Egoist Machines

Egoist Machines

User-owned memory and preferences that work across every AI app

San Francisco
2 employees
Consumer Products
Seed

About Egoist Machines

We're building AI Passport, a personal memory layer that works across AI apps. Every AI product you use today keeps its own memory of you: ChatGPT has one, Claude has one, and every AI-powered app is starting to build one too. None of them talk to each other, you can't see most of what they've stored, and you re-explain yourself to each new tool.

AI Passport replaces those scattered profiles with one card you own. Your preferences, history, and goals live in one place, and new information lands in an inbox where you approve or reject it before it's saved. Apps that want to use your context request a pass, which grants them access to only the categories you allow and can be revoked at any time. Receipts show you exactly which app read what, and when.

For a user, this means any AI app can know you from the first message.
For a business, personalization works in both directions: a storefront can retrieve a customer's taste, sizes, and budget and personalize instantly instead of running an onboarding quiz, and a support organization can keep one memory of each customer across tickets, teams, and agents, so every new case starts with what the company already knows about the person.

Company details

Team Size2
LocationSan Francisco
IndustryConsumer Products

Funding

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

Erin McGurk

Erin McGurk

Founder at Egoist Machines (YC S26). Built 1M+ following across social platforms (@erinmerylstudy). Effective Altruism + AI Safety. Research interests: privacy social + legal infra; space policy and governance; urban design; advertising psychology. Very good at yapping and getting people to listen to me yap.

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David Khachaturov

David Khachaturov

Holds a PhD in Machine Learning Security from Cambridge. Computer Science Bye-Fellow at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Previously ML Researcher at OpenAI (PaperBench) and Lead AI Security Researcher at FrontierOne.

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.