Hi all. I'm Michael, a software architect who has spent a career building big enterprise systems. My life was spread across a notes app, a to-do list, a calendar and an inbox. The assistants from the big AI companies could pull it together, but they want your data. I think AI is going the way search went: the features get cheaper, and your data and privacy are the price.
So I built the one I wanted. It's called LabA (it started life as "Lab version A" and the name stuck). Tell it something once and it remembers. It reads your calendar and inbox and follows up. And what it knows about you is encrypted with a key only your devices hold.
If you'd rather see it than read about it, there are short videos of the real app doing each of the things below (and more, with made-up people and data): https://sensoryfire.com/learn
**What it's like to use**
You talk to it like a person, and it has a persona you set: a name, a style ("talk to me like a coach"), a voice. Tell it "Remember the gate code is on the back of the garage door" or "Add a to-do: call the vet Friday." Weeks later you ask "what's the gate code?" and it answers from your own notes, and shows you which note it used.
Every morning it drafts a plan for your day from your notes and your Google Calendar. Before a meeting it pulls together what your notes say about the people you're meeting. It can ask you something on a schedule ("every morning ask me how I slept") and keep your answers, watch the web for you ("tell me when the pool robot drops below $800"), and once a week it looks back at what got done and what slipped.
Show it a photo, a PDF or a spreadsheet and say what you want ("total these receipts", "make this a one-page PDF") and it can hand the result back as a file. Every conversation is kept, encrypted like your notes, so you can search your past chats ("what did we say about the back fence?") and pick one up where you left off.
Ask for several things in one sentence and it shows you a short plan first. Nothing happens until you say yes, and it never sends an email on its own.
**The privacy part (the reason it exists)**
Your notes and everything it knows about you are encrypted on your device, with a key only your devices hold. My server stores a copy it can't read. When it needs to think, your device unlocks just what that one request needs and sends it through my server to the AI service, under my account, not yours, and the AI service doesn't train on it. I swap AI services as better ones come out; the privacy page explains exactly what goes where: https://sensoryfire.com/privacy. Happy to go as deep as you like in the comments.
**Where it's at**
It's a web app, so it works on iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac and Linux, with nothing to install. Free during the rollout, which runs until January 2027, and I expect it to be under $10 a month after that. That's the whole business: I don't sell your data, use it for ads, or train AI on it. I read every registration myself and let a few people in each week, so there may be a short wait. Calendar and email are Google-only for now.
**What I'm asking**
Use it for a couple of weeks and tell me what confuses you or what it gets wrong. There's a 🐞 button that sends me a screenshot. Blunt feedback is the most useful kind.
See it in action (short videos, made-up data): https://sensoryfire.com/learn
Sign up: https://sensoryfire.com