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Engineering notes, creator economics, and product announcements from the team building ToRun.
Product news
14 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
October So Far: Longer Tasks, Your Own Photos and an Assistant on Our Site
Two weeks into October, the changes fall into three groups: the assistant does more of the work you ask for, your own photos stay your own, and the venue assistant moved from walls onto websites, starting with ours. The…
Product
14 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
An Assistant on Our Own Website
Since 13 October, every page of torun.ai has a small button in the corner. Open it and you can ask about ToRun in your own words: what the plans include, how a feature works, where a policy is. It is not a new product. I…
Product
14 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
Your Photos, Kept as They Are
On 15 September someone gave the assistant four photos of a small child and asked for a collage. It drew four strangers. The assistant had reached for the tool that makes new pictures, because the editing tool could only…
Product news
14 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
September in Review: A Building You Can Ask
September was the month ToRun learned to answer for a building as well as for a person. A visitor can now scan a QR code on a wall and ask the venue itself, while everything people already used got easier to share, easie…
Engineering
24 Sep 2026 · 3 min read
Three Pages a Second
On the morning of 22 September, torun.ai slowed to a crawl. A farm of automated browsers, more than two thousand addresses in three quarters of an hour, was requesting our public pages one at a time, and at the worst min…
Product
24 Sep 2026 · 2 min read
A Building You Can Ask
Stand in the middle of a shopping mall and ask the assistant on your phone where the baby changing room is. It knows the whole internet and nothing about this building: which floor, which corridor, whether a restroom is…
Product
24 Sep 2026 · 3 min read
A Picture Mid-Call, and Fifty Prompts Behind #
The days after the fifteenth of September were mostly about the voice call and the prompt box, plus four fixes that deserve a plain account. Here is what reached everyone. Show it, don't describe it Until now, showing th…
Product
15 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
Ten Days in September
Between the fifth and the fifteenth of September, a fair amount changed. Here is the short version, features first, and then the two things that were broken. Runs that read like results The run screen used to be a list o…
Billing
14 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
A Refund Should Take Back Access Too
We ran a refund on our own account to check that the ledger reversed correctly. It did. Then someone read the rest of the account state, which is where the real finding was: the plan was still active, and still active un…