The Journal
A running record from the founder — on what I am building and what I am learning in the open.
- Origins. — Eight years as the human integration layer — before I wrote a line of code.
- The bridge, not the replacement. — Uber still drives. Swiggy still delivers. IRCTC still books. I sit above them.
- Six phases between what you said and what you meant. — Every sentence enters TOMO once and exits as a handoff. Here are the phases in between.
- How TOMO knows you without you telling it. — Stars, likes and five-star ratings never made software understand anyone. A different substrate does.
- CAC is the wrong unit of the agentic era. — For twenty years the internet priced a user. TOMO prices an intent. Introducing CPRI and CPC — proprietary to AUTOMOBNXT.
- Five years of AI, and where I am placing my bet. — 2021 to 2026: from transformers to orchestration. The layer that wins is the one nobody is pricing.
- The moat was never the algorithm. — The hard part of building TOMO was never the algorithm. It was building it for how people actually move — sovereign, multilingual, built for the services people already use. That is the moat, and it is the part nobody clones in a weekend.
- The brain moves in-house. — TOMO built its own intent model — AUTOMOBNXT SLM V3 — wired into its own server, in a single process. The brain is coming home.
- Where all of this is going. — Every piece in this journal was building one thing — an intelligence that is simply there. Here is the whole picture.