One WhatsApp link, three features

Ilse, the secretary in my studio, got her own WhatsApp link. And within a day there were three features on top of it.

Ilse is an AI agent who reads my mail and acts on it. She works as a linked device, like a second phone or laptop. With it she reads and sends messages, understands voice messages and answers in speech, and can be called.

It did not stop there. On 7 October:

1. In the morning the agents built video verification on top of it. Ilse calls through WhatsApp, gives instructions (turn your head, say a sentence) and the picture is watched live.

1. The same day that verification became a second way of logging in to the studio, next to an authenticator app (2FA).

1. A few hours later a route in the browser, with the camera, was added for every app a customer publishes from the studio.

One link, three usable features. That is how I work: I think of what has to come, the team builds it and checks it.

The pattern behind it is in my book "AI-agenten die het werk doen", in chapter 22 on access: the first access made the second cheap, and from the third on it went by itself, as long as the first one stayed in place.

That is stacking. Every building block that stands (a link, a check, a way of working) makes the next step smaller. It gets easier instead of harder.

I am building this in Wantzel Studio.

Which building block of yours suddenly made the next step small?

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