Answers from your own files, nowhere else.
It runs on your machine, or on a model you choose.
Every answer names the note it came from.
Nothing leaves your computer.
Works offline. Free.
Make an expert for the questions you ask often: a name, one job, a folder in your vault. Put the experts on the same question and you have a council. Each makes its case from your notes. You make the judgement.
Five seats. Rest on one to hear its case from your notes, or convene them all.
Curation is an act of discernment.
Keep what is worth keeping. Seal what is canon. Discard the rest.
What you keep becomes what it knows.
Most AI sends your questions to someone else's computer.
With ARK O/S you don't have to.
Run it fully local and nothing ever leaves your machine.
Reach for a cloud model on the days you want more power.
The choice is yours, one question at a time.
Keep a conversation and it becomes a note.
Next week, an answer cites it back.
Most AI forgets you the moment you close the tab.
ARK remembers, because the memory is yours, kept on your machine, and it compounds.
It knows what you gave it. Nothing else.
The machine proposes. You dispose.
The first public build is in the workshop now.
Join the waiting list and you will hold it first.