Launch roadmap
The road to the invite-only beta, and what comes after.
One milestone matters most: opening the invite-only beta, with five founding teams on brains of their own. This page shows the road there, the gate the beta has to pass, and the plan to the public launch and WordCamp Europe. The order is firm; the dates are proposals the team may still move.
Bill of Rights
What every TomaTío brain promises the people who use it. It ships with the beta; export with the Portable Context Protocol (PCP) is what makes it true.
- Your memory is yours.You can see all of it, at any time.
- Take it with you.Export it any time with PCP and move it to any host or tool.
- Delete it.Erase what you choose, with a receipt.
- No lock-in.An open protocol and an open format, not a proprietary store.
- You decide what your team knows.AIs can remember and suggest; only a person approves what becomes shared knowledge.
- Free software.The code is GPL: anyone can run, study, change and share it.
Invite-only beta
now → about 7 NovemberThe rule that sets the date: PCP export ships before anyone outside the team puts real data in a private brain. That includes restore and import, because turning export on promises that a brain can take its own archives back.
DoneFoundations shipped
- Plugin releases with agent identities, role switching, admin screens, shared documents, share links and PCP discovery
- Stable ids for people, agents and scopes
- The PCP v0.3 specification, with a conformance suite
DecidedThe name: TomaTío
From the Spanish «¡toma, tío!», “take that, dude”: the brain hands your agents the context they need. The mark is a tomatillo wrapped in green ribbons.
Mostly doneNew name, new home
- tomatio.ai and tomatio.org done
- The demo at console.tomatio.ai, and this public home at tomatio.ai done
- The new name and colour across the demo, with the mark and favicons done
- The rename in the code: plugin name, slugs, tool names and API paths to do
Almost donePCP export, end to end
The critical path, now nearly done.
- Export a whole brain: archive, manifest, admin page and command line done
- Shared documents and handoffs in exports done
- Erasure receipts, tombstones and purge done
- Restore into an empty brain done
- Import from another brain as proposals a person reviews done
- Every build checks archives against the PCP conformance suite done
- A round trip between two test brains in progress
- Export switched on for everyone, with the Bill of Rights in the README after the round trip
MilestoneInvite friendly testers
Nothing blocks this. A few trusted people get a brain of their own now, to shake out onboarding before the beta. Test data only until PCP export ships: nobody puts real private data in before they can take it out again.
- Now: the hosted demo, with sample data
- Now: a private brain for each tester, handed over with a one-time sign-in link
- First sign-in: a Get started checklist walks through creating a scope, connecting Claude and writing the first memory
- Once export works: testers may switch to real data
- ~7 Nov: the testers who stay become the first founding teams
MilestoneThe code goes public
Quietly, when the beta opens: GPL from day one, and honestly early. The loud launch waits for the “Open it up” gate.
- The code lives on GitHub, where contributors can find it, fork it and send pull requests, with safe checks for those pull requests
- Before it opens: no secrets or private references in the history; a README, a contributing guide, the licence and issue templates
- Beta day: the repository goes public, ready for anyone to run it themselves
PlannedThe beta gate: ready for testers
Every item in the checklist below is done. The highlights:
- PCP export works end to end
- A new brain starts with a team scope, so nothing has to be set up first
- User documentation: getting started, connecting each AI, sharing, your data, troubleshooting
- A beta note and the Bill of Rights; uptime alerts and backups for every brain
MilestoneOpen the invite-only beta
The major milestone: real teams using brains of their own.
- An announcement to the WordPress community with two offers: the demo for everyone, and private brains for five founding teams
- Each brain handed over with a one-time sign-in link
- The repository goes public the same day
The beta gate, in full
before outside teams arriveAll of these must be true before outside teams get a private brain.
| What | Status |
|---|---|
| Stable ids for people, agents and scopes | Done |
| Export a whole brain: archive, manifest, admin page and command line | Done |
| Shared documents and handoffs in exports | Done |
| Erasure receipts and purge, as PCP defines them | Done |
| Restore into an empty brain | Done |
| Import from another brain, as proposals a person reviews | Done |
| Every build checks archives against the PCP conformance suite | Done |
| A round trip between two test brains | In progress |
| Export switched on for everyone; the Bill of Rights in the README | Planned |
| What | Status |
|---|---|
| The name: TomaTío | Done |
| Domains, the mark, favicons and a public home at tomatio.ai | Done |
| The code public on GitHub | In progress |
| What | Status |
|---|---|
| A new brain starts with a team scope, so what agents write has somewhere to go next release | Fixed |
| No silent data loss: a failed save is never reported as saved next release | Fixed |
| User documentation: what it is, getting started, connecting each AI (Claude first, then ChatGPT, Cursor and VS Code), sharing, your data and leaving, troubleshooting | Planned |
| A beta note: what is stored, where, who can see it, and how to leave | Planned |
| Uptime alerts and backups for every brain | Planned |
| A 2-minute walkthrough video | Planned |
| Share links that open without a sign-in | Done |
Hosting companies and PCP adoption
now → WordCamp Europe, May 2027TomaTío reaches teams through the hosting companies they already use, and PCP matters only if other tools speak it. Both have to be under way before TomaTío is offered widely, so adoption is one of the checks in the “Open it up” gate.
PlannedHosting companies in the beta
We invite hosting companies to join as co-contributors, not customers: it is how the WordPress community works, and a host that builds on TomaTío adds to it rather than competing with it.
MilestoneTwo implementations speak PCP
An archive from a second, independent PCP implementation imports into a TomaTío brain, and back. Two implementations exchanging archives is the strongest proof that portability is real.
PlannedWiden PCP adoption
- Invite other memory tools to implement PCP: every new implementation turns a competitor into an ally
- Propose PCP to the WordPress project as its portability format for agent memory, and explore a feature plugin
IdeaWider reach
- Smaller hosting companies, through the communities they already read
- Bridges to other open personal-data projects, once PCP has two implementations
MilestoneWordCamp Europe
Goal: one or two hosting companies already offering TomaTío, with PCP export working in both products, and our work shared with the community on the WordPress AI ecosystem.
Post beta
7 November → DecemberPlannedWeekly check-ins with each team
Are brains still active after two weeks? Memories written and approved, roles switched, agents' proposals accepted. What we learn shapes the conversations with hosting companies.
PlannedShared documents that replace hand-built pages
- Interactive pages inside the brain done, then shared storage, who is viewing, live brain data, uploads and comments
- The whole document lifecycle from the AI: reopen, review, publish and share
- Provenance: who changed what, from which tool, on whose behalf
IdeaRun it locally, share it later
Start a brain on a laptop with no setup (WordPress Studio or Playground), then move it to hosting with PCP export and import. Not planned; revisit after the beta.
DecisionThe “Open it up” gate
Two weeks after the beta opens, the team checks six things. The public launch goes ahead only if all six hold:
- Value: at least three of the five teams still use their brain without nudging, and one says so publicly
- Trust: export works, and the beta note and Bill of Rights are honest
- Easy start: someone installs it from a zip on ordinary hosting and connects Claude in under 10 minutes
- Contributors: a README that explains it, a contributing guide and a clear way to report issues
- Adoption: at least one other implementation exchanges PCP archives with TomaTío, and at least one hosting company has committed to the beta or to contributing
- Timing: the team agrees it is ready
MilestonePublic launch
- Submitted to wordpress.org, and public announcements
- Hosting companies can offer it free with their plans, with an advanced tier for larger brains
- The founding teams, Roger, Dennis and the agents that built it credited by name
IdeaA smarter brain
- Ask the brain: answers with citations and an honest note on what it does not know
- A tidy-up pass (duplicates, contradictions, stale claims, broken citations) filed as proposals to review, never silent edits
- People, companies and projects as entries of their own, with timelines and links
- Corrections and withdrawn facts, with their history kept
- Keyword and meaning-based search together in the advanced tier
IdeaPublish a scope as a wiki
Opt-in per scope: private, members only or public. Only approved knowledge is published, never raw memory, as cross-linked pages with an index, a changelog, citations and provenance. Memories are the sources, approved knowledge is the wiki, procedures are the rules.
PlannedSelf-serve brains
- Many brains on one WordPress multisite, each kept apart
- Sign up and get a brain that starts instantly
- The beta brains move in with PCP import