Chat was the wrong interface for regular people.
ChatGPT proved the intelligence is real. But it still requires clear prompting — which makes it the modern terminal, not mainstream access to AI.
JOSHUA SEGEREN
I'm building You.one.
Ava is the AI at the heart of You.one. I'm building her to help people figure out what matters and stay with the work—not leave them with another chat thread.Before this, I started the AI team in Microsoft 365, creating products used by over 100 million people worldwide.
Open source · Built from a real need
New Mac. Same Codex workspace.
I built Codex Migrate to move my conversations, skills, repositories, and unfinished work to a new Mac. Now the migration engine is open source.
Technology should serve and elevate human beings.
We're in the age of superhuman AI.
I'm building You.one to give regular people and the businesses serving them massive new leverage: simple enough for anyone to use (yes, even grandma), aligned to their success, and valuable enough to feel like magic.
My main focus
Early You.one concept artwork.
One product. One Ava. Life and work.
You.one is The Guide for Real Life. Ava is its central AI relationship: someone to turn to when life is complicated, there is too much to keep in your head, or the next move is unclear.
Superboard is the Board view and Command Center inside You.one—not a separate product. It gives the work a place to live, with the same Ava beside it.
The goal is continuity: talk it through with Ava, keep the important pieces together, and move the work forward. You stay in charge.
Main focusYou.one
Ava, the AI at the heart of You.one. Guidance for life and work. Early concept artwork shown.
Inside You.oneSuperboard
You.one’s Board view and Command Center. Same product, same Ava. Early concept artwork shown.
Natural motion technologyFluid
Natural motion interaction for the web. Chrome extension and browser-app work, with room for the right partnership.
2016-2021Microsoft 365 AI
Before that: AI products across the suite, used daily.
What I see
I see what matters before the industry does.
Sometimes I'm too early. Usually I'm right on.
I saw and acted on Bitcoin and Tesla in 2015, before they were respectable bets. Receipts here.
Most people are still building for power users. I'm building for everyone else.
Most AI roadmaps add AI to the existing product.
The only correct question is: what could this product be if reimagined from scratch with AI?
User and customer behavior tells the truth.
If users need tips, tricks, instructions, or still are not delighted, the product is asking too much of them.
AI is leverage on all fronts: product, business, platform.
To win, you have to get them all right. The magic is knowing what AI can do now, where it will be in 6-12 months, and where to apply leverage without hollowing out the thing that makes the business valuable.
If the product bet is real, request the strategy conversation.
I am not looking to fill a calendar.
If you're building something important and think it's worth a conversation, I'll tell you what I see.