A year ago today, we launched monologue There’s so much we want to build, and I’m excited to keep working on it To everyone who’s used it, shared it, or told us how to make it better: thank you! Here’s to year two 🚀

Introducing OpenRouter for tools ⚒️ Old world: SaaS bundles priced for humans. $139/mo, and you don't even know what's in the box. New world: agents don't care about vendors. They want the best API for the task - and to pay for the result. - 2,600 agent-friendly tools: seo/geo, social, leads, ads... - search by task: see price/request/response, call it - pay per call, no subscriptions - 0% markup - Open-source Try it here:

BREAKING: OpenAI just dropped GPT-6 ASTRA!!! 🚀✨ We’ve been testing it extensively at @every across coding, writing, and knowledge work. My take: it’s a big upgrade from 5.6-Sol, with some frustrating habits that keep it from matching Fable at the top end. Here’s your vibe check: - The best writing model I’ve tried. It’s fast, produces very little slop, and is easy to steer. It’s a good companion for actually working through the writing I do every day. (Not to mention, it one-shotted the first draft of its own vibe check today!) - The computer use is wild. It can go for hours at a time using complicated apps to get work done. It did the first cut of our Fable 5.1 vibe check video...kind of mindblowing - Impressive 3D games and visualizations. It can make beautiful 3D worlds from a single prompt. I one-shotted a historically accurate rendition of the Battle of Waterloo - It can overcomplicate things. (Especially at higher effort levels.) Ask for a simple interface and you get extra labels, buttons, and features everywhere. It has a habit of turning everything into a landing page. It just doesnt quite match Fable's ability to intuitively understand your prompt and do something delightful (without overcomplicating.) Net Result: If you already live in ChatGPT for Work or Codex and can afford it, it’s an easy upgrade from 5.6-Sol. The biggest proof of Astra's effectiveness at helping you do work is our vibe check. We found out it was launching at 3 AM this morning, and had a 4,000 word vibe check + video done by 2 PM. Not possible without this model. I’m reaching for Astra all day, but Fable 5.1 still gets my biggest tasks. On ambitious builds, Fable is better at understanding what I want and taking it further than I would have thought to ask. State of Play: Astra is launching to Enterprise customers today, and the rest of ChatGPT users over the coming days. Now, both OpenAI and Anthropic have a higher class of models that cost more to use. That changes who gets to use frontier AI and how. It's also a new vector of competition between them: Fable and Astra are priced at the same level. We'll see what that means for adoption in the coming days and weeks. read our full vibe check @every today:

BREAKING: Anthropic just dropped Fable 5.1—and CLAUDE IS SO BACK. We’ve spent the last week testing it at @every across coding, writing, and knowledge work. Our verdict: It's finally Fable for everyone. It’s the strongest coding model we’ve used, but now it's fast, token-efficient, and CRUCIALLY actually speaks like a normal person. Here’s our vibe check: - A monster at coding. @kieranklaassen rebuilt a working version of Proof, our document editor, from one prompt. It added useful details he hadn’t requested, and it handles enormous coding jobs that run for days at a time. It built a computer use Mac app for me called Hands in one-shot that other models failed at. - A Claude our writers want to use again. It has clearer prose, fewer AI tells, and it takes an edit without arguing. It's a significant upgrade over Opus 5. And won @kplikethebird's heart back. - About half the tokens as Opus 5, and much faster. In our Slack-agent tests, it delivered comparable results to Opus 5 using about half as many tokens, in about 60% of the time. - Knowledge work you can delegate. It can produce great knowledge work—like slide decks—end to end without making slop. And flew threw @hammermt's tests with flying colors. - It now supports zero-data-retention agreements. Now businesses can actually use it! A big barrier to Fable adoption is gone. Net Result: It's obviously an Opus 5 killer. If that was your daily driver you should switch today. If you're using GPT-5.6 in ChatGPT for Work, it's spinning the wheels on for big delegated tasks. I still use ChatGPT for Work more day to day, but I use way more tokens in Fable 5.1. I send it off at the beginning of the day to do big programming projects, like end to end MVP builds, and check in every once in a while. State of Play: The big knock on Anthropic was they built a supergenius in a datacenter that was almost unusable. It was too slow, argued back, and talked in technical gibberish. They've managed to solve those problems and more with Fable 5.1!

Yesterday we launched Dot, Monologue’s new recorder UI. It looks tiny. Building it wasn’t. Lucas Fischer and Naveen unpack the accessibility work, discarded prototypes, performance tradeoffs, and why we removed most of the animation. Here’s the full conversation

Grateful to @naveennaidu_m for letting me explore and build this feature for @usemonologue. So excited to see it finally ship. Truly appreciate the trust and support to run wild with an idea and bring it to life. 🫶

Meet Dot, the new Monologue recorder UI - Stays beside your caret so you know where your text will appear - Follows you across apps and puts your text where you started - Moves out of the way when you’re not recording Available today in Monologue for Mac v1.5.0