A memory you own

The memory of your life. Your passions pursued.

chanio turns your everyday conversations into a memory that lives on your Mac. It notices what you keep coming back to, remembers what you decided, and keeps you pointed at what matters.

Your memory stays on your Mac. The big online AIs only when you ask. Pursue what you love.

Try it nowGet chanio

Teach it one thing about your week, then ask. It answers in your browser, and nothing you type into it is sent.

On one MacThe last nightly run, on the founder’s Mac · Oct 11All the numbers →
Record root615fa51d913493c84ee22ea186576fe871fc4cfe266777b6b5757248eaa8d980chained night to nightTimestamped on hashcare.com
  1. 1 · Capture2 captured MeasuredYour notes, and the AI chats you paste in, are saved as plain files on your Mac. No folders, no tags.
  2. 2 · Understand0 tokens on the Mac MeasuredOvernight, an AI reads the day’s notes together. Whatever leaves the Mac to do it is counted.
  3. 3 · Offerready 6:00 AM MT MeasuredBy morning, a summary: what mattered, the threads still open, and the questions worth asking.
  4. 4 · ActNot yetYou do this part. chanio does not act for you.

Left the Mac on Oct 11, midnight to 10:45 AM MT: 4 trips to a bigger AI · 50,323 tokensMeasured

Then again tonight, starting from what you did today.

chanio in 15 seconds

Press play. No sound unless you turn it on.

Text version:
  1. What did you decide last week? It is buried in an AI chat you already closed.
  2. chanio keeps it, on your Mac. Ask later: a model on your own chip answers from your notes.
  3. Nightly since July. On the founder’s Mac, except Sep 1–3: a brief by morning.
  4. Try it in a browser tab first. A model can load in your browser. Nothing you ask it is sent. Open the demo
  5. chanio. An AI of your own, on your Mac. Running most nights on one Mac so far; iPhone and iPad are next.
The idea

The cloud rents your mind back to you. This runs on what you own.

chanio is the layer underneath: your memory and your model live on your own device, and what gets built on top is meant to belong to the people it serves.

Post-cloud

The AI runs on your own computer and answers from your own notes. A question goes to a bigger online AI only when you choose to send it.

TODAYon the founder’s Mac since July 2026
NEXTiPhone and iPad

Text it

Ask by iMessage and the answer comes back in the same thread, made on your Mac instead of in someone else’s cloud.

TODAYnot live yet
NEXTthe founder’s phone first, then yours

Owned by the people it serves

The first business built on it is co-op.care: home care owned by the caregivers who deliver it.

TODAYco-op.care is a Colorado cooperative, filed March 2026
NEXTthe same ownership for other everyday needs
Living memory

Memory is living. Files are dead.

01 / Capture

Stop filing notes

Save a chat, an idea or a decision with chanio capture, or paste it into the door. No folders, no tags, no digital housekeeping.

Try it →02 / Notice

Observed passions

An honest mirror. Every night on Apple Silicon, it maps where your attention actually returns across your work.

Passions →03 / Pursue

Passions pursued

Not an archive of dead files. A living 6KB memory pack that keeps you aimed at your throughline and primes any AI for pennies.

Passions →
A recording of the real thing

Keep the memory. Borrow the big AIs.

Answers on your Mac are quoted from your own notes. When a question needs a bigger AI, chanio writes it up short, and nothing goes out until you press Send.

chanio · in your browser, on this Mac only
What do I have due this week?
A recording, not a simulation: what chanio 0.6.1 did on 2026-09-29, on a Mac with an Apple M5 Pro chip and the made-up example week it starts with. The times are real; the small AI (llama3.2:3b) was already awake.
Whose it is
Yours

Everyday answers run on your Mac, from your own notes, and nothing is sent. The big online AIs are there when you choose them.

On the founder’s Mac · Oct 11
2conversations filed overnight
4trips to a bigger AI since midnight
50,323tokens left the Mac since midnight
Measured Counts only, posted by the Mac itself each night, from its own logs. The overnight run finished 6:00 AM MT. The trips are counted from midnight to 10:45 AM MT. All of them went to Gemini on Google Cloud, paid from credits. The nightly run left a brief for every day from Jul 1, 2026 through Oct 11, except Sep 1–3 and Oct 8. All the numbers, in the open →

Built by Blaine Warkentine, MD — his whole working life runs on it nightly, on his own machine, since July 2026.

Get it

Get chanio

One yes, one tap for your device, and it sets itself up.

Mac — betaiPhone & iPad — nextWindows & Android — 2027
Comfortable with Terminal? Install it with one linecurl -fsSL https://chanio.com/install.sh | sh
It adds a small AI that runs on your Mac, a folder for your notes, and a quiet pass over them each night. What it does, line by line →

no account · works with the AI you already use · Mac today, iPhone next

New here? Your first ten minutes, step by step →

Use it right now. Your files stay on your machine.

All tools →
A notebook that answersWrite notes, ask them questions. Model and all, in the tab.Your ChatGPT history, as notesOne note per conversation, made in your browser.Your Claude history, as linked notesMade from Claude’s export file. Nothing is uploaded.How much of your AI leaves your Mac?A month of questions in tokens: what stays on your Mac, what goes out.

Start with what works today.

Nothing to buy. We're building this with the people actually using it, before anything is for sale.

TODAY
Mac beta no card, no account

Everything that works today. When a question needs a bigger AI, chanio writes it up and you paste it into the one you already use.

Get chanio

Not yet The overnight-run version (chanio does the paste for you, automatically) is next. A small group tests it first — it's not for sale, and won't be until it has earned that. Ask to be in that group →