challenges about how to
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have your code environment turned into
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Alfred. I personally work with Alfred
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through direct like phone and text and
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email integration as well. I also use
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Slack but I also use code cowwork. I
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turned code into Alfred and most of my
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knowledge work is done through that.
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That's not coding for which I code.
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There is an approval secret that is used
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for authentication. That's what you're
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going to need to provide when you're
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connecting the MCP servers to cloud.
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Again, I'm going to walk you through
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that in a separate video. and then a
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bunch of skills for you to use as well
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if you want to use that in uh or in
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code. And then you can also have an API
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key. So if you don't like the existing
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MCP servers, if you want to create your
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own automations or Alfred in like third
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party apps, you can get a full document
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fully documented API reference and an
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API key that will directly connect to
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your Alfred agent computer. Now that's
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mainly it. This is how Alfred Black
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works. This is the zero configuration
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external nervous system because there
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are just too many matters in my life
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right stuff to stay on top of. So Alfred
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is really the externalized nervous
20:10
system for me. So I don't need to keep
20:13
remembering that bin day is today.
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Shouldn't forget to take out the bins.
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And then I also need to send a a message
20:21
to my lawyer about land survey and
20:24
survey and then I also need to talk to
20:26
my neighbor and then I also need to do
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this and as a new father I am very
20:31
overwhelmed and very sleepdeprived. So
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the the list of things on my desk keeps
20:37
piling up and the energy to be focused
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keeps drowning and Alfred is born to
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offset that. So, if you feel overwhelmed
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about the shape of your life, you're not
20:50
alone. And if you feel about feel
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overwhelmed about all the different
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tools you need to use to keep your life
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in check, you're not alone. If you want
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to get rid of being chained to your desk
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and to your computer all the time just
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to keep your life working, you're not
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alone. And this is my solution. Thanks.
