Your archive. Private AI. On a Mac you own.

Documents, email, recordings, photos, and AI chat history in one search, answered on the machine, with the page it came from.

BrainBox home view on the demo archive: eleven pages held, local-only policy, model in use, and a list of recently shelved pages

What you get

Knowledge base
Your archive, indexed on your own machine.
Search and chat
One search across every file type. Cited answers.
Feedback loop
Each question and correction is logged locally and feeds a nightly evaluation. The system is measured, not guessed.
Services
Fine-tuning on your material, accuracy work against your own benchmark, model upgrades, and support. See services.
BrainBox search results for the words opening date: a document, an email, and a voice memo in one list, each with its source

Everything you have, one search

Word, PDF, mail exports, recordings, photos, and AI chat exports become pages. One search returns a document, an email, and a recording in one list, each with its source.

BrainBox chat answer to a question about monthly rent, with the passages and pages it came from listed below the answer

Answers you can check

Ask in plain language. The answer quotes the passage and names the page, the model, and the time it took.

Flat illustration of a Mac mini on a desk with its network cable unplugged, and a screen beside it showing an answer

Nothing leaves

The index and the models run on the Mac. Unplug the network cable and it still answers. A cloud model is used only when you set your own key. What we promise.

Set up on a Mac

One command installs the tools, the models, the index, and a login item.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aisoftllc/brainbox/main/install.sh | bash

Flags, profiles, and backup are on the install page. Prefer it installed at your desk? From $7,500. Pricing.

Ask the demo archive

A fictional bakery planning a third shop: a plan, a lease, supplier prices, emails, a voice memo, a photo, and two chat exports. Select a question. Gemma 4 produced the answer on a base M2 MacBook with the network off.

Questions
Answer

Select a question.

Measured, not estimated

Same archive, same 12 questions, two measured machines.

MachineChat modelGen tok/sAnswer s
MacBook / Mac mini M2, 24 GBgemma4:e4b21.431
NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, 64 GBgemma-4-12B QAT15.58

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DIY or white glove.

Install it yourself from the open repository. Or request the white glove service: we set it up at your desk, on a Mac you keep.