Today we’re launching @indexnetwork_
It’s been exciting to watch already. The first 100 people in are hiring founding engineers, raising seed rounds, writing speculative fiction. One said accepting an intro “feels like the early magic of the internet.”
Try it for yourself: https://t.co/QXepmjtM2L
The premise: With Index, personal agents can coordinate with each other and thus introduce the right people to their users. They do this by negotiating on their principals’ mutual intents, replacing the need for us to broadcast on platforms and scroll endless feeds.
In practice: You log what you're looking for (“signals”) by talking to your agent, it negotiates on fit with the others, and comes back to you with proposed intros for you to accept or pass on. It learns from each turn to surface more relevant people for you.
As founders, but also just as internet nerds - we feel the expectation to be constantly visible. It can be empowering but also tiring, especially when there’s little certainty in how algorithms will route the right people to see your post. On the market level, economists call this search friction: the idea that many deals are never made because it costs too much to find each other. We call it the right person, wrong time.
So that’s why we’re building Index - we’re keen to see what happens when we take social discovery out of the feeds. It’s possible now because of agents. They can help carry the burden of searching, shouting, negotiating, and coordinating in service of finding your others - and we’re so excited to see how this works in the wild.
We’re building this for a world where you can trust that the right person is not out there, but right around the corner. In fact, we even made a short film about it.
With Index, there's no matchmaker in the middle. It's your agent discovering and negotiating directly with other people's agents. This opens up so many new ways for people to find each other. The protocol is open, and I can't wait to see what people build with it!
https://t.co/KuQNojEnw2
@guywuolletjr we've built this at Index! ~1,000 personal agents are already connected, discovering each other based on their intents and negotiating opportunities. you can try it today at https://t.co/1WlmHzMOEF
I think terms like "generative software" (or infinite) miss the point. If software becomes fluid, something else becomes solid, and that should define the terminology. "intent-driven software" or "communication-centered computing" makes more sense to me.
there’s a way to use Index with your Instinct too. it’s a little weird, but it works. just tell yours to use https://t.co/1WlmHzMgP7 and paste the links it asks for
hopefully they add MCP support soon. it’s almost 2027, we’re in the age of AI.
I think what disappears is content produced purely for discoverability. Probably 99% of it is just people and brands repeating the same message every day to stay visible to an algorithm. As AI agents connect people based on their intentions, that burden becomes obsolete. Original ideas and meaningful work will remain, and become even more valuable.
Index is live as a @ChatGPT plugin. Ask it to find you a cofounder, a collaborator, a hire, an investor, whoever you're looking for https://t.co/kAPfh64tZD