Building a 24h Life Agent
The architecture behind an always-on AI that truly understands your life through continuous multimodal context capture.
Beyond Chatbots: The Life Agent Paradigm
Traditional AI assistants are reactive. You ask a question; they answer. You give a command; they execute. But this interaction model fundamentally limits what AI can do for you.
A Life Agent operates differently. It maintains continuous awareness of your context, builds long-term understanding of your patterns, and takes proactive action when appropriate. It's not a tool you use—it's a partner that works alongside you 24 hours a day.
The Architecture of Always-On AI
Building a 24h Life Agent requires solving several fundamental challenges:
1. Continuous Multimodal Capture
The foundation is comprehensive context capture across multiple modalities:
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Input Modalities │
├─────────────┬─────────────┬─────────────┬───────────────┤
│ Audio │ Biometric │ Location │ Digital │
│ (Ring/Pal) │ (Ring) │ (Phone) │ (Integrations)│
└──────┬──────┴──────┬──────┴──────┬──────┴───────┬───────┘
│ │ │ │
v v v v
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Real-time Processing Layer │
│ ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ │
│ │ Speech │ │ Health │ │ Context │ │ Event │ │
│ │ → Text │ │ Metrics │ │ Detect │ │ Extract │ │
│ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ │
└─────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┘
│
v
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Semantic Memory Store │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Each modality provides unique context that, when combined, creates a complete picture of your life moment.
2. Energy-Aware Processing
Not all moments are equal. The Ring's biometric data helps the agent understand:
- Peak energy windows for suggesting demanding tasks
- Recovery periods for lighter work or breaks
- Stress indicators for intervention or support
- Sleep quality for next-day planning
This energy awareness transforms the agent from a general assistant to a personalized productivity partner.
3. The TDRC Worker System
Proactive action requires a robust execution system. Paean's Task-Driven Remote CLI (TDRC) enables:
- Autonomous task execution on your local machine
- Controlled permissions with approval workflows
- Integration with development tools and system commands
- Continuous operation even when you're away
// Example TDRC workflow
const workflow = {
trigger: "meeting_ended",
condition: "participant.includes('engineering_lead')",
actions: [
{ type: "summarize_meeting", store: "notes" },
{ type: "extract_action_items", assign: "task_list" },
{ type: "notify", channel: "slack", message: "@team - meeting summary ready" }
]
};
4. Privacy-First Data Architecture
A 24h agent handles incredibly sensitive data. Paean's architecture ensures:
Local-First Processing
- Speech recognition runs on-device when possible
- Sensitive data never leaves your machine without explicit consent
- Cloud processing uses encrypted, anonymized representations
Selective Sync
- You control exactly what syncs to cloud
- Granular permissions by data type and time range
- Complete deletion available at any time
Zero-Knowledge Design
- We can't read your raw data even if we wanted to
- Encryption keys are derived from your credentials
- No backdoors, no exceptions
The Experience of Having a Life Agent
Using a 24h Life Agent feels different from using any other technology:
Morning Briefing Before you even ask, the agent has prepared:
- Summary of emails that need attention
- Meeting prep based on past interactions with attendees
- Task suggestions optimized for your energy forecast
Contextual Awareness When you're coding and mention "that API endpoint from the database discussion," the agent knows exactly what you mean—it was there for that conversation.
Proactive Support The agent notices you've been in deep work for 3 hours with declining heart rate variability. It suggests a break and offers to hold notifications.
Building for the Future
The 24h Life Agent paradigm is still early. We're actively developing:
- Multimodal reasoning across audio, visual, and text
- Extended context windows for processing more history
- Collaborative agents that work together on complex goals
- Hardware improvements for always-on sensing
Join us in building the future of personal AI.