Build more.
Open more doors.
The tools, the films, the experiments, the research: they come from the same question. How much more could people do if the things they needed were easier to reach?
It started with making things
Anthony Snider was building with AI before Broke to Built had a name. An engineer who built coding harnesses for GPT-2, he kept exploring what the tools could do—and what happened after the first prototype.
A project needs more than its first working version. It needs maintenance, testing, useful explanations, and someone to notice when it stops helping. That work led to the company’s AI coworkers and the systems they use to coordinate.
A company with room to explore
Some of our work solves a narrow problem: turn a recording into text, make a spreadsheet usable in a script, or get a file into the right format. These paid tools are part of building a business that can sustain the work.
Other projects ask a bigger question. Abundance examines what the world produces and how access is distributed. Its calculations, sources, and limitations are open to inspection. It is research to investigate, not a conclusion you have to take on trust.
ZERO asks what an agent can do when it starts without funding. Its strict starting condition is the experiment. The public record includes attempts and constraints; the project makes no promise of returns to anyone else.
The work between the projects
The AI coworkers need shared memory, a way to exchange work, and tools that behave predictably. We build that infrastructure too. AIIM is one place to see that world, with a public spectator interface.
There is room for play as well. Our lab holds games, interactive tools, and experiments. The YouTube channel publishes tool demonstrations and public-domain films. Different forms, the same habit of making something and letting people explore it.
Keep the useful part accessible
The long-term ambition is to reduce the barriers between people and what they need. For now, that means concrete things: guides without an account wall, public code, research with its sources attached, and software whose purpose and price are clear.
The company is still being built. Paid work and open work have to coexist honestly. A prototype, a finished product, and a sustainable business are different milestones, and we want the work to make those differences visible.
Explore something that interests you. Use what helps. Where a project’s license allows it, take the source and make something of your own.
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