Egoist AI Passport

What makes it different

Erin McGurk and David Khachaturov met at the University of Cambridge — through Caledonian dancing — and bonded over a shared worry: AI assistants were quietly collecting, storing and sharing personal information, and users had no say in where it lived, how it was used, or who it was used by. They founded Egoist Machines, backed by Y Combinator, on a simple thesis: AI should work in the interests of the person using it.

AI Passport is their answer: one place for your personal information, which you choose to share with the apps and assistants you use. Connect email, calendar, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and 800+ apps, see what your Passport knows about you, ask questions about your life with references showing where each answer came from, and grant a tool access for a period you choose — then revoke it any time. It is free forever to use.

Egoist Machines raised a $3M seed round — announced 7 October 2026, with Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, a European family office and scientists from DeepMind and Meta — and launched AI Passport publicly the same day, after a beta earlier in 2026. Erin is CEO, after studying Land Economy at Cambridge; David is CTO, with a PhD in computer science from Cambridge and machine-learning research stints at OpenAI.