SQ Collective, Singapore · The Stage — Co-work Fridays

Buildinganautonomousfuture

Importance of owning native tools for agent-native work

Philipp Hölke

Founder & CEO, Kamino Corporation

CEO, Mission Systems

Co-founder & CTO, Mission Group

The two companies

Mission Systems

Applied autonomy for real-world operating businesses.

Kamino Corporation

Open-source infrastructure for autonomous systems.

What does the autonomous future mean for humans?

Why

What makes us human is the capacity to create.

A potter shaping a pot on the wheel
A painter at the easel
A baker kneading dough
A welder at work
Wooden figures on a child’s table
A musician in the studio
A workshop bench under its lamps
A chef plating a dish

Two gaps

01

Frontier ↔ workforce

We run agents and agent workflows daily and understand the technology from the inside. Most of the workforce still uses ChatGPT as a better Google.

02

Real work is messy

Covering one shift touches email, WhatsApp, a call, two sites and three systems. No single tool holds the job — ten of them hold a piece each.

The tool

SaaS is a tool.

One job, done well. A hammer.

A site needs 500 of them.

Mission Systems · Three product principles

Autonomous

Agents across the whole stack, doing the work end to end.

Generative

The pilot and the cabin crew don't see the same screen. The interface is generated per role, and it evolves with use.

Invisible

Most of it runs in the background. What surfaces is the exception.

The thesis

An agent can only do the job if it holds every tool the human holds.

Fragmented DIY integration

Ten tools, ten records. Forty-five joins, each one yours to keep alive.

For the engineers · one concrete case

One shift swap.

The request Chef swaps Friday

Rostering

Hours

CHEF-17

Write failed

HR

Qualifications

EMP-0042

Vendor scope

Payroll

Award rates

PAY-8891

Committed

Three IDs. You own the mapping table. Two systems now disagree, and no single log shows the change.

Mission Systems · One operational model

One operational model Launchpad Reasons across the whole Written once. Shared throughout.
People Workforce · Operations
Shifts Workforce · Events
Sites Every application
Stock Procurement · Grapestack
Suppliers Procurement · Finance
Orders Procurement · Finance
Guests Loyalty · Messaging · Marketing
Bookings Events · Messaging
Recipes Recipes · Finance
Vehicles Fleet · Operations
Consignments Fleet · Procurement
Crews Workforce

Thank you

Philipp Hölke

Founder & CEO, Kamino Corporation

CEO, Mission Systems

Co-founder & CTO, Mission Group

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Mission Systems · Live demo

Launchpad and the applications, live, with

David Faber

Forward-Deployed Engineer, Mission Systems

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