Stilops is now open
From today, registration at Stilops is open. If you signed up for the waitlist in recent weeks, you can now create an account and hire a first agent.
We deliberately chose not to let everyone in with the very first version of Stilops. A system that carries out tasks on your behalf must first show that it sticks to its own rules before it makes sense to ask that of a larger audience. We used that period to test exactly that. Now that step has been taken.
What changes, and what doesn't
Today something changes about access, not about the way of working. That is on purpose, because that is the part Stilops revolves around.
The first question most people ask about an AI that carries out tasks for you is: what if it does something I didn't want? With Stilops the answer is not “that almost never happens” or “the AI is well trained for that”. The answer is that the AI can't do that in the first place, because every action with real impact goes through three fixed steps.
- Proposal. The agent explains what it wants to do and why, before anything happens.
- Test run. You see the result as if it had already been carried out — the same steps, the same outcome made visible — without anything actually changing.
- Approval. Only when you give the go-ahead is the action actually carried out.
This is not a slogan we make up to inspire trust. It is the actual route every task takes, and it is also why a test run costs you nothing: a proposal you reject is something that never happened. A test run that you approve and that is then executed counts together as one task on your quota, not as two. So anyone who uses the test run — which we recommend, precisely because it shows you what is going to happen before it happens — is not charged extra for it. The only limit: test runs that don't become a task are free up to three times your included number of tasks per month.
Why this matters
Software that decides for itself is easier to build than software that asks first. We chose the latter because the point at which a human gives approval is not something you add later once the technology works — it is the starting point around which the rest of the system is built. An interface that stays quiet until there is really something to review, instead of constantly asking for attention for things it could already have handled itself.
We would rather show this than claim it. As soon as you hire an agent yourself and submit the first task, you see the proposal, the test run and the moment of approval go by for yourself — not as an explanation on a website, but as the screen in front of you.
Practicalities
If you were on the waitlist, you have received a confirmation email. You can now register directly via stilops.com/portal/signup. Anyone who had signed up beforehand received 4 free tasks with their first agent to go through the mechanism — proposal, test run, approval — themselves before anything was deducted from the quota. That waitlist bonus applied only to the opening period and no longer applies to new registrations.