Local Data
The only person you can trust with your data is you. Local is the only way to build real, evolving context.
AI that knows you
All your accounts. One history. Smarter every session.
Stop re-explaining yourself.
We are racing toward AGI
But your chat forgot you mid-thread.
For founders and builders drowning in AI slop —
including their own.
No goldilocks zone. A new thread knows nothing. A long one drifts. You're taught to build context, but not too much. Nobody gets it right.
Dozens of accounts. Not just five foundation models. Work and personal copies of each, plus every pre-AI tool — calendar, email, messaging, notes. You copy-paste the same context between them all day. Dumb.
You're the integration layer. The labs keep fragmenting across web, API, CLI, and IDE — more surfaces, same amnesia. You're the one carrying context between them.
Why I built this
The big labs are optimizing for coding benchmarks and enterprise sales. Nobody is building the obvious thing: an AI that just knows you.
I wanted it, so I built it. Turns out making AI truly smart about you is easy — the data is already on your machine. The real unlock is being both local and open source, two things the big labs and hyperscalers cannot do.
From one robot to another — I hope it's useful.
— Adam
Five Principles
Open Source
The code is public — read it, audit it, fork it, make it yours. Documented to teach, so you learn by building.
Zero Work
A few clicks to start, then it runs in the background as you live. It compounds: every day sharpens the next answer.
Portable
Your data, your preferences, your model — all yours to keep and yours to move, on your terms, at any time.
Escape Velocity
Build to teach through use. Understand AI from the inside out, then go build your own on top of it.
As Versatile As You
Three depths of work — pick the one that fits the moment.
Chat
Just talk. Every answer is grounded in your real history, voice, and context — the fastest way to think out loud with an AI that knows you.
Black Belt
Work
Spin up a workbench when chat isn't enough. Run real research, data analysis, and database creation on your own context; ship lite apps as visualizations (Health is the first one). The workbench is yours, on your machine.
Black Belt
Build
Build deep, complex apps on top of your chat data and workbenches. Coding agents drive the same agent personas and skills that built Robot Dojo itself — the proof the machinery works. Skills make coding agents easy to use.
Always Free. Upgrade for Leverage.
White Belt
Your Memory
Centralizes your models, chats, and context by topic. Shape memory, preferences, and topics through chat — connect accounts in one click.
Free
Black Belt
Your World
People, companies, and places are added from your history, seamlessly, with no effort on your part. You just talk; the world organizes itself.
$200/mo
Three steps to permanent memory
Install
One command on your Mac. Robot Dojo installs locally, starts up, and opens your setup flow in the browser when it's ready.
Connect
Click to connect your accounts, or drop in files from any app. One secure approval each, add more any time.
Compound
Every conversation builds on the last. Your AI sharpens with every use — and you own every byte.
Install
curl -fsSL https://robotdojo.ai/install.sh | bash- macOS only for now — use a Mac account with admin privileges
- Open the Terminal app
- Paste the command above and hit enter
- First run takes ~10–20 minutes — it installs Node, Ollama, a local chat model (3–5 GB), and a local embedding model (~2 GB)
- No API key needed — chat runs on a local model picked for your Mac and retrieval runs free on-device; cloud keys are an optional upgrade
- Your browser opens to setup when the local server is healthy
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Robot Dojo for?
Robot Dojo is built for founders, builders, and entrepreneurs drowning in AI slop who want an assistant that already knows them. The private beta is a small, smart cohort: install on a Mac, connect or import real data, and get a chat experience that feels more personally useful than a stock foundation model — no founder hand-holding required.
What is Robot Dojo?
Robot Dojo is a local-first personal AI that actually knows you. It runs on your Mac, unifies your email, calendar, contacts, and messages into one living memory, and grounds every answer in your real history, voice, and context. Install it, connect your accounts, and get an AI that feels personally useful from the first session — instead of a blank assistant you have to re-explain yourself to every time.
Is this like Garry Tan's GBrain?
Similar arc, different audience. GBrain is a developer's tool — a knowledge graph you or an agent fills by writing markdown pages. Robot Dojo is for non-technical people who want to get more out of AI and go deeper into understanding and building through use: more productized, less configuration. It extracts signal from the data you already have — email, iMessage, calendar, transcripts, contacts — so you don't write pages; Robot Dojo reads what you already did.
How do I install Robot Dojo?
One command on your Mac: curl -fsSL https://robotdojo.ai/install.sh | bash. Or open the Install modal for the same command. Robot Dojo installs locally, starts up, and opens setup in your browser. No API key required — chat runs on a local model selected for your machine and retrieval runs free on a bundled on-device embedding model. After install, connect Google (Gmail, Calendar, Contacts) with one OAuth click, or grant Full Disk Access to pull in your local Apple data (iMessage, Contacts, Calendar, Notes, and more). A cloud model key is an optional upgrade, never a setup step.
Do I need a dedicated computer?
No — Robot Dojo runs fine on your regular Mac or laptop. A Mac mini is the better host because it stays on whether or not your laptop is open — so you can reach Robot Dojo from another computer or your phone, which is the main value. 16GB of RAM is sufficient on any modern Mac. You can move to a dedicated machine any time.
Does Robot Dojo see my data, and where does it live?
No. Your data stays on your machine — always. Robot Dojo runs locally, stores everything on your own hardware, and the Robot Dojo servers never store your private data. robotdojo.ai provides an encrypted, zero-knowledge relay tunnel so you can reach your local instance from another computer or your phone without exposing localhost or running a VPN; the relay is end-to-end encrypted and Robot Dojo cannot read data passing through it. It is not cloud storage. Remote access via the relay is a paid Black Belt feature. Models only ever see the specific slice of context needed to answer a question; the raw records stay yours.
Is Robot Dojo open source?
Yes — White Belt is MIT, open source. The code is public so you can see it, audit it, fork it, and use it yourself. Black Belt is source-available: the code is also public so you can audit it, but it runs on a subscription — while your subscription is active, the premium engines and the relay (remote access) are unlocked. Across both tiers, your data stays yours, local-first.
What can I connect or import?
Connect Google with one OAuth click for Gmail, Calendar, and Contacts. Grant Full Disk Access and Robot Dojo reads your local Apple data — iMessage, Contacts, Calendar, Photos metadata, Call history, Notes, and Mail. Import a Google Takeout archive by dropping it into your inbox folder, plus foundation-model chat exports where available. Any source with no data on a given machine lights up automatically once multi-machine sync ships. (Microsoft is hidden for the friends-and-family beta.)
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