Offload the remembering. Your mind is for deciding.

The shift

Steam moved muscle. AI moves thought.

Steam and electricity moved physical work to machines. AI does the same for reading, writing, reasoning and routine judgement, and people are taking it up faster than they took up the PC or the internet.

Four movements

Everything moves at once.

How we store information, take it in, make sense of it and get work done. All four, at the same time.

1. 01Store

   Every file becomes data.

   A PDF, a photo, an email thread, a voice note: all of it becomes something software can read and understand. Files stop being where information goes to die.

2. 02Consume

   Software comes to you.

   It meets you where you are, on your screen, in your voice, inside your tools, instead of making you go to it. You ask in plain words, and the answer arrives where you’re working.

   When Google shows an AI summary, people click through to a result on 8% of visits, against 15% without one.

   Pew Research Center · Jul 22, 2025

3. 03Analyse

   Analysis becomes a conversation.

   One that shows its sources, not a dashboard you have to read. AI drafts, and people decide.

4. 04Do

   Agents do the work. People stay in charge.

   Agents propose, and you approve what changes.

   “2025 has seen the arrival of agents that can do real cognitive work; writing computer code will never be the same.”

Every app

Every app gets rewritten.

Attention and time are the most valuable things we have. The apps that come next will protect both, and leave your mind free for deciding.

1. MessagingThe flood

   Only what needs you.

   Today

   A flood of messages, most of them irrelevant, every one asking for a glance.

   Next

   An agent reads the flood for you. It surfaces only what needs your attention or your decision, and what you’ve already seen quietly gets out of the way, so the important stays on screen.

2. LearningThe pace

   Taught the way you learn.

   Today

   One syllabus, one pace, for everyone in the room.

   Next

   AI that learns how each person learns: their method, their pace. It notices where you are and takes you to the next level the moment you’re ready.

3. WorkThe day

   A day spent deciding, not clicking.

   Today

   Hours lost to tools you click through to find, copy and chase.

   Next

   Software that does the busywork and brings you the choices. You make the calls, and it asks before it acts.

Principles

How we build.

With AI at the core, not added to an old app.

1. i.

   People approve.

   AI drafts and people decide. Changes wait for your OK.

2. ii.

   Answers show their sources.

   Every answer points to where it came from. No invented numbers, and we say what we don’t know.

3. iii.

   Local first, where possible.

   Your data stays on your device where it can, and we are clear about what leaves it.

4. iv.

   Open where it builds trust.

   We open source the work when that helps people trust it and adopt it.

5. v.

   Craft, end to end.

   Quiet interfaces, careful motion, respect for attention. A few things done reliably, rather than many done loosely.

Two words we build by

usermaxxing /ˈjuː.zəˌmæk.sɪŋ/ · n. · our word

Building software that does the most for the person using it, and takes the least of their time.

valuemaxxing /ˈvæl.juːˌmæk.sɪŋ/ · n.

Measuring AI by what it gets done, not by what it consumes.

Our work

On the table.

What we’ve shipped.

Lumi by Loomtable · for Mac

The light inside your Mac.

Free, local and open source.
Visit lumi.loomtable.com ↗

Lumi works the way software should. It comes to your screen, works with your files and tools, and waits for your OK before it changes anything.

More is on the loom.