Your personal AI, from anywhere

Talk to your noggin.

Noggin is a personal AI you own outright. It lives in one folder on a machine you choose, keeps a voice for each part of your life, and answers from your phone. Nothing of yours is held by us.

Have a noggin? Talk to it at talkto.allmynoggins.com
~/noggin · 4 voices · on a Mac at home
How it works Scroll to move through the steps
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Make a noggin

Download the installer for your laptop, a computer at home or a server you rent. It creates one folder on that machine. That folder is your noggin.

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    Make a noggin

    Download the installer for your laptop, a computer at home or a server you rent. It creates one folder on that machine. That folder is your noggin.

    laptop · home computer · rented server
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    Give it voices

    Add a voice for each part of your life: a career adviser, a travel agent, a reading coach. Each keeps its own memory and has one of three privacy levels.

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    Talk to it

    Open talkto.allmynoggins.com on your phone, then type or tap and talk. The brain sends each request to the cheapest model that can answer it well.

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    It keeps score

    Rate any reply good or poor. The brain records each rating beside the model that answered and what the reply cost. Using those scores to choose engines for you comes next.

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Principles

What we're building it to be.

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For everyday life

Built for the questions in a normal week: what to read next, which train to catch, whether to take the job. One download to set up (early: not yet run on real machines).

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Affordable by design

Frontier models are excellent and expensive. The brain sends each request to the cheapest model that meets the quality needed, and every reply shows which model answered and what it cost.

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Keeps score

Rate any reply good or poor, and the brain records it beside the model that answered and what it cost. Leaning on the engines that do well for you comes next.

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Yours, wherever you put it

A noggin is a folder. Keep it on your own device or a server in the country you choose. Export it, move it, delete it. No subscription holds it hostage.

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Reads, never acts

Voices read and prepare. They never post, pay, send or cancel anything. Reading the web and your accounts, with your permission, is coming next.

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You answer for your noggin

We hold nothing, so you are accountable for what your noggin contains. What that means

Three privacy levels, enforced in code

Each voice has one. The level decides which models it may use. Every model and speech call is written to an audit log before it is made.

Local only Nothing leaves your machine. Models run on it, and so does speech in talk mode.
Asks before sharing Personal details are masked, and you approve once per conversation before anything goes to a cloud model.
Uses the web Cloud models from Anthropic or OpenAI-compatible providers are allowed.
Meet my noggins

The voices every noggin starts with.

Stand-ins for now: our starter voices, with example exchanges written for this page. Real exchanges from our own noggins, with personal details blacked out, will replace them.

Reading coachListens to me read aloud and suggests one thing to practise next time.
Local only
meI keep tripping over long words in the second chapter.
voiceYou slowed on 'particularly' and 'unremarkable' both times. Try clapping the syllables before tonight's page.
local model · 0p
Stand-in: a starter voice, with an example exchange written for this page.
Career adviserKnows my CV and goals, and tells me plainly when a role is a poor fit.
Asks before sharing
meShould I apply for the team lead role?
voiceYou said last month you want more time building, not less. This role is mostly hiring and reviews. Ask them what a normal week looks like first.
cloud model · 0.4p
Stand-in: a starter voice, with an example exchange written for this page.
Travel agentCompares trips plainly and prepares bookings for me to finish myself.
Uses the web
meFind me a quiet week by the sea in May.
voiceThree options under £900, all with the late check-out you like. I have not booked anything; the links are ready when you are.
cloud model · 0.4p
Stand-in: a starter voice, with an example exchange written for this page.
talkto.allmynoggins

Type to it, or just talk.

Your phone reaches your noggin through talkto.allmynoggins.com, a web app that installs to your home screen. In talk mode, one tap starts, a pause ends your turn, and a tap interrupts the voice. For Local only voices, speech is processed on your own machine.

Run it anywhere, talk from anywhere

Every noggin needs a home. Pick one.

Wherever it lives, you talk to it from your phone at talkto.allmynoggins.com. Change your mind later and move house: it's only a folder.

Option one

Move in with us

We're planning hosted noggins: pick a server from a catalogue and the country it sits in, and we set it up and keep it updated. It isn't open yet, so there are no prices here. Follow the build to hear when it is.

Coming later
Option two

Bring your own noggin

BYON, if you like acronyms. A laptop, a Raspberry Pi gathering dust, a server you already rent. Free, and as sovereign as it gets.

Your laptop Free Answers while the laptop is on. Ours runs on a Mac today.
A small computer at home Pi not yet tested A Raspberry Pi or mini PC that stays on, so your noggin is always reachable.
A server you rent Free Any provider, any country. You pay the provider; we charge nothing.

One download for Mac, Windows, Linux or a server. It picks a model to suit the machine and ends with a QR code to pair your phone. Early: tested in simulation, not yet run on real machines

How the installer works
Your noggin, your responsibility

We don't hold your noggin, so we can't answer for it.

Everything in a noggin is created and kept by its owner, on a machine the owner chooses. That freedom comes with accountability. If you create or store illegal content in your noggin, the responsibility is yours, and so are the consequences.

Read it on the privacy page
What this site collects
  • Your email and the date you joined, only if you join the list below.
  • No analytics, no tracking scripts, no third-party embeds.
  • Cloudflare's server-side visit counts, and nothing else.
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