Your whole work life, on your own machine
A personal operating system that runs on your own machine
Contacts, projects, email, calendar, a meeting analyst, a decision journal — all working together, all stored on your own computer, all running on the Claude subscription you already pay for. No servers, no per-seat fees.
A stack of monthly SaaS subscriptions holding your data → one local system you own.
| Before | After | |
|---|---|---|
| Where your data lives | scattered across a dozen companies' clouds | on your own machine, owned by you |
| How the tools connect | they mostly don't — you copy between them | they share one foundation and feed each other |
| What it costs to run | a stack of monthly subscriptions | close to nothing, on a subscription you already have |
| Who controls it | each vendor, on their terms | you, locally |
| Getting more useful over time | each app improves in isolation | the pieces compound as they share more |
A personal setup that used to be a pile of subscriptions, with your data scattered across other companies' servers, becomes a single system you own and run yourself. The ongoing cost is close to nothing, and the pieces reinforce each other because they share one data layer — the meeting analyst can feed your contacts, your contacts can feed your decision journal — instead of each living in its own walled-off app.
What I built
Software of You — a local-first personal operating system. "Local-first" means it runs and stores your data on your own computer rather than in a company's cloud, so you own and control it.
- The pieces. Contacts (a personal CRM), project tracking, email, calendar, a meeting analyst (which makes sense of your meetings), and a decision journal (a record of choices and why you made them).
- One shared foundation. All of those sit on a single local data layer, so they genuinely work together rather than being six disconnected apps in a folder.
- They feed each other. Because they share that foundation, the meeting analyst can update your contacts, your contacts can inform the decision journal, and so on — no copy-pasting between tools.
- Runs on what you have. The intelligence runs on Claude Code (Anthropic's coding tool) using the Claude subscription you already pay for — there are no servers to rent and the ongoing cost is close to nothing.
- A real app on top. A native macOS desktop app sits over all of it, so it feels like proper software, not a pile of scripts.
It's a "hybrid" because it's two things at once: a Claude-native system (the intelligence and the workflows) and standalone software (the local platform and the desktop app).
Why it matters
You own your work life again — all of it, in one place, on your own machine, for almost nothing on top of a subscription you already have. Instead of renting a dozen tools that each hold a fragment of your data and refuse to talk to each other, you run one system where the parts reinforce each other and get more useful the more you use them.
Before AI, building a connected personal platform like this meant either stitching rented services together forever — fragile, endless work — or paying a team to build it. Now one person runs the whole thing locally, and because everything shares one foundation, the meeting analyst feeds the contacts, the contacts feed the decision journal, and the system compounds instead of fragmenting.
- 01Run it locally
The whole system runs on your own computer, on the Claude subscription you already pay for — no servers to rent.
- 02One foundation
Contacts, projects, email, calendar, the meeting analyst, and the decision journal all sit on a single shared data layer.
- 03Pieces talk
Because they share that foundation, each part can use what the others know instead of living in its own silo.
- 04Use the desktop app
A native macOS app sits on top, so it feels like real software rather than a pile of scripts.
- 05Compound
The more you use it, the more each piece has to draw on — so the system gets more useful over time.
The real shift here is ownership plus interoperation at almost no ongoing cost — building a connected personal platform used to mean either gluing rented services together forever or paying a team to build it. Now one person runs the whole thing locally on a subscription they already have, and because everything shares one foundation, it only gets more useful the more it's used.