Start from something finished.

The expensive part of bringing an area of your life in is imagining the first version — which pieces you need, and how they talk to each other. A Kit skips all of that: it is a coordinated set built to work together over one corner of your life, taken in a tap from the catalog of Kits.

Add Income & Outgoings once and you get the lot: a skill that quietly notes the bills and income you mention in conversation, the ledger it writes them to, a dashboard that shows where things stand, and a weekly tidy that keeps it all current — with a careful specialist to run it. Mention a bill in passing on Tuesday; find it on the dashboard by Friday. Nothing to wire together, because the pieces already know about each other.

Every Kit is assembled from the same few kinds of piece. What you add is a copy that becomes yours — drawing on your own data, and yours to reshape by asking.

A Kit arrives whole, and that is rather the point: the wiring between the pieces is the part you would otherwise have to imagine. The skill writes to the record the dashboard draws from; the routine tends all three; the specialist runs the lot. A piece lifted out of that has nothing to talk to — so the catalog hands you the set already connected, and lets you reshape any of it once it is yours.

Because what you took is a copy drawing on your own data, every change you want is just another thing you ask for. The ready-made original in the catalog is never touched.

Setting a Kit up happens in conversation. The keeper starts with what 1Presence already knows — your memory, and files in your vault where it may read — offers what it found for a yes, and asks only for what is missing. Until the Kit has what it needs to work, its page, its board and a new chat with its keeper show how much of the setup is in place and offer the way back in. Mark a part “Doesn’t apply” and it counts as done. Press “I’ve finished setting up”, or tell the keeper as much, and the reminders stand down; the Kit page then offers “Carry on setting up” if you change your mind. Open a new conversation with a Kit still part set up and the keeper offers, once, to pick it up.

You live with a Kit from inside it — open it and its records, dashboard and specialist are the whole screen; step out and the rest of 1Presence is as you left it. A Kit does the work first, and grows into your ways. It does not wait to be told the perfect way to write something up — it writes one, files it, and shows you. The first few will be close but not yours. Correct it the way you would correct a colleague: tell it in chat, or comment on what it produced. Either way the preference is kept, so the next one reflects it without you repeating yourself. Tell it in March that you want decisions before context, and it still leads with decisions in September.

Your corrections are kept on the agent you told, so a note to one specialist does not quietly change the others. An agent asks before it keeps a standing preference, and you can read and edit what each one holds.

A Kit brings its routines with it, each on its own schedule. Installing runs nothing. Kits built around a sweep of your history offer the first one on their arrival screen, and starting it is your tap; every other routine waits for its schedule. A scheduled run over records that are still empty waits rather than running, and may leave one card inviting you to set the Kit up, which stops once you say you have finished. Each run uses credit from your plan, in proportion to how much there is to read and write — a quiet week costs less than a loud one. A Kit’s page and its install screen say about how many runs a month to expect, and the Kit’s home counts the runs so far this month. On the free plan, scheduled runs share the daily allowance with your messages: once today’s is used up, a scheduled run waits until it resets and leaves a card in your 1Presence inbox saying when it will try again. Every routine can be retimed or paused by asking in a conversation, or retimed, paused, renamed or removed on its own page, and run by hand whenever you want to see what it does; a Kit’s Routines page has Run now, Pause and Resume for each.

When one of those first sweeps finishes, the specialist leaves a short note in your 1Presence inbox: what it filed, and an invitation to spend two minutes walking through it together, marking anything it misread. A Kit’s routines are also looked after the way every routine is. Once one has settled into what normal looks like, you hear about it on the routine and in your inbox if it starts producing less than usual, or drifting from what you asked for.

If a Kit turns out not to be for you, remove it. The whole set goes in one move — or, if only one piece was wrong, that piece can go on its own once you have been told what it was wired to. Either way removal takes the machinery and leaves what you recorded: the entries stay yours unless you ask, in the same breath, for those to go too — and that ask is itemised, so you see exactly what would be cleared before any of it is.

And the catalog keeps improving underneath you. When a piece you have taken gets better — a sharper skill, a better-shaped dashboard — the improvement can reach your copy, but it never overwrites the changes that made it yours, and it never touches your data. You choose the manner of it, too: updates can apply on their own (“Update automatically”), ask you first (“Ask me first”), or not at all (“Don’t update”).