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Show HN: Aident, agentic automations as plain-English playbooks

https://aident.ai/
4•ljhskyso7•1h ago
Hi HN — I’m Kimi, founder of Aident AI.

A couple years ago, I cold-started a startup and tried to automate my outreach pipeline with a patchwork: RPA + Zapier + "just some ChatGPT".

It worked… until it didn’t. Every time I tweaked the strategy, the automation snapped. The system wasn’t built for change — it was built for wiring.

And that’s when it hit me: AI is finally smart enough to do real work, but we still don’t have a clean way to communicate the work to it: Drag-and-drop flows are too rigid; Scripts are too fragile; Prompts are too ephemeral. I kept thinking: why can’t automation be something you can simply read, edit, and trust?

So we built Aident around one idea: the source of truth is a document.

You write a Playbook in plain English (objectives, roles, handoffs), Aiden helps refine it, then we compile it into a reliable agent team (with built-in PM + QA roles) that executes skills with your 250+ tools (Gmail, Slack, Notion, Google Sheets/Calendar, GitHub, etc.). You can test it, schedule it, and then forget about it - it will keep delivering, even when you sleep.

It’s still early beta and can be bumpy sometimes, but I’d really appreciate you give it a try and let me know your feedbacks:

What workflow would you try first? Where would this be a bad fit (compliance, data sensitivity, team size)? What would make you trust it enough to run unattended?

Try @ https://app.aident.ai

Satya Nadella: a masterclass in saying everything while promising nothing

https://jpcaparas.medium.com/satya-nadella-at-davos-a-masterclass-in-saying-everything-while-prom...
1•pjmlp•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Qrystal Uplink – External watchdog for IoT fleets, setup in <5 mins

https://qrystaluplink.io/
1•mikayelgr•7m ago•0 comments

New chip speeds up computing and reduces energy consumption

https://www.polimi.it/en/the-politecnico/news/news-detail/titolo-chip-del-politecnico-accelera-il...
1•gionn•9m ago•0 comments

Mystery Plane Spotted Flying in Sky at Area 51 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1xujbcCVvU
1•nomilk•11m ago•1 comments

Can you still run old App Store apps?

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/22/can-you-still-run-old-app-store-apps/
2•ingve•12m ago•0 comments

pdit: Output-Focused Python Editor

https://pdit.dev/
1•ichverstehe•13m ago•0 comments

Software occlusion culling in Block Game

https://enikofox.com/posts/software-rendered-occlusion-culling-in-block-game/
1•me4502•14m ago•0 comments

Can Humans Smell Rain Better Than Sharks Smell Blood?

https://www.safewaters.ai/posts/humans-smell-rain-better-than-sharks-smell-blood
2•thunderbong•16m ago•0 comments

Learn Japanese alphabet fast in 3 minutes [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qk4gCZuSjk
2•programmexxx•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI-Powered Virtual Haircut Simulator with 360° View

https://shorthairstyles.app/
1•txttosrt•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Spine – Verifiable audit logs with BLAKE3 and Ed25519

https://github.com/EulBite/spine-oss
1•mattiaaleo•18m ago•0 comments

Anna's Archive perd son domaine en .org mais reste debout

https://korben.info/annas-archive-domaine-org-suspendu.html
1•frunkp•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: FlowWatch – Decorator-first file watcher for Python workflows

https://github.com/MichielMe/flowwatch
1•michielme•24m ago•0 comments

Anthropic writes Constitution for Claude it thinks will soon be proven misguided

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/22/anthropic_claude_constitution/
1•beardyw•24m ago•0 comments

The Data Box; Why "Smarter" AI Feels Dumber

https://blog.nimbial.com/pages/the_data_box
2•ajayarama•26m ago•1 comments

Erdős Problem #347 Solved (AI assisted math)

https://www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/347
1•tzury•28m ago•0 comments

Designing an Authentication System: A Dialogue in Four Scenes (1997)

https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/dialogue.html
1•vismit2000•35m ago•0 comments

Oldest cave painting could rewrite human creativity timeline

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx1pnlzer5o
1•griffzhowl•40m ago•0 comments

Anthropic's new Claude 'constitution': be helpful, and don't destroy humanity

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/865185/anthropic-claude-constitution-soul-doc
1•xparadigm•41m ago•0 comments

Starlink in Iran: How the regime jams the service and what helps against it

https://www.heise.de/en/background/Starlink-in-Iran-How-the-regime-jams-the-service-and-what-help...
3•DeathArrow•49m ago•0 comments

Semantica: Open-source semantic layers, knowledge graphs, and GraphRAG

https://github.com/Hawksight-AI/semantica
2•kaifahmad1•54m ago•1 comments

New Security Vulnerability Database Launches in the EU

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2026/01/20/new-security-vulnerability-database-launc...
2•cedricbonhomme•56m ago•1 comments

Why Greenland Looks (It's Not) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK7yTJ8Mk7A
1•handfuloflight•1h ago•0 comments

Graph of All Human Languages

https://dr.eamer.dev/datavis/poems/language/network.html
4•samwho•1h ago•0 comments

Mixing incentives and penalties found key to cutting carbon emissions long term

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-incentives-penalties-key-carbon-emissions.html
1•PaulHoule•1h ago•0 comments

With this tool, you can enjoy NAS functionality even without a NAS

https://quicksend.chat/
1•foodhome•1h ago•0 comments

The Tighter Weave: On Editing and Not Editing

https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/place-and-revolution/articles/the-tighter-weave
1•samclemens•1h ago•0 comments

OpenSkills – Stop bloating your LLM context with unused agent instructions

1•twwch•1h ago•0 comments

Rare Data Hunters [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU4ByUbDKNc
1•DiscourseFan•1h ago•0 comments

Video for ROS2

https://github.com/stryngs/rosVid
1•stryngs42•1h ago•1 comments