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PRIVATE MEMORY
Remembers—with your permission.
Bottie can search past conversations and attached documents, then shows exactly which memories it used. Exclude, remove, or forget at any time.
Local-first AI, thoughtfully connected
Your context.
Your models.
Your rules.
Bottie is a private desktop AI companion that remembers what matters, shows its work, and lets you choose what leaves your machine.
Local by default Visible context Provider flexible
TODAY
Ask Bottie anything…
＋MemoryWeb↑
Memory foundLaunch direction · 94% match
Private routeNothing left this Mac
One home for the models you choose
oMLX Ollama OpenAI-compatible Anthropic-compatible
Available in the developer preview
Capable by design.
Careful by default.
Bottie brings serious AI capability into a desktop experience built around privacy, inspectability, and choice—not hidden automation.
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MODEL FREEDOM
Local when you want it. Connected when you need it.
Move between oMLX, Ollama, OpenAI-compatible, and Anthropic-compatible models. Bottie makes the active route visible before you send.
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RESEARCH WITH RECEIPTS
Search, read, and cite the web.
Native web search and page reading keep sources visible, citations connected to claims, and fetched content clearly marked as untrusted.
04
FILES & VISION
Bring the work you already have.
Read PDFs, DOCX, Markdown, plain text, and images through bounded native extraction. Files stay visible in context, without exposing local paths.
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DURABLE CONVERSATIONS
Explore another path. Lose nothing.
Edit earlier prompts, regenerate responses, and switch between preserved conversation branches. Search, archive, export, and return after restart.
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BUILT TO RECOVER
Your work survives the unexpected.
Partial responses are checkpointed as they arrive. Bottie detects interrupted work, checks its local store, and supports native backup and guided recovery.
A boundary you can see
The intelligence can change.
The trust model doesn’t.
Bottie’s Rust core owns secrets, files, memory, provider traffic, and tool policy. The interface receives narrow, typed information—never credentials or raw local paths.
- ✓ Secrets live in the operating system credential vault
- ✓ Remote routes are explicit before anything is sent
- ✓ Tool activity and supplied context stay inspectable
YOUR DEVICE
Your contextConversations · files · memory
Bottie’s Rust corePolicy · storage · credentials
TRUST BOUNDARYOnly approved context→
YOUR CHOICE
Local modelStays on this device
OR
Cloud modelExplicit remote route
Where Bottie is going
Built for today.
Thinking beyond chat.
Development is moving in complete, testable slices toward a dependable cross-platform desktop release.
NOW · DEVELOPER PREVIEW
A private, connected AI workspace
Real local and cloud inference, durable conversations, files, memory, web research, email reading through Localmail, citations, and recovery foundations.
NEXT · DESKTOP BETA
Ready for sustained daily use
Security review, keyboard workflows, themes, accessibility, long-history performance, signed builds, updates, and packaging for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
LATER · LOCAL VOICE
Conversation that feels immediate
Private local speech-to-text and text-to-speech, voice activity detection, interruption, transcript correction, and full text fallback.
Roadmap items describe active direction, not release commitments. Bottie is currently a developer preview.
A quieter kind of AI
Powerful enough to help.
Transparent enough to trust.
Follow Bottie’s progress as the developer preview grows into a polished desktop companion.
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