Tanka • 01
Preface
Tanka is the Operating Base for an AI-Native Company (ANC)—designed to strip away the long narrative of execution and preserve the high-density signature of human intent within a sea of automation.
I. Between "Human Preference" and "Technological Truth"
From the very first day Tanka was born, I fell into a state of profound ambivalence.
Intellectually, I was 100% certain: a true AI-Native company must possess extreme openness. The progress of human civilization is, in essence, a continuous yielding of "privacy."
In the era of information scarcity and interpersonal isolation, your name, address, and profession were your sturdiest shields. But today, if you wish to enjoy the convenience of the internet, build social connections, or even merely possess a digital identity, you must surrender this data. In 2025, only those who choose to completely decouple from electronic devices and vanish into the wilderness possess true, intact privacy.
For an enterprise, this logic is even starker. A company is not a social club; it is a combat organization existing for commercial purposes. In the context of an ANC, any information generated around commercial objectives—whether a casual chat, a line of draft text, or the hesitation behind a decision—belongs not just to the individual. It is the "raw material" for corporate decision-making.
Yet, as a manager, I could not ignore the genuine feelings of my employees. I spent a vast amount of time wondering: Can we find a compromise? Is it possible to let AI create miracles while still protecting so-called "privacy"?
I attempted to find a "middle ground" to bypass this issue—such as grading data sensitivity, desensitizing information, or leaving a "psychological shadow zone" for employees.
But ultimately, I discovered I was wrong. AI is the most honest mirror; it has a physiological rejection of false and fragmented information. If data is not truthful and not comprehensive, the feedback provided by AI instantly distorts, and that so-called "intelligence" rapidly degrades into mediocre advice. In the face of this logic, there is no middle ground.
I realized that if we want to create miracles in the AI era, we must confront this brutal truth: Privacy is a blood clot in the brain of AI. As long as there is a single blockage, the entire system faces paralysis.
II. The Opaque are Obsolete
Inside Tanka, I also faced this awkward confrontation. As the sole founder and investor, the structural asymmetry between myself and the employees made "full openness" sound like a form of oppressive power.
But I told everyone: I have also handed my "soul" over to the system. I am the person with the largest volume of data and the highest degree of openness in the entire company. I do this not to supervise anyone, but to feed AI the most authentic causality.
In the end, I made a decisive judgment: If you still cannot overcome your obsession with privacy, if you feel your little "black-box mindset" is more important than the system's intelligent feedback, then please leave.
This is not cruelty; it is reverence for evolution. Because if you cannot understand that "Openness is Intelligence," you are destined not to survive in this new wave. I would rather shrink the team size than leave even a single bit of lie within the system's genes.
III. Commercial Stop-Loss: Stop Explaining to "Legacy Humans"
This friction occurs not only internally but is even more common when pioneering B2B business.
We spent countless hours explaining to business owners: Why do you need to be open? After painstakingly persuading the boss, two days later, they would return, hesitating, saying employees had objections and feared privacy leaks. This repetitive, inefficient communication consumed a massive amount of our vital energy.
Later, I simply told my team: Give up.
Companies that are endlessly entangled in privacy concerns are not our fellow travelers. We should no longer waste time on those who cannot reach a consensus on logic. Rather than spending 80% of our energy explaining why we must be open, we should focus 100% of our energy on those partners who are willing to fully stake everything and hope to create miracles in the AI phase.
The ANC Operating Base (Tanka Base) is not a set of generic tools, but a specific Transparency Contract. We are looking for those "Super-nodes" who dare to be candid before AI, not those attempting to build walls upon ruins.
IV. What is the Threshold for an AI-Native Enterprise?
When you choose to open all operational data, all psychological gaming, and all execution causality to the system, you are actually liberated. You no longer need to write hypocritical weekly reports, no longer need to handle cross-departmental shadows, and no longer need to consume massive amounts of energy to "protect privacy."
AI provides liquefied execution; Tanka preserves the high-density signature.
If a company dares not remain candid, it does not deserve this highest dimension of efficacy. We aim to prove: an organization with transparent causality and information superconductivity will evolve ten thousand times faster than those traditional companies gaming in the shadows.
This is the first threshold we must cross to step into the AI-Native era.
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