The shape, in one paragraph
Every account gets its own dedicated agent pod, its own private store for vault files, and its own semantic memory store. A small gateway in front of all of them routes your traffic, signs you in, and wakes your personal agent up when you arrive and lets it rest when you go quiet. The app you use runs anywhere — pinned to your phone's home screen, opened on your laptop, the same wherever you are.
The pieces
The app — anywhere you are
The thing you actually open. It runs in any browser and pins to your phone's home screen, so it is right there whether you are at your desk or on the move. Real-time streaming, connector flows, inline draft editing, vault and memory browsers — the same wherever you sign in.
Gateway
The always-on door. A small service that signs you in, sets up your personal agent the first time you arrive, and passes your messages through to it. The one part that is online for everyone at once.
Your agent pod — yours alone
Your own agent pod, walled off from everyone else's, able to reach only your own files and nothing else. It is the part that does the thinking and talking. Rests after ten quiet minutes; wakes the moment you return — your memory and vault exactly as you left them.
Vault
Plain files in your own private store. Readable in any editor, exportable any time, Obsidian-compatible. Nothing locked away in an opaque database in the middle.
Memory — three-layered
A separate store: a knowledge graph of facts and relationships, a memory map of filed notes, and a vector index for semantic search. All scoped to your account, browsable in the app, exportable as JSON.
Connectors — scoped, revocable
Each connection uses your own OAuth credentials, held in encrypted secret storage and scoped to exactly what is needed. Connect what you want, revoke any of it in one tap.
What happens when you ask
What happens when you type "brief me for the 3pm" and tap send — the shape of it first:
The same path, step by step:
- Your message lands at the gateway. It confirms it is really you in a fraction of a second.
- The gateway looks up your agent's endpoint. If your agent is sleeping, it wakes it (~1.5 seconds).
- The gateway forwards the message and opens a streaming connection back to your browser.
- Your agent loads your system context, your memory wing, and the relevant slice of your vault.
- It plans: which tools to call. For "brief me for the 3pm", it picks calendar, email, vault search, and possibly Notion.
- It calls the tools in parallel. Each tool runs against the connector's scoped credentials.
- Results stream back into the agent's reasoning loop. It composes the brief, streaming tokens to you as it goes.
- Anything worth filing — the brief itself, new facts about the people involved — gets written to vault and memory.
- When you go idle, your agent pod rests. Your memory is saved safely, waiting intact for the next time you return.
The whole thing is usually 5-15 seconds, depending on how many sources the synthesis needs.
Why we built it this way
The hard decisions, in case you are evaluating:
- Your own agent pod, not a shared one. This is the choice that keeps your data walled off by design, not by promise. It costs us more to run — a price worth paying so your isolation never depends on us getting a rule right.
- A markdown vault, not a locked database. The vault is yours, not ours. Plain files. Readable in any editor, Obsidian-compatible, exportable any time. Anything else is a long-term trap.
- Real memory, not just search. More than a pile of notes to look through. A web of facts and relationships is what lets Presence answer "what do I know about Maya" without making things up.
Where it goes next
The infrastructure does the boring thing every day, and stays out of the way.
The architecture is stable enough that most active work is on the product surface — more connectors, sharper agents, better workflows, richer memory introspection. Workflows run each stage on the same per-user agent pod, one after another; Creator Studio hands media generation off to specialist providers and streams the results back.
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