Personal intelligence. Built around one person. Open to everyone.

Open source. Local first. Made to become yours.

Unison is a different path for personal AI.

It is an open-source project for intent-based computing at home. You begin with what you want to accomplish. Unison uses your current context, needs, preferences, and policies to assemble an appropriate path and generate the experience that supports you.

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Current state: Experimental software is available now. Integrated hardware and real-world pilots are still in development.

Intent becomes your experience

A system assembled around you

Unison brings the parts of personal intelligence together under your authority. Each part can evolve while your context and relationship with the system remain continuous.

Your context has a home

Your trusted system holds authoritative identity, memory, preferences, goals, and policy.

Your experience is composed for you

Meaning can become conversation, visual presentation, Braille, touch, or a future modality suited to you.

Models and services are replaceable

Local and external participants contribute through governed, inspectable contracts.

Your goals guide the system

Skills, tools, and inference work together to pursue useful outcomes within your policies.

Intent-based computing

Everything begins with what you are trying to accomplish.

Intent brings together your desired outcome, current context, needs, preferences, timing, and boundaries. You can express it naturally through any supported modality. Unison then resolves the relevant identity and policy, assembles suitable capabilities, and generates an experience for the person and situation.

This organizing principle lets models, tools, interfaces, and devices evolve while the human objective remains central.

Follow an intent through the system

  1. ExpressYou communicate what you want to accomplish.
  2. UnderstandUnison resolves your context, needs, preferences, and constraints.
  3. OrchestratePolicy governs the selected skills, tools, models, and information.
  4. ExperienceThe outcome arrives in a form suited to you and the moment.

It becomes yours through use

Unison can use nondeterministic inference when a request is new, while looking for reliable structures that can make repeated work faster and more consistent. A useful pattern can become an inspectable proposal. Activation requires review, testing, and explicit authority.

  1. A new requestYou ask naturally, even when no predefined workflow exists.
  2. Governed resolutionUnison combines approved tools, retrieval, and inference to pursue an outcome.
  3. A repeated patternThe system notices reusable structure without placing private content in operational telemetry.
  4. Your reviewYou can accept, change, defer, or reject the proposed capability.
  5. A local capabilityOnly reviewed, tested, and authorized behavior can become reusable.

Learn how skills evolve without self-authorizing.

Meaning before interface

Unison composes a native experience for each person and situation.

The system first represents the outcome, relationships, choices, uncertainty, risk, and available actions in an experience. It can then compose a native expression for the person, device, and situation.

Conversation uses dialogue, pacing, and auditory structure. Braille uses tactile navigation and concise spatial organization. Each modality preserves equivalent understanding and control through its own strengths.

Explore multimodal interaction

Conversation

“Your electricity bill is 18 dollars higher than last month, mostly because weekday heating use increased. Would you like the daily comparison or help reviewing the schedule?”

Visual

A concise comparison shows the change, likely contributor, due date, and available next actions.

Braille

A structured tactile summary supports direct navigation among the amount, comparison, evidence, and actions.

Evidence boundary: Semantic and modality software foundations are implemented and tested. Representative-device and participatory validation remains pending.

Private enough for the whole of life

A useful personal intelligence system can organize sensitive information into separately governed spaces.

PersonalHouseholdHealthFinancialLegalHome and devices

Each context space can carry its own authority, purpose, sharing, retention, and security policy. Separate identities and explicit shared spaces reduce how much one mistake or compromise can expose. External models, channels, and backups remain optional, minimized, and replaceable.

Read the privacy and security promise.

One system, many kinds of work

01

Run the household

Understand products, maintenance, commitments, energy, and the work that keeps daily life moving.

Explore household operations

02

See the whole decision

Consider health needs alongside cost, coverage, preferences, and the questions that still need human expertise.

Explore connected decisions

03

Research with context

Investigate choices, preserve sources and uncertainty, and turn findings into an actionable next step.

Explore contextual research

04

Learn your way

Shape explanations, pacing, curriculum, and output around each person's goals and communication needs.

Explore personalized education

05

Build shared understanding

Help people engage with the same meaning through different native input and output modalities.

Explore shared understanding

06

Stay useful offline

Provide locally available repair, maintenance, utility, and emergency-reference guidance when outside connectivity is unavailable.

Explore offline MacGyver mode

Safety boundary: Offline guidance is an intended supplemental reference capability. People should contact emergency services and qualified medical, electrical, gas, and repair professionals whenever those resources are available and appropriate.

Built today. Being proven. Envisioned.

Built today

  • Governed identity, context, consent, and policy foundations
  • Model routing and deterministic workflow foundations
  • Semantic and native modality software contracts
  • A signed experimental x86-64 release path
  • Encrypted backup and recovery foundations

Being proven

  • Real-person usefulness and trust
  • Native experiences on representative devices
  • Hardware-backed security and recovery
  • Long-running household operation
  • Supported model and hardware combinations

Envisioned

  • A professionally deployable household intelligence appliance
  • Modular compute, storage, networking, radios, and sensors
  • Open hardware designs and a distinct Unison enclosure
  • An ecosystem of independent modality and capability contributors

Claims on this page distinguish implemented software, work still being proven, and the longer-term vision. Review the complete current status and evidence.

Unison will require more than AI developers

Privacy engineers, accessibility specialists, local inference developers, hardware designers, researchers, domain experts, and thoughtful critics all have a place in this project.

Bring your expertise, your coding agent, or both. Unison's repositories are structured so people and agents can work from the same contracts, evidence, and authority boundaries.

  • Privacy and security
  • Accessibility and native modalities
  • Models, tools, skills, and orchestration
  • Storage and memory architecture
  • Household systems and sensing
  • Power, thermals, hardware, and industrial design
  • Health, finance, legal, education, and human-centered research

Your intelligence system can keep the story of your life under your authority.

Let's build that future together.

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