Changelog

Nothing you say leaves your device.

Every release, and how far that one rule goes.

Shipped

What is already yours.

1.0Launch

Launch day · Mac and Windows

The first public release. Everything in it runs on your computer.

Dictation

  • Hold a key, and talkTyped into whichever app you are in.
  • Live typingWords appear while you are still speaking.
  • Spoken punctuationSay “full stop” or “new line” and get it.
  • Your vocabularyNames and jargon, spelled your way.
  • SnippetsSay a trigger phrase, get your address or signature.
  • AI cleanup, on the deviceTurns “Monday, no wait, Wednesday” into Wednesday. Off until you switch it on.

Kept on your machine

  • History, with playbackEvery dictation and its recording, searchable, on your disk.
  • Delete for realErased from the device, and the space overwritten.
  • Scratchpad notesDictate into a quick note that stays local.
  • Voice notes to textWhatsApp voice notes, M4A, MP3, WAV and FLAC.
  • Offline LockOne switch that stops every outbound connection.
  • BackupsLocked with your passphrase, saved to a folder you pick, by hand or every day or week.
  • Encryption, when you turn it onCopied files or a removed disk show only scrambled data. Off until you switch it on.

For long days

  • Code ModeSay “open paren”, get (. Around 110 spoken forms.
  • Keep AwakeHolds the machine awake while a long task runs.
  • The prompt libraryOver a thousand prompts, searched on the machine.
  • The floating iconClick to dictate, or type to find a prompt. Arranged your way.
  • Your microphoneChosen in Settings or the menu bar, and updated as you plug one in.

Known limitsEnglish only. No Linux version. On-device AI cleanup needs 16 GB of memory.

The road to 1.0

What has been built so far, newest first.

  1. Backups, locked with your passphraseEncrypting your history, when you turn it on
  2. License keys that activate the appTwenty five starter prompts on day one
  3. The name Dictate Safe, and every screen redrawnThe floating icon, yours to arrangeA first run where you dictate before it ends
  4. Live typing, measured and rebuiltThe prompt library
  5. Offline LockAI cleanup rebuilt, so it cannot reword you
  6. Delete for realPick your microphoneCasing commands for code
  7. Keep AwakeCode Mode
  8. Updates you choose to install
  9. A first-run setup that asks before it downloads
  10. The free trial, checked offline
  11. Voice notes and audio files to textOn-device AI cleanup, rebuilt
  12. Windows joins the Mac, both built and checked on every change
In the works

Next, and being worked out.

The status is the only promise. A date appears when something is close enough to have one.

Planned

Scratchpad, grown up

Titles written for you, Markdown-style text, and one step to send a note where it needs to go.

Planned

Told when it has finished

A long task in your AI coding tool ends, and you hear about it instead of checking back.

Exploring

The assistant

Small AI models on your computer for everyday help, without another subscription, under the same rule.

Exploring

Apps for your phone

They are coming. We are still working out which problem they should solve: the one people have quietly learned to live with.

Something you need that is not here? Tell us.

The long view

The boundary grows. The rule does not.

Everything above lives inside one line: your computer. This is where we mean to take that line, with local AI at every step, from dictation on your laptop to the AI that runs a house, and privacy and security at every step.

Direction, not a promise. No dates here.

Why

A home needs its own data sovereignty.

Ten years ago, people thought twice before accepting a cookie. Today they give AI platforms their files, photos and selfies without a second thought. The robots now arriving in homes will carry cameras, night vision and microphones, and they will go into bedrooms. Connected to the internet, a robot like that is a camera in the bedroom. Countries guard their data sovereignty. A home should guard its own.

  1. 1 · Now, in 1.0

    Your voice

    Speech to text, on the computer in front of you. It comes first for a reason: nobody types to a robot. Everything after this is spoken to.

  2. 2 · Next

    Your assistant

    Small AI models on your own computer, for the everyday help you would otherwise pay another subscription for. Same machine, same line, nothing sent out.

  3. 3 · Then

    Your tabletop robot

    A small companion for the desk that moves, talks, tells a story and reminds you of things. A long day at a screen is lighter with something like that beside it, and it runs on the same local AI, so what it hears stays on the desk.

  4. 4 · Later

    Your home’s AI

    An AI box for the home, kept the way a home keeps an inverter, built by hardware partners and running our software. It runs big open-source models, fine-tuned for the house, so it need not feel any less capable than the cloud AI people use today. Phones, laptops, TVs, home automation and robots all use it. Only a device that truly needs the internet gets it, and only with your approval. Everything it keeps is encrypted, with post-quantum cryptography.

The inverter idea

Homes already keep their own power.

Most homes here keep an inverter, so the lights stay on when the grid does not. We think the next thing a home keeps is its own intelligence: a GPU box in the house, running big AI models for every device in it, with nothing going out.

The home’s AI boxYour inverterBig open-source models, fine-tuned for the house. Nothing leaves.
Let one device online

Off. Everything runs on the house’s own AI.

OutsideThe internetOnly for a device that truly needs it, and only when you approve.
5 · Much later

Your robots

Bigger robots that do the physical work of a house, like cleaning. We do not build the machines. We build what connects them to the home’s own AI: what a robot may see, keep and do, with limits it cannot cross, and no connection of its own to the internet.

Nothing goes out of the house.

How we will build it

Four rules, for every ring.

Local first

The machine in front of you first, then the house. The cloud is the exception you choose, never the default.

Open where it counts

We start from the best open-source models and fine-tune them for the job, so a home is never locked to us.

Never your words

We train on data we own or license. What you dictate never becomes part of a model.

You hold the switch

Every connection can be cut, the way Offline Lock does today. A robot never gets one of its own.

Start with the part that already works.

Twenty five free dictations. No account, no card.

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