Theory and Research
Not a replacement.
Something you put on.
We do not make AI employees or assistants: we expand the horizons of our humanity.
How we see AI
A suit, not a replacement.
Running shoes do not run for you. You run because you like it, and with them you do it more comfortably, go further and get hurt less. That is how we see AI: what you do stays yours, with your judgment, your touch and your way of doing things. The suit gives you reach.
You decide
Technology should amplify people, never take away their responsibility to decide.
It feels natural
Operational simplicity: if it needs a long manual, it is probably not the solution.
It locks no one in
We build in the open, with open standards and open code.
Culture and art
AI owes something to culture.
AI feeds on what humanity has written, painted, composed and told. That debt is real, and a press release does not repay it.
In 2026 it came out that an AI company bought up to two million printed books, cut them from their bindings, scanned them and discarded the originals to train its models.
For some it was a legitimate purchase; for others, a cultural loss. We stay with the question: technology can move forward without treating culture as disposable raw material.
What we build · Terminus
One workbench to work with any AI agent.
Writing
What we think, in writing.
Essays on AI, culture, work and the day-to-day of building Danil.
- Essay · Coming soon Why AI is a suit, not a replacement
- Culture · Coming soon What the story of the destroyed books left us
- Craft · Coming soon How a good business talks to customers on WhatsApp
- People · Coming soon A conversation with a business, not about the product
- Judgment · Coming soon What we ask of AI and what we keep for ourselves
- Archive Readings on AI and culture
Videos from the FedFlix archive (Internet Archive), cut into shots by Destockd. Public domain or unrestricted in the United States.
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