# The Pingback Instruments to augment human intellect. The Pingback develops instruments for forming, testing, and sharing knowledge, and makes Eden. Canonical: https://pingback.ai/ Human page: https://pingback.ai/ *A halftone flow field in two grey tones, marbled and drifting slowly, bent gently around the pointer — print texture rather than a gradient; colour and its slow motion aren't shown here.* [The **Pingback**](https://pingback.ai/#top) [Eden](https://eden.actor/) # Instruments to augment human intellect. The Pingback develops instruments for forming, testing, and sharing knowledge. As machines become first-class actors in the world, the infrastructure by which people know has to be augmented to meet them, and to leave people more capable, not less. ## Instruments *A watercolour meadow in full bloom, Eden's own homepage garden, as a window onto eden.actor rather than a logo on a swatch. Colour and the paint's texture aren't shown here.* Eden ### Eden A home for your digital life. eden.actor [https://eden.actor/](https://eden.actor/) ## What we believe 1. [01 Instruments, not products. A product decides how you’ll use it. An instrument gives you what you can do, and leaves the playing to you.](https://eden.actor/beliefs/#instruments) 2. [02 Augmentation, not productivity. Useful technology grants a capacity without dictating how it’s used. Some people use a superpower to do more; others, to do less of one thing and turn to another. Eden is built for both.](https://eden.actor/beliefs/#augmentation) 3. [03 Actors, not agents. An agent acts when it’s prompted. An actor holds a purpose of its own, keeps it from one day to the next, and chooses when to step in and when to leave things be.](https://eden.actor/beliefs/#actors) 4. [04 One partner, not a crowd. It’s already hard to earnestly text ten people a day. You talk to one Eden, and it knows who to ask.](https://eden.actor/beliefs/#partner) 5. [05 Everyone deserves beautiful personal software. Software that grows with you: a garden for what you hope to do, able to hold a life’s complexity and take the weight of it off you.](https://eden.actor/beliefs/#software) 6. [06 Your life is not raw material. Eden holds your life; it doesn’t mine it. It never trains models on anyone’s home, and a web search sends only its own words, never your mail or calendar. The Pingback’s charter makes it the custodian of your data and your actors.](https://eden.actor/beliefs/#material) 7. [07 A home should send you back out. Soothing to return to, and built so you can turn back to the world. You can always leave.](https://eden.actor/beliefs/#leave) [The **Pingback**](https://pingback.ai/#top) An institution for knowing. [Discord](https://discord.gg/c8fPV4X26J) [X · @PingbackAI](https://x.com/PingbackAI) [Instagram · @thepingback](https://www.instagram.com/thepingback) [Substack](https://letter.pingback.ai/) [GitHub](https://github.com/thepingback) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/thepingback) Instruments - [Eden](https://eden.actor/) Read - [What we believe](https://eden.actor/beliefs/) - [The Pingback’s writing](https://pingback.ai/#) The Pingback - [About](https://pingback.ai/#top) - [Contact](https://eden.actor/contact/) Eden is made by [The Pingback](https://pingback.ai/). Designed and built by [Joel](https://adejola.com/). [Privacy](https://eden.actor/privacy/) [Terms](https://eden.actor/terms/) © 2026 The Pingback ### Human · Machine What it is: A switch in the footer: Human is the page as built, Machine is the same page as text, made for agents. How it works: Choose Machine and the page gives way to its own markdown twin in one mono column: every word, each link as [label](address), each picture described, each product view drawn. Copy copies all of it; choose Human to go back. The choice is remembered on this device, and ?view=machine opens it from a link. Opens to: Machine ```text-view:machine Human · Machine [ Copy ] # ```