The workspace for humans and agents.

Hand over the work. Watch it come back done.

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Universe on a Mac. On the left, a workspace called Halden Instruments with three spaces in it — Meridian launch, Q3 board pack, HX-400 sourcing — each showing the faces of the seven people in it, and two channels under the open one. On the right, the home screen: a greeting, five recent pieces of work with what each produced, and a box to ask for the next thing.

Where it runs

On your Mac. It reads and writes one folder — the one you pick — and nothing leaves it that you did not send.

What it costs

Free to start, $19 a month after. It runs on the Claude or ChatGPT account you already pay for — that bill stays yours, and there are no credits to buy.

What you get

Finished work. Spreadsheets, reports, decks, working apps — and every one is a file on your machine when it is done.

Your own account

Use Claude Code, Codex, Gemini or Grok directly inside Universe. No new subscription.

Claude CodePro or Max

CodexPlus, Pro or Business

Gemini CLIAny Google account

GrokYour xAI key

Open modelsFree, on your machine

What it can do

The access a person has. At a speed a person does not.

Everything somebody does at a desk. All of it, at once.

The web Searches, opens the sources, and puts what it found in a file.

Your browser Drives the Chrome you are already signed into. No API, no export button needed.

Your files Reads the folder you point it at, and writes back sheets, documents and decks.

Your apps Mail, calendar, Drive, invoicing — whatever the job already runs on.

It reasons Hard and ambiguous, or dull and completely specified — it works out which one it is looking at.

Long jobs Runs for hours, on a schedule, while you are somewhere else.

Skills Teach it once, for one function of the job. Every agent has it from then on.

It keeps going When a step fails it retries, re-plans and carries on. You are not the thing unblocking it.

What comes back

One sentence in. A finished thing out.

Three real requests. The pictures are the app, not drawings of it.

A datasheet of 38 vendor quotes with vendor, part, price and currency columns. — **Sheets** Piles of documents come back as rows you can sort, filter and send.

A sheet of invoices pulled from a portal, with a column marking the four that disagreed with their source. — **The web, as you** It drives a real browser on your own profile — already signed in, nothing typed into a login form.

A typeset paper with rendered mathematics. — **Documents** Reports, briefs and papers, set the way they would be if a person had done it.

Scale

Spawn a specialist for every part of it.

Almost everything you do at a computer is something an agent can do. Take the ones the job needs from the library or make your own, hand the whole thing over at once, and teach them a skill they all keep.

The job

“Take a look at the new client and tell me where we stand.”

One sentence, and every part of it goes to whoever is built for that part. Nobody is assigned anything and nothing waits its turn.

Six spawned for this one. They finish and they are gone.

Skills they share

Reconcile invoicesRead a leaseChase a portalBuild a deckCite every sourceDraft the replyTeach another

Teach one once. All six have it, and so does the seventh you add.

Chief of StaffDeciding what matters firstplan.md

Market ScoutLooking the company upfindings.md

Copy DeskWriting the summarysummary.md

Deck BuilderTurning it into slides12 slides

Inbox TriageReading the mail9 replies

Repo ArchaeologistReading code nobody remembersnotes.mdSpawn anotherOr take one from the library

Your tools

Whatever the job already runs on.

Not a list of integrations. A sample of a set with no edges — because it works the sites and apps the way you do, in a browser that is already yours.

Nothing to connect. It uses the sites and apps you already use, the way you use them — signed in as you, in a real browser. There is no integration to request and no API to wait for, which is why the list has no end.

How it runs

It runs on your machine. Add another and it never sleeps.

Everything happens on the computer in front of you. Link a spare laptop, or the machine under the desk, and the agents keep working after you close the lid.

Your machine, and any you add It works on the computer in front of you. Link a spare, or the one under the desk, and agents keep running while yours is shut.

Your own subscription Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini on the plan you have. Or open models, free.

It asks before it sends Sending, paying and posting wait for you. Reading and drafting do not.

It makes real things Sheets, decks, documents, diagrams, working apps — each one a file you keep.

Collaborate with humans and agents.

Open a space for the project. Your team works in it, your agents work in it, and the agents work with each other — as many as the job takes.

One thread.: People ask, agents work, whoever is next picks it up. No briefing at the start of it.
Nothing to send.: What they make lands in the project, already open to the room.
One place to undo it.: A link or a whole room, taken back from the same list.

In practice

What people give it.

23 jobs, and the afternoon each one would hand over first.

Books and money

Bookkeeping Three months of bank lines matched to invoices, and the rest listed.
Tax preparation A shoebox of receipts, sorted into categories and totalled.
Insurance broking Four quotes on one page, with what each one leaves out.
Mortgage broking A client's payslips and statements checked against the lender's list.

A sheet of invoices pulled from a portal, with a column marking the four rows that disagreed with their source.

Words on a deadline

Grant writing One application rewritten to a funder's questions, in their word counts.
Nonprofits Every grant you fit, applied to and reported on — with the donors thanked and the board packet ready.
Technical writing Forty pages of instructions checked against the software as it works now.
Translation Ninety product descriptions put into Spanish, the terms kept the same.
Newsletters A week of reading turned into an issue, with every link checked.

Hiring and the law

Recruiting Sixty applications, scored against the same five things, in one sheet.
Law and paralegal Four hundred pages read for every date and amount, with the page numbers.

A datasheet of applications scored against the same five criteria.

Property and plans

Real estate Every sale on the street since March, in a table, with the dates.
Real Estate / IB A T-12 into the model you already have, and a tracker built to run the pipeline.
Property management A rent roll checked line by line against the leases.
Leasing Every inquiry from the weekend answered, with the units that actually fit.
Travel planning Nine days of trains, rooms and connections, priced and put in order.
Event planning Two hundred replies turned into a seating plan and a kitchen count.

Campus

Students Every scholarship you qualify for, applied to, and the follow-ups sent.
Teaching A stack of essays scored against one rubric, the family emails drafted.

Studio and agency

Marketing agency Six clients' monthly reports, each written from that client's numbers.
Public relations A press list sorted by who has covered this subject before.
Podcast production An hour of tape turned into show notes, timestamps and clips.
Video editing Four hours of footage logged, so every usable take has a timecode.

A typeset document with rendered mathematics.

And the one you do

The shape is the same in most jobs: something arrives in a pile and somebody has to go through it. If yours is not up there, it is not because it does not fit.

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