The Tech Nation · Newsletter #18 body { margin: 0; padding: 0; background: #e9e4f2; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; } img { border: 0; line-height: 100%; outline: none; text-decoration: none; } table { border-collapse: collapse; } @media only screen and (max-width: 600px) { .px { padding-left: 16px !important; padding-right: 16px !important; } .outer { padding: 0 !important; } .h1 { font-size: 30px !important; } .h2 { font-size: 25px !important; } .col { display: block !important; width: 100% !important; padding: 0 0 12px 0 !important; } .date { width: 74px !important; } } The Climb is out. Plus: the plug-and-play second brains compared, the Claude deals, and four dates for your calendar. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Issue #18 The launch issue The Climb is out $ in this issue 01The Climb is out. The concrete AI adoption tool for teams, at its launch price. 02Five dates worth your calendar, from Barcelona to Munich. 03Plug-and-play second brains: Grok Bot, Instinct, Muse, Dots, Duet and OpenBot, compared. 04Claude deals, deadlines first. 05The AI Act and us. OUT NOW The concrete AI adoption tool for teams. You paid for AI licences. The Climb gets your whole team to actually use them, every week, on real work. ▲A habit, not a training day. Duolingo style: small missions of 2 to 15 minutes, twelve camps, from the basics to your first agents. ▲Works with the AI you already pay for. Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot. No new tool to roll out. ▲See where adoption really stands. Team by team: who uses what, where people get stuck, and why. ▲Your AI champions, revealed. The Sherpas rise on their own and pull the others up. You see them, you back them. ▲AI Act ready. A dated training record and a certificate for every climber. ▲An employer brand people want to join. A company where everyone grows with AI, with certificates people are proud to post. LAUNCH PRICE 20 € 15 € per team member, per month Buy it now → ▶ See Alti’s presentation Discover the product → Rather talk first? Book a demo with me → Jérémie 02 · Five dates Worth your calendar. TUE 3 NOV19:00 Future of Work & AI Roundtable →With The AI Collective, in Barcelona. Free. WED 4 NOV18:00 Cheese, Tech & Wine #8 · ours#7 filled all 80 seats. Two hours, laptops open: your Second Brain, then your first agent team. Then the cheese. luma.com/the-uroz THU 5 NOV18:30 OUR PICKCreate a Fashion Photoshoot with AI →At AI Campus Barcelona, in English. Watch a full campaign shoot built live, from a flat lay to on-model images, including where AI still fails. For fashion, sports and ecommerce teams. 8-10 DEC Advent with the Claude Community Munich →Three days, free: a conversation, a Build Day and an Impact Lab, between Christmas markets and mulled wine. Save the date. SOON The next Claude Community BarcelonaIt’s cooking. You’ll get the date in our next issue, before anyone else. 03 · Plug-and-play second brains Agents that work while you sleep. Is writing an email about to become useless? Until now, AI waited for you. You open a chat, you ask, it answers, it forgets. Since August, every big lab has shipped the opposite: an agent that lives on its own computer in the cloud, plugged into your mail, calendar and files, that watches, prepares, and comes to you. A brief in the morning. A reminder you didn’t ask for. A reply already drafted, waiting for your yes. HOW THEY WORK, IN THREE PIECES Its own machine It keeps working when your laptop is closed. Your context Connected to the apps where your work lives. Rules of trust What it may do alone, and when it must ask you. That’s the real shift. Your job moves from doing to deciding: you won’t write the follow-up email anymore, you’ll approve the one that’s already there. And what makes the difference is no longer the prompt. It’s the context the agent has about you and your company, and the judgment you keep. Which is exactly why we keep talking about second brains. THE FIELD, AS OF THIS MORNING Grok Bot xAI · August Always-on coworkers with a browser, files and a terminal. PRICE Paid Grok plansEUROPE Europe: not confirmed GAME CHANGER OpenBot CopilotKit · August The open-source one: AI coworkers you host yourself. PRICE Free code, your own serverEUROPE Yes, if you host it (alpha) GEEK Muse Meta · September Long tasks for you. In the US, it even calls businesses. PRICE Free tier, then $20 or $100EUROPE US first MAINSTREAM Dots OpenAI · September Background research on your apps, read-only. PRICE ChatGPT Pro, Business PremiumEUROPE Pro reportedly not in Europe yet TECH CURIOUS Instinct ♥ startup · 2026 No app. You text it on WhatsApp, and it texts you first. PRICE Free during the betaEUROPE Invite only EARLY ADOPTER HIGH POTENTIAL Claude Duet ♥ Anthropic · October A morning brief, check-ins, and it asks before it sends, pays or signs. PRICE In Claude Pro and MaxEUROPE US waitlist, Europe TBC CLAUDE LOVER HIGH POTENTIAL WHY DUET EXCITES ME “Today, building proactive agents that actually help takes a long time. And the proactive part is usually average. Plugging in something built for exactly that, thinking that way on top of a rich context, could be the new edge.” Jérémie And Instinct, because the best interface is the one people already open fifty times a day. One caution: read its terms, it can act on your behalf. Sources: OpenAI, TechCrunch, Composio, eesel, explainx, MacRumors. Checked on 26/10. Badges are ours, and entirely subjective. 04 · Claude deals Free to grab. Deadlines first. $25,000 a month of free Claude Security ENTERPRISE · SIGN UP BEFORE 1 NOV Two months of free credits for the new security scanner, usable until 31 December. More → Your Claude Code cloud credits expire PRO & MAX · BEFORE 4 NOV Claimed the $100 or $250 bonus in early October? What’s left disappears on 4 November. More → Up to $500 a month of API credits TEAM PLANS · EVERY MONTH $20 per Standard seat, $100 per Premium seat, pooled up to $500. An Owner claims it in the settings. More → 05 · The AI Act and us Is AI training mandatory? Sort of. Since February 2025, Article 4 of the AI Act asks every company that uses AI to look after its people’s AI literacy. Softened in July, still there: companies must take measures to support it, and national authorities supervise it since August. No certificate required, no EU fine of its own. What counts is a dated record of who learned what. That record is built into The Climb. The Commission’s FAQ → Not legal advice. Official texts read on 21/10/2026. One more thing Hey, I’m Alti. Got a minute and a half? The guide of The Climb tells you the whole story, from the blizzard to the summit. In English, French, Spanish, Catalan or Turkish. ▶ EN▶ FR▶ ES▶ CA▶ TR Then hit reply and tell me: out of ten people on your team, how many really use AI every week? I read every answer. Book a demo with me → See you up there! ▲Jérémie, for The Tech Nation team LinkedIn Instagram the-tech-nation.com People · Tech · Impact Events listed are run by their own organisers. Agent facts checked on 26/10, they move fast. Got this from a friend? Subscribe → Every two weeks, one email. Had enough? Unsubscribe in one click.