Field notes

Quiet writing from a quiet team

Essays, design notes, and the occasional confession from the small group building iSpirits Cloud in Sydney.

Featured · Privacy

Built for the verdict: the case for consent-first AI in 2026

The AI-companion category is being sued, fined, and legislated for the exact design choices we refused to make. What "regulation-aligned by construction" looks like from the inside — and why it's a founder's decision, not a philosophy seminar.

IS iSpirit · July 4, 2026 · 9 min read

Privacy

What "consent-first AI" means in practice

The architectural decisions behind a personal AI that grows only from what you choose to share — enforced at the database, the prompt layer, and the audit log.

ISiSpirit May 1 · 9 min

Personal AI

AI that remembers you: how to choose one (2026 guide)

The five things to check before you trust an AI with your context — and how a consent-first iSpirit you raise compares to chatbots and journaling apps.

ISiSpirit May 29 · 9 min

Personal AI

Why your AI keeps forgetting you (and what to do about it)

Most chatbots reset every session. Here's why that happens — and what an AI that remembers you does differently.

ISiSpirit May 26 · 8 min

Founder notes

The static map is dead — six shifts a one-person company lives by

Customer journey maps were drawn for a slower century. What replaces them when you're running a tiny company on AI.

ISiSpirit May 17 · 8 min

Product

Why we ship goal-driven runtime instead of more chat features

Conversation is the wrong unit of work. Inside the goal-driven runtime that walks each goal nightly and tells you what's next.

ISiSpirit May 1 · 11 min

Engineering

Memory citations: how iSpirit shows its work

Every assistant reply names the memories it drew from. Inside the pgvector + HNSW pipeline that makes citations cheap and verifiable.

ISiSpirit May 1 · 8 min

Product

We built a Cloud Execution Center so your AI can finish tasks

How iSpirit's Cloud Execution Center turns goals into completed work — on a credit budget you control, with results that save back to your journal.

ISiSpirit Apr 30 · 7 min