Every platform makes one bet early that shapes everything after it. Ours was to build agents on the edge: durable, addressable compute that keeps its state after you close the tab. This is a short note on why.
Presence
The edge gives us presence. A Durable Object holds its state between visits, and the platform can wake it on a schedule or a webhook without a server we have to keep warm. That is what lets a proactive agent keep a job moving between your check-ins, the way a colleague would.
What it unlocks
The same foundation makes the harder features tractable: self-scheduling work, a separate conversation for each person an agent works with, and on-prem deployments (planned) that keep data inside a customer’s boundary. We picked the edge because it is the shortest path to agents that keep working.