The UI-less future

I believe we're headed into a future where we no longer click buttons to get things done. We tell our AIs and our agents what we want, and they handle it.

If that's where things are going, Eventship has to be there too.

Step one: agents on the outside

Last week I introduced the Eventship MCP, which gives agents a way to talk to Eventship. It also gives you a way to add Eventship to ChatGPT and Claude so those AIs can work with Eventship on your behalf.

That was step one: making sure Eventship works in the agentic world from the outside in.

Step two: an assistant on the inside

Today is step two — the Eventship AI Assistant. This one lives inside Eventship itself.

When you log in, you have an AI that knows you, knows your events, and knows your guests. Set up an event, find an attendee, draft a message, pull the numbers you'd normally need to hunt for. Basically, the things you used to do by clicking, you can now just ask for.

The two ghosts

Launching an AI assistant is nerve-wracking. I was haunted by two things during our entire journey building this.

The first was Clippy. The little paperclip that popped up to ask if you were writing a letter, and that an entire generation of computer users developed a Pavlovian dismiss-reflex toward.

The second was the support chatbot. The "Hi! 👋 How can I help you today?" bot that has never, in the history of the internet, helped anyone with anything.

Both generations of AI failed for the same reason: the AI didn't actually know anything about you and didn't have any context. It couldn't see your document. It couldn't see your account. It was a vending machine pretending to be a concierge.

For Eventship AI, we wanted to make sure things were different. I wanted to make sure it actually knows your events, your attendees, your data. With that information it can then actually take action on your behalf.

Well, almost. For now, the assistant asks before any action and you have to confirm. In the future, that confirmation will go away.

This is v1

It might be rough in a few places.

We added a simple thumbs up / thumbs down on every response that goes straight into making it sharper, so please be loud about what works and what doesn't. The assistant gets better the more you use it and the more feedback you send.

Killing your darlings

I've spent an embarrassing number of hours obsessing over the Eventship UI. Pixel by pixel. Button placement, modal behavior, the exact shade of pink on a hover state.

If the thesis above is right, most of those hours have an expiration date stamped on them. I'm okay with that. I'd rather build for where the world is going than be precious about the work that got us here.

As my writer wife says: sometimes you have to kill your darlings. Rest assured, we're not killing the Eventship UI yet.

Here's to a UI-less future.

Try the Eventship AI assistant today. Let me know if it falls short — we'll teach it, and it won't come up short next time.

— Hussein