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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Every decision, in public — while it's still rough.
Chalie has to earn the right to act on your behalf. We hold ourselves to the same bar: a running record of what we built, what we got wrong, and why — kept in the open from day one.
Jun 26, 2026
Weave thread UI: card redesign, live binding, Weave restyle
The chat UI gets a thorough Weave redesign across nine commits, centered on threaded conversations
Jun 25, 2026
Thread system ships end-to-end + security & cleanup sweep
Threading lands across the full stack in six coordinated workstreams
Jun 24, 2026
Token hashing, Deno sandbox, provider timeouts, dock toast
Session tokens are now stored as sha256 hashes in SQLite, mirroring the wrapper-auth path
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.
Works out what you actually mean and picks the approach — then tells you if it thinks you're wrong.
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.
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.
Upload PDFs, images, and files. Chalie reads, indexes, and semantically searches your documents — with OCR for images and scanned pages.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Chalie
Things people ask before trying Chalie.
Is my data sent anywhere?
Which AI models work with Chalie?
How much does it cost?
Can I use it offline?
What does Chalie actually remember?
What does Chalie do while I'm not looking?
Will it just agree with me?
What hardware do I need?
Six promises we refuse to break.
A yes-man is just a faster way to be wrong. Chalie pushes back.