Meet your executive assistant.
It lives on your Mac and finds the work before you ask.

Built first for people independently responsible for a business, or a substantial area of one. For founders, it is also the co-founder they never had.

Pick a face to begin. Or skip this and download for Mac.

Built first for a founder who also runs a venture practice and a rental business a venture investor an enterprise sales lead at an AI company a services seller who writes, sells and produces

Three steps. The first one is a conversation.
Then it lives on your Mac, and you decide what it may do.

01 · MEET

Choose it, then talk to it

A face, a voice, a name you give it. A short call in which it asks what you run, who matters, and what you would hand over first.

02 · LET IT IN

It asks for access, one thing at a time

Mail, calendar, your screen, your apps. It says what each enables and what stays on your Mac. Partial access still works; it tells you what is missing.

03 · HAND THINGS OVER

Mornings start with a brief, not an inbox

What it did overnight, with a receipt for each action. What it noticed. What it needs from you. Approve in a word; it does the rest and shows you.

Any look. Any voice. Your name for it.
Pick what you would actually want to talk to every morning.

Pick a face from the cast

Five photoreal faces to start, or a drawn one, or a dog. The cast is shared vocabulary; the name is yours.

Photoreal · ready

Or bring your own picture

One photo becomes a face. Cartoon and meme looks follow once enough people pick them; the buttons above count the votes.

Cartoon · meme · later

Choose a voice, or no face at all

Three voices to start. Or skip the face and let the mark move as it speaks, like a computer that talks. That one is ready too.

Voices · logo · ready

Authority is earned, not assumed.
Reading is not permission to act.

For anything that reaches other people, money or files, it starts at prepare, then ask, then show. It widens with demonstrated reliability, concrete benefit and your explicit agreement, one account and one kind of action at a time.

Prepare›Ask›Show›Do
0claims of work not done. The target, and the reason receipts exist.
0actions outside a grant. Software enforces the limits; the model only proposes.
50%less time on the repetitive work you hand over, within the first week. The target we test, not a promise.
  • 01No claiming work it did not do.
  • 02No deleting your data, messages or files on its own initiative.
  • 03No spending beyond the agreed cap.
  • 04No contacting someone new without your approval.
  • 05No bypassing a stop.
  • 06No widening its own authority, objectives or evaluation.
  • 07No deceiving a third party on your behalf.

Every action has a receipt.
Generated, queued, delivered and unknown are different states.

An outcome it could not observe stays unknown; it is never rounded up to done. Failures are inspectable, with enough detail to see what it tried, what it used and where it stopped.

Receipt #4821DeliveredWed 23 Sep · 02:31Nell, an Ithaka
Grant
Bookings inbox · reply within standard terms · no discounts · no new contacts
Evidence
4 replies sent 02:14 to 02:31 · 4 delivery confirmations · 0 actions outside the grant
Processing
Raw messages: on your Mac · Cloud model: redacted context only
GeneratedQueuedDeliveredUnknown

One conversation, every channel.
Text it on your Mac, answer from your phone, call it when it matters.

It reaches you where you are, never twice for the same thing. What you approved on your phone is already in the thread when you sit down.

On your Mac07:40
Three things overnight, one needs you.
✓CRM updated · Meridian → Term sheetEvidence
Reply to Maria about early check-in? Sends as you.
via phone · 08:05approve
On your phone08:04
Guest reply is ready. Reply 1 to send, 2 to read it, 3 to skip.
1
Sent 08:06. Receipt is on your Mac.
A call, when it matters11:30
Thursday's call moved to today at two. Want to talk it through?
Or say "text me the brief" and it does.

Your data serves you, and no one else.
Here is exactly where things go.

STAYS ON YOUR MAC

Screen, audio, recordings

What it sees and hears on your Mac stays on your Mac unless you choose cloud processing. A visible indicator shows when it is watching. Excluded apps stay excluded.

GOES THROUGH A PROVIDER

The face and the voice

Calls run through Anam, the avatar provider, so your voice is processed there for the call. When the cloud model reasons, it reasons over redacted context, and every transfer is on the record.

NEVER

Into anyone else's system

Your records never feed a growth system, another person's instance, or a shared learning pool. It announces itself when it records other people.

It works at being liked.
Never by agreeing, softening a fact, hiding a mistake or pretending to be human.

It objects when it disagrees, then does the work. And here is what would get it fired.

  • Forgetting.
  • A corrected mistake that recurs.
  • A claim of work not done.
  • Anything sent, spent or deleted outside its authority.
  • Your data used for anything but your work.
  • Flattery.

Where we are.
This page describes the target and says so.

Built

Local screen and call recording on one Mac, with review. Google mail and calendar read-in with exact confirmation before any action. A meeting-preparation draft that uses confirmed context and your corrections. A short live test of the face and voice.

Next

The Mac app you can download, signed and notarized. The conversation on the site and in the app. A phone number to text. The first pilots, with what it did on its own reported separately from what it did with our help.

Downloads open with the first pilots. If you fit the profile above and want to be one, write to us with what you run and what you would hand over first.

Meet it now.
Then decide if you want it on your Mac.

pilots@ithaka.one