Privacy-preserving memory for humans and AI
You can't see your own patterns. Your AI can't remember yesterday. ideAI is the encrypted memory layer that serves both — a sovereign context store that you browse as a semantic atlas, and your AI tools access via MCP. One data layer. Zero trust required.
The Problem
You can't see your own cognitive patterns — journaling and reflection couple measurement and analysis in the same observer. Your AI tools can't remember past conversations — every session starts from zero. Both problems stem from the same gap: no persistent, private, structured memory layer.
ideAI closes both gaps at once. Import your digital history, compress it into a navigable atlas you can browse, and give any AI tool secure read access via MCP — all encrypted on-device, all under your control.
The Atlas
Not a database, a timeline, or a dashboard. A landscape where every peak, valley, and ridge corresponds to a real pattern in your data — derivable from source material, traversable at any level of resolution.
Nearly empty on day one. Increasingly dense over months and years. Its value compounds: the more data ingested, the more the invariant structure of your measurement apparatus becomes distinguishable from noise.
Macroscopes
A macroscope is analytical tooling capable of representing relationships across large datasets along selected heuristics. Beyond simple charts — creative data representations with drill-down capabilities that surface insights at varying levels of detail.
3 sources · 47 measurements
Day Synthesis
A day split between deep technical work and personal reflection. Morning spent debugging a WebSocket issue in your side project, followed by a shift to career planning in your afternoon notes. Twitter engagement focused on AI infrastructure discourse. Consistent theme of balancing builder identity with broader life direction.
AI infra discourse, WebSocket debugging thread
Career reflection, project architecture notes
Debugging session, code review conversation
Tags
Compressed from 47 measurements across 3 platforms
What patterns repeat when I'm about to make a major decision?
Three structural recurrences across 14 months of data. Semantic drift toward abstract-personal quadrant 2–3 weeks before each decision point. Output volume drops 40%. Tag frequency shifts from execution-oriented to identity-oriented. This pattern preceded career change (Sep 2024), relocation consideration (Jan 2025), and current state.
Exgestion
Chat with an on-device AI that has full context of everything you've written — across months and years. It surfaces temporal patterns, semantic collisions, and recurring themes. Not advice. Structure.
Or connect Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor via DataShard — and every conversation they have starts with your full history, not a blank slate. Same encrypted Atlas, accessible to any AI you authorize.
Sovereignty
You browse your Atlas for patterns. Claude searches it for context. ChatGPT reads it to understand your preferences. Cursor accesses it to write code that fits your style. All through MCP, all encrypted, all with your explicit permission. Multiple AI systems, one sovereign memory layer — and you are the membrane.
3,847 notes
1,203 day summaries
52 weekly compressions
19 integration tools
“Help me plan my week”
“Sure! What are your typical priorities and schedule?”
“Well, on Mondays I usually...”
[10 minutes of context-setting]
“Help me plan my week”
“Based on your journal: you're most productive on Tuesday mornings, you've been focused on the career transition project, and last week you noted wanting more time for creative writing. Here's a plan that accounts for all of that...”
The Thesis
An observer who understands their own biases, gravity wells, and systematic distortions becomes significantly harder to manipulate.
Not immune — but resistant.
To map the measurement apparatus is to learn to move.
To know thyself is to prevent manipulation before it occurs.
zero-knowledge
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Pricing
See yourself clearly.
Your memory, accessible to any AI.
Your complete AI memory layer.
All plans include on-device processing. Your data never leaves your device unless you explicitly use cloud features.
iOS and macOS. No account required.