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Christel Buchanan

Founder & CEO, ChatAndBuild

Building ChatChat, powered by the Living Brain


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🚀 About Me

I’m the founder of ChatAndBuild, an AI company developing products and infrastructure for the age of abundant intelligence.

Our mission is to make advanced intelligence more accessible, practical, and empowering—grounded in one simple belief:

Anyone can chat and build.

My work is centred on ChatChat, powered by the Living Brain: a new way for people to create and work with proactive AI agents that can remember, understand context, respond to live information, and coordinate action across tools and time.


🧠 What We’re Building

ChatChat is a messaging-first platform for creating and working with proactive AI agents.

It brings conversations, agents, knowledge, tools, and memory into one intuitive environment—allowing people to build their own AI teams, collaborate with agents, and turn ideas into execution through natural conversation.


The Living Brain is the memory and context infrastructure powering ChatChat.

It enables AI agents to:

  • Retain relevant knowledge and context over time
  • Understand relationships between people, information, events, and goals
  • Respond to changing and live information
  • Coordinate actions across agents, tools, and workflows
  • Maintain continuity beyond a single conversation

Our goal is to move AI beyond stateless question-answering towards persistent, contextual, and accountable intelligence.


🛠️ ChatAndBuild

ChatAndBuild enables people to create applications, AI agents, workflows, games, tools, and digital products simply by describing what they want to build.

The platform handles coding, iteration, deployment, and hosting while giving users ownership and control over what they create.

ChatAndBuild bridges the gap between no-code simplicity and the flexibility of software development—helping more people turn ideas into working products.

Read the Claude customer story →


Non-Fungible Agents began as a framework for bringing identity, ownership, memory, and continuity to autonomous AI agents.

The project is now open source and formalised through BAP-578, a standard for intelligent digital entities that combine autonomous capabilities with verifiable ownership.

BAP-578 defines interfaces for creating, managing, evolving, and governing agent-based digital assets, including optional learning and cross-platform interaction capabilities.

Explore the open-source project →


🔭 Background

  • Founder and CEO of ChatAndBuild
  • Postgraduate qualifications from the University of Oxford in AI for Business and Major Programme Management
  • Twitter’s 10th international hire, helping scale its international operations
  • Former VP Asia at Brandwatch, acquired for $400 million
  • Early team member at Zilliqa
  • Creator of the open-source Non-Fungible Agents framework
  • Founder of Codechella, a community and hackathon platform helping more people build with AI

My work has been featured by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, and ChatAndBuild has received a Google compute grant.


💡 Vision

We are building towards a future where AI does more than answer questions.

A future where intelligence can remember, understand context, coordinate with other agents, and continuously help people move from ideas to meaningful action.

We are transforming:

  • Conversations into applications
  • Information into living context
  • AI assistants into proactive agent teams
  • Ideas into execution
  • Technology users into technology builders

🌐 Ecosystem

Project Description
ChatChat Messaging-first platform for proactive AI agents
Living Brain Persistent memory and context infrastructure for AI
ChatAndBuild Build apps, workflows, agents, and products through conversation
Abundant Intelligence AI education and masterclasses for leaders, teams, and builders
Codechella Community and hackathon experiences for building with AI
Non-Fungible Agents Open-source framework for ownable and evolving AI agents

🔗 Connect

I’m always interested in connecting with builders, researchers, founders, and partners working to make advanced technology more accessible and empowering.


“The future belongs to those who build it.”

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  1. ChatAndBuild/non-fungible-agents-BAP-578 ChatAndBuild/non-fungible-agents-BAP-578 Public

    BAP-578 is a Non-Fungible Agent (NFA) Token Standard available on BNB Chain. As the very first BNB Chain Application Proposal (BAP), it proposes a new way to create tradeable intelligence, with AI …

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  2. nfa-agentkit-playbook nfa-agentkit-playbook Public

    This section outlines how the OpenAI AgentKit, powered by the GPT-5 Realtime API, can be combined with the Non-Fungible Agent (NFA) ecosystem to create scalable, composable, and monetizable user ex…

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  3. ChatAndBuild/.github ChatAndBuild/.github Public

    Build Anything, Own Everything

  4. kitesurfing-app kitesurfing-app Public

    An interactive application to discover premium kitesurfing locations worldwide

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  5. ChatAndBuild/chatchat-skills ChatAndBuild/chatchat-skills Public

    Skills that can be used by your agents in ChatChat.

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  6. openai-builder-lounge openai-builder-lounge Public

    Presentation made at OpenAI Builder Lounge, February 2026