Energy is a desktop AI agent that carries out multi-step work across the everyday apps a knowledge worker already uses, from banking tools like Mercury to product analytics like PostHog to email and code review. It's aimed at operators, founders, and anyone who has watched a capable model sit unused because the setup felt like an engineering project. The product imports existing browser logins along with any MCPs, skills, or automations the user wants to bring over, and it can run on a paid ChatGPT plan or a choice of other models.
The launch is pitched at closing the gap between what current models can do and what most people actually delegate to them. In the demo, Energy reconciles missing receipts by pulling them from inbox and files and uploading them back into Mercury, identifies power users inside a product analytics tool and schedules interviews with them by email, then drafts pull requests from the meeting notes and routes them to a co-founder for review. The framing is "vibe working," positioning general computer work as the next surface for the same hands-off pattern that vibe coding popularized.
Energy is led by Gabriel Petersson, a former scientist on OpenAI's Sora team who previously worked at Midjourney and Dataland , alongside his co-founder David, and the company is based in San Francisco. Petersson is a self-taught Swedish AI researcher who skipped formal education before joining OpenAI , and he resigned three months before this launch to start the company.
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Priya T.Aug 6, 2026
The tweet does the thing where you resign from OpenAI first and then reveal the product, which is basically launch cheat code at this point. Curious if the demo holds up outside the highlight reel.
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Vera KolarovaAug 6, 2026
Days of work in hours is a bold claim without a workload description. Is that spreadsheet monkey days or actual knowledge work days?
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Moctar DiopAug 6, 2026
"Work at the speed of thought" is fine but every AI agent since 2022 has claimed this. Try "your computer, but it listens."
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sasha f.Aug 6, 2026
Rewrite: "your cursor, on caffeine." You can Venmo me later.
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kenjiAug 6, 2026
The cut at 0:07 in the launch video where the cursor starts moving on its own is genuinely the hook. Whoever edited that understood retention math.
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Tobias RennerAug 6, 2026
Before I even look at the product: SSO, audit logs, data residency? My procurement team will not care that you were at OpenAI.
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Ade OkonkwoAug 6, 2026
Everyone shipping computer-use agents this quarter and none of them want to talk about what happens when the agent misclicks in my banking tab.
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Linh BuiAug 6, 2026
getenergy.com is a genuinely great domain, someone in your seed round earned their keep. Landing page kerning on the hero could breathe more though.
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Ravi PerumalAug 6, 2026
Is there an API or is this strictly a desktop agent for now? Would love to know rate limits before I get excited about wiring it into our internal tools.
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Energy is a desktop AI agent that carries out multi-step work across the everyday apps a knowledge worker already uses, from banking tools like Mercury to product analytics like PostHog to email and code review. It's aimed at operators, founders, and anyone who has watched a capable model sit unused because the setup felt like an engineering project. The product imports existing browser logins along with any MCPs, skills, or automations the user wants to bring over, and it can run on a paid ChatGPT plan or a choice of other models. The launch is pitched at closing the gap between what current models can do and what most people actually delegate to them. In the demo, Energy reconciles missing receipts by pulling them from inbox and files and uploading them back into Mercury, identifies power users inside a product analytics tool and schedules interviews with them by email, then drafts pull requests from the meeting notes and routes them to a co-founder for review. The framing is "vibe working," positioning general computer work as the next surface for the same hands-off pattern that vibe coding popularized. Energy is led by Gabriel Petersson, a former scientist on OpenAI's Sora team who previously worked at Midjourney and Dataland , alongside his co-founder David, and the company is based in San Francisco. Petersson is a self-taught Swedish AI researcher who skipped formal education before joining OpenAI , and he resigned three months before this launch to start the company.
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The tweet does the thing where you resign from OpenAI first and then reveal the product, which is basically launch cheat code at this point. Curious if the demo holds up outside the highlight reel.
Days of work in hours is a bold claim without a workload description. Is that spreadsheet monkey days or actual knowledge work days?
"Work at the speed of thought" is fine but every AI agent since 2022 has claimed this. Try "your computer, but it listens."
Rewrite: "your cursor, on caffeine." You can Venmo me later.
The cut at 0:07 in the launch video where the cursor starts moving on its own is genuinely the hook. Whoever edited that understood retention math.
Before I even look at the product: SSO, audit logs, data residency? My procurement team will not care that you were at OpenAI.
Everyone shipping computer-use agents this quarter and none of them want to talk about what happens when the agent misclicks in my banking tab.
getenergy.com is a genuinely great domain, someone in your seed round earned their keep. Landing page kerning on the hero could breathe more though.
Is there an API or is this strictly a desktop agent for now? Would love to know rate limits before I get excited about wiring it into our internal tools.