Universe

Ask @researcher to run the experiments all weekend and keep the notebook

You name it, you teach it your work, and it runs on your Mac using the plan you already pay for. What comes back is done.

Runs on Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok — the plan you already pay for

Say the question once. Come back Monday. Read the notebook.

No prompt to re-type every hour and no run to babysit. You say what you are testing and where it must stop and ask, and it keeps going — on your Mac, on your GPUs — until you come back.

  1. You say what you are testing

    "Ablate the three components on the small set, on the lab box, and stop before you touch the loss." The repo, the data and the PDFs are already in the folder.

  2. It runs the next one from the last

    Every run is a step you can read while it happens. When one finishes it writes the result down, decides what to try next, and says why — and when the obvious approach is spent it says that too, and tries another.

  3. You get the notebook

    What ran, what moved, what it wants to try next, and what it could not verify — with every number pointing at the run that produced it.

It keeps going while you teach

The runs you would forget to queue are the ones it runs on a schedule — on your GPUs, with your logins — and each one ends with a line in the notebook.

  • Every nightThe next run in the sweep, chosen from the last a line in the notebook, and the result in the table
  • Every morning, 7:00The notebook since yesterday a summary: what ran, what moved, what it wants to try next
  • MondayarXiv and the NSF and NIH calls, for your keywords new papers on the reading table, a draft started for any grant you fit
  • Two weeks outWhat a submission still needs a note naming the missing attachment or the figure without a caption

What you get back is the results, not a summary of them

Chat can tell you what an ablation should show. Universe runs it, on your hardware, and what comes back is the table, the draft with the numbers already in it, and the notebook that says how it got them.

It works where the lab already is

A chat window can only hand you text. This runs on your Mac, with your shell, signed into arXiv, the portals and your mail as you — so it can launch the run and write the notebook.

Your browser. arXiv, PubMed, Grants.gov and the journal portal, in the Chrome you are already signed into. It reads the paper behind the paywall your library pays for.

Your files. The repo, the data and the PDFs in one folder — read and written there. The notebook and the results are files beside them, and nothing gets uploaded anywhere.

Your mail and calendar. The reviewer reply and the note to your coauthors are drafts from your address; the deadline for the resubmission and the grant are on your calendar.

Your lab. A room for the group where the agent is in the conversation — a coauthor can ask it what run 14 did from their own Mac.

Your GPUs. Your shell is its shell, so the lab's GPU box is one ssh away and the small runs go on the Mac's own. A second Mac in the lab keeps the sweep going while the laptop is shut. Your hardware, your data, nothing leaving either.

Your own plan. It runs on the Claude or ChatGPT subscription you already pay for. That bill stays yours, and we don't mark it up.

Nineteen other trades

Same product, different job. If yours isn't on the list, that's all it is — a list. The work is the same shape.

Try it on real work.

Download it, point it at a folder, and give it a job you would otherwise do yourself.