A letter from Andrew.

You want AI to run more of your business. That's the right instinct. I want to tell you why I started the Infinity OS Foundation, what I think is at stake, and how you can get there without giving your business away.

What you want

An AI factory runs a whole part of a business, start to finish, with people in charge. It's the biggest shift in how businesses run that I've seen, and I believe it will change everything. You want that power working for you.

The problem: the walled garden

• The easy road is a walled garden. The biggest AI companies are launching products that ask you to keep your skills, tasks and agents on their platform. They're seamless and quick to start.
• But a factory isn't a chat. It holds your knowledge, your automations, the rules and approvals behind them, your best practices and your industry know-how. It gets more valuable every year.
• Whoever holds it could help someone copy it. Before factories, a stolen SOP couldn't replicate your business. A factory can. A copycat could buy the same tools and be ready to serve your customers the next day.

You shouldn't have to rely on a promise that your factory won't be used against you.

A fork in the road

• We've been here before. Personal computers, the web and phones each started open. Each time, most people ended up paying a toll to a few walled gardens.
• AI is at that fork now. In five years it may be too late. Today we can still take the other road.

Read the full story: The fork in the road.

Why listen to me

• I'm a CPA. I spent ten years as a marketing CFO, and I've helped a lot of businesses build their tech.
• I think like a fiduciary. When you're trusted with someone else's business, their interests come first.
• I know what a standard nobody owns can do. Double-entry bookkeeping is one: any accountant can read your books, and you can move them to new software without starting over. AI should work the same way.
• I'm not against the AI companies. They're creating real value, and you should use their models. Just don't hand them your factory.

The plan

1. Own your factory. Run it on hardware you own or control.
2. Plug in any AI. Closed or open, swap models in an instant, and use more than one at once. That's option source, and I believe in it hard.
3. Use the open garden. Free tools, each released under the MIT licence, built to work together inside your factory. See the open garden.

Our mission:

Every business should own its AI. The Infinity OS Foundation exists to help business owners build, own and run their own AI factories, on hardware they control, with any model they choose.

We hold ourselves to seven public principles and to the rules in how we work. Hold us to them.

What's at stake

• If we take the easy road: your business runs inside someone else's garden, pays their toll, and may help train the tools your competitors use.
• If we take the open road: you own the factory that runs your business, the AI companies sell more than ever, and everybody wins.

What you can count on

• The Foundation does two things: it keeps free, open software maintained, and keeps the guides for it.
• What you download is yours. Even if the Foundation shut down tomorrow, you'd keep it.
• Updates, not obligations. The Foundation may publish updates you can download. That's no promise, and your data stays yours.
• We plan to be here for the long haul. We intend to keep maintaining this and be a partner you can rely on.
• We may grow into a standards body, like the ones that set standards for accounting, law and engineering.
• If someone can carry the mission better than we can, we're open to handing stewardship to another non-profit, a government body or a company that shares our mission, principles and values. Your copy stays yours either way.

Why I'm doing this

I'm a capitalist, and StarMynd is how I make a living. The Foundation is different. I believe the AI revolution will be the biggest change of my lifetime, bigger than anything since the Industrial Revolution. I have a chance, right now, to help it go down a better road than the last few waves of technology did. With the Foundation, I'm more a missionary than a mercenary.

This may be the most important thing I ever work on. I'm fine to fail at it. I'm not fine to not try.

Our mission, principles and values are built around business owners. That's why the Foundation exists, it's why everything else we build exists, and it's why you're here. It's free and open source. Take it.