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Techne: AI Systems and Automation

Voice AI, Agents, APIs and Infrastructure

Technical guides to conversational voice AI, autonomous agents, automation, APIs, and edge infrastructure. The useful details come from systems we have actually built, operated, measured, and repaired.

Robotics + Physical AI

New research desk

Robotics Intelligence Desk

52 sourced people, firms, and institutions. Follow the bridge from AI agency to physical work, industrial constraints, and capital allocation.

Launched August 30, 2026 ยท Dated source map
The Signal ยท Dispatch 002

The Robotics Trade Is a Bottleneck Trade

More capability is not automatically more useful work. Test customer economics, supply responses, and who retains the margin.

By Marc Theiler ยท August 30, 2026 ยท 12 min read

๐Ÿ”ฅ Featured

New Signal ยท Agent Economy

Who Acts When Intelligence Leaves the Chat Window?

Agents can coordinate, operate machines, and pay. The missing architecture is identity, delegated authority, revocation, audit, and a principal who remains accountable.

14 min read ยท August 29, 2026 ยท Primary sources
๐Ÿงฌ AI ร— Biology

The Proteome Revolution: How AI Is Making Biology Programmable

After cracking the genome and building AI, we're turning to the proteome as programmable code. Disease becomes a bug. Peptides become patches.

~20 min read ยท April 2026
๐Ÿš€ High-Performance Health

Autonomous Health: The Operating System Upgrade for Entrepreneurs

Bryan Johnson's vision for real-time multi-omic monitoring. When health runs itself, founders compound advantage into their 90s.

~18 min read ยท April 2026 ยท Part 2 of Series
๐Ÿ“ˆ Investment Thesis

The AI Cost Deflation Thesis: Where the Real Alpha Lies

A rigorous analysis of AI economics. Why frontier model prices follow predictable deflation curves, where asymmetric opportunities hide.

8,500 words ยท 32 min read
๐Ÿš€ Practical Playbook

The AI Leverage Playbook: How Entrepreneurs and Families Win

The practical guide to building competitive advantage now...not waiting for better, cheaper models. Why the "intelligence divide" fear is overblown.

7,200 words ยท 28 min read

Voice AI and Conversational Systems

Technical Pillar Guide

Conversational Voice AI: How Real-Time Voice Agents Work

Real-time architecture, streaming audio, speech recognition, latency, interruption handling, phone integration, evaluation, and a working case study.

55 min read ยท Reviewed August 2026
Supporting Guide

API Integration Mastery: Connecting Agents to Real Systems

Authentication, webhooks, tool calls, retries, and the integration patterns a useful voice agent needs behind the conversation.

35 min read ยท APIs ยท Tools
Supporting Tutorial

Cloudflare Workers and Edge Computing

Deploy low-latency endpoints, WebSocket services, routing, and observability close to the users and phone infrastructure they serve.

30 min read ยท Edge ยท Deployment

AI Agents

Guide

AI Agents for Entrepreneurs: Automation as Competitive Advantage

Beyond chatbots: building autonomous systems that research, create, sell, and automate your operations. A practical guide for business owners.

60KB ยท 25 min read
Tutorial

Building Your First AI Agent: A Complete Guide

From chatbot to autonomous agent. The architecture, platforms, code examples, and lessons from building Axis ... our production AI agent.

130KB ยท 35 min read
Guide

The Modern Developer's AI Toolkit

Essential AI tools for developers: code generation, debugging, documentation, testing, and integrating AI into your development workflow.

126KB ยท 30 min read

Our Products

Product

ContextBridge: Solving AI's Memory Problem

Your AI assistants don't talk to each other. ContextBridge syncs context across ChatGPT, Claude, and every AI tool you use. One memory, everywhere.

85KB ยท 15 min read
Product Deep-Dive

ContextBridge: Technical Architecture

How ContextBridge works under the hood. The sync protocol, security model, and integration patterns for developers.

86KB ยท 20 min read

Infrastructure & Automation

Guide

API Integration Mastery: Connecting AI to Everything

REST, GraphQL, authentication, webhooks, and building robust integrations. Real examples from our Leaflink, Distru, QuickBooks, and Google integrations.

134KB ยท 35 min read
Guide

Automation for Entrepreneurs: Systems That Scale

Identifying automation opportunities, building workflows, cron jobs, and creating systems that work while you sleep.

117KB ยท 30 min read
Tutorial

Cloudflare Workers & Edge Computing

Deploy globally in seconds. Workers, Pages, KV storage, Workers AI, and how we built the As Above infrastructure on Cloudflare.

114KB ยท 30 min read

Crypto & Web3

โญ Featured Article of the Week ยท Week of 2026-08-17

Crypto Infrastructure: The Investor's Technical Stack

Wallets, security, on-chain analytics, DeFi protocols, and the technical infrastructure serious crypto investors need to understand.

144KB ยท 40 min read

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