We believe AI is safer - and much more useful - when you own your AI context.

Who do you want owning the data that describes your life and work: Sam, Mark, Elon, Dario, or Sundar (he seems nice)? Clearly, YOU should own your data. If you don’t, you aren’t the customer - you’re the product, feeding a machine whose appetite will never be satisfied. The AI labs have to grow to justify their valuations, and your context is their moat.

Slowly handing over your documents, Q&A history, and personal bio to a single AI lab gives them too much power - and gives you a worse experience. It locks you into a marriage when it’s too soon to be going steady, let alone getting hitched. You should be free to use the right AI for the right job. You can’t do that if your history is trapped inside a walled garden you don't control.

AI and the companies behind it - are becoming powerful enough that we should keep them focused on building great models, not absorbing every profession. When we hand over our context, we invite AI labs to become our doctors, lawyers, teachers, financial advisors, and retailers. In this way we are creating an AI cartel with more power than governments.

So how do you take back control?

Imagine a password manager - except instead of just passwords, it holds all your personal context under your control, and lets you plug that data into any AI model, smart speaker, or robot in seconds.

That’s the platform we built, ambientChat.Ai. It’s an AI Context Manager - made for both the digital and physical worlds. It's early days, so tell us what you like and don't like.

Our architecture is open, and we encourage others to build their own systems along the same lines. We use MCP and standard interfaces to connect to the leading cloud Large Language Models, and to run open AI models privately on your own Mac. Desktop AI means fewer data centers, lower cost, and less money flowing to the labs. Your data sits encrypted in the cloud, walled-off from the view of AI. We are adding support for a Desktop Data option, in addition to the Desktop AI model we enable today.

ambientChat.Ai is unusual because it unites your virtual context (documents, notes, past Q&A) with your physical context - a live digital twin of your food, medicine, tools, wardrobe, and spaces. And, we let you leave with all your data in a big zip file, any time.

AI controlled by the people has the potential to slash the cost of goods and their impact on the planet. That's our ultimate goal, connecting people using products direct to the ones making them, opening up more choice, turning the lights on, so you understand as much of the story about what your buying as you want, and to have your say to change things with the power of the purse.

Give it a try. $10 a month gives you access to Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude and Qwen, connected to your unified context data, allowing the models to collaborate and compete under your control. Brainstorm your website with Grok in the car, then have Claude Code build it when you get home. Want a second opinion? Ask one model to check another’s work - without having to re-explaining who you are.