Personal Context Intelligence
A private, source-grounded AI workspace that remembers your own context.
Visit Journal Genie Yotta Byte Labs
I build AI that survives contact with reality.
Yotta Byte Labs is Jacob Basenberg. Work with me directly — consulting, 1-on-1 sessions, team training, and public speaking — and see the products I build, starting with Journal Genie.
An interactive console showing how the operating system works: context to ingest, a token budget, bounded agents, and an evidence check.
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Pour in your own sources. Build a private, source-grounded context you own.
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Two bounded roles. Each agent's attention stays small enough to stay sharp.
A claim isn't done until it's proven. Run the checks.
input validation addedclaim
handler test suiteclaim
malformed-email rejectedclaim
Done means proven, not plausible.
click a tab — an illustrative look at the operating system
Illustrative interface — example values, not live data.
- Consulting AI strategy & implementation
- Training teams, 1-on-1s & speaking
- Building Journal Genie
What we build
Products
Journal Genie is the first product out of Yotta Byte Labs. More are in the works.
Work with us
Build with AI, properly.
I help founders, teams, and businesses get trustworthy results from AI — the same method behind the products I build. Every engagement starts with a discovery call.
- AI Consulting Hands-on help putting AI to work in your business — strategy, implementation, and the guardrails that keep it trustworthy.
- Training & Workshops Team and business training plus hands-on workshops that get your whole team building with AI, tailored to your stack.
- Speaking Keynotes, talks, and panels on building and operating real AI as one person.
I take a limited number of engagements so each one gets real attention.
How we work
One founder. AI agents. A real operating system.
I build with AI agents under a written operating system — roles, guardrails, and an evidence habit that keeps the output trustworthy. Journal Genie is the proof it works at production quality, and it's the same method I bring to consulting, training, and 1-on-1 sessions.
- constitution a written doc the agents follow
- roles engineering owns code, operations owns the rest
- evidence every claim backed by a command, file, or test
Writing
The founder's notebook.
Stories, lessons, and essays from building a company and its first product solo — written to make building with AI feel possible, degree or no degree.
What Yotta Byte Labs is — and believes
A one-person AI company built on one idea: the product is the proof. Our vision for privacy-first, agent-first building. Read the manifesto.
How I build and run a production AI product, solo
One founder, one production AI product. My agent-first workflow, the discipline behind it, and why it beats vibe-coding. A look under the hood.
AI + Everything: A Strategic Imperative
AI isn't one industry's story anymore — it's every business's. A grounded look at why AI adoption is a strategic imperative, with real sources.
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