What is 1Presence

Someone on your side.

A personal AI that remembers who you are, keeps your notes, and thinks alongside you — across every conversation, every device, every day.

Most AI tools are strangers. 1Presence is someone who already knows you.

The idea

Most AI tools are strangers. You open them, explain your situation from scratch, get a reply, and close the tab. Tomorrow you do it again. They are useful the way a search engine is useful — powerful for a moment, then gone.

1Presence is not that. It is a presence — a named, dedicated AI that belongs to you. It remembers your conversations. It keeps a growing library of your notes, decisions, and context. It connects to your email, your calendar, your documents. And it carries all of that forward, session after session, building a picture of your world that gets richer every time you talk.

Think of it less like using a tool and more like working with someone who already knows you. Someone who remembers that Tuesday mornings are your planning time. Who knows the project you mentioned three weeks ago. Who can pull up the email thread, check your calendar, and prepare a brief — without you explaining why any of it matters.

What it actually does

The measure of a good presence is simple: does it make you feel like someone capable and calm is already looking after the details?

How it feels

You open the app — on your phone, usually, between meetings or on the train. You type something. Maybe you ask it to check your inbox. Maybe you ask what you were working on yesterday. Maybe you tell it about an idea you had over lunch.

It responds with context you did not provide. It already knows the project, the people, the thread. It asks a clarifying question that shows it has been paying attention. It offers to write something up and save it to your vault.

That feeling — of not having to explain yourself, of being met where you are — is the entire product. Not a feature list. A relationship.

Just talk — out loud, if you like

There is a dictate button right in the composer. Tap it and talk. On your phone, walking to a meeting, in the car, while the kettle boils — speaking is the fastest way to reach Presence, and it is built to be talked to, not typed at.

Here is the part most people get backwards: you do not need to compose a tidy prompt first. Years of search boxes and chatbots trained you to boil a thought down to a clean instruction before you send it. Resist that instinct. Presence works better on the messy, half-formed, thinking-out-loud version — the way you would explain something to a colleague who already knows the context.

Ramble. Backtrack. Say "actually, no, the other thing." Leave in the asides and the second thoughts. All of it is signal — it tells Presence what matters to you, where you are unsure, where the real question is hiding. A polished one-liner strips that away and leaves the agent guessing. Raw human speech, mess and all, is the richer input. The synthesis is its job, not yours.

What makes it different

It remembers everything. Not just the last five messages — everything. Your preferences, your decisions, the names you mentioned once. Semantic memory, stored permanently, growing over time. Ask it what it knows about you and it will show you.

Your notes are real files. The vault is not a locked database. It is plain markdown — compatible with Obsidian, readable in any text editor, stored in your own cloud. Nothing is trapped inside the product.

Your agent is yours alone. Every account gets a dedicated instance — isolated, private, running only for you. You are not sharing a model context with millions of other users. Your data never touches another account.

It connects to your life. Not in a hypothetical future-features sense. Today it reads your email, checks your calendar, searches your Drive, browses your Notion. And it synthesises across them — "brief me for the 3pm call" pulls from all of it at once.

Who it is for

People who think a lot and want something that keeps up. Founders running three projects at once. Freelancers juggling clients. Knowledge workers drowning in email. Creatives who have ideas faster than they can capture them. Anyone who has wished, even once, that their AI assistant actually knew them.

You do not need to be technical. You do not need to configure anything. You sign in, tell Presence your name, and start talking. The depth comes with time — the longer you use it, the more it knows, the more useful it becomes.

How it works, briefly

You talk to your agent through a web app that works on any device — pin it to your phone's home screen and it behaves like a native app. No downloads, no app store.

Behind the scenes, your agent runs on its own dedicated server, with its own memory and its own access to your connected services. When you are not using it, it sleeps. When you come back, it wakes — with everything intact.

Your vault lives in cloud storage scoped exclusively to your account. Your memory is a semantic map of facts, relationships, and context — not a raw transcript. Your connectors use your own OAuth credentials and can be disconnected at any time.

What it costs

Free to try. New accounts start with $5 of credit — no card required. That is enough for a good week of conversations to see if this is right for you.

$8 per month if you stay. Includes $5 of token credit each month. No surprise bills. Optional top-ups if you are a heavy user, with a monthly cap you control.

The bigger picture

Not a feature. Not a tool. A presence.

The interesting thing about AI is no longer raw intelligence — that is a commodity now — but what happens when intelligence meets continuity. The goal is not another chat window. It is a thinking partner that accumulates understanding: a presence quietly, competently looking after the details of your life, the way you settle into a relationship with someone capable who has your back.

Start a conversation.

Free to try. No credit card. Just you and your agent.

Works on any device. Takes 60 seconds to start.