TL;DR - jo is a personal AI that runs on your Mac and a private cloud machine we host for you. It knows your life, improves itself autonomously, chats via  Telegram and WhatsApp, and never shares your data. Less "chatbot" and more "a second brain that does things."

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Hey YC! We're Kevin and Pradeep, co-founders for a decade and consumer builders since the mid-2000s. For the last few years, we’ve iterated on an experience that’s zero compromise. It’s easy to use and gives consumers control over their privacy.

🧠 jo knows you. jo improves over time as it learns your preferences, kids' schedules, travel habits, and work context. It reviews its own notes nightly and gets better as you use it. We’ve found the continuity over time to be immensely useful.

🏠 Your machine, your data. Every jo macOS desktop app user also gets a dedicated cloud machine and storage. Personal data (photos, local files) never leaves your Mac without approval. Powerful cloud inference runs the best available models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Grok, Kimi with more on the way) on top of cloud providers that are barred from training on your data.

⚡ 10x faster, everywhere you already are. Voice on your Mac. Text & voice on  Telegram and Whatsapp. Consistent  memory and personality, 24/7.

What it does

• On your Mac, jo notices your browsing patterns and group chats, then clips related content (runs locally, doesn’t leave your Mac).
• Sends morning briefings with weather, calendar, and reminders pulled from Gmail and Google Calendar, continuing on from where you left off the night before.
• Controls a real browser with anti-fingerprinting and a high success rate to check availability, compare prices, and research.
• Searches across every messaging platform conversation(including groups) and email to find things you've forgotten.
• Runs background automations you set once: "Every Thursday, send me a ideas for what to do this weekend"
• jo will not send emails or messages, but will draft and suggest your emails (Gmail).

The self-organizing digital you

• Unlike other AI assistants, jo self improves to maximize  usefulness and fun.
• Scan back as many months of your browser and messenger history as you want for jo to work with.
• Scheduled and autonomous recurring work compounds data and preferences, all stored on machines you have access to with strict exfil policies.

👉 Sign up for the beta: askjo.ai (first 100 people skip the onboarding and can download ASAP)

Other things jo does

• Find Warriors v Lakers game tomorrow from my email, go on stubhub for tickets, pronounce them expensive, and suggest hockey games instead for that weekend to take a 9yo to.
• Keep an eye on the “No Priors” podcast every day and send summaries in a specific format whenever there’s a new episode.
• Mentioned a topic from a friend inside a group chat, found and did deep research on the topic when asked later.
• Scanned all Gmail receipts and learned a bunch of facts about our families’ preferences, guessed which family members each one applied to and used it for later gift selection.
• Get the guest list from a Partiful invite in my messages
• Built a profile of what we like to read and send us recommendations on a schedule
• Import your OpenClaw folder and settings

Coming soon

Native mobile app, multiplayer (shared family/team assistants), trusted purchases, grocery shopping.

Built on open-source roots. We stand on the shoulders of giants and contribute back.

👉 Sign up for the beta: askjo.ai (first 100 people skip the onboarding and can download ASAP)

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