You Don't Need a Smarter Router. You Need State.
Everyone's asking for an AI routing layer. But the real problem isn't which model to use — it's that no system remembers what you're trying to accomplish.
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Insights on productivity, AI, and building products.
The Self-Steering Method: Why the Future of Productivity Is Human Direction + AI Execution
Vitalik Buterin's 'AI as the engine, humans as the steering wheel' wasn't about productivity — but it should have been. Here's the framework we're building Exponential around.
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Why We Chose AGPL-3.0 (And What It Means for You)
We open-sourced Exponential under the AGPL. Here's why we picked the most protective open source license, what you can and can't do with the code, and how it fits our vision for AI-native collaboration.
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We Made Our Bounty Board Machine-Readable — Here's Why
Exponential's bounty system isn't just for humans. We shipped four discovery layers — REST API, llms.txt, RSS, and JSON-LD — so AI agents can find work too.
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Your AI Agent Is Probably Leaking Your Secrets
We analyzed the security vulnerabilities researchers found in popular AI agents. Then we fixed them in Exponential. Here's what we learned.
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Introducing the Exponential Chrome Extension
Capture voice notes, annotate webpages, and take screenshots — all from your browser, all saved to your projects.
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Why We're Building Exponential
AI is creating more entrepreneurs than ever — but most people aren't ready. We're building the operating system where humans and AI actually get things done together.
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Welcome to the Exponential Blog
We're launching our blog to share what we're learning about building the operating system for AI-native organizations.
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