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Document Title: If Ivan Zhao built a browser.
Document URL: http://www.eidos.computer/manifesto/v001.html
THE BROWSER WE NEEDED

If Ivan Zhao built a browser.

May '26 - fritz & yongkang

Ivan Zhao has to be the founder we look up to the most right now. We love the way he cares about each fucking pixel. We love that he has his own philosophy and sticks to it. We love the fact that he'll only do podcasts if he directs them. We love that his office bathrooms look like those at designer hotels. We love the culture he has built at Notion. We love his taste.

So what if he (with a little bit of our own 2 cents) built a browser? How would it look?


  1. Intent-aware. Based on what you're doing, it proactively recommends actions, instead of you having to prompt it. Add this person to a CRM, compare this flight's price with other sites, save to second brain because you read the whole blog? You shouldn't have to ask or type it out each time.
  2. Learns your workflows. Always translating German emails? Filling out the same repetitive form each month? It saves that. Your most frequent tasks become reusable skills.
  3. Your second brain. Obsidian-like. Enriches your saved thoughts, your CRM entries, adds to your grocery list - and is easily retrievable when you need it.
  4. Contextmaxxing. Through integrations, past workflows, your preferences - it becomes genuinely yours over time, produces outcomes you would use, not just AI slop.
  5. Fully customizable. Layout, colors, style - yours. Makes it a joy to spend more time in the browser. Rich, luxurious, studio-like.
  6. Accessible everywhere and anyhow (is that a word?). Apple Watch, phone, laptop. Text it, click it, speak to it.

We know no one needs another f- browser. But what if this one made you actually 10x more productive (like actually, 10x) - and feels like Notion, Apple, and Aesop had a baby?

Or maybe we do need another f- browser. Knowledge workers spend all day in a browser. It's basically our OS. And right now it has little personality, little memory, little taste. It has more potential in our opinion. Especially with the resources of today.

Just our initial thoughts. We want something better, so we are building it. Here you can follow our updates.

Document: Done. NUM