About Player One

We are a small team. We built this because we need it.

Player One started as the thing we wanted for ourselves. Work spread across several AI tools, none of them remembering anything, none of them talking to each other, all of it held inside whichever one we happened to be using that month.

So we built what we needed, for ourselves and for the people around us. Our own businesses run on it, and when something is missing we feel it first. That is still how most of what you see here got made.

It is a narrow way to build a product and it turned out to be the right one. What a small business needs from this technology is not exotic: memory that holds, work that finishes, and the freedom to change your mind about the software you rent.

There are two versions of the next decade.

In the first, a few very large companies own the capability and everyone else rents access. Your work and your history sit inside somebody else’s product, on terms set elsewhere. When those terms change, and they do, you take what you are given.

In the second, the same capability sits with ordinary people and ordinary businesses. You hold the memory and the processes, and you choose which AI does the thinking this year and which does it next.

The technology is identical in both. The difference is who holds it. We think the second version has to be built on purpose, by enough people, early enough to count, and Player One is our contribution to it.

If you cannot take it with you, it was never yours.

This is the part you can hold us to. Your memory, agents, chats, files and processes are yours, and you can take all of them out whenever you like, as an export you can import into another installation.

We would rather not promise it in words, because everybody promises. The test is whether there is a button, and there is a button. You do not have to ask us, and you do not have to explain why.

The AI works the same way. You connect your own provider accounts, you can connect more than one, and you can switch between them without losing what you have built. Move from ChatGPT to something else and your agents carry on exactly as they were.

How memory works

Power that only experts can use is not power for people.

Most of the real capability in this technology still sits behind a terminal. That is fine if you are a developer. It rules out most of the people whose working lives would actually change.

We were not willing to leave it there. Player One is a web app, in plain English, set up by asking for what you want: nothing to install, no scripts, no configuration files. If you can describe the job to a colleague, you can describe it here.

Ease of use is usually treated as polish on top of the serious work. We think it is the argument. Technology only a small group can operate keeps the power in that group, however good their intentions.

Where we are not there yet.

Two parts of Player One run on AI services under our accounts rather than yours: the embeddings behind the memory layer, and the transcription behind voice. Neither can currently be switched off or pointed at your own account.

The independence on this page is real for the AI you talk to, and not yet complete across the whole platform. Closing that gap is work we intend to do. Our privacy and data protection pages carry the detail, including what we do not yet offer.