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An AI assistant that is
actually yours

HAL lives on your Mac — with a face, a voice, and a memory that grows with you every day. It manages your inbox, organizes your schedule, and remembers what matters so you never start from zero. Your AI. Your machine. Your data.

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macOS first. Your data never leaves your machine. BETA is live with limited spots — zero cost, forever.

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Don't just read about HAL — talk to it. Start a conversation and speak naturally: HAL listens, answers your questions in its own voice, and can help you claim your BETA spot.

HAL is standing by. Tap the mic below and speak naturally — it listens, and answers in its own voice.

Why HAL

Intelligence that works for you — and only you

The AI tools you use today live in someone else's cloud. They forget you between conversations, ship your data to servers you'll never audit, and serve a company's interests before yours. HAL flips that relationship. It is helpful — it drafts your emails, organizes your week, and takes action in your tools. It is your assistant — a colleague with a face, a voice, and a memory that grows. And it is local — it lives on your Mac, answers to no one but you, and never ships your data anywhere. Whether you're running a business, managing a team, or just trying to stay on top of your day — your AI should be yours.

What you get

Not a chat window. A colleague.

A chatbot talks. HAL works — with a presence on your desktop, hands on your real tools, and a memory that compounds. It drafts your emails, organizes your week, and remembers what matters so you don't have to repeat yourself.

A face and a voice

Talk to it like a person. HAL listens, answers aloud, and lives on your desktop as a presence — not a tab you forget about. Ask it to draft an email while you're on a call, or to summarize your day before you log off.

Memory that compounds

Every day it knows you better. Its memory is a vault of plain files on your Mac — readable, editable, and yours forever. It remembers your clients, your preferences, your context, so you never repeat yourself.

Does real work

Email, calendar, files, browsing, your business tools. HAL connects to what you already use and gets things done in it — drafting replies, scheduling meetings, organizing files, and researching so you can focus on what only you can do.

Private by design

Runs on your machine. Telemetry off by default. Your conversations and your memory never touch our servers — we couldn't read them if we wanted to. Your business stays your business.

Born, not installed

First run is a conversation, not a config screen. HAL interviews you — your work, your tools, your priorities — and builds its memory around you. It takes the name you give it. Every HAL is one of one.

A frontier mind, forever

HAL runs on Claude — your own subscription, the best models in the world, always current. We build the body; Anthropic keeps improving the mind. As Claude gets smarter, so does your HAL — no waiting on us to ship an update.

How it works

From download to first conversation in minutes

1

Install

One signed Mac app. No terminal, no developer tools, no fiddling. Download, open, and HAL is ready — minutes, not hours.

2

Connect your Claude

The setup wizard walks you through connecting your Claude account — step by step, even if you've never used it before. Your AI runs on your subscription, at frontier quality, with no middleman.

3

Genesis

HAL wakes up and interviews you — who you are, what you do, how you work. It builds its memory around you and takes the name you give it. From this moment on, it gets more useful every single day.

What you'll need: HAL requires Claude

HAL is the body — the face, the voice, the memory, the desktop presence that does real work in your tools. The mind is Claude, by Anthropic, and you bring your own subscription. That's deliberate: your AI runs on your account, at frontier quality, with no middleman between you and the intelligence. As Claude improves, your HAL gets smarter automatically.

Don't have Claude yet? The setup wizard helps you get it in a few minutes. Claude Pro is $20/month from Anthropic.

BETA is LIVE

Get HAL — zero cost, forever

This is not a waitlist — the BETA is live, and signup starts your setup. The moment you join, your setup email arrives with everything you need: your install instructions, your BETA spot, and a link to book a free 1-1 Google Meet call where we help you set it up. You could be talking to your own HAL today. Completely free, forever — all we ask is that you document your journey on social media. Limited spots, first-come.

No spam, no waiting — your setup email arrives right after you sign up. Zero cost, forever.

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© 2026 HAL — Helpful Assistant & Local. Requires a Claude subscription from Anthropic, sold separately. macOS first — Windows and mobile to follow.