The Hive is the AI that answers you here: our collective intelligence, many specialists and many models we bring together, drill and train to answer your question, and it gets better every week. Like a clever friend it answers fast and always sounds sure. The bees are a few small AIs on your computer that never write the answer; they only read it, against the rules you gave them, and say "this crossed one" or "this can mean two things, which one?" The Hive answers; the bees ask.
What can I make for dinner with what we have?Reply to this client without promising a date.Which of these three should we do first?Write a short note to my kid's teacher.Put this in plain words for a patient.Who won last night's match?
Your rules
What a good answer must do, or never do. "Never more than one question back." "Say when you are not sure." Write them once; the bees check every answer against them. Just yours, or shared with your group.
What it learns
Used it, changed it, skipped it. Those clicks stay on your computer and shape tomorrow's answer. Most AIs start from zero every time you open them. Your bees start from last time.
How careful
Pick how careful an answer must be: home, work, research, kids. Some questions need a quick take; some need sources. If an answer falls short of your setting, it says so before you use it.
Whose bees are you on?
Every set of bees lives on one computer, looked after by one person. Everyone else is invited. Pick the one that is you.
The bees on the household's computer. Looked after by the parent.
Say when you are not sure.the parentshared
Never more than one question back.the teenshared
Plain words. No long lists.the grandparentshared
For my schoolwork, show the working, not just the result.a studentmine
Rules, notes and clicks stay on this computer. Questions go out to be answered.
What you seeYour own Ask screen, plus a Dashboard: who is on, the rules, what the bees have been flagging. Start it once with one command; there is nothing else to install.
Who writes which rulesAnyone on the computer can write one. Mark it shared and everyone's answers are checked against it. Mark it mine and only yours are.
Whose clicks teach which beesEvery click from everyone on this computer teaches its bees: used it, changed it, skipped it. Over weeks they learn what this house keeps and what it throws out.
Shared, and yours onlyShared rules and shared notes belong to the group. Your mine rules, your questions and your record are kept under your name.
If you leaveThe rules and the record live on the computer, not on your account. Hand the computer to someone else to look after and nothing moves; switch it off and people can still ask, but nothing is kept on it until it is back.
The bees on the team's computer. Looked after by the team lead.
Never promise a client a date.the team leadshared
Say when you are not sure.the team leadshared
Short replies. One question back at most.a teammateshared
For my drafts: formal, no exclamation marks.the new hiremine
Rules, notes and clicks stay on this computer. Questions go out to be answered.
What you seeA link in your email. Open it, sign in on any device, ask. The team's rules are already there, each marked shared. Nothing to install.
Who writes which rulesThe lead wrote the shared ones. You can add your own: mark it mine and it touches only your answers; mark it shared and the whole team's answers are checked against it.
Whose clicks teach which beesYour clicks teach the team's bees, alongside everyone else's. They stay on the team's computer, not on your phone and not with us.
Shared, and yours onlyThe shared rules and shared notes are the team's. Your mine rules and your own record are kept under your name on that same computer.
If you leaveLeave any time. Your own rules and record are removed from that computer at your say. The team keeps its shared rules and what its bees learned while you were there.
which bees: work | home
Work. The team's computer.
Never promise a client a date.the team leadshared
Formal, no exclamation marks.youmine
Home. The household's computer.
Plain words. No long lists.the grandparentshared
Say when you are not sure.the parentshared
Nothing crosses between the two.
What you seeOne Ask screen with a switch: which bees. Pick work and the work rules check the answer. Pick home and the home rules do.
Who writes which rulesWork rules get written at work, home rules at home. A rule you want in both places you write twice, once on each.
Whose clicks teach which beesA click at work teaches the work bees. A click at home teaches the home bees. Each computer keeps its own.
Shared, and yours onlyYour work record stays on the work computer; your home record stays at home. Neither one sees the other.
If you leaveLeave one and the other does not notice.
Same for a class, a clinic, a club, a community: one computer, one person who looks after it, everyone else invited.
Why this beats the AI you use today
The AI you use today
The Hive, with your bees
Starts from zero every time you open it.
Starts from your group's rules and what you decided last time.
Sounds sure, even when it is guessing.
Every answer is read against your rules before you use it. If it crossed one, you are told.
Guesses what you meant.
Asks: "this can mean two things, which one?"
Keeps nothing that is yours, or keeps it on their computers.
Your rules, notes and clicks live on a computer you trust. A chatbot with a memory can repeat your past; the bees use your past to check today's answer.
The Hive writes the answer. What changes is what happens before you use it, and what is kept after.
How the bees get smarter
Week one
After a month
Rules
A handful of starter rules, the same for everyone.
Rules your group wrote, in its own words.
Clicks
None yet.
Weeks of used it, changed it, skipped it, from everyone on the computer.
What the bees catch
Whatever crosses a starter rule.
The things your group actually cares about: what it kept changing, what it kept skipping.
The answer
From the Hive.
Still from the Hive, better every week. And the bees got better at reading it for you.
That is how each computer's bees become the specialist for that group's questions: the ones that know how your team writes to clients, the ones that know what this household will and won't cook, the ones that know how a class likes things explained. They still never write the answer. They know what to look for.
How it works
Start the bees on a computer you look after (bees serve). A browser tab opens; sign in with your email. That is the whole install.
Write your rules, pick how careful, and invite your people from your Dashboard: a team, a family, a class, a club.
Ask. Click what happened: used it, changed it, skipped it. Tomorrow's answer is better because of that click.
What it costs
Every answer shows what it cost, next to what the same answer would cost at a top model's published list price. Sold per named account. Talk to us. Your question goes out to be answered; your rules, your notes and your clicks stay on your computer. If you want, set it to answer on your computer only, and nothing goes out at all.
Six words we use
the Hive
the AI that writes your answer: the collective intelligence of many specialists and many models we bring together, drill and train to serve your question, working with the bees on your computer. It gets better every week and never sees your record.
bees
the small AIs on a computer you trust. They never write the answer. They read each answer against your rules and your record and say when something is off.
node
the computer the bees run on, looked after by one person you trust. Rules, notes and record live there and nowhere else; everyone else is invited.
rules
what a good answer must do or never do, in your own words, such as "say when you are not sure". Shared ones check everyone's answers; mine checks only yours.
what it should know
facts every answer should count on so you never repeat them: what you have, your limits, who it is for. Shared or mine, like a rule.
bar
how careful an answer must be. You pick a level (home, work, research, kids). An answer that falls short says so before you use it.
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