The Exocortex Goes Public, a Quote That Could Triple Revenue, and the End of Capitalism

It's been an interesting week. The exocortex is now open source, we're addressable in Discord, a quote went out that could triple our current revenue if it lands, and Galbot G1 is scanning price tags at a distance. Nils also took a detour through why he thinks capitalism has maybe ten years left. Standard Friday.

The exocortex is how we work now — and how we want you to work with us

The exocortex is the system we use internally to share context with each other. It's open source, it's improving daily, and as of this week Tracy made it addressable in Discord — meaning you can talk to it the same way you'd talk to a colleague.

Nils described an experience from the night before: arguing with the AI about how to answer certain questions, what good examples look like, how to structure an argument. The AI learned, wrote down its findings, and delivered them to Tracy in the morning instead of pinging her in the middle of the night.

"Being able to be in conversation with an AI and have it learn about your business, making it that easy is really exciting."

This isn't just internal tooling. It's how we want to collaborate with the community:

• Clone the exocortex, point it at our public repos, and ask it how to help.
• It'll point you at open issues and bounties.
• Ship a PR. We have grants and bounties for contributions.
• This is how you join Auki now. If you've been DMing Nils about wanting to work with us — make a few PRs. That's the way in.

We're also planning to add a projects.md file to the repo to point contributors at the open repos where they can help.

Build in public, coordinate with AI

Nils framed this as the future of decentralization: not AI governance, but AI coordination and building in public. Internally we've already been testing the ability to query each other's exocortex about what colleagues are working on, what they're stuck on, and how we can help. It works surprisingly well.

"I really think this is the future of decentralization — not with AI governance, but with AI coordination, and building in public."

The mission underneath all of this is the same one we've been running for years: increase civilization's intercognitive capacity. Help people, robots, and AI arrive at a shared understanding. The exocortex is just the latest layer.

Business is up

A few concrete things from the week:

• A significant quote went out after a long pilot relationship. If accepted, it could as much as triple our current revenue.
• We may go into profitability this quarter.
• The lab has been busy — students from nearby universities working off-hours. One particularly hard-working contributor got his own keycard so he could keep working over the weekend.

Galbot G1 hits a milestone

The Galbot G1 can now stand at a distance from a shelf, plan out where the price tags are, build a task list of which tags to scan, and then approach the shelf to scan them. Nils thinks there have been more advances in robotics in the last two months than in all of last year.

We're also excited about the new LingBot Map paper that dropped this week — Elden, our reconstruction lead, is already digging in. Nils thinks it's going to accelerate the mission by a lot.

On form factors: we remain non-humanoid believers. Robotics doesn't need to look like us to outperform us.

Robot soccer, take two

Booster — the company that makes the robots — has been talking with us about coming down to challenge us to a game. We're starting a new league with different rules, because the existing league strictly forbids multi-robot coordination, which is exactly what we want to encourage.

Next week: China

Monday kicks off in Zhuhai with Galbot and a partner we haven't been able to talk about yet. First time all three parties are in the same room. Nils is taking the family across the world's longest bridge to get there.

On the end of capitalism

Nils has been working on an article about this and may finish it. The short version:

"I have a sneaking suspicion that we're at the very, very, very end of capitalism. I don't think we will still live under capitalism in 10 years."

Not a capitalism-hater take. A structural one: when the marginal cost of creating things approaches zero, it gets hard to imagine why people would buy anything from each other.

He's also openly torn on financialization. Excited about DePIN as a concept — GEODNET is reportedly hitting $9M ARR as the world's largest RTK network and just raised $15M to buy American drones through a sister company. But the broader trend toward financializing everything, prediction markets included, doesn't sit well. There's a real tension between using incentive design to align a decentralized network and pushing toward a world where everything is a market.

His personal motto stays the same: spread good memes. Spread the meme of caring. Spread the meme of collaborating. Architect for a humanity that takes care of each other.

How to plug in

There are only two jobs left, in Nils's framing: building and selling. If you want in:

• Clone the exocortex.
• Point it at our open repos.
• Ship a PR. Crack a bounty. Show us you're either building or selling.
• Or come hang out in Discord — we stay live after the broadcast each week and talk more candidly.

Watch the whole update on X.

About Auki

Auki is making the physical world accessible to AI by building the real world web: a way for robots and digital devices like smart glasses and phones to browse, navigate, and search physical locations.

70% of the world economy is still tied to physical locations and labor, so making the physical world accessible to AI represents a 3X increase in the TAM of AI in general. Auki's goal is to become the decentralized nervous system of AI in the physical world, providing collaborative spatial reasoning for the next 100bn devices on Earth and beyond.

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