Familiar — A personal AI agent that shows up before you ask
Meet your Familiar.
The kind of support only executives have had: a personal AI agent that triages your inbox, preps your days, runs your research, and remembers what matters.
A familiar shows up before you ask. It takes five minutes to start and nothing to maintain.
By invitation while we're in research preview.
Douglas· keeps the inbox honest
Morning. 41 new overnight — three need you. Replies for two are drafted; the third needs a call only you can make.
Give me the short version.
Priya wants Thursday instead of Tuesday, the board feedback is in — mostly small — and your accountant needs the K-1 by Friday.
Fletcher· does the reading
What's the latest on the zoning vote? I need to sound smart about it at 3:00.
It passed committee 4–1 last night. I read the coverage — here are the two points worth quoting, with sources.
Your 3:00 prep brief has both, plus who's likely to push back.
Mabel· two steps ahead
Heads up — tomorrow's 8:00 with the contractor is only on your family calendar. Work shows you free, and Priya's angling for that slot.
Good catch. Draft her a note asking for the afternoon.
Drafted and waiting for you. Your questions for the contractor are ready too.
You manage everything. Nobody manages you.
Run a business, a household, a client list — any life with enough moving parts — and you're really working two jobs: the one you chose, and the unpaid operations role behind it. Scheduling, follow-ups, paperwork, research, the running list that never stops running. Executives hand that second job to a chief of staff: someone who does the legwork and brings back the choice to make.
Family
The real work
The second job
A familiar shape of day: the real work in the middle, the second job waiting at the end of it.
Familiar exists so the second job stops being yours. Holding it all together was never the best use of you.
Chat answers. A Familiar shows up.
ChatGPT and Claude are brilliant when you ask. But nothing starts without you: you notice the thing, you open the app, you explain yourself again.
- Chat is reactive. A Familiar is proactive.
- Chat waits for a prompt. A Familiar starts from your context.
- Chat keeps track of your requests. A Familiar keeps track of you.
A chat assistant· waits to be asked
What am I forgetting today?
I don't have access to your calendar or email — but here are some general tips for staying organized.
Your Familiar· already on it
Morning — three things today. Your 9:00 with Priya: brief's ready. The K-1 is due Friday. And tomorrow's 8:00 is only on your family calendar.
You didn't have to ask.
The shape of human assistance, at the price and availability of software.
From stranger to teammate in three steps.
Have a conversation
Instead of a setup wizard, you meet your Familiar. It learns what you do, who matters, and where it can make you sharper.
Connect your world
One click links your email and calendar over OAuth. No keys to copy, nothing to configure — you're done in seconds.
Let it get to work
Your Familiar triages, drafts, researches, and preps — then checks in. Nothing leaves the building without you.
There's nothing to configure and nothing to maintain — your part is deciding. We run the models and the infrastructure so you never have to, and when something's off, a human answers.
What your Familiar can do today.
A small set of capabilities we trust completely — each one deep enough to lean on.
- Inbox triage: Reads everything, surfaces the few that need you, and drafts the replies for your review.
- Calendar: A morning roundup across every calendar you've connected, and a prep brief before each meeting.
- Memory you can see: Remembers your people, projects, and preferences across every conversation. You can read it, search it, correct a detail, or tell it to forget.
- Wherever you are: At your desk or on your phone, it's the same Familiar — one account, one memory, nothing to catch up. Telegram today; WhatsApp and Slack on the way.
- Web research: Looks it up, reads the sources, and brings back the two things worth knowing.
- Scheduled check-ins: Recurring tasks that run on their own — a morning brief, a Friday digest, whatever you need.
A capable agent on a short leash.
Everyone we onboard draws the same line before we've said a word: read everything, touch nothing without asking. So that's exactly how Familiar is built — and the line only moves when you move it.
On its own, it can
- Read your connected accounts
- Draft messages and replies
- Look things up and summarize
- Remember what it learns
It asks you first before
- Sending any message
- Posting anything publicly
- Spending money
- Changing or deleting data
It can never
- Rewrite its own rules
- Disable its guardrails
- Touch a service you haven't connected
- Act without logging it
Today your Familiar can't send an email or spend money on your behalf. It reads, it drafts, and it waits for you. Your accounts connect over OAuth, credentials are encrypted, your data is used only in conversations with you, and every action is logged. You widen the leash as trust grows — and you can always see exactly where it stands.
Built with people doing two jobs.
Our research-preview cohort: a recruiter running a firm, a product leader running a complex household, a screenwriter, an author. None of them want to run software — all of them have real work to hand off.
Not an assistant. A familiar.
In folklore, a familiar is a companion that acts on your behalf — loyal, capable, a little uncanny. Yours takes shape from how you communicate and complements the way you work. It makes you look good to the world, and saves the clever bits for you. No two Familiars are the same.