Your assistant should work for you.¶
Unison is an open, private personal-assistant platform designed to return time to the person it serves. UnisonOS is the downloadable appliance runtime being built to run Unison on a trusted device, usually in a person's home.
One home node. An independently governed assistant for each person. Explicit spaces for the context people choose to share.
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Development status
UnisonOS is pre-release research and engineering software. The repository contains working service prototypes and tests, but there is not yet a supported appliance image for personal use.
A different incentive¶
Unison is intended to optimize for your objectives—not advertising, sponsored placement, engagement, or a provider's commercial agenda. Its success should be measured in useful outcomes, commitments completed, accessibility, recoverability, and time returned to you.
Private by architecture
Your home node is the authority. External models, channels, and backup services are optional, minimized, and replaceable.
Personal, not household-wide
Each adult has an independent assistant and private data domain. Sharing happens only in explicit context spaces.
Accessible from the start
Text, speech, visual, touch, Braille, sign, and future modalities must preserve the same meaning and control.
One assistant across daily life¶
At home, a person can interact locally. Away from home, approved channels such as messaging or voice can connect back to the authoritative node through an outbound-first gateway. A low-assurance channel can ask, draft, or notify; a sensitive action requires stronger authentication and an understandable confirmation.
Unison is not meant to replace the phone or the apps people enjoy. It is meant to become an excellent personal, administrative, and executive assistant that can coordinate those tools without turning a person's context into a product.
What exists today¶
| Area | Maturity | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Service prototypes and shared contracts | Experimental | Code and unit tests exist; boundaries are being reconciled. |
| Semantic experience renderer | Experimental | A working foundation, not a complete multimodal product. |
| Household isolation model | Designed | Approved architecture; enforcement implementation has not begun. |
| Installable UnisonOS appliance | Planned | Ubuntu 24.04 x86_64 is the first target; no supported image yet. |
| Remote channels and encrypted backup | Planned | Architecture principles approved; provider integrations are not production-ready. |
Continue with how Unison works, the privacy and security promise, or the engineering documentation.