ESSAYS / MANAV SEHGAL

Ideas worth
carrying forward.

On personal AI, working knowledge, and the freedom to decide what our tools should do for us.

02 / THE LATEST ESSAYPERSONAL AI · HUMAN JUDGMENT

The Work
We Want
to Keep.

How Flow Jobs gives documents work to do while their owners keep the judgment.

Yesterday’s research should be a place to begin again. A document can retain the question, its Jobs and the right to question the result. This is the argument behind the next chapter of Flow.

By Manav Sehgal17 minute read
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THE FILE SAVED THE WORDS.

We still have to
recover the work.

WHERE THE ARGUMENT BEGAN

Room for a Renaissance

How knowledge that keeps working can make more room for the researcher, writer, and builder in each of us.

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THE PERSON BEHIND THE WORK

A personal desk.
A larger possibility.

I’m Manav Sehgal, founder of Orionfold. My work has taken me through document systems, risk analytics, cloud architecture and AI products. These essays ask what useful intelligence should make possible for the person at the desk.

The essays develop the argument. The Living Documents Manifesto names the principles. Flow puts them to work.

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