He's Building AI for the Person You Want to Become

TL;DR: Today we’re releasing a new episode of our podcast AI & I. Dan Shipper goes in depth with Alex Komoroske, the cofounder and CEO of Common Tools, a public benefit corporation building a new way for us to interact with AI. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Here’s a link to the episode transcript.

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Most people use AI to get things done. But what if it could help you grow—nudging you toward who you want to become, not just what you want to do right now?

That’s the vision Alex Komoroske is building toward. As the cofounder and CEO of Common Tools, Komoroske is designing what he calls a “coactive fabric”—a new kind of digital space meant to foster human-AI collaboration. He doesn’t have more specific words to describe what this means yet because the paradigm he’s creating is still coming into focus, and he says it’s unlike anything that exists today.

Komoroske has spent years thinking deeply about how we interact with technology. He was the head of corporate strategy at Stripe and spent 13 years at Google, leaving as a director of product management. He’s also the author of Bits and Bobs, a public Google document where he records his raw thoughts and ideas every week.