Meet Y, the world's first Slow-Thinking AI™. Ask Y anything, and Y will answer with a better question. Usually "Why?" Usually within 3 to 5 business days.
No credit card. No salt. Invented in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Average response time. Good questions take time. Great questions take longer.
Of questions answered with another question. Industry-leading follow-through.
Top speed (downhill, with a tailwind, when motivated by lettuce).
Salt-related incidents since launch. Please help us keep it that way.
Other apps give you answers. Answers are where curiosity goes to nap. Y runs a patented three-step loop that keeps you moving. Forward. Slowly.
Why is the sky blue? Why do we have to go to bed? Why is it called a driveway? Y accepts all questions, including the ones adults are tired of.
Powered by Snail Intelligence (S.I.), Y processes your question and responds with the single most powerful word in science. Then waits.
Every "why" opens a new path. Keep going until you figure it out, run out of whys, or get called to dinner. Whichever comes first.
Patent pending. Also pending: the patent office's reply to our follow-up question.
Every part of Y was engineered by a team of snails who refused to be rushed. The results speak for themselves. Eventually.
Y leaves a glowing trail of every question you've ever asked. Follow it back to see how far you've come. Please do not step on it.
Y never rushes an answer. Your question is carefully considered, slept on, considered again, and then answered with a question.
Your questions are stored safely inside the shell. Nobody can get to them. Not hackers, not advertisers, not even you.
No charger. No cable. No cloud. Y runs entirely on lettuce, sunshine, and a deep, unshakable interest in what happens next.
Y ships in a certified salt-free environment. Please keep it that way. This is our only firm rule and we feel strongly about it.
Every "why" earns a point. Points can't be redeemed for anything, which raises a great question. Y would love to hear it.
Same snail, bigger questions. "Why did I walk into this room?" "Why is the meeting not an email?" Y doesn't know either. Why?
Y lives on your phone, on your desk, and in a very large spiral-shaped building in East Tennessee.
Beautifully minimal, because there is really only one button. Available on all major platforms, eventually.
Our campus is shaped like a shell, faces the Smokies, and has one very long crosswalk. Employees are encouraged to arrive whenever they arrive.
This is a real, working demo of the Y engine, running on actual Snail Intelligence. Type a question and watch curiosity move you forward.
Full technical specifications for the Y hardware unit, as measured by our engineering team over the course of one very long afternoon.
Y began the way most great ideas do: with a kid asking "Why?" over and over until the nearest adult ran out of answers. Somewhere on the road between Knoxville and the Smokies, Avie Abell noticed something important. The questions were more fun than the answers.
So Avie drew a snail. The snail got a question mark. The question mark got a tagline. And now the whole thing has a headquarters, a roadmap, and a very confused patent office.
Y is Avie's brainchild, built on a simple belief: if you keep asking why, you keep moving. It doesn't have to be fast. It just has to be forward.
"Why?"
— AVIE ABELL, FOUNDER, IN THE COMPANY'S OFFICIAL MISSION STATEMENT (COMPLETE, UNABRIDGED)Y's engineering team works out of the Knoxville campus. They are dedicated, thoughtful, and have never once been early to a meeting.
Real quotes from real beta testers, lightly edited for length, because they were still waiting on a reply.
"I asked Y why the sky is blue. That was three weeks ago. I've learned so much about patience."
— BETA TESTER, KNOXVILLE"Finally, technology that moves at my pace."
— A TURTLE"Y asked me 'why' so many times that I accidentally finished my dissertation. Four stars because it never asked how I was doing."
— GRAD STUDENT"Y?"
— EVERYONE, UPON HEARING THE NAMEChoose the plan that matches your level of curiosity. All plans include the same answer.
For people who ask a lot of questions.
For people who ask a lot of follow-up questions.
For schools, teams, and very large families.
Sales will respond to your inquiry with a question. This is not a bug.
Forward. Here's the plan for the year, approved by leadership after a single, very short meeting.
Our favorite kind.
Y is a real idea from a real kid in Knoxville, Tennessee. The company is imaginary. The curiosity is not. The snail is emotionally real to everyone involved.
Why not? Snails carry their home with them, never rush, and always leave a trail showing where they've been. Also, the shell already looked like a question mark. It was basically destiny.
Yes.
Y is an S.I., or Snail Intelligence. It's like artificial intelligence, but it's been thinking about your question for longer than you have.
No.
Y asks why. Then you answer that. Then Y asks why. Somewhere in there, you figure something out. That part isn't a joke. That part is the whole idea.
Y is the brainchild invention of Avie Abell of Knoxville, Tennessee, who drew the original snail, named it Y, and gave it a tagline before anyone asked. Curiosity moves you forward.
Join the Y waitlist and we'll let you know the moment Y is ready. Or the moment after that. Y doesn't like to be rushed.
Demo form. Nothing is sent anywhere, which is also how Y handles email.
You are number 4,182 in line. Estimated wait: a while. Y will be in touch. Slowly.