VIMNORA™ / Active prototype

VIMNORA stands for:
Vision-Indexed Multimodal Neural Orchestration & Reasoning Agent

On screen.
In the room.

VIMNORA is our working prototype of personal AI with persistent, user-owned context. It runs on your machine, carries memory across models, and works through a browser or a voice endpoint. We use it daily in a household.

Experimental prototype / Active development
Prototype footage: the device is asked a question out loud and answers in its own voice.
Prototype footage / Voice

The premise

Change the model.
Keep the context.

A good conversation should not vanish because you changed the software answering it.

The memory is yours and it sits on your side, apart from the model. Swap the model, move to a new machine, go from a local model to a hosted one and back again: none of it starts you over. A faster machine answers faster, and nothing here insists on a particular one.

That is the whole bet. The pieces that are cheap to replace should be replaceable. The part that took months to build up should belong to you, and it should not be living inside something you rent.

Running today

A system you can
live with.

The prototype connects one persistent record to different ways of using AI.

Models
Local and hosted backends can be switched while running. The memory stays separate from the selected model.
Local operation
With local inference, speech recognition, and speech synthesis configured, conversation, memory, and voice work without the internet.
Interfaces
A browser for conversation, files, and photographs. A room endpoint with a local wake word, speaker identification, and interruption.
People & memory
Separate personal records, shared household context, source information, and memories you can inspect, correct, or delete.
Connected tools
Permissions start off. Tool activity shows running, completed, or failed; file changes require approval.

Hosted models receive the context supplied to them. Connected services have their own data boundaries. Local operation describes the configuration you choose, not every optional integration.

01 / Choose the intelligence

Your context.
Your choice of model.

Run a model on your own computer, connect natively to Azure, use the Claude API, or bring an online model with an OpenAI-compatible API. The model can change. Your personal context stays with VIMNORA.

Animated memory silk
The part you keep

VIMNORA context

People · Conversations · Files · Memories

Local models

Inference on your computer. Keep conversation, voice and memory on your own network.

No internet required
Azure OpenAI service icon

Microsoft Azure

Native Azure connectivity for your configured model deployment.

Optional cloud connection

Claude API

Connect directly to Anthropic’s Claude API with your own provider account.

Optional cloud connection

OpenAI-compatible

Use online model providers that implement the supported OpenAI-compatible API.

Bring your endpoint

Cloud models are optional. They require internet, receive the context you send, and may incur provider charges. API capabilities vary by provider. Provider names identify integrations, not partnerships.

02 / A voice with a history

Six sentences.
Then it knows it’s you.

A short speaker enrollment learns the characteristics of your voice and connects them to your personal profile.

Speak six sentences to establish your voice. Your identity then stays attached to the conversations you take part in, the files you share, and the memories that grow from them.

Shared context keeps its participants and sources. Personal records stay personal, and sharing follows the permissions you choose.

6 enrollment sentencesPersonal voice profileContext with an owner
Six voice samples converge into one profile connected to conversations, files and memories.
A familiar voice becomes a continuous thread.

Speaker diarization

Many voices.
Room for each one.

Identify up to eight speakers in a room, separate overlapping speech, and keep each person’s contribution attached to them. VIMNORA organizes its answers sequentially, so one reply can finish before the next begins.

Recognition depends on enrollment, microphone coverage and room acoustics.

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One response at a time
  1. 01 Listen in context
  2. 02 Answer the speaker
  3. 03 Continue to the next

03 / Make it feel at home

A different presence.
The same VIMNORA.

Choose a dynamic appearance that suits the room and the moment. Prefer no face at all? Let the animated memory-silk icon carry the presence instead.

Changing the appearance leaves your people, conversations and memory in place.

Orbit: a quiet, expressive presence.

Appearance study / Tap a styleMemory stays. The expression changes.

The interface

A place to see and change it.

Interface studies with invented content. The films elsewhere on this page show the working prototype.

Chat view of the interface.

Conversation, with context.

It brings up what you told it before without being asked. When it uses one of your tools you watch the tool run, and you see what came back.

Control view of the interface.

Only what you allow.

A plain list of what is connected and what is switched on. Nothing works until you turn it on, and each person sees only what they are allowed to use.

Memory view of the interface.

Somewhere to go back to.

Read through old conversations and everything it has held on to. Fix what is wrong, delete what you would rather it forgot, and see where each piece came from.

System view of the interface.

What is actually running.

The model, how much room is left in the conversation, the voice services, the connected devices. Not one green dot standing in for all of it.

Sight

Point a camera at it.

A photograph means more when it meets context you have already supplied.

Take a photograph on your phone and it will tell you what it is looking at, using a model on your own machine. Then it does the part that actually helps: it puts what it sees next to what it already knows, and answers with both.

An observation is not automatically a fact. One look proves nothing, so the same thing has to turn up more than once, on separate occasions, before it joins the durable record. A dozen frames of the same moment still count once.

Read the design note
Prototype footage: a photograph sent from a phone is identified from what the system already knows.
Prototype footage / Screen

The same system

A change of setting.

The room device is one endpoint into VIMNORA. The browser reaches the same memory and tools. Changing how you speak to it does not reset what it knows or what it is allowed to do.

Screen and room share the same underlying memory and services.
Shared-system study / Static composition
An iPhone connects to the VIMNORA computer over an encrypted local network, without an internet connection.
Your phone and computer, connected at home.

04 / iPhone companion · Coming soon

Your context.
Within reach.

An iPhone companion app is coming for iOS 27.

Connect securely to VIMNORA on your computer through your local home network. An encrypted LAN connection brings your conversations, shared files and memory to your phone without needing internet access.

The computer supplies the local intelligence. The phone gives you another way to reach it, while you are connected to the same home network.

Encrypted local connectionNo cloud relayiOS 27 · Coming soon
Local by choice. Yours by design.

No subscriptions.
No recurring software fees.
No internet needed for local use.

With local models and voice services installed, your home system works on your own hardware. Optional cloud APIs and connected online services have their own charges and internet requirements. Hardware and installation costs are separate.

05 / A whole-home presence · Coming soon

One home.
Many ways to connect.

A physical VIMNORA device family is coming in several varieties, from a standalone display to an interconnected set of room units. Start with a single presence. Expand around the way your home works.

Inside the working prototype

Your home, mapped.
Your units, placed.

See the local house view in motion: room boundaries, floor levels and a unit’s place in the home. A short recording from the prototype, with the original interface kept in view.

Recorded VIMNORA house map showing floor levels, named rooms and a glowing unit marker.
Recorded prototype / House map & unit placement / Silent5 seconds · Expand to inspect

Use the player’s fullscreen control for a closer look. Open the video directly. This recording shows the map and unit marker; the hardware concepts below illustrate the upcoming packages.

Design concepts for a standalone VIMNORA display, a room unit and an in-wall touch display.
Hardware design concepts. The new enclosure is in development.
A house map connects local VIMNORA units across the living room, kitchen, study, hall and bedroom.
A map you create and manage locally.
01 / Standalone · Coming soon

A place of its own.

A standalone VIMNORA touch display in a new case currently in development. A dedicated presence for the desk, counter or room where you use it most.

02 / Multi-pack · Coming soon

Connected room to room.

Interconnected units organized through a map of your house that you create and manage locally. Place each unit, name its room and keep control of the connections inside your home.

03 / Touch + HDMI · Coming soon

The screen that fits.

Touch-capable units can automatically switch their interface to a connected HDMI display with full fidelity, giving VIMNORA more room without losing the interface or its context.

Full HDMI capability / Working prototype

A familiar face.
A memory brought back.

Ask for a picture that means something to you. VIMNORA draws on visual memories built over months of conversations and family images, recognizes familiar faces, and brings the remembered moment onto a connected HDMI display.

The full interface moves onto the larger screen with its appearance, context and visual response together.

VIMNORA’s avatar displayed on a connected HDMI monitor.
VIMNORA on a connected HDMI display.
ConversationsVisual memoriesA larger view

Explore how context connects in the living demo

Custom in-home installation · Coming soon

Built into the room.
Connected throughout the home.

A custom installation package brings in-ceiling microphone arrays and speaker connectivity throughout the house, paired with in-wall touch displays up to 10 inches tall.

Designed around your rooms, listening positions and locally managed house map, with VIMNORA remaining on your own network.

Express preorder interest

Express preorder interest / Coming soon

Choose your place
in the next chapter.

Paid hardware & custom packages · Pricing TBD

Standalone displays, interconnected multi-packs and custom whole-home installations will be available to purchase. Physical units, installation and custom packages come at a price, to be announced.

Tell us which package interests you and request priority consideration. We’ll follow up with availability, pricing and next steps before any purchase.

Email my preorder request

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Memory

Everything it keeps,
in plain sight.

Go back through old conversations and read what it has held on to. Correct it. Delete it. Changing the model does not wipe it and start you over.

Read the design note

Action

Saying it is done
is not doing it.

You watch a tool run, finish, or fail. File changes arrive as a draft and a diff for you to approve first, and you can put them back afterwards. A completion check catches claims of success with no completed operation behind them.

Read the design note

People

Everyone gets
their own.

Your memory is yours. Household things stay shared, but what you tell it does not turn up in somebody else's conversation. It is built that way underneath, rather than asking the model to be discreet.

Where it came from

It remembers
who told it.

Whether you said it, it read it, or it saw it stays attached to the fact. An explicit statement outranks an inference; visual observations stay provisional until corroborated on separate occasions. The source still matters after a memory becomes durable, especially when you correct it.

Read the design note

Your machine

Unplug the internet.
It still works.

With a local model, conversation, memory and voice keep going with the internet disconnected. Your local network connects the devices in your home. Nothing ships with a model hidden inside it and nothing downloads one behind your back. It checks the files you give it before it loads one, and refuses anything it does not recognize.

Hosted models and outside services stay your call, and those companies have their own rules about data. Running locally is not a promise that every optional extra is offline too.

What it is learning

It notices its own
bad habits.

It pays attention to how it has been answering you. When something is not working, writing the flaw down is not the fix. Tell a model that it rambles, then read that back to it before every reply, and you have taught it to ramble. So it picks one specific thing to do differently instead, and watches whether that actually helped.

If it helped, the change sticks and the note goes away. If nothing moved, it tries different wording. If that fails too, it says so plainly rather than pretending. And sometimes the real problem turns out to be a bug rather than a habit, in which case it tells you that instead. All of it sits on one page, and nothing is erased unless you erase it.

Read the design note

Who this is for

People who would
rather own it.

Some days it is a familiar voice across the room. Others, it is the context you need to pick up a piece of work. It can grow around the tools you choose, while you decide what it can reach and remember.

The product direction is a durable personal layer that can outlast a model, a provider, or a particular device. The prototype is how we test that idea in everyday use. It is still experimental, with no general-release date announced.

Get involved

Help shape what comes next.

An active prototype, with a larger product question: how do we make personal AI context something people can keep and control?

02 / Builders

I want to build with it.

Explore the public engine, integrations, or technical collaboration.

Discuss collaboration

03 / Company

I want to help build the company.

Investment, partnerships, and bringing the work to more people.

Discuss the company