The Blank Collar, Est. 2016 · ZürichThe post-AI worker

Work is for botsLife is for humans

For two hundred years, work took life. AI is the first technology in history that hands the choice back, and we refuse to waste the moment.

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00 / The thesis

Coined 2016. Six years before ChatGPT.

It became a book.

The Blank Collar Equation

The Blank Collar is the post-AI worker. The evolution of the white collar, not defined by one identity, but able to adopt all of them at once. A blank canvas to be filled by whatever the moment requires.

/ Index

Five ways in.

A philosophy, an equation, and an engine that builds whatever the equation requires next. Start anywhere.

01The ManifestoThree eras of work, the accident that named us, and what we believe.02The EquationTBC = V + D(P/HX)^AI. Five variables, one output, every variable working.03The Engine.ai, .university, .vc, the three things the thinking built.04The CodexThe open teaching layer. Five layers, built in public.05The OriginKristian Kabashi, and the misheard vowel that started it.
02 / The model
TBC=V+D(PHX)AI

Every transformation needs a model. Ours is one line: Vision plus Data, times Process over Human Experience, raised to the power of AI.

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03 / The engine

The engine builds.

A philosophy without practice is decoration. Today, three expressions of the equation exist.

blankcollar.ai
For companies
The agentic operating system. Infrastructure that puts AI to work on the process, so humans return to the work that requires them.
The .ai
blankcollar.university
For people & teams
The school. Programs, certification, and company engagements that turn the equation into capability, so people and teams actually become Blank Collars.
The .university
blankcollar.vc
For founders
The capital. We back companies that live the equation, founders building the next century rather than optimizing the last one.
The .vc

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