The Blank Collar · Defined 2016 · ZürichThe post-AI worker

Work is for botsLife is for humans

For the first time, the routine part of work can be handed to machines. That changes what a company is for, and how it should be built. The Blank Collar is a practical account of that shift: what is changing, and how to redesign a company around it.

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Defined 2016.
Six years before ChatGPT.

It became a book: The Blank Collar, by Kristian Kabashi.

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The Blank Collar is the post-AI worker. Where the white collar had one identity, this one adopts all of them at once. A blank canvas, filled by whatever the moment requires.

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Five ways in.

This is the idea and the things it built. Read top to bottom, or start with the page that answers your question.

01The ManifestoWhat we believe, and the accident that named us.→02The FrameworkTBC = V + D(P/HX)^AI. Five variables in one line, none of them optional.→03The EngineThree things the thinking built: .ai, .university and .ventures.→04The CodexThe open teaching layer, built in public.→05The OriginKristian Kabashi, and the misheard vowel that started it.→
TBC=V+D(PHX)AI

Rebuilding a company around AI takes a framework. Ours fits on one line: Vision plus Data, times Process over Human Experience, raised to the power of AI.

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The engine builds.

The framework exists today in three working forms. Which one is yours depends on what you run.

The .ai
blankcollar.ai
For solo founders & small teams
The open-source, local-first agentic operating system. One person sets the goal and runs a whole company with agents. It checks in only for the decisions that need you.
The .university
blankcollar.university
For people & teams
The school. Programs and company engagements that turn the framework into a capability, so people and teams become Blank Collars in practice.
The .ventures
blankcollar.ventures
For founders & VCs
The operating partner for AI startups. We back them and help them win, with the framework in the room and our own experience of building a company through to its acquisition. The offer is the partnership. Funding is one outcome of it.

76% use AIat work.13% use itfor real work.

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The Blank Collar · Work is for bots. Life is for humans.