You're Using AI. But Something's Missing.
You keep hearing that AI is about to change everything. Entire industries disrupted. Millions of jobs reshaped. A revolution in how people think, create, and work. It sounds massive — but when you sit down with the tools, the gap between the promise and your actual experience is hard to explain. AI helps. It's useful. But nothing about the way you're using it feels like the transformation everyone keeps talking about.
You ask it something, you get a good answer, you move on. You come back the next day and do it again. It remembers you a little. It gets better over time. And that's genuinely useful — but that's also all it is. A powerful vending machine you keep visiting. You go to the AI, get what you need, then go back to your documents, your spreadsheets, your inbox, your actual work. Nothing about the way you work has changed. Just one of the tools got smarter.
Or maybe you've gone further. You've set up specialized contexts — projects, custom instructions, uploaded documents. The AI knows your domain now. The answers are sharper, more relevant, more useful. But maintaining all of that is a chore — uploading files, keeping things current, rebuilding context when it falls behind. And every specialized environment you've built is its own island. Your financial project doesn't know about your creative work. Your research context doesn't know about your clients. Each one is a separate place you visit, then leave — and when you zoom out, AI is just one more stop in the same workflow you've always had. You go from the document to the spreadsheet to the AI to the email, stitching it all together yourself, every time.
But the deepest problem isn't any of this. It's that you have no frame of reference for what's actually possible. You can't picture a way of working where your context is alive — maintained, connected, shared across everything you do. Where the AI doesn't just answer questions but works from your actual situation, across every domain, building on everything that came before. You can sense there's more. You just can't see it from where you're standing.
Not because you're not trying. Because nobody's shown you it's possible.