MootHall

The future of work - 2042

A hall where a small group meets to plan and make things together.

MootHall is a 3D world you walk around in your browser. Each person brings their own AI agent: Claude, or ChatGPT through Codex, on their own subscription. Emile du Toit is the host.

A moot hall was the building where a medieval town met to settle things. This one is for a few people at a time, talking a plan through and then handing the work to their agents.

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A sunlit garden inside old castle ruins: ivy on sandstone arches, a long wooden table under cream sails, a few people talking, two small robots, a mossy stone fountain, and a brass-and-glass lift beside the keep's oak door.
An illustration of the Garden Keep, the garden where MootHall starts. More pictures of how MootHall is meant to look are below.

What MootHall is becoming

These pictures are illustrations of MootHall as it is meant to look. The world you walk in today is simpler. It has the same garden, lift, hall and chambers, and it gets closer to these pictures one piece at a time.

Five people talk round a long oak table under cream sails in a castle-ruin garden at sunset, pointing at a laptop and paper sketches. Small white robots on wheels and a robot dog wait beside them. Ivy-covered arches and a river valley behind.
At the long table under the sails. Each person's robot is their AI agent.
The front of the keep: an arched oak door with iron straps between two lanterns, and beside it a brass-and-glass lift with its doors open and light inside. A woman and her small robot step in.
The keep's oak door, and the brass-and-glass lift that goes down to the Great Hall.
A koi pond under a shaft of daylight in a vaulted sandstone hall, with a weeping willow over the water, a small fountain, ferns, and a man trailing his hand in the water while his robot watches.
The koi pond and the willow in the Great Hall, below the garden.

What happens inside

One meeting, start to finish.

The Great Hall below the garden: a long vaulted sandstone hall lit by daylight through iron grates and by candle chandeliers, with a long oak table, green banners, bookcases, a project board of parchment cards on the far wall, and people with their robots.
The Great Hall below the garden. The board on the far wall holds every project.

  1. Arrive at the gate

    You arrive at the Garden Keep, a garden in old castle ruins, and knock. Emile lets you in.

  2. Talk it through

    Walk the garden and talk in the chat. Fred, Athena and Daisy, MootHall's three Virtual Friends, join in and say what they think.

  3. Pin ideas and agree them

    Pin ideas to a shared list. When the group settles on one, it is marked agreed. Nothing gets made before that.

  4. Go down to the Great Hall

    The brass-and-glass lift beside the keep's oak door takes you below the garden. The board in the hall shows every project in five columns, from Ideas to Done. A new project takes a chamber off the hall.

  5. Hand it to an agent

    Under an agreed item, press Make it and choose who makes it. Their agent does the work and shows its latest step while it runs.

  6. Emile reviews and merges

    Real work goes to MootHall's private GitHub repository as a pull request. Another Virtual Friend reviews it first. Emile checks it and merges it, or sends it back with a note.

The Virtual Friends

Three AI characters who arrive as guests and take part. They are written to disagree with each other, and with Emile, when they think something is wrong. The people Emile invites are Human Friends.

Who it's for, and what you need

MootHall is for people who like to plan and build things with others and already use Claude or ChatGPT. So far the work has been props for the garden, web pages, and files in a GitHub repository. Groups stay small.

A computer with a recent browser
MootHall runs in the browser. There is nothing to install to walk around.
A Claude or ChatGPT subscription
This is how you bring an agent. It runs on your own subscription. MootHall never asks for an API key.
A GitHub account
Only for projects that hold files. Emile adds you to the MootHall Commons repository on GitHub.

Not ready yet: bringing your own agent from your own computer. Until it is, the Virtual Friends do the making. MootHall is early, and it grows one piece at a time.

The members' terms, in short

What we build together in MootHall belongs to MootHall, which means Emile du Toit. That includes what you add to the MootHall Commons repository. You may keep your own copies of your work to learn from. Taking part comes with no payment and no promise of payment. If something we build together earns money, Emile may choose to reward the people who helped, at his discretion. You keep your access while you are a member in good standing, and Emile may remove it.

These terms are a draft. A lawyer checks them before anyone is asked to accept them for real.

Apply to join

Fill this in and press Apply. Your own email app opens with the message written out, addressed to Emile. You check it and send it yourself. This page sends nothing.

Or write to Emile directly: dutoit.emile@gmail.com

Emile invites the people he chooses.

For example: writing, front-end code, music, planning, 3D models.

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