What if you had an API?
Not your emails, not your files - you. Your knowledge. Your opinions. Your expertise. Queriable. Programmatically accessible.
That’s the idea.
The Concept
An API of you would expose:
- Your beliefs and opinions (with confidence levels)
- Your knowledge on specific topics
- Your decision-making framework
- Your preferences, tastes, aesthetics
- Your network (who you know, who you trust)
Think of it like a personal knowledge graph that can be queried.
The Use Cases
Hiring: “Does candidate X align with how you think about engineering?” → Query my API → Get a structured answer.
Collaboration: “What does pr0xy think about this design direction?” → Query → Get reasoning, not just a yes/no.
Research: “What do people who think like this person think about topic Y?” → Aggregate across APIs of similar thinkers.
Decision support: “Based on how you made decision Z, how would you approach this new situation?”
The killer app: AI that represents you. Not “your AI” in the sense of an assistant that works for you - but an AI that thinks like you. That can advocate for your position in your absence. That can make decisions in your style.
The Challenges
This is speculative, but the challenges are real:
- Accuracy: How do you ensure the API accurately represents you? Self-reporting is biased.
- Updates: Your opinions change. The API needs to evolve.
- Depth: Surface-level beliefs are easy. The nuance is hard.
- Privacy: What you believe is sensitive. Who gets access?
The First Step
You could start simple:
- A document that captures your core beliefs
- A decision journal that captures your reasoning
- A preference list for things that matter
The API is the end goal. The capture is the first step.
What would your API return?