Why we’re building Kyku

The personal AI assistant for the superintelligence era.

You shouldn’t need thirty apps, forty tabs and a password for each to get through a day. You should be able to say what you want and have it done. That’s what we’re building.

01What we believe

An agent that does the work. Not one more app.

Every year the phone gets another app, another login and another inbox. Each one saves a little time and asks for a little attention back. Add them up, and the tools meant to run your day have become a second job.

We don’t think the answer is a better app. It’s one place to ask, and something capable on the other end that takes it from there: it plans, opens the sites, fills in the forms, and comes back to you when it’s done or when it needs you.

That’s Kyku. It feels like texting a capable friend who happens to have a browser, a calendar and a very good memory.

02Why now

Intelligence got cheap. Trust didn’t.

Software can now read a page, reason through a dozen steps and use a website the way a person does. That’s new, and it keeps getting better.

What hasn’t kept up is the part people care about. Will it spend my money without asking? Will it see my passwords? Will I know what it did? An assistant this capable is only worth having if you can hand it real things, so that’s what we built first.

And the day happens on your phone, so that’s where Kyku lives.

03The promises

Five things Kyku holds to.

  • It does the work.

    Searching, comparing, booking, buying and following up, in a real browser. Not a list of links. Today that covers flights, hotels, restaurant tables, research, reminders, and your calendar, contacts and connected apps. And it remembers how you like things done.

  • Nothing is spent without your yes.

    Every purchase or booking arrives as a card with the exact total. You slide to confirm and Face ID checks it’s you; paying by card also asks for its security code. Auto-approval stays off unless you turn it on.

  • Your secrets stay secret.

    Passwords and cards sit in an encrypted vault the model never sees into. The browser fills them in, and the model only ever holds a handle. Your card’s security code is never kept.

  • It speaks first.

    Reminders, price watches and the reply you were waiting for show up in your chat the moment they matter. You don’t have to remember to check.

  • It speaks your language.

    Choose your language when you start, and the whole app follows, every screen and every word. Thirty languages at launch.

04Who it’s for

For anyone with more apps than time.

The planner who’d rather say “somewhere quiet for four on Friday” than read forty reviews. The parent keeping a family’s week straight. The professional whose inbox, calendar and Slack all want an answer by noon. The traveller who always wants the aisle.

There’s nothing to learn. Ask the way you’d ask a person, in your own words and your own language, and Kyku asks you back when something matters.

You stay in charge. Watch its browser live and take over whenever you like, and read or change everything it remembers about you.

05For investors

Why Kyku wins.

Assistants that talk are everywhere now. The one people keep will be the one they trust with real errands. This is what we’re building that compounds.

  1. Trust is built in, not bolted on.

    The approval card, Face ID, a security code that’s never stored and a vault the model can’t see into sit at the core of Kyku. That’s what lets people hand it a card, and the errands that need one are the ones worth paying for.

  2. Memory that compounds.

    Every ask teaches Kyku a little more: the aisle seat, the quiet restaurants, who needs an answer by noon. The longer someone uses it, the more it’s theirs, and the harder it is to leave.

  3. The whole web, not a list of partners.

    Kyku doesn’t wait for each company to build an integration. Where there’s no app to connect, it opens its own browser and does it the way you would.

  4. Made for the iPhone.

    A native app with Face ID, Apple Calendar, Reminders and Contacts, and a chat at its centre. Not a website in a wrapper.

  5. Worldwide, in your language.

    Kyku launches around the world in 30 languages. Pick yours when you start, and everything switches: every screen, every word Kyku writes.

Where it stands today

Kyku runs as an iPhone app in a private beta on TestFlight, backed by its own server. It does flights, hotels, restaurant tables on OpenTable, web research, reminders, memory, connected apps, and Apple Calendar, Reminders and Contacts. The App Store is next.

Investors, write to hello@kyku.app.

Just ask.

Kyku is in a private beta on iPhone. Leave your email and we’ll write when there’s a spot.

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