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A quiet movement is forming: entrepreneurs building for human agency — not just agents’ sake. Read our invitation to join the discussion around building truly agentic tech: products that preserve human agency.

We're launching the Agentic Tech movement's guiding principles and how to get involved. Check out our latest blog post for more on the human agency vs AI agent distinction: agentictech.substack.com/p/a-quiet-mo...

AI companies vacuum personal data into closed systems, creating irresistibly integrated experiences... and dangerous market concentration.

The architecture we choose for digital memory will determine which future unfolds. Co-authored with our friends at USV. buildexante.substack.com/p/you-dont-o...

AI agents are not 'agentic' in the way we mean. Stay tuned for more on this topic from us..😎

Congrats @capecellular.bsky.social @jdcape.bsky.social !!

Huge thanks to our partner, the Ford Foundation, and all our advisors who believed in creating free tools for founders to build a better internet. We hope this makes it easier for all companies to develop technology that advances human agency. (3/3)

Built for all early-stage founders by the best. We partnered with law firm @mofollp.bsky.social and experts like @epicprivacy.bsky.social and Slack’s former Chief Privacy Officer to create a new best-in-class default—for building your company and for respecting your users’ privacy & rights. (2/3)

Builder Blueprints The go-to document library for building the best companies with trust. This library was created by ex/ante and the Ford Foundation for founders who want to build the best company worthy of their users...

Announcing Builder Blueprints: a free, first-of-its-kind set of legal docs and tools that founders can use to raise the standard for users and companies alike. New standard docs for a new status quo: www.builder-blueprints.com (1/3)

“when we say that we want to build a better Web our guiding star is to improve user agency and that user agency is what the Web is for” berjon.com/user-agency/

some great folks on the same page:

And if you want to nominate yourself/someone to be added to this pack, let us know. We hope to make it easier for this ecosystem to find one another.

Tech for Human Agency Join the conversation

👋 🦋! For our first post, we put together a starter pack to make it easier to follow some awesome founders, funders, and operators all working on technologies that produce human agency: go.bsky.app/RGc2RZg

Follow these folks to learn more about what's happening in the Agentic Tech landscape!