Blog
Engineering notes, creator economics, and product announcements from the team building ToRun.
Product
6 Sep 2026 · 2 min read
A Run You Can Read at a Glance
Two screenshots from a phone, and the same complaint in both: looking at this tells me nothing. The first was the history. Every row read "Ad-hoc run" — the same three words for a serenade, a research brief and a birthda…
Product
5 Sep 2026 · 3 min read
A Video for Someone You Love, in a Minute
Most of what an AI product makes is for the person typing. A summary for you, a draft for you, an image for your slide. Moments starts from the other end: a person you want to reach, an occasion, and a phone full of phot…
Product
4 Sep 2026 · 3 min read
The Place Card Grows Up
"Find me a café that is open now" is a sentence people say to phones, and the answer they expect is not a paragraph. It is a short list, nearest first, with enough on each row to choose without leaving the conversation.…
Product
23 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
A Call That Survives the Elevator
A Wi-Fi handover, a tunnel, a lift. The connection dies mid-sentence and you are dropped onto an error screen, having lost the conversation with it. Every other kind of call rides that out. Now ours does too. The trick i…
Product
22 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
The Sign-Up Form That Would Not Say What It Wanted
Over fourteen days, mobile registration succeeded 21 times and failed 72. Grouping the failures: 53 were the password policy, and eight more were people hitting an anti-abuse limit after retrying so often. The rule is ei…
Product
20 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
A Report Button on Everything
If a product can generate images, video, music, speech and text, it has to be possible to report any of them. Not most of them. Any. We had the button on some surfaces. That is a different thing, and the difference is ea…
Product
8 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
An Assistant That Remembers For You
An assistant that only answers questions is a search box with manners. The useful part is when it holds something for you and gives it back at the right moment. Reminders that actually ring Ask for a reminder in plain la…
Product
8 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
Say It, Don't Type It
Ask someone to describe the image they want and they will talk for a paragraph. Ask them to type it on a phone and you get six words. That gap shows up directly in the results. A microphone on every prompt The image, vid…
Product
8 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
Talking to ToRun Got a Lot Better
Voice was the part of ToRun with the widest gap between what it could do and how it felt to use. This release closes most of it. The screen keeps up with the conversation While you are talking, the home screen stops bein…