Build at the speed of thought.

While staying whole.

Your mind was never the bottleneck. Fragmentation was.
ACE closes the gap between who you are and who you’re becoming.

Collapsing time. Attuning to you.

9 seats · Cohort 2 begins May 10



A command center for your creativity.
Desktop app. Live for founding members.

Not another tool to manage. The intelligence layer beneath everything. Holding context, orchestrating agents, tracking patterns. Move at the speed your mind actually operates.

v0.2.6 · Alpha Live · Apr 23 · Mac + Windows + Linux
Slower playback — easier to follow each beat.
create
  • Home
  • Terminal
  • Agents
  • Vault
  • People
  • Breath
/start /pulse /eod
Sessions14
Tokens847K
Context38%
Tue 21 Apr · 9:14 AM
Good morning.
create grounded W15
North Star
Trinity · Sydney · Launch
15 / 18 Stable
Fresh · 4m
The systems are aligning to you. Hold the cadence.
create high
12 days
W·5 M·22
Integrity
87%
Velocity
0.82
Rhythm
Astro
Authority 3 / 3
authoring
A1TruthGreen
A2ChoiceGreen
A3ExpressionGreen
Outcome
Ship ACE desktop to Joe
Gate Apr 13 · 1 day · matches today's intent
Capacity 2 / 3
holding
C1RegulationGreen
C2DepthYellow
C3ResilienceGreen
Follow-up
Daniel Galindo — call confirmation
8 days overdue
Expansion 2 / 3
extending
E1RhythmGreen
E2ContainersGreen
E3RealizationYellow
Outcome
Newsletter — Sunday send
2 days · drafted
Inner Move Drop into build — 2-hour stretch, clear signal.
Research · Aurora landscape live
What you just watched Multi-agent orchestration Artifact memory Pattern recognition Focus protection
Authority authoring Capacity holding Expansion extending

You used to need a whole
team for this.

One operator. The output of a full team. ACE holds the context so you can hold the vision.

Create at the speed of thought. World-class output without a massive budget. Your imagination is the limit.

Six tools, no thread
One system
Starting from scratch
Already running
Week of dev work
Afternoon
Full launch sequence
One session

A stack of apps
vs. one coherent system.

The DIY stack doesn’t fail because the tools are bad. It fails because you become the integration layer. Every session starts from zero. Every context switch costs you. Every tool you add adds fragmentation.

DIY Stack

  • Every tool starts from zero context every session
  • You are the integration layer, copy-pasting between apps
  • No awareness of your patterns, energy, or capacity
  • Breaks down the moment you change tools or workflows

ACE

  • One intelligence layer across every tool you use. No copy-pasting, no re-orienting, no starting over.
  • Remembers everything. Every decision, pattern, preference. Compounds daily.
  • Learns how you work and adapts to you, not the other way around.
  • Surfaces the pattern before it costs you the day.

The DIY stack puts the pressure on you. ACE is a system that holds you.


This isn’t a demo.
This is a Tuesday.

6 AM
/start

Reads your calendar, checks in on your energy, orients your day around the one thing that matters.

9 AM
On a call

Meanwhile, multiple agents running in parallel. Each a specialist on its own task. Newsletter drafted. Inbox triaged. Reddit scanned for signal. Dashboard refreshed. All while you’re on the call.

11 AM
“Build me a website”

Four agents running in parallel: researcher, designer, writer, developer. All on your specs, holding your voice. Landing page live in one session.

1 PM
Coherence check

The system’s running warm. Four minutes before the next block. Not a break. A return.

2 PM
What are you avoiding?

The pattern has surfaced. Third time this month. The session shifts. The question you’ve been sitting on comes up.

6 PM
/eod

Logs what shipped, captures patterns, surfaces the decision you’ve been sitting on.


Most people prompt.
ACE compounds.

From the first session, it starts building. Every decision, pattern, and blind spot leaves residue. ACE tracks what repeats and uses it to sharpen what comes next.

It builds an intelligence layer no other tool can replicate. Because no other tool has your context.

Your patterns, mapped · hover to explore

Identity Voice Patterns Values Content Coaching Decisions Rhythm Building Regulation People

This isn’t project management. It’s creation infrastructure. For your business, your body, your art, your legacy.


Every tool you’ve tried optimized one thing and ignored the rest.
ACE holds all three.

Authority

Do you know what’s actually yours to build?

ACE surfaces the patterns: what repeats across your decisions, your projects, your blind spots. You build from actual signal, not reactive pressure.

What’s yours. What to release.

Capacity

Can you hold what you’re calling in?

Context lives in the system, not in your nervous system. When the load is held, room opens. You hold more because you’re not carrying it alone.

Room to receive what’s arriving.

Expansion

Are your ideas actually shipping?

Ideas that used to stall now ship. At a speed you haven’t had access to before. The system holds your center so you don’t have to.

What you make. Who you become making it.


Measure the cost of fragmentation.
Then watch ACE close the gap.

Most founders don’t lose time to laziness. They lose it to the gap between tools, projects, and context. Tell us how you work. We’ll show you what it’s costing.

“Cohort 1 described it as shipping at light speed. This is what that looks like in hours.”
Hours you work per week
50
Active projects running in parallel Each new project multiplies switching cost
3
Tools you switch between daily Each tool beyond 3 adds fragmentation tax
6
Hours per week in calls and meetings Each call costs 15–20 min re-entry time
8
Your effective hourly rate (USD)
$200
21
hours lost per week to fragmentation
~15 hrs from project switching · ~5 hrs from tool fragmentation · ~2 hrs in meeting recovery time
$4,200
Dollar value lost per week
$218,400
Dollar value lost per year
137
Deep work days lost per year
42%
Percentage of week fragmented
What ACE recovers. Estimated 65% of fragmentation loss.
14
Hours back per week
$145,600
Value reclaimed per year
89
Focus days reclaimed
ACE pays for itself in
at your rate, recovering 65% of lost time
8 days

Nearly half your week is going to the gap between tools, projects, and context. That’s not a focus problem. It’s a systems problem.

Estimates based on context-switching research (Gloria Mark, UC Irvine) and a productivity model. Individual results vary significantly. Recovery estimates are illustrative, not guaranteed.


Built to be yours. Infinitely.

Not a tool layer on top of your work. Creation infrastructure. Built to hold the structure so your creative energy goes into the work, not the overhead.

Sovereign Your machine. Your data. No one else’s servers.
Modular Build your version of ACE. Every skill is a block you own.
Interoperable Works with everything you already use. One layer, not another silo.
Extensible New capabilities ship weekly. ACE gets smarter without you doing anything.

Built on open infrastructure

Integrated by the ACE engine

Triad logic · Memory graph · Skills · Coherence loop


Built on research.
Not productivity folklore.

ACE is built on decades of peer-reviewed research. Not productivity hacks.

UC Irvine

“People compensate for interruptions by working faster, but at a price: experiencing more stress, higher frustration, time pressure, and effort.”

The cost compounds quietly. Every interruption adds pressure you don’t notice. ACE holds the thread so the cost never lands on your body.

Dr. Gloria Mark · CHI · 2008
Rockefeller

“Over time, this results in wear and tear on the body, which is called allostatic load.”

The body keeps the score. Every unclosed loop adds to allostatic load. Discipline won’t clear it. You need a system that holds it for you.

Dr. Bruce McEwen · NEJM · 1998
Stanford + Google

“[Generative agents] remember and reflect on days past as they plan the next day.”

This is exactly what ACE is built on. Persistent memory, reflection, and planning working as one system. ACE isn’t a chatbot. It’s a compounding cognitive system.

Park et al. · CHI · 2023

The cost compounds. The body keeps the score. What turns held context into creative capacity is architecture. ACE is that architecture.


9/9 Seats filled without paid ads
90 min Average to full system
<48h First workflow shipped
100% Still shipping daily

“ACE has overdelivered on every expectation I could have had. In one month, it has allowed me to create more meaningful, valuable content across five major projects than I could have ever imagined.”

Marc Cooper Marc Cooper · Cohort 1

“It’s like claiming a power that I didn’t even know was possible. For a non-tech kind of person, I used to be terrified about technology. I’m just falling in love with it.”

Eliana Regina Keen Eliana Regina Keen · Cohort 1

“My normal habits and ways I distract myself are almost non-existent, because I have this pathway now. It’s just this real velocity of being able to put it together, package it, and start serving the world. It’s only been a week. How the system’s integrating into my life is profound.”

Joe Hawley Joe Hawley · Cohort 1

“I feel this sense of relief, like I can offload so much minutiae. I feel empowered… more in control and focused on what can actually move the needle. I haven’t been this excited about my work in a long time.”

Jordan Queior Jordan Queior · Cohort 1

“I can relax. I can offload. I don’t feel like my central nervous system needs to be the load-bearing instrument anymore. The system names the patterns, keeps me in coherence, and I’m shipping more than I ever have. It’s not even been a week.”

Aleksander Brankov Aleksander Brankov · Cohort 1

“Some big old patterns have come up this week — and ACE has helped me recognize them too. It’s getting to know how I think, because I just talk and it’s like, okay great, thanks for explaining that… Thank you for following your mission so I can get on with mine.”

Kim Bamford Kim Bamford · Cohort 1

“It’s like you’ve got someone to talk to who understands you and starts the day with you… For me to sit and catch [my wife] up on everything I’ve done in the last two, three weeks, it would be a two, three-hour meeting just to summarize it all. But ACE keeps all of that in context. So it’s just incredible.”

Craig Young Craig Young · Cohort 1

From zero context to full system. Days, not months.

Custom-built around your identity, your tools, your workflow. Once your Blueprint lands, the system builds fast.

Day 1

Blueprint

Identity intake. Voice, values, edges, tools. The foundation.

Day 2–3

System build

Vault, skills, and integrations. Assembled before you arrive.

Day 4–5

2 × 1:1 build sessions

4 hours with Nikhil. System comes alive in your hands.

Ongoing

Compound

Daily use. Weekly updates. The system deepens as you do.


Custom vault + skills

Built around your identity

2 × 1:1 build sessions

4 hours with Nikhil

Desktop app + VS Code + Telegram

Three ways to access your system

Live build calls

Exclusive access

Lifetime updates

Every new skill, every upgrade

Founding network

The people building at the frontier

Video library

Sessions + masterclasses

Compounding system

Every session deepens the intelligence

Your investment

$2,997

Cohort 1 · $2,497 Cohort 2 · $2,997 Cohort 3 · $3,497

Earlier members believed first. The rate honors that.

Every week, the system deepens.

We don’t do fixed roadmaps. The people building with us shape where this goes. The faster you build with us, the faster this ships.

Now — Live
Your foundation, running.
Custom vault + skills. Memory graph. Daily commands. Desktop app (Mac + Windows). Telegram mobile access. 1:1 build session. Your system, live from day one.
Shipping Next
Always-on background agents.
Agents that keep working after the call ends. Drafting, researching, and watching signals while you sleep. HRV coherence tracking plus T-mode: trusted collaborator access, so a partner or team member can read your context and propose moves that you approve. Both in active testing.
On the Horizon
Shaped by the founders building with us.
  • Native mobile app
  • Skills ecosystem — community-built, shareable, composable
  • Live co-working — shared context, parallel sessions
  • Sovereign mode — run fully local with Ollama models
  • AI planning canvas — visual strategy with node-based planning
  • Network intelligence — community signal layer

Nikhil Kale

Nikhil Kale

Creator of ACE

I built ACE because I needed it. Multiple ventures. Coaching clients. Building technology. Slowly fragmenting under the weight of my own ambition.

Every system I tried asked me to become less of myself. Simpler goals. Fewer projects. Pick a lane. I refused. The gap between who I was and who I was becoming was widening, and no existing tool could close it. So I built the one that could. An engine that holds all of it, and keeps me coherent while I do.

ACE is what emerged. Not a productivity tool. A cognitive exoskeleton. It holds the structure so you can do what only you can do. Built to move at the speed of thought, while staying whole.

7-Figure
Entrepreneur
3x
Founder
5,000+
Hours coaching
Best-selling author

Before you decide.

ACE is a personal operating system powered by AI. It lives on your machine, learns your voice, tracks your commitments, coaches you through resistance, and ships what you describe. All from a single command line. One system that holds your business, your body, and your creative life in coherence. A cognitive exoskeleton for everything you’re building.
Founders, coaches, and builders running multiple projects who refuse to choose between depth and speed. If you’ve outgrown productivity apps but aren’t ready to hire a team of five, ACE is the infrastructure layer between you and everything you’re building.
The founding rate is $2,997. That includes your full custom build, 1:1 onboarding, and lifetime access. Every update, every new skill, every system evolution as ACE grows. No subscriptions to ACE. No recurring fees. You own your system. The AI layer runs on Claude Pro ($20/month) to start. If you become a power user, Claude Max ($100/month) is recommended. We’ll walk you through setup on your call.
Completely. ACE runs local-first on your machine. Every piece of your system lives as plain Markdown files you own. Your journal, your decisions, your patterns, your intelligence. Read, edit, or move it anywhere. No lock-in. No proprietary formats. No cloud dependency. If you ever leave ACE, you take everything with you. Sovereignty isn’t a feature. It’s the architecture.
No. You need to be willing to go deep, not write code. The system meets you where you are. Some founding members are developers. Others are coaches, creatives, and executives who had never opened a terminal before ACE.
The architecture, vault, skills, and memory layer are production-ready. What Cohort 1 runs daily. The native desktop app (v0.2.6) is in alpha and evolving weekly alongside founding members. If you prefer, you can run the same system through VS Code or Claude CLI. Some founders already do. Telegram works for mobile today.
You’ll get a 30-minute call with me. That call is a real conversation. Not a pitch. We’ll look at what you’re building, where you’re stuck, and figure out together whether ACE is the right fit. If it is, your system starts building within days.

The gap between who you are
and who you’re becoming
is what brought you here.

ACE is how it closes. Cohort 2 is forming now.

Limited seats · We begin May 10