It thinks while
you're not looking.

And it understands your work well enough to push back. Open-source, runs on your machine, beta.

Or install it yourself →

$ curl -fsSL https://chalie.ai/install | bash
Apache 2.0 license
v1.0.0-beta beta

Your attention is the most precious thing you have.

The only honest way to protect it is to be truly understood — not merely remembered. So we're building something that works to understand you the way a trusted person does: it forms a sense of what matters, forgets what doesn't, and earns — slowly, provably — the right to act on your behalf.

So one day you can stop managing your life and get back to living it.

This is beta. The thesis is real; the edges are still rough — and that's on purpose. We'd rather earn your trust than borrow it.

Most AI remembers you. The rarer thing is to be understood.

Works while you're away illustration

Other AI waits for you.
Chalie works while you rest.

When you step away, Chalie doesn't just sit there. It tidies up what it learned, follows up on the threads you left open, and gets a little closer to handling things for you. It only earns that right slowly — once it actually understands what matters to you. Still in beta, so expect it to ask before it acts.

Understands you illustration

A yes-man is a faster way
to be wrong. Chalie pushes back.

Most AI remembers what you said. Chalie builds a sense of what you're actually trying to make — and reasons from it. Given nothing but a written summary of a feature another AI had built — no code, no checklist — Chalie named six gaps in it. Five were later confirmed. It gets what you're building, and tells you when you're about to break it.

Forgets on purpose illustration

Everything else hoards.
Chalie lets things go.

Remembering everything isn't memory — it's a junk drawer. Chalie keeps what matters and lets the rest fade, on purpose, the way a person does. What survives is what's still relevant to you — not every stray sentence you've ever typed.

Open to your other AIs illustration

Your tools are walled off.
Chalie lets them talk.

Chalie isn't a silo. Other AIs you use can plug straight into what Chalie knows about you — so the context you've built up in one place doesn't have to be rebuilt everywhere else. One memory, shared on your terms.

It doesn't just remember you. It understands what you're working on.

Every model. Every conversation. One mind that's been paying attention.

The day it pushed back.

We handed Chalie a short written summary of a feature another AI had just built — no checklist, no access to the code. Just a paragraph.

It read it the way a colleague who'd been in every meeting would, and named six gaps in the work. Five of them turned out to be real.

That's the whole point. Memory isn't the product — it's the raw material. Chalie compresses months of working alongside you into a sense of what you're trying to build, and reasons from it. A yes-man is just a faster way to be wrong. Chalie pushes back.

Beta

Beta, and honest about it.

Chalie is real and running today — and it's in beta. Some edges are still rough, some things are still being built, and we'd rather show you the seams than hide them behind a demo. Earning your trust before it acts is the whole point — so we're earning yours the same way.

Shape the product

Every feature request from early users gets read. The roadmap bends toward what you actually need.

Fast-moving

We ship in the open, daily. Expect rough edges — and expect them fixed fast. That's the deal in beta.

Built in the open

Follow every decision in the build log.

Or install it now →

Free forever. Apache 2.0. No account required.

Remember

Memory that
compounds.

Experiences that build up over time and consolidate — and memory that fades so only what matters survives. Important things persist. The rest is allowed to go, on purpose.

episodes facts decay consolidation
Reason

Works out what you actually mean and picks the approach — then tells you if it thinks you're wrong.

Execute

Reasoning turns into action. Skills let Chalie run shell commands, write files, and search your filesystem — and every channel is governed by Allow / Ask / Deny, so you approve anything consequential before it happens.

Voice

Talk to Chalie naturally. Speech recognition and text-to-speech run on your machine — no cloud, no recordings leaving your machine. Off by default; turn it on in Settings and the models download on demand.

Documents & Images

Upload PDFs, images, and files. Chalie reads, indexes, and semantically searches your documents — with OCR for images and scanned pages.

Email & Calendar

Connect your email and calendar. Chalie reads, searches, and acts on your messages and events — working with any standard IMAP/SMTP mailbox and CalDAV calendar, which covers Google, Apple, Outlook, Fastmail, and more.

Coming — Stage 8

Expanded Perception: giving Chalie eyes beyond the chat window. The plan is for outside surfaces — prices, weather, events — to feed it in the background, so it stays current without you asking. Not here yet; it's next on the roadmap.

For people with one long thing they're trying to build.

I am using Chalie to discuss a lot of personal topics and I can feel its memory. I connect topics and reminds me of things I said.

Alexander B
personal topics long-term memory connects topics

It's the friend who finishes my sentence. Months into a project, it connects a note from March to a question I'm asking today — the thread I'd forgotten I was pulling on — before I think to look for it.

The Researcher
long-term memory document search notices patterns

I was tired of handing my whole life to someone else's server. Chalie lives on my machine — one file, encrypted, mine. The smartest thing I own, and nobody else can read it.

The Refugee
local-first zero telemetry encrypted & yours

Most AI waits for you. Chalie doesn't.

Everything else forgets you between chats, and never lifts a finger unless you ask. Chalie remembers what matters, lets the rest go, and works while you rest.

Cloud AI

×
Resets every session
No memory between conversations
×
Stored on their servers
Your life lives on someone else's computer
×
Locked to one vendor
Switch and lose everything
×
Only when you ask
Sits idle until you prompt it
×
Monthly subscription
$20/month per service
×
Closed source
Trust their black box

Chalie

Remembers what matters
Keeps what's important, forgets the rest on purpose
Stays on your machine
One SQLite file, full encryption
Any model you choose
Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or any OpenAI-compatible provider
Works while you're away
Picks up open threads on its own — and earns the right to act before it does
Free & open-source
Pay only for AI provider usage
Apache 2.0
Read every line of code

Things people ask before trying Chalie.

Is my data sent anywhere?
No. Chalie runs entirely on your machine. All conversations, memories, and personal data are stored locally in a single SQLite file. The only outbound calls are to whichever AI provider you configure.
Which AI models work with Chalie?
Chalie works with Ollama (local, recommended for privacy), Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, or any OpenAI-compatible provider (LM Studio, vLLM, Groq, OpenRouter, and others). Switch between them any time without losing your history. The main reasoning runs best on a frontier-class model — Claude, GPT-4o, or equivalent — while lighter work can run on smaller local models.
How much does it cost?
Chalie is free and open-source (Apache 2.0). You only pay for the AI provider you choose. No subscriptions, no usage limits, no hidden fees. Run local models and your ongoing cost is zero.
Can I use it offline?
Yes — run capable local models via Ollama and Chalie works fully offline. Memory, voice, and all your Skills run on your own hardware. The only things that need the internet are the ones that reach out to it — web search, browsing, news, and weather.
What does Chalie actually remember?
Everything you tell it — and the things it notices. Your name, your preferences, past conversations, decisions, and the patterns in how you work. It doesn't keep all of it forever: experiences consolidate over time, and memory that never becomes relevant again quietly fades, so what survives is what actually matters. Reading a memory doesn't refresh it — only real relevance does. It's built to work more like a person who knows you than a search engine.
What does Chalie do while I'm not looking?
When you step away, Chalie doesn't just sit idle. It works in the background while you rest — tidying what it has learned, letting unimportant things fade, and quietly building a sharper sense of who you are and what you're working toward. It's not a loop that runs forever; it's a periodic, idle-gated process, and it stays out of your way until it has something genuinely worth your attention.
Will it just agree with me?
No — and that's deliberate. A yes-man is just a faster way to be wrong. As Chalie comes to understand what you're building, it will tell you when you're about to break it. It's early, so it won't always get this right — but pushing back, carefully, is the whole point.
What hardware do I need?
Any machine that runs Python 3.9+ — macOS, Linux, or Windows. Chalie itself is light: one process, one SQLite file. Point it at a cloud model and almost anything works; run models locally and you'll want a capable GPU. (Docker is optional — it's only there if you'd rather deploy that way.)

Six promises we refuse to break.

A yes-man is just a faster way to be wrong. Chalie pushes back.

Human-gated execution
All consequential operations require explicit approval. Autonomy is graduated, not granted.
Local-first by default
Memory, configuration, and execution state live on your machine. Your data never leaves.
Your choice of AI
Swap between local and cloud providers without losing memory or context.
Zero telemetry
No analytics. No usage reporting. No external calls except to your AI provider.
It forgets on purpose
It keeps what matters and lets the rest fade — real forgetting, not a full transcript. What survives is what's still worth knowing about you.
Dozens of Skills, on tap
Dozens of built-in Skills — email, calendar, web, code, smart home and more. Chalie picks the right one for the moment. You don't configure anything.