This Week’s Recap
We’re three weeks into our private beta! The product is improving quickly, and more big changes are coming. If you haven't already, you can join the waitlist here.
This week, we shipped a redesigned memories and conversations UI, got sent our first user-built app, announced a user dinner in New York, and pushed a lot of updates to the platform. Much more coming soon!
We're hiring! 📈
If you're an AI or full-stack engineer who wants to build the future of personal intelligence from the ground up, we’d love to chat. Email [email protected] and tell us about yourself and what you're uniquely good at/passionate about (seriously, anything—poker, music, sports, emulators, etc.). Our process is fast: we'll chat about your values and build something together.
If you know someone who might be a good fit, let us know: we’ll personally pay you $5,000 if you refer somebody that we hire. 🤑
PRODUCT
✨ Brand New UI!
The team shipped a big UI change last week! Instead of scrolling through an endless timeline, you can now see all of your memories in one place. We also added a thread view for easy navigation and management of your existing conversations, both internal and external.
More big UI changes are coming—stay tuned for a completely revamped profile page. 👀
COMMUNITY
👨👩👧👦 User Dinner in New York!
We’re having a user dinner in New York on May 13. If you’re on the beta, you’ll receive a Luma invite via email in the next few days.
At the event, you’ll meet our team, chat with us and your fellow cohort members about the product, and get a sneak peek at some things that are on the horizon. Most importantly, we’ll have free dinner catered by our friends at Antidote🍴, as well as a raffle for a Sentience hoodie!
Keep your eyes out for the invite, which will contain time and location information. ✉️
COMMUNITY
🔒 Hamza Ammar’s LockIn, built on Sentience
Hamza Ammar, a student at University of Waterloo and an avid Sentience user, built an anti-procrastination app on top of the Sentience platform last week. Hamza caught himself doomscrolling during finals and decided to use his Sentience to hold himself accountable.
LockIn queries your Sentience memories via API, detects when you've been distracted for at least 5 minutes, and sends an escalating series of notifications to your phone, starting with a gentle nudge and getting more aggressive until you get back to work. The app supports focus deadlines like "exam at 4pm" with a live countdown integrated into every alert.
“I built this during finals because I kept losing hours to doomscrolling without realizing it. Sentience was the only tool I found that could actually tell what I was doing, not just that I was at my computer.”
The app is open source and is installable via Homebrew here.
COMMUNITY
⭐ Prompt of the week
On this week's edition of "using Sentience as a co-author":
Chris Sove, a beta user and founder of Papre, just won a pitch competition and is heading to New York to present in front of thousands. This week, Chris handed his dense whitepaper to Sentience to convert into a long-form article with the prompt "can you rewrite as a long-form blog in my voice?"
"I've had a ton of success using LLMs to write for me, but Sentience takes out extra steps!" says Chris. The blog argues that contracts haven't kept up with software due to a gap between what gets signed and what gets executed, and proposes a framework for turning contract clauses into reusable, executable modules. Read it below:
RELEASE NOTES
📜 What’s new? (v1.0.37-v1.0.47)
Note grid cards: Restored to the honey theme for better visual consistency.
Audio summaries: Audio card summaries now render with rich formatting (bold, lists, headings).
Memories: There’s now a floating "ask Sentience anything" composer in the memories grid, letting you start a conversation from anywhere.
External conversations: Shared external conversation threads are clearer, showing the actual visitor's name/email and real avatars.
Apple Notes integration: Connection flow is improved, making folder access issues super obvious and easy to fix.
Chat and sidebar: Consistent error messages for chat issues, new button to start a blank chat thread, and unified meeting join/focus experience.
Meetings: Smarter detection/recording logic, notifications respect permissions/microphone state, and improved clarity when permissions are needed.
General polish: UI and workflow improvements across chat, sidebars, and the memories grid.