Paste any AI conversation. Watch chanio write the capture.
This is what chanio writes to your disk every session — the arc, the decisions, the artifacts, the names, the open loops, the durable IP. Multiply by 30 days and that's what your morning brief is reading tomorrow. No key required; capped at 8 KB — and it runs entirely in your browser, as you type. Nothing you paste here is sent anywhere.
~/.chanio-focus chanio reads every night. It stays on your disk; nothing about it is stored here.What you just saw is one session. chanio runs this on every session you have with any AI, then a nightly loop compiles them into one morning brief on your disk. The capture is yours; the brief is yours; the AI you used is your choice.
You're paying $40–100 a month for AI memory. Just to the wrong people.
Claude Pro $20 · ChatGPT Plus $20 · Gemini Advanced $20 · Notion AI $20 · Cursor $20. Every subscription rents intelligence on every keystroke, locks your history inside their walls, and resets your context the moment a new model ships. chanio is the other architecture: routes by judgment, not by subscription.
Your memory stays on your disk in plain markdown — queryable forever, portable to any AI that comes next. And the economics invert: because your memory is distilled locally, each AI call needs a small slice instead of your whole history. Memory grows. Context shrinks. Cost falls. Every conversation makes the next one cheaper — and better aimed, because the AI sees your distilled passions instead of your noise. The moat isn't the model. The moat is what compounds.
Your hard drive is a cost-allocation instrument. Pay for judgment. Store memory for free.
Subscriptions charge you flat — for memory and intelligence bundled, whether you use them or not, forgotten the moment a new model ships. chanio moves the memory to your disk at $0 and meters the intelligence to only the frontier calls you actually make. Toggle what you rent now, then set your real frontier usage.
Illustrative. Assumes ~$0.03 of frontier judgment per call you route to the cloud (the site's own measured range is $0.01–0.05); capture, recall, and nightly synthesis run on your hardware at $0. The founder runs a full 25-project stack this way — since July 2026, entirely on-device at $0/day. See the routing that makes it real →
Everyone else sells you a place to put your memory. chanio is the router between you and every AI — and it holds nothing.
The model is rented. The memory is yours. chanio runs no content servers: your vault lives on your disk, your frontier key goes straight from you to the vendor you picked, and every request is routed to the cheapest place that can do it well. Five layers, one conduit:
Every AI session and agentic action, from any AI you use — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Kimi, local.
The conduit. Apple Intelligence gates, an on-device model handles the routine, and a frontier model is rented only when the ladder certifies the step as hard — on your own key, from any vendor you choose.
Plain markdown on your own disk — Obsidian-compatible, git-friendly. No database to breach, no export to beg for, no lock-in.
Daily loops that compound you: a morning brief, a curiosity edge, a tutor that argues with your own notes. Passion expansion, on-device, at $0 marginal cost.
When a moment matters — a physician attests, and every share is signed, scoped, revocable, and tamper-evident. FHIR-ready health context under your identity, not ours.
A representative week on the founder's own machine, illustrative. The routing is live in production today: gate on Apple Intelligence, routine work on a local open model, frontier by exception. Since July 2026 the founder's full 25-project stack runs entirely on-device — $0/day, verified.
chanio is yours. The apps you make from it are yours. The agents you run on it are yours.
The health system that emerges around it answers to you. Keep your intellect current and recent from the AI of your choice, with as little cloud as necessary, so a local model becomes enough for what your life actually needs.
Paste what you've written. Watch it reflect you back.
A journal entry, loose notes, a paragraph you've carried for years. chanio surfaces what you keep returning to, the question you keep circling, a thread you set down — and the convictions your own words already assert. It reflects only what you wrote; it doesn't guess your politics or profile you. Runs entirely in your browser — nothing you paste here is sent anywhere.
This is the shape — computed heuristically, in your browser, from one paste. The real chanio runs a model over your whole corpus: your books, your journals, ten years of clippings. This is a paragraph. Imagine a decade →
You sleep. Your passions wake up smarter.
Everything you pulled from your AI today lands on your hard drive. Overnight, agents work it against what you care about — finding the patterns you didn't name, connecting sessions you had days apart, turning scattered curiosity into a brief of new angles. You wake up, and your passions have moved forward without you.
The cloud giants now offer to amplify and protect your intelligence — housed inside their systems. chanio takes the opposite vow: your intelligence never leaves your hard drive. There is nothing to protect it from, because we never hold it. The agents come to your memory. Your memory never goes to them.
A log of every curiosity you've ever had.
Every link you drop into Claude — a repo, a paper, a competitor, a half-formed question — is a curiosity. chanio logs them all, dates them, and threads the ones that belong together. Your past curiosities become a map; the next link you drop extends it.
A narrow capture — on purpose.
chanio only learns from what you choose to type into an AI. Nothing else. That's the honest line — and the reason the graph stays clean enough to trust.
- •Prompts you send to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity
- •The follow-ups and corrections that refine your thinking
- •The attachments you paste in — only with your consent
- —Your general browsing history or cookies
- —Your email, DMs, or social feeds
- —Anything you haven't explicitly sent to an AI
Scattered sessions become
a queryable map of your thinking.
Every AI session you’ve ever had was useful in the moment. None of them talked to each other. chanio is the layer that connects them — turning isolated prompts into a graph that compounds over time.
Every session is a node. The March 4 pricing question links to the March 11 margin question — chanio draws the edge.
The April 2 research links backward to the pricing model. The graph sees the relationship; you just kept asking questions.
By April 15, the graph has a map of your thinking on the whole problem: what you've resolved, what's still open, what you haven't touched yet.
You open a new Claude session. The MCP connector loads your graph. The AI already knows you've been working on this for six weeks.
A loop is a circle. It returns to zero.
Every AI session you run is a circle — it ends where it began. The context evaporates; tomorrow you start cold, re-explaining yourself. The topics you circle without resolving.
chanio is the one term that bends the circle into a spiral. Each session compounds onto the last instead of returning to zero — your knowledge doesn’t repeat, it climbs.
Already have months of history? /import lifts you straight onto the spiral — drop your Claude.ai or ChatGPT export and tomorrow’s brief is dense from day one.
A few prompts. Nothing connected yet.
Clusters form. The graph starts showing you what you keep returning to.
Gaps visible. The graph knows what you haven't asked yet — and can tell you.
The graph is a working model of your mind. Every new AI session starts informed.
Unlike a chat log — which is linear and flat — a knowledge graph stores relationships between ideas. The value isn’t in the individual prompts. It’s in the edges between them.
Four layers of identity, from one stream.
Your AI chats are richer than any form or profile. chanio reads that stream four ways, so the graph actually knows you.
Domain
What you ask about — health, finance, music, code, relationships, the businesses you're building.
Workflow
How you think through a problem — the questions you ask first, the frames you default to, the phrasings that come back.
Behavioral
What pulls you back — topics you keep returning to, decisions you revisit, the stuff that won't leave you alone.
Artifact
What you build from it — documents, code, plans, letters, decisions. The output of the conversation, not just the conversation.
chanio doesn't just remember.
It finds your holes and your frontiers.
A graph of your prompts is also a map of what you've already thought about — and by extension, what you haven't. chanio reads that map two ways.
What's missing from your thinking
Where your thinking is growing
Every surface is a suggestion — never a push. You decide what to open next.
That's what the map is for. Not a record of where you've been — a way to find the next thing worth caring about.
When the question is who you are, not what's next — mapofyou reads that side of the map →
How it works
Capture
A browser extension sits quietly on top of Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. If you use Claude Code, chanio-core captures every session automatically at the terminal level. Either way, your prompts stay local — encrypted, never sent anywhere you haven't approved.
Graph
Your prompts are linked into a knowledge graph across the four layers — domain, workflow, behavioral, artifact. You see it grow in real time in your chanio dashboard.
Carry
An MCP connector exposes your graph to any AI that speaks the protocol. You walk into a new conversation and the AI already knows who you are — because you brought the context, not the platform.
Attest
When it matters — health questions, legal questions, financial questions — chanio can route the output to a signed expert. The AI drafts. A licensed human puts their name on what's true.
Why now
The infrastructure of the last era was optimized for extraction. The infrastructure of this one is optimized for attestation — and the person being attested to is you.
Compute stays rented. Storage comes home.
Compiled nightly, on your disk
Every session compiles to your local drive overnight. Not a cloud backup — a local knowledge graph that exists even when the internet doesn't. Offline-capable by design.
Owned, not rented
Your graph lives in your account and on your hardware. Export it whenever you want. Delete it whenever you want. Nobody sells it because nobody owns it but you.
Portable across every AI
MCP is the open protocol for carrying context between models. chanio speaks it natively — so the graph travels with you, not with any one platform.
Signed where it counts
For the decisions that matter, chanio can hand the output to a physician or domain expert to attest. AI drafts. Humans sign. You carry the proof.
It shows its work
Every AI sounds certain. The one you own should be able to prove itself wrong.
AI drafts. Humans sign. Every claim keeps its source.
“Section 6225 requires clinicians to attest to AI output starting in 2028.” Fluent, specific, widely repeated — and briefly written into these very notes.
The rule's own text says something else. That section conditions outpatient payment on each off-campus department billing under its own identifier, with a facility attestation on file. It is a billing-integrity rule. It says nothing about AI.
The claim was pulled and the note rewritten — and the real requirement, that a licensed human rather than a model makes the call, was traced to the law that actually says it.
That correction took one link back to the source. Without it, a confident sentence becomes a fact by repetition — and a second brain that cannot check itself only repeats faster.
This isn't a mockup.
It runs tonight.
The architecture on this page is the founder's daily driver, not a roadmap. chanio captures every session and compiles it overnight — a morning brief plus one living state note per venture — before 5 AM. What comes out of that job looks like this:
Compiled by chanio while the founder slept. The graph caught its own author about to quote stale pricing — and corrected him. That's the whole point: the memory you own is the memory that keeps you honest.
Ask chanio anything in your vault.
This demo runs on a redacted slice of the founder's own instance — names, dollar figures, and deal terms removed. The mechanics are exactly what runs on your disk.
This is a static slice of the chanio graph — the live product queries your own vault, compiled nightly to your local disk.
Other memory tools own one of these.
chanio is the only one that owns all four.
Mem, Reflect, Rewind, Notion AI, ChatGPT Memory — each gets one piece right. Verified in mid-2026: no competitor matches all four simultaneously.
Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini — chanio captures the session structure from all three into the same schema. No competitor in 2026 captures across providers; each owns one walled garden.
Every capture lands as a plain markdown file on your local disk — Obsidian-ready, grep-able, portable to any AI that comes next. Cancel chanio tomorrow; the corpus is yours forever.
Extraction and canonical synthesis run on your hardware via Ollama. Cloud models are reserved for the morning brief — the one step where frontier judgment compounds. ~$0.50/day total.
chanio threads each project into its own channel and regenerates a 'source of truth' note per project, nightly. Open the channel and the graph already knows what's settled, what's open, what was last touched.
One graph. Every surface. Yours on disk.
The app is temporary too.
Your corpus is not.
Interfaces are becoming disposable — generated on demand, thrown away, regenerated for the next person, the next device, the next model. That is not a threat; it is the direction. But it means the thing worth refusing to rent was never the interface, and it was never the model. It is the record underneath them.
Every surface you use today is a temporary view of something — including this page. chanio's job is to make sure the something is yours: plain files on your own disk, portable to whatever renders them next.
Interfaces get generated. A corpus gets inherited.
Everyone will have the tools.
What's yours is the difference.
Intelligence is becoming a utility — metered, the same for everyone. What isn't a utility is you: not the feeling of the moment, but the through-line — the years of thinking only you have done, kept continuous. Most of what you touch is built to make you forget yourself by morning. chanio keeps the thread on your side of the line — so the AI amplifies who you're becoming instead of replacing you.
The model is rented. The mind is yours.
Stop renting your identity.
Start owning your context.
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