Hey all, we hope you are making the most of your festive season 🎄

It is important to take time to relax and reflect, and now is a good time as the market settles down for a few weeks after a historic run up. 2024 was a big year, and a lot happened. To some, we moved too slow; to others, they could not believe how much we got done on a comparatively tight budget. There were a lot of uphill battles this year, but we are now in a position to move from tech focus building, to social expansion. This does not mean we are done building, not even close. It just means we are now ready to start the steps needed to push Skilllful out into the world.

1) Platform launch

To launch the platform in the way we want, we need several key components.

a) Smart contracts - We have been testing the basic version of these with our characters and marketplace, and expanding this to agents and beyond is on the horizon.

b) Fiat payments - We use the blockchain where it makes sense, and it is our main focus. But not implementing fiat solutions locks out a huge market. This has been a challenge, as a lot of payment providers reject anything that even has a whiff of cryptocurrency. Luckily after a lot of back and forth with dozens of providers, we are on the last steps to get them integrated.

c) Rewards - Everyone's favourite topic it seems. Post-launch, we will be doing rewards campaigns for the most impactful agents. This will be our pilot version of a rewards system. As the year goes on, and we add in more developer support, we will also be adding some funding rounds for builders using the platform. There will be more information on this as we go along.

2) Partner agents

We are currently working with several partners on fine-tuned agents with various capabilities. This will allow us to do several things

a) Show case - These partner agents will allow our infrastructure to be shown off in a functional way, one of them will also help aid in something you all ask more about. Marketing. We know this strategy can work well, as one of these agents was already built, and the team we built it for launched it. It is currently the most powerful autonomous agent we are aware of. We can not talk about that more for now, but all you need to find out more about it has been right in front of you all for several weeks.

b) Functional tools - While building these partner agents, we also make sure that any tool they may need e.g. blockchain explorer, is also designed in such a way, that we can add it to our public AI builder.

c) New partners - Partner agents indicate some kind of partnership, this means we can start adding partnerships in new areas. In the past we mainly focused on our infrastructure needs to get up and running. Now we can focus on what we can build for others.

3) Misc

a) Telegram - Telegram as a tool for speaking to agents has been something in the works for a few weeks. It took longer than other tools, as the infrastructure to use it was built out to easily handle more credentials and apps in the future. This is currently in testing, and will allow people to create custom AI characters and agents that they can add to group chats. With extended capabilities as time goes on. These will be useful as QA bots to start, and will expand to handle more data as testing progresses

b) New agent info - We have overhauled the agent info screen, which will be live before the public release. It will be more informative, and is more like a product description page. With more in-depth information, and more manageable sections for creators to handle their API keys, documents, and more.

c) xAI: GROK - In dev testing right now, we have integrated GROK. It was something people asked for a while back, but it was on lockdown. So you will soon be able to build agents powered by GROK.

d) Ask Skillful - Added our documents to an agent that you can find on the app sidebar, where you can ask questions about our project. This will be updated as our documents are updated.

e) Scheduling, tools, and more - We are almost finished testing the ability to schedule your agents to do specific tasks. Allowing you to automate agent tweeting, data pulling, image generation, etc. We will work on making the task scheduling work with the majority of tools where this is useful, constantly expanding this feature. Image editing, short-videos, and more are all being worked on also. With access to Google's models and infrastructure from their grant, these are all things they are helping us with integrating.

We are not building 1 single agent that does XYZ, we have to build the framework, credential storage, access management, request tracking, etc etc, that allows thousands of people to create these agents.

We are making it so EVERYONE can build powerful autonomous agents, and add to an evolving ecosystem that becomes more powerful with every user. 2025 will be the year of expansion. Thank you all for your time, patience, and faith. Sincerely, Skillful AI