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Start with a stack of cards.
Punch, sort and check the work. Every little machine has a job to do.
Punch cardsIdle craft · AI history · a little satire
Small bots.
Big ambitions.
Meet Bao. Brew a crew of little bots, put them to work, and build your way through the history of artificial intelligence. Humans have requests. Your tiny team has a very long to-do list.
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Your next employee.
✦✧✦TODAY’S BIG IDEABrew. Work. Repeat.
1950 →the AI eras
12chapters to explore
9playable languages
Idleat your own pace
A workshop through time
Every era has its own kind of work.
From punch cards to agent teams, the machines, the jobs and the problems change as you go. Your workshop keeps growing.
1970s
Make a plan. Then fix it.
Turn logic and rules into a working system. There is always another constraint.
Rules & planning2000s
Teach machines to see.
Build up your tools and crew as learning systems take on new kinds of work.
Learning systemsToday
Manage the agent era.
Bring a bigger team together. More ambition, more jobs, more human expectations.
AI agents
A small crew.
A growing workshop.
Hire another pair of tiny hands. Upgrade a station. Follow a new research lead. Reinvest your earnings and watch a modest workshop become something much bigger.
Build your crewGrow while awayTake a side gig
A workday you
can take your time with.
Work at your own pace
Progress through the campaign, improve the workshop and return to collect offline earnings.
Rewards are your choice
Optional rewarded ads can offer extra coins, a short boost or a reward multiplier. The reward is granted only when the ad’s reward condition is met.
A little history between the jobs
Story scenes, historical cards and side games give the workshop a world beyond its production line.
Your crew speaks
nine languages.
Choose a language in the game settings. The campaign is available in:
English简体中文繁體中文日本語한국어FrançaisDeutschItalianoРусский
Your workshop, on your device.
No in-game account is required. Progress is saved locally. Our privacy notice explains local saves, optional advertising and this website.
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Choose your platform and start your workshop.