Overview

How a supersuit compares

How high each one can goEvery column stops at what caps it. Grey means the company holds your context; light means you do.
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A supersuit is the most capable AI there is, superaligned to who you are and where you are going, and data-sovereign: all your data and the skills you build live in files you own. The ceiling is your imagination.
  1. 1Chat apps (ChatGPT, Claude Chat) stop at the answer: they cannot act on anything.
  2. 2AI built into an app (Copilot in Microsoft 365, Gemini in Google Workspace) stops at the edge of the one app it lives in.
  3. 3Industry agents (Harvey for law, Hebbia for finance) stop at one profession's documents and tools.
  4. 4Guided agents (Claude Cowork, ChatGPT Work) stop at limits tuned for everyone.
  5. 5Assistants you text (Instinct, Tab) stop at what their own phone and accounts can reach.
  6. 6Agents with a Linux computer of their own (OpenAI's Dots, Meta's Muse) stop at the computer the company runs for them.
  7. 7Do-it-yourself agents (OpenClaw) go as high as you can build and keep them yourself.
  8. 8Coding agents (Claude Code, Codex) have no ceiling on your computer, but start knowing nothing about you.

Its own category

A supersuit

A supersuit is built on a coding agent, the most capable category there is, and fitted around one person. It holds the whole context of their life and work, organized so it stays true, on a computer they own.

That is the difference that compounds. Every category above works from a slice of you, or from none of you. A supersuit works from all of you, and you can give it all of you because it is yours.

Who holds your context
You, in separate worlds: your personal context is yours, each company's is the company's
Can you see your context
Yes. Every piece is a file you can open, read and correct
What it can do
Anything you can do on a computer, across your whole life and work

What is Supersuit?

Appendix: every category in detail

There are many AI products and only a handful of categories. Each category gives a different answer to three questions, and those answers decide how useful it can become.

At a glance
Category of toolWho holds your contextCan you see your contextWhat it can do
Chat appsThe companyNoAnswers
AI built into an appEach appPartlyWorks in one app
Industry agentsThe vendorPartlyDeep work in one profession
Guided agentsMostly the companyPartlyGuided tasks
Assistants you textThe companyNoErrands by text
Agents with a Linux computer of their ownThe companyNoTasks on its own cloud computer
Coding agentsYouYesAnything on your computer
Do-it-yourself agentsYouYesA lot, if you build it
A supersuitYou, in separate worldsYes, every fileAnything, across your whole life and work
The three questions
  1. Who holds your context?You, or the company that makes the tool.
  2. Can you see your context?Files you can open and correct, or memory and computers you never see.
  3. What can it do?Answer you, work inside one app or sandbox, or work across your own computer.

The categories of AI tool

  • Chat apps

    ChatGPT, Claude Chat, Gemini, Meta AI, Microsoft Copilot, Le Chat

    Who holds your context
    The company that makes it
    Can you see your context
    No. Its memory of you is on their side
    What it can do
    Answers, writes and reasons with you
    Good for
    Thinking out loud, drafting, quick questions

  • AI built into an app

    Copilot in Microsoft 365, Gemini in Google Workspace, Notion AI, Slack AI, Granola

    Who holds your context
    Each app holds its own slice
    Can you see your context
    Partly, inside that app
    What it can do
    Works inside the one app it lives in
    Good for
    Speeding up work you already do in that app

  • Industry agents

    Harvey for law, Hebbia for finance, Abridge for medicine

    Who holds your context
    The vendor, with what your firm uploads
    Can you see your context
    Partly, inside their product
    What it can do
    Specialist work in one profession's documents and workflows
    Good for
    A firm's core specialist work, done to that field's standard

  • Guided agents

    Claude Cowork, ChatGPT Work

    Who holds your context
    Mostly the company that makes it
    Can you see your context
    Partly
    What it can do
    Real tasks, inside careful limits tuned for everyone
    Good for
    A first taste of AI doing work instead of only talking

  • Assistants you text

    Instinct, Tab, Poke, Caddy, Pally, Arlo, and Muse on WhatsApp

    Who holds your context
    The company that runs it
    Can you see your context
    No. It works on their servers
    What it can do
    Errands and answers from a message thread
    Good for
    Quick asks from your phone, wherever you are

  • Agents with a Linux computer of their own

    OpenAI's Dots, Meta's Muse, xAI's Grok Bot, Manus

    Who holds your context
    The company, on a cloud Linux computer it runs for you
    Can you see your context
    No. The computer it works on is out of sight
    What it can do
    Real tasks, around the clock, on that Linux computer
    Good for
    Errands you hand off whole, that keep running while you are away

  • Coding agents

    Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor

    Who holds your context
    You, on your own computer
    Can you see your context
    Yes
    What it can do
    Anything you can do on a computer
    Good for
    Everything, once someone sets it up around you. Out of the box it is generic and forgets

  • Do-it-yourself agents

    OpenClaw and other open-source agents you host yourself

    Who holds your context
    You
    Can you see your context
    Yes
    What it can do
    A great deal, if you are the engineer
    Good for
    Builders who want to assemble and maintain their own

Compared one on one

Where context held by someone else leads: Context prisons