Announcing jo 1.0 - rebuilt from scratch! Two years ago we launched a macOS productivity sidekick. Today it's something different: a personal AI that actually knows your life. Your Mac. Your dedicated cloud machine. Your data stays yours.

The problem with every AI assistant right now: Your conversations train someone else's model. Your context disappears between sessions. Close the tab, it forgets you exist or tries to learn you from older irrelevant chats. We wanted the opposite.

jo keeps plain-text memory files that build over time. Your preferences, your kids' schedules, your travel habits. It reviews its own notes nightly and gets better without you doing anything. "What was that campsite Sarah recommended last summer?" It finds it across every conversation on your Mac.

Every jo user gets a dedicated, zero-maintenance machine in the cloud alongside your jo Mac app. Not a row in a database. A real computer that only you use where convos are stored that connects to your Mac. Personal data never leaves your Mac. Cloud inference runs on providers contractually barred from training on your data.

It's everywhere you already are. Voice & text on your Mac. Text & voice notes on Telegram, WhatsApp. Same memory, same personality, same context. Fast questions: 1-2 seconds. Hard questions route to reasoning models automatically. You don't need to choose, jo does.

What it does daily: Auto-clips your browsing & group chats into topics (locally, nothing leaves your Mac). Morning briefings: carry-the-thread-forward from yesterday and weather, calendar, reminders from Gmail/Calendar. These are actually fun! Controls a real browser to research, compare prices, check availability. Your unique background automations you set once and forget.

jo is also a coding agent under the hood (using @badlogicgames' and can make new things for you. If it doesn't have an integration for something you use, it's likely it can figure out how to make it happen, or will get you quite far.

You pick the models. @anthropic, @openai, @grok, @Kimi_Moonshot. Or run fully local. Deep Mac & Google integrations -- Safari, Chrome, Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive, Photos, Notes, Finder. jo reads actual content and auto-organizes, makes it searchable - not screenshots.

Coming soon: native mobile app, multiplayer (shared family/team assistants), trusted purchases, grocery shopping and always more well-tested models and integrations. Built on open-source roots. We contribute back.

and I have been co-founders for a decade, consumer builders since the mid-2000s. This is the thing we've always wanted to build Sign up for the beta: We're sending invites out now. Would love your feedback.

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Amazing!!

🙌 congrats on the launch! this is particularly impressive

this is insane! love it!

The local hosted memory is killer

thx @rrhoover you'll like this

How does it keep personal data private?

we run local models for all the data on your laptop that you permit access to for auto-organization. these are your whatsapp/telegram/etc and browser histories. those only get sent up to remote models by manual user action. remote models like gpt, claude etc run on model hosters that we have contracts with.

good job guys, the voice needs a little more humanity but i bet it can be done

very cool

congrats! excited to try it

This is fire 🔥 🔥🔥🔥

Congrats on the launch! 🚀

lets goooooo!!1 🚀🚀🚀 I installed v1 a year go happy to take this on the road!

Exciting developments, Pradeep! With advancements in AI and data privacy, personal assistants can genuinely enhance productivity while keeping your data secure. It's refreshing to see a focus on user context and continuous learning in tech! 🤖

oh nice - if u just need voice-to-text on mac, whisper talk is $19 one-time and works fully offline. pretty clutch

I saw recently same idea of ai but built on encrypted blockchain instead of your own cloud service. I do wonder rn - in security perspective, which is more secure?

do you need any funding for this? would love to contribute!

Where can I try this? 😎

the plain text memory approach is underrated. been building a desktop agent on mac and local persistence changes everything. cloud assistants forget you between sessions, once the agent remembers your workflow patterns locally it goes from novelty to genuinely useful