You received Jamie's invitation to try an Instinct assistant. Instead of reading, just talk: ask TCGuy what it is, why Jamie is giving it to you, or what happens to your data.
The same answers TCGuy gives, if you would rather read.
Right in WhatsApp, no dashboard, nothing to learn. It chats with you like a person. Imagine having your personal assistant in the office dedicated to you: looking at their own computer, with one job - do whatever you need. Ask it to remember things, look things up, draft messages, plan the week, or keep track of the small stuff.
For a taste: ask it to check the weather or the surf before a swim, plan your week, or draft the message you keep putting off. It is honest about what it can and cannot do, and nothing is sent or shared without your say-so.
Because this is where the world is heading, and Jamie would rather introduce people to it properly than leave them to figure it out alone. Soon everything will have an assistant built in. When that happens, people will still want a real person they trust to ask. That is what That Computer Guy is: the link between the assistant and the human.
We are early, like when the internet first arrived and most people said "no thanks, what would I need that for?". This invite is an introduction with a helping hand. Have a look around, as long as you like.
The invitation is free, and anything an assistant does is free - including TCGuy, the support bot. Instinct itself is free for everyone today; the founder's personal goal is free for life, and he has not promised that yet. Instinct's money is meant to come from a small cut of merchant transactions, like Apple Pay or Amex, not from ads.
What costs is human time: if you want That Computer Guy to set things up for you, a human quotes that first. Domains and hosting cost money too, and a human confirms price and setup before anything happens.
Your emails and files stay where they already are, in Gmail and Google Drive. The assistant keeps an encrypted index of what you connect, and notes about you, used only for you and never to train its models. Passwords and card details go in an encrypted vault. You can have the indexed data deleted whenever you want.
You ask, it prepares, you decide. Trust is earned step by step: start with something small, and give it more as it proves itself.
A growing list, grouped: your day sorted (morning briefing, email triage, follow-ups, drafts in your voice), email and calendar (unsubscribing junk, filing receipts, clash warnings), money and admin (spotting scams, reading fine print, bill reminders - it flags and asks, it never spends for you), work and business (invoices, a digital receptionist, proposals), writing and research, shopping and bookings, and travel. See the full list.
Instinct's founder Noah Shinn on Invest Like the Best: trust takes a few weeks to build and you stay in control of your data; firewalls screen what comes in; every action is watched and can be paused; it should never push you to buy things you don't want; safety is "the most important problem".
Reviewer Peter Yang compared four AI/SI assistants and called Instinct "simple, resourceful, proactive, personable" - purchases need your approval each time, and his verdict was "feels magical, but I'll be careful what I connect". Nate B Jones was sceptical until it put a real boarding pass in his wallet. Watch them on the videos page.
And Jamie: "Trust is earned, not given - one test at a time. And being cautious is smart. Remember full self driving? No one surrenders to the car on the first day."
TCGuy (0403 847 747) is That Computer Guy's own assistant - the TCGuy bot. Your invitation suggests connecting it to your own assistant as a trusted partner - anything an assistant does is free. Today TCGuy builds webpages, sets up domain names, builds databases, and has access to web hosting - the technical things a personal assistant cannot do alone.
Domains and hosting cost money, and any domain or hosting change needs Jamie's OK. A human always confirms the price and the setup first. When you need a person, that's where the shop comes in.
That Computer Guy is a real shop in Ettalong Beach, over twenty-five years on the tools: computer repairs, speed and upgrades, virus and malware removal, data recovery, custom PC builds, and remote support, for homes and small businesses on the Central Coast. The same team runs Australian Business Systems and dbDesk and OpusPrime for the bigger business systems work. Call the shop on 02 4320 6148.
TCGuy is an AI/SI voice. Your voice is processed by an AI/SI voice service so the chat can happen. The page does not record your voice, but it does save a written copy of the chat, anonymously - no name, no address - so Jamie's team can see what people ask and improve things. If you tick 'Remember me between chats', TCGuy also keeps a short written summary of your chats (key facts only - never your voice, never the full words), tied to this browser; untick it any time. Please don't share passwords, card numbers or private details here.
Open your invitation and sign up with your phone number. Your assistant introduces itself in WhatsApp. Then send it your agent builder: it tells your assistant who you are from day one, and includes trusted-partner invites for the TCGuy bot and, if you want, Jamie. You can edit it first, then paste it into the chat or just send the page link.
Questions a page can't answer: call Jamie on 0414 210 056 or the shop on 02 4320 6148.
Test page. TCGuy is an AI/SI voice. A written copy of each chat is saved anonymously - no name, no voice recording - so Jamie's team can see what people ask.