Transcript: 'How We Use Proof, a Collaborative Editor for Humans and AI'

The transcript of AI & I with Every’s Brandon Gell, Kieran Klaassen, and Austin Tedesco is below. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

Timestamps

1. Introduction and the origin story of Proof: 00:02:00
2. From Mac app to collaborative web editor: 00:07:24
3. What makes Proof “agent native”: 00:09:00
4. Live demo—watching an agent join and write inside a shared document: 00:14:30
5. How Austin uses Proof for creative writing and food journalism: 00:20:51
6. The challenge of multiple agents editing one document simultaneously: 00:24:30
7. When AI-written docs are better read by agents than by humans: 00:26:48
8. Brandon’s agent-to-agent collaboration loop: 00:29:30
9. Proof as a lightweight scratchpad versus existing tools like Notion and GitHub: 00:37:09
10. Why Proof is open source and what that means for builders: 00:42:18

Transcript

(00:02:00)

Dan Shipper

Special episode today. We have been building a live collaborative editor for both humans and agents. It works in the browser. We love it. We started using it internally. It’s really kind of taken off inside of Every, and so today we are launching it as a full product that you can go use. It’s totally free at proofeditor.ai. It’s also open source. And we wanted to do this episode to talk a little bit about Proof—what it is, why it’s cool, how we built it, all that kind of stuff.

So for people who don’t know, Brandon, you are the COO of Every, and Kieran, you are the GM of Cora and also the father of compound engineering. I also want to welcome Austin. Austin’s our head of growth and you’re a Proof fan.