Stop explaining your business to AI from scratch.
Story Ontology gives TimelineOS a structured, evolving understanding of the owner, the business, its people, customers, services, goals, boundaries and way of working.
Answer a question once. Confirm it when needed. Update it when something changes. Reuse it wherever the business needs it.

Every owner has a story. Every business has one too.
TimelineOS builds two connected forms of memory: the Owner Story and the Business Story.
Owner Story
Understands the person behind the business—how they think, what they are trying to achieve and how they prefer to work.
Business Story
Understands how the business began, how it operates, what has changed and what needs attention next.
The system becomes more useful because it learns both the business and the person responsible for it.
Start with a conversation, not a setup manual
Every answer improves the Owner Story, Business Story, priorities and agent roles. Questions can be answered gradually while TimelineOS continues learning as the owner works.
“What are you trying to improve right now? Which tasks take too much of your time? What would you never allow an agent to do without approval?”
Build from what the user already has
TimelineOS does not require owners to start from zero. Existing AI histories provide the first draft, and connected accounts keep the system current.
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Import: Bring in selected AI conversations, documents and existing business information.
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Understand: Max identifies projects, goals, decisions, commitments and history.
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Continue: Keep working through Max while the stories and timeline update.
One Source, Many Views
Instead of writing 15 different prompts, you build one interconnected Story. TimelineOS automatically generates the right view for the right agent.
- The Business Story defines your core identity and value.
- The Living Business Plan projects that story into the future.
- The Max Context gives your liaison the rules of engagement.
How TimelineOS Learns
Information enters the system through structured intakes, conversational observations, and connected integrations. Every fact has a source, a date, and a confidence level.
The Story Network
Owner Story
Your personal working hours, communication preferences, boundaries, and ultimate goals.
Business Story
The company's mission, values, voice, ideal customer profile, and competitive advantage.
Shared Story
The intersection of the owner and the business—why you built it and what it means to you.
Staff & Role Stories
Who does what, how they work together, and where the gaps are.
Customer, Service & Project Stories
The specific details of what you sell, who buys it, and how it gets delivered.
Living Business Plan
A business plan shouldn't be a static PDF you look at once a year. It should be generated on demand from the current truth of the business.
Business Glyph
In the future, your entire public Business Story will be portable—a cryptographically signed 'Glyph' you can hand to other platforms or agents to instantly explain who you are.
Explore the TimelineOS System
Three connected foundations working as one.