Astra
liveMy AI chief of staff. Tasks, goals, habits, notes. One queue, one operator. It builds my daily plan before I'm awake.
The v2 story
I started my first company in 1996 and I have been running operations ever since. Thirty years: software, digital signage, employee recognition. Different products, same job: build the system, remove the friction, help people do their best work.
The whole time I kept a someday list. Apps I would build. Tools I wanted to exist. A book. Someday meant never. The calendar made sure of that.
Then AI assistants got good. Not "draft my emails" good. "Hold the architecture, write the tests, deploy while I watch One Piece" good. The someday list turned into a shipping queue. Everything on the board above went from idea to running system in weeks, not years.
About the name. In 1998 I started a company called Vision 2000. The name was forward-looking for exactly two years, then spent the next 26 as a punchline. The domain outlived the joke: v2.ca. Today it finally means what it should have meant all along. Version 2. Same operator, better tooling. v1 shipped slower and had fewer features. I keep him around for the memories.
If you run operations and wonder what this looks like from the inside, the field notes below are for you. The teach part is the point.