If you boil down what a tech company is, it's code, compute, collective intelligence, and agents that act. The future is about enabling individuals to work at the scale of a tech company.
This is the original dream of personal computing, but on a much grander scale. It's the evolution from Personal Computing to Personal Civilization-Building.
"AWS for your mom" is one of the ways we've described what we're building with Zo Computer. But this only scratches the surface of our vision.
Gibson wrote "The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed." That distribution has generally favored software engineers. Just look at the way they use AI and cloud computing at work.
One present-day analog for Zo is the "remote dev environment" - at Stripe (where I worked from 2015-2023) we called it a "devbox". It's a stack of code, compute, and context that encodes a ton of institutional knowledge, connects to a bunch of internal systems, and is extremely malleable. It feels like your digital mech suit for getting work done.
Our mission is to build a general purpose computational mech suit for everyone. This requires designing enduring abstractions for compute and AI that are simple, last for decades, and enable the individual to harness powers that were previously only accessible to entire technical organizations.
Our target audience is the next generation of builders - everyone on earth. We believe this is the only way to ensure the future - humanity's rapidly scaling capabilities in compute and AI - is evenly distributed to everyone.
If we get it right, it's going to be an extremely valuable and enduring thing.
There isn't really a name for this thing yet. We call it a Zo Computer.