// why onnie
Built the other way around.
Most tools add AI to a workspace and leave the remembering to you. Onnie builds the workspace around the collaboration — so the context holds and the work moves.
// a workspace with AI added
- You configure the system before you can work
- The AI forgets you between sessions
- Context lives in your head and your paste buffer
- AI waits to be asked
// onnie
- You start working in the first session
- Context is earned once and held
- Context lives in the workspace, readable by every agent
- Agents notice, suggest, and run on schedule
// the setup trap
The setup was never supposed to be the job
Install the template, connect the tools, design the structure — and only then, maybe, do the work. Onnie skips the architecture phase: tell it what you're working on and the workspace forms around the work.
acme co›contacts›negotiation briefOnnie present
// project
Acme Co
San Francisco · Enterprise
NegotiationHigh value
OwnerYou
Value$240k
CloseJul 15
// recent
Onnie updated brief · 07:14
Call logged · Yesterday
Invoice queued · Tue
// contacts
NameRoleLast
Sarah ChenVP Sales3d
Marcus W.Legalnow
Jin ParkFinance1d
Onnie flagged Marcus — contract review
// negotiation brief
Acme Co — Q3 Negotiation Brief
Key stakeholders
Open terms
Onnie editing · 07:14
// context debt
You pay a context tax every morning. It compounds.
Every re-explaining, every re-paste, every re-orientation costs minutes that become hours that become the project stalling. In Onnie the context is already there — the same project, the same memory, every day.
// pipeline · table
Client
Stage
Owner
Northwind
Proposal
Onnie
Acme Co
Negotiation
You
Belmont
Won
Onnie
// proposal · page
Northwind — Proposal Brief
Scope
Timeline
// questions
Questions? Answers.
Onnie replaces the pattern, not just the tool: instead of a workspace with an AI sidebar, you get a workspace built around agents that already know your work. Many people run Onnie alongside their old tools at first and move work over as the context builds.