Ethos
Intelligence needs to be democratized.
The problem with AI today
The most useful AI is the one with your full context. Your messages. Your calendar. Your work, your health, your finances. An AI that actually knows you can reduce real friction from your day.
But getting that context today means handing it to a server you don’t control and paying a subscription for the privilege. Every query leaves your device. Every response comes back from somewhere else. You don’t know what’s stored, for how long, or what it’s used for.
Privacy by policy - “we promise not to misuse your data” - is not the same as privacy by architecture - “the data never left your device.”
What we believe
The right model of AI is one where the intelligence lives with you, not above you.
On the devices you already carry. Talking to the apps you already use. Without a single byte making a round trip to someone else’s infrastructure.
This is possible today. The models fit. The hardware is fast enough. The only thing missing was software that took it seriously.
The arc
AI is the next communication infrastructure. And communication infrastructure, historically, moves toward privacy when users demand it.
The market will demand it here too. Not because privacy is a talking point, but because people will eventually notice that their most personal context - the things that would make AI useful - is exactly what they’re least willing to hand over.
The devices people already carry will become intelligent. They will speak to each other over local networks. Context will stay on-person. That future doesn’t require new hardware or new platforms. It requires software built on the right assumption from the start.
What we’re building
Off Grid is not an autonomous agent that makes decisions on your behalf. It is a private digital secretary that reduces daily friction.
It reads your messages, watches your calendar, defers your notifications, answers your questions, generates your images, listens to your voice. All of it, on your device. All of it, offline.
Every knowledge worker should carry their own intelligence layer. Private by architecture. Owned by the person using it. Available anywhere, including places without a signal.
That’s what we’re building.
Off Grid is open source. View on GitHub or join the community on Slack.