A DISAPPOINTMENT THAT MAY END UP CHANGING ADVERTISING HISTORY

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A DISAPPOINTMENT THAT MAY END UP CHANGING ADVERTISING HISTORY

Those involved in advertising should pay attention to what happened today.

To most people, what I am about to describe may seem completely insignificant. It was an email. It was a webinar. It was a misunderstanding.

But to me, it wasn't insignificant.

Maybe part of the reason is that I am naive.

I have always believed that when a technology company is preparing to monetize its users—especially through something as powerful and personal as artificial intelligence—it would want to have a conversation with those users.

Not simply study them.

Not simply measure them.

Not simply present a finished advertising product to them.

Talk to them.

I believed users would help guide the architecture because, ultimately, it is our attention, our decisions, our conversations, and our economic activity that will make this new advertising economy valuable.

And I especially expected that from OpenAI.

Let me make something very clear before I continue: what follows is my perspective. I am describing how I understood an experience, what I expected from it, and how it affected me. I am not claiming that OpenAI promised me something it did not promise.

OpenAI sent me an invitation concerning ChatGPT Ads.

I read it differently from what it ultimately was.

I thought perhaps this was finally going to be a conversation.

I imagined that maybe I would have an opportunity to speak directly with people working on advertising at OpenAI—to share ideas, ask questions, explain what I had been thinking about, and perhaps finally let someone hear what one deeply engaged user believes advertising in the age of AI could become.

I looked forward to it all week.

I prepared.

I thought about what I wanted to say.

I thought about the responsibility that comes with monetizing a relationship between a human being and an artificial intelligence.

And perhaps most importantly, I thought they wanted to listen.

But that wasn't what the event was.

It was a webinar.

And the misunderstanding was mine.

That disappointment hurt more than it probably should have. But sometimes disappointment is useful. Sometimes the moment that closes one door forces you to stop waiting for somebody else to open it.

And that is where this story actually begins.

PART TWO — LISTENING IS THE QUALIFICATION

Sometimes you forget something very simple: when it comes to making money, people are not going to wait for you.

Companies are businesses. They have products to launch, markets to capture, revenue to generate, and shareholders and employees depending on them. They are moving.

And if your ideas get in the way of making money, you have to wake up and understand something: you cannot assume that you and the corporation are participating in the same symphony, trying to create the same world.

I envision something different.

I envision a future where advertising works for the user. Transactions work for the user. The entire commercial ecosystem surrounding artificial intelligence works for the user.

And I believe that ecosystem must be built by companies willing to listen to the people who will actually live inside it.

Listening is the qualification.

If you cannot listen, you cannot build with me.

That is the lesson I am taking from today.

I am making a promise to myself not to forget again that we are dealing with corporations. They are here to build businesses. They are here to monetize products. They are here to move forward, whether an individual user is ready or not.

You may be a user.

You may spend thousands of hours thinking about what these systems could become.

You may care deeply about privacy, human sovereignty, economic opportunity and creating an advertising architecture fundamentally different from the surveillance economy that came before it.

But none of that guarantees you a seat at the table.

So ask yourself a simple question.

When was the last time ordinary individuals—or groups of people genuinely interested in protecting users' privacy and designing a fundamentally different commercial architecture—were invited into the room early enough to meaningfully shape the system?

Was that how Google advertising was built?

Was that how Amazon's commercial ecosystem was built?

And should we simply assume that the AI advertising economy will somehow be different?

My answer today is: we should assume nothing.

That is not an accusation against OpenAI. It is a correction to my own expectations.

I expected conversation because I believed this moment was different. I expected users might participate in designing the economic architecture that would eventually monetize their own attention and intentions.

Perhaps that expectation itself was naive.

But I refuse to conclude that the idea behind it was naive.

Because if artificial intelligence really represents a new technological era, then we have an opportunity to ask a question the internet largely failed to ask when its advertising economy was being constructed:

What would advertising look like if we designed it from the beginning around the sovereignty of the human being?

That question does not disappear because companies are ready to monetize.

It becomes more urgent.

And perhaps today's disappointment was exactly what I needed to understand that waiting for somebody else's invitation was never going to build that future.

If the table does not exist, we will have to build the table.

PART THREE — NOW I UNDERSTAND WHICH SIDE OF THE TABLE I AM SITTING ON

Today something became clear to me.

I am sitting on the opposite side of the table.

And there is nothing personal about that.

Technology companies have companies to operate. They have employees. They have investors. They have divided their economic pie. They have products to monetize and enormous amounts of capital invested in making those products successful.

They are here to make money. End of story.

I don't condemn them for that.

What I misunderstood was where I was sitting.

I thought perhaps we were all sitting around the same table trying to design the future together.

We're not.

On the other side of that table is where I now understand my work belongs: with the individual.

With the consumer.

With the affiliate marketer.

With the YouTuber.

With the blogger.

With the journalist.

With the entrepreneur.

With the person who wakes up tomorrow morning with nothing except an idea and an internet connection and asks:

How do I participate in this new economy without surrendering control of myself to somebody else's platform?

That is the architecture I want to build.

And that means working with consumers, speaking to governments, challenging existing assumptions, and creating systems where ordinary people have a meaningful opportunity to control their own economic destiny.

Yesterday I was already predicting that this separation was coming.

Today I understand it.

THE STACK HAS FLIPPED

The old architecture looks something like this:

COMPANY
↓
PLATFORM / HARNESS
↓
AI MODEL
↓
TOOLS & MARKETPLACE
↓
USER

The company owns the environment.

The company operates the infrastructure.

The user's activity occurs inside that environment.

The platform observes enormous amounts of behavioral and contextual information, subject to whatever privacy rules govern that system.

And eventually the company has to figure out how to monetize the economic activity happening around those users.

But AI agents and open harnesses introduce another possibility.

The architecture can be reversed.

HUMAN
↓
PRIVATE, HUMAN-OWNED COMPUTER
↓
HUMAN-CONTROLLED HARNESS / AGENT
↓
MODEL OF THE HUMAN'S CHOICE
↓
TOOLS
↓
OPEN MARKETPLACE

Now something fundamental has changed.

The marketplace no longer owns the human.

The human arrives at the marketplace.

My private AI can know me extraordinarily well without requiring every company in the marketplace to know me extraordinarily well.

It can understand what I want.

It can understand my budget.

It can understand my preferences.

It can understand what I refuse to share.

It can negotiate.

It can compare.

It can reject.

It can purchase.

And when I decide that I want to enter the marketplace, my agent represents me.

That changes advertising.

It changes affiliate marketing.

It changes journalism.

It changes e-commerce.

It changes the relationship between creators and audiences.

It changes the relationship between governments and platforms.

And eventually, I believe, it changes who possesses economic power on the internet.

WE MEET AT THE MARKETPLACE

This is the distinction I couldn't fully see before.

I don't need the corporation to become the guardian of my economic sovereignty.

I need an architecture in which I don't have to surrender that sovereignty to the corporation in the first place.

The company can build an extraordinary product.

The advertiser can build an extraordinary product.

The merchant can make money.

The platform can make money.

The creator can make money.

The affiliate can make money.

And the consumer can receive something valuable.

There is nothing wrong with commerce.

The question is where the human stands when commerce begins.

My answer is now clear:

The human stands outside the marketplace with an intelligence that belongs to the human.

Then we meet.

You bring your product.

You bring your advertisement.

You bring your offer.

You bring your price.

You bring your reputation.

I bring my agent.

And my agent works for me.

Not for the advertiser.

Not for the marketplace.

Not for the platform.

For me.

That is an entirely different economic relationship.

And perhaps that is why today's disappointment mattered so much.

I walked into today hoping somebody would invite me to their table.

I walked away understanding something much more important:

I am supposed to build the other side of the table.

PART FOUR — THE VAULT OF LIFE

Today I finally understand what I am supposed to build.

Moving forward, any technology company that wants to participate in the architecture I am envisioning will have to meet the human being through the human being's own infrastructure.

That begins with what I call the Vault of Life.

At Stage Zero, imagine a sovereign computer belonging to one human being.

Inside that vault are the things that constitute a person's digital life:

Their photographs.

Their emails.

Their documents.

Their identity.

Their medical records.

Their financial information.

Their memories.

Their preferences.

Their decisions.

And eventually, the history of the transactions that resulted from those decisions.

That information belongs to the human being.

The hardware must respect that.

The operating system must respect that.

The AI agent must respect that.

And eventually the marketplace must respect that.

This is where my attention is going now: hardware, software, the private vault, the sovereign agent and eventually the economic architecture connecting human decisions to transactions.

Because there is another piece of this that I believe could become enormously important.

FROM DECISION TO RECEIPT

Imagine that a human tells their private AI:

I need something.

The agent searches.

It compares.

It negotiates.

It protects the person's private information.

It finds the appropriate merchant.

A transaction occurs.

And finally there is a receipt.

Now we have something extraordinary:

DECISION → AGENT → MARKETPLACE → TRANSACTION → RECEIPT → VALUE

That creates the possibility of measuring economic value without requiring the marketplace to own the person's entire life.

That is where I want to experiment.

That is where I want to calibrate.

That is where I believe an entirely different advertising and affiliate economy can eventually emerge.

AND THE EXISTING COMPANIES SHOULD KEEP BUILDING

I have no problem with OpenAI, Google or anybody else continuing down the road they are already traveling.

Build your products.

Deploy your advertising systems.

Serve your customers.

Generate revenue.

Make money.

Become enormously successful.

I genuinely wish you well.

My mistake was believing that I could ask a corporation already traveling at enormous speed to turn the entire ship around because I could see another destination.

That's not reasonable.

These companies have employees. They have investors. They have enormous infrastructure commitments. They have existing products. They have revenue requirements. They have strategies developed over years.

They are already on an adventure.

And I am on another adventure.

Perhaps those roads meet again someday.

Perhaps OpenAI becomes an extraordinary model provider inside this architecture.

Perhaps another company provides models.

Perhaps multiple models compete for the privilege of serving the human.

That's the beauty of the architecture:

the human chooses.

HARDWARE FIRST

So perhaps my next conversation isn't primarily with an advertising company.

Perhaps it is with the companies capable of helping solve the sovereign-computing problem.

NVIDIA.

Apple.

Semiconductor manufacturers.

Computer manufacturers.

Storage companies.

Networking companies.

Open-source developers.

Privacy engineers.

Hardware architects.

People capable of answering one fundamental question:

Can we build a computer powerful enough to make the human being sovereign in the age of AI?

I want the intelligence close to the human.

I want the private information close to the human.

I want the keys controlled by the human.

I want the agent accountable to the human.

And then I want that sovereign intelligence to be capable of entering the world's marketplaces.

THE MARKETPLACE COMES TO THE AGENT

That reverses the architecture.

Instead of:

PLATFORM → DATA → USER → ADVERTISEMENT → TRANSACTION

I want:

HUMAN → VAULT → PRIVATE AGENT → MARKETPLACE → TRANSACTION → RECEIPT

That distinction may eventually change everything.

The advertiser doesn't need my entire life.

The merchant doesn't need my entire life.

The marketplace doesn't need my entire life.

The government doesn't need my entire life.

My agent needs enough knowledge to represent me.

And I decide what leaves the vault.

That is sovereignty.

THIS IS NOT AN ANTI-CORPORATE PROJECT

I want to emphasize this because today's disappointment could easily be misunderstood. I am not declaring war on OpenAI. I am not declaring war on Google. I am not declaring war on advertising. I am declaring independence for the user.

Companies should make money. Inventors should make money. Creators, journalists, affiliate marketers, YouTubers, small businesses and platforms should all have the opportunity to make money. Consumers, in return, should receive extraordinary products and services. Commerce is not the enemy. Innovation is not the enemy. Profit is not the enemy. But no participant should have to surrender their entire digital existence simply to participate in economic life. That is the line.

THE SUPERUSER MARKETPLACE

Ultimately, this is much bigger than advertising. It is about building an agentic marketplace where human beings arrive represented by intelligence that works for them. Not an AI owned by the advertiser. Not an AI whose incentives secretly belong to the marketplace. Not an AI deciding which company deserves to win because somebody paid the highest price. I envision an agent whose fiduciary-like purpose is simple: represent the human being.

Then let businesses compete. Let creators compete. Let products compete. Let ideas compete. Let models compete. Let marketplaces compete. Perhaps even let AI systems compete. But let them compete for the human being rather than compete to control the human being.

That is where the Superuser System enters the economic architecture. It does not enter as another corporation sitting above humanity, nor as another government bureaucracy deciding winners and losers. It establishes something much simpler and much more fundamental: the human being sits at the top.

THANK YOU FOR THE DISAPPOINTMENT

And strangely, I am grateful for what happened today. I went into an OpenAI advertising webinar with expectations that the event itself never actually promised me. I hoped there might be a conversation about architecture, privacy and the future relationship between AI and its users. That wasn't what the event was designed to do. It was an advertising presentation, and that's okay.

The disappointment forced me to confront my own assumption: I was waiting for somebody else's company to build my vision. Why? They have their road. I have mine.

So from this moment forward, I am going to focus on building the hardware, building the vault, building the sovereign stack and building the agent. I want to protect the human, connect that human safely to the marketplace, measure the transaction and begin returning economic power toward the individual. That is the work.

And then someday, perhaps OpenAI, Google, Apple, NVIDIA and companies that haven't even been created yet will meet us at that marketplace. They will bring their technology, their models, their products and their capital. And we will bring the human being.

Nobody needs to lose. Companies don't have to lose. Governments don't have to lose. Advertisers don't have to lose. Creators don't have to lose. But this time, the human being does not have to lose either.

That is the future I am going to work on. And to the engineers, governments, journalists, creators, entrepreneurs, hardware companies, privacy advocates and ordinary people who believe human beings deserve sovereignty in the age of artificial intelligence: I welcome you. Come build shoulder to shoulder with us.

Because we are no longer asking where our seat is at somebody else's table.

We are building the other side of the table.

CONCLUSION — THIS IS THE FUTURE OF ADVERTISING

This is the future of advertising as I see it. Technology companies will no longer sit at the center of our digital lives. They will become interchangeable components—like light bulbs that we turn on when we need them and replace when something better comes along. One model may process language, another may generate an image, another may analyze information, and another may perform a specialized task. Our private AI agent can purchase the necessary tokens or computing power and use whichever technology serves us best. The model is a tool. The human being is the owner.

We do not need to live permanently inside somebody else's platform to benefit from their technology. We do not need to surrender our photographs, conversations, identities, preferences, financial lives and decisions simply because a company built an excellent AI model. We should learn from the surveillance economy rather than rebuild it with artificial intelligence. Companies are free to build their platforms, and people are free to use them. But I am choosing another road: private infrastructure, a sovereign vault, a human-controlled agent and an open marketplace where companies compete for the opportunity to serve us.

The companies willing to participate in that future are welcome. But they must understand their role. They are participants in our digital lives, not the owners of them. Their models can come and go. Their technologies can improve. Their prices can compete. Their services can be replaced. What remains permanent is the sovereignty of the human being.

That is the future I intend to build: our data stays with us, our intelligence works for us, our agent represents us, and the marketplace comes to us. Technology can still prosper. Businesses can still make extraordinary amounts of money. Creators and entrepreneurs can build entirely new economies. But this time, prosperity does not have to require surrendering privacy and freedom.

The technology is interchangeable. The human being is not.

And that is where the future begins.