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Comment · 1 year ago
Hi HN,

I’m building Harmonized AIOS — an Artificial Intelligence Operating System that connects directly with the APIs business owners already use (like Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Stripe, and Notion) to offer intelligent suggestions and take action on them with a click.

Think of it as your backend cofounder: it reads your emails, tracks your calendar, checks your finances, and surfaces a daily command center of what's most important. But instead of just summarizing — it acts. Need to reply to a client? Schedule a meeting? Chase a late invoice? AIOS asks for your approval and gets it done.

Why we're building this Running a modern small business means juggling 10+ SaaS tools. Context switching and fragmented dashboards eat up hours. AIOS pulls the signal from the noise and turns business data into daily decisions.

We are starting by integrating:

Gmail and Calendar for communication and time management

Slack for internal team sync

Notion and Trello for task management

Stripe for financial updates and actionables

More integrations are coming (e.g., Zoom, QuickBooks, Shopify, Salesforce), and we’re letting users choose what tools matter to them.

What AIOS actually does Each morning, you get a Pulse — a dynamic brief of what’s going on in your business:

Upcoming meetings + suggested prep

Unread priority emails (and smart replies)

Financial snapshot + follow-ups

AI-suggested tasks based on goals or workflows

Click a suggestion, and AIOS executes using API permissions you've already granted.

Privacy and control We take permissions seriously — users must explicitly grant OAuth access to each service. AIOS logs every action it takes and seeks confirmation for anything sensitive.

Our waitlist is live now, and I’d love feedback on:

Which integrations you'd want first

Where you think AI is most useful vs. dangerous in this workflow

Thanks for reading — happy to answer any technical, product, or privacy questions in the comments.

— Zeke (founder)

Comment · 1 year ago
Humans are lazy. We find ways to make our lives just a tad bit easier every day we walk this planet—always seeking to improve the quality of life through innovation. The computer did this. So did the iPhone. And now, AI is doing it at a scale we’ve never seen before. But here's the deeper question: How can we be "lazy" and yet multiply our productivity at the same time?

Today, I want to talk about what comes next: AIOS — the Artificial Intelligence Operating System.

From AI to AIOS: The Evolution Let’s zoom out for a second and look at the broader trajectory:

AI → Agents → AIOS → AGI

AIOS is that next logical leap before AGI. It’s where intelligence stops being a tool and starts becoming the environment — the ecosystem — that we operate in.

So what is an AIOS?

It’s not just a “super agent,” although imagining it as a swarm of infinite agents working under a master agent is a good mental model. It’s much more practical — and more powerful.

What AIOS Actually Does Think about everything you use to run a business today:

Slack for communication

Notion for notes

Google Calendar for scheduling

Stripe for payments

Shopify for selling

Zapier to automate workflows

A dashboard (or ten) to view analytics

Now imagine one application that does all of it. And then goes a step further.

An AIOS doesn’t just centralize your tools — it understands them. It doesn’t just fetch data — it acts on it. It doesn’t just send alerts — it gives strategic recommendations.

Real Example Let’s say you’re a small creator running a digital storefront. You wake up. Your AIOS has:

Reviewed your sales overnight via Stripe

Flagged a product with dropping conversions

Suggested a pricing tweak or a design improvement

Drafted a Slack message to your team summarizing it

Scheduled a team sync based on everyone’s availability

Pre-wrote an email campaign for your top customers — ready for review

And you didn’t touch a single tool.

The Point AIOS is not just software. It’s software that runs your software. It's the platform layer for the next generation of entrepreneurs, teams, and creators.

The truth is: it’s hard to describe what an AIOS is, because it can do so much. It’s everything we wished computers could be before we settled for opening tabs and copy-pasting across apps.

AIOS will be the operating system for intelligence itself — the true foundation of AI-first productivity.

Thanks for reading join the waitlist of Harmonized AIOS (https://harmonized-ai.com), Zeke

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