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Section 02Live demo

Whatever you’restaring at—AYO is already in it with you.

Same screen. Same conversation. A friend who’s always already up to speed — in any app, on any tab, in whatever you’re trying to get done.

Desktop

main.ts \u2014 ayo-app

// main.ts

import { fetchUser } from './api'

import { logger } from './logger'

export async function render(id: string) {

const user = await fetchUser(id)

// resolve the profile from cache or remote

const name = user.profile.displayName // line 47

logger.info(`hi ${name}`)

}

theverge.com

theverge.com / why-local-first-ai-is-quietly-winning

The Verge · Feature

Why local-first AI is quietly winning

By M. Patel6 min read

For two years the assumption was simple: the smartest models live in the cloud, and your laptop is a thin client begging them for scraps.

That assumption is starting to look obsolete. A new wave of local-first assistants run entirely on the device — no round trip, no pricing tiers, no telemetry pipe.

They are not as raw as the frontier models, but for the things people actually do all day — summarize this, draft that, fix this — they are already good enough, and they are private by default.

The shift will not be loud. It will look like one app, and then another, quietly stops asking to send your screen to a server you have never heard of.

You mutter at the screen. AYO is already on the bug — line 47, null check, easy fix.

Section 03Eight instincts

Not features.Instincts.Eight of them. Always on.

Hover any card. Watch AYO actually do the thing — not a video, not a screenshot. Real DOM, drawn live from the same tokens that power the app on your machine.

Wake word

“AYO”

cpu · 1%

Screen awareness

inbox · gmail

ocr · on-devicesummarized · not saved

Look at this.

youAYO, what does this mean?

ayo"Honey was found in pyramids." German. Egyptian honey, still edible.

cursor · livelooking at a foreign word

Proactive help

quietly watchingdocs · same paragraph

Agent tasks

ayo · listening

AYO, find a quiet cafe with wifi nearby

Gaming mode

cpu4%

normal · idle

Gaming mode

Workspace

ayo · second braincore featureStarting tourlive

OverviewActivityTasksRemindersOutputsYour Usual

AYO Workspace

A guided tour of your second brain

Six rooms. One quiet system. Watch how AYO actually runs your day — live, in under a minute.

Starting...

Chat & Summarize

On-screen copilot

Just say “AYO, summarize this.”

AYO looks at the window in front of you, writes a clean summary, and opens it as a brand-new chat — titled, ready to keep going.

No copy-paste. AYO uses what is already on your screen.
Auto-titled chat. The summary lives in its own thread you will find later.
Keep going from it. Ask follow-ups, request bullets, or turn it into tasks.

Summarize

Tap a dot to jump, or press play to cycle.

...

Summary

Voice

AYO, summarize this.

AYOjust now

Background

Coastal cities have been adapting since the early 2000s, but mostly piecemeal.

The 2024 IPCC update reframed adaptation as the dominant near-term lever.

Key claims

Resilience spending now outperforms emissions cuts on a 5-year horizon.

The hardest gap isn’t funding — it’s coordination across jurisdictions.

CopyBulletsMake tasks

More to comeShipping every release

Eight is just the surface.

AYO ships small. New instincts land in the app the same week we figure them out — the kind of stuff you only discover the more you use it.

The bigger ones — plugins, mobile, team rooms — are already in motion.

Smart pauseQuick captureVoice modesSnippetsPersona memoryRead aloudSplit chatsSlash commandsCustom hotkeysLive captionsSmart titlesAuto-summarySelection awareWindow memoryFocus modesIdle wakeWhisper modeDaily recapApp profilesQuick answers

In dev

Plugins

A small SDK so AYO can talk to whatever you build.

Coming

Mobile companion

Pocket-sized AYO. Same brain, same chats, in your hand.

On the roadmap

Team rooms

Shared workspaces with shared memory — not shared data.

Want a heads-up the moment one drops?Join the early access

Wondering how all this actually works?

See how AYO thinks

Local-first, every step. Even the parts you don’t see.

// 04 — your side of the line

Everything you do with AYO stays on your side.

AYO listens, watches, and remembers — all on the machine in front of you. When you ask something, your question goes straight to the model. It never stops by us on the way.

your machinehere with you

// scenario · summarizeon your machine

you said

…

inbox · opentoday, 10:42

Maya · Productre: q4 budget approval

Hey — quick read on the Q4 budget thread.

Tom wants sign-off by Friday so finance

can lock the cap at $14k. I pushed back

on the contractor line item, but otherwise

we look good. Could you share the final

draft once it’s ready? Will loop in legal.

~600 words·4 in thread

ayo answered

…

{ask:"summarize the email open in front of me"}

direct to the model · AYO never sees it

not in our logs · not in transit through us

the modelout there

your machinehere with you

// scenario · summarizeon your machine

you said

…

inbox · opentoday, 10:42

Maya · Productre: q4 budget approval

Hey — quick read on the Q4 budget thread.

Tom wants sign-off by Friday so finance

can lock the cap at $14k. I pushed back

on the contractor line item, but otherwise

we look good. Could you share the final

draft once it’s ready? Will loop in legal.

~600 words·4 in thread

ayo answered

…

{ask:"summarize the email open in front of me"}

direct to the model

AYO never sees it

the modelout there

That's the whole loop. Your machine asks. The model answers. We're not in the middle of it — and we don't have a copy when it's done.

signed in

you

memory intact

// 01

Your memory is yours.

Sign out. Sign back in. Switch to a whole new account. AYO still knows what it knew — because it never lived anywhere else.

ayo / logs0 entries

———————

// 02

Your questions aren't in our logs.

Your questions go straight from your machine to the model. They don't pass through us, they don't land in our logs, and we couldn't read them back if we tried. The only people in the conversation are you and the model.

the model

memory of you · 0

// 03

The model doesn't remember you.

Each question travels alone. The model answers and forgets. Tomorrow it has no idea you ever asked.

// next — the four promises behind it

// you, mapped — not memorized

Yours to shape.

A living map of everything AYO knows about you. Bright purple is what’s on its mind right now. Soft blue is what it knows long-term. Out at the edge, the things it’s quietly letting go of — and you decide what stays.

lives on your device · clear it any time

Lore Webayo’s memory space

signed by ayo

// system requirements

Will it run on your PC?

The cloud does the heavy AI work, so the bar stays low. If your machine can run a browser comfortably, it can run AYO.

AYO minimum and recommended system requirements
Spec	Minimum	Recommended
OS	Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit	Windows 11, 64-bit
CPU	4-core, AVX2 support e.g. Intel i3-8100, Ryzen 3 2200G	6–8 core, 3 GHz+ e.g. Intel i5-12400, Ryzen 5 5600
RAM	8 GB	16 GB
GPU	Integrated graphics e.g. Intel UHD 620, Iris Xe, AMD Vega	Dedicated, 2 GB+ VRAM e.g. GTX 1650, RTX 3050, Iris Xe MAX
Storage	2 GB free SSD	5 GB free SSD
Internet	5 / 2 Mbps	25 / 10 Mbps
Microphone	Any working mic In a noisy room AYO may miss the wake word, or mishear what you said.	Quiet directional mic or headset Wakes on the first try and catches every word clearly.

// typical resource use

What it actually feels like, by the second.

Estimated load on a recommended-spec machine. Most of the day AYO sits in idle — the spikes are the moments you talk to it.

Idle

App minimized, just listening for "AYO."

CPU~2–4% of one core
RAM~350–550 MB
Network< 5 Kbps

One voice turn

You ask, AYO transcribes, thinks, replies out loud.

CPU8–15% spike (~1.5 s)
RAM+30–60 MB transient
Network~150–700 KB per turn

Heavy session

Mind map open, screen-summary, multi-step task running.

CPU25–45% across cores
RAM1.0–1.6 GB
Network1–3 MB burst

Engineering estimates from the current build — final numbers will be re-benchmarked at launch.

Specs are guidance, not a guarantee — see Terms §15

early access

Founders pricing — locked in for life.

Only the first 2,000 lock the lifetime thank-you discount. See the plans, pick yours, and we’ll never raise the price on you.

Claim your spot

// frequently asked

Questions about AYO

Everything people ask before they hit the early-access button. Made by AYOLAB.

What is AYO?

AYO is a private desktop AI companion by AYOLAB. It lives quietly on your PC, wakes up when you say "AYO," sees your screen with permission, hears the tone in your voice, and runs real tasks for you. Think of it as a best friend who already knows what you are working on.

How is AYO different from Copilot, ChatGPT Desktop, or Claude Desktop?

AYO is ambient, not modal. You do not open a tab and re-explain context — AYO is already listening, already caught up. It is also local-first: screenshots are never saved, audio is never stored, and only the question you deliberately send leaves your machine. Most other assistants are a cloud chat with a desktop wrapper. AYO is a real desktop companion.

Does AYO work offline?

The wake word, speech-to-text, screen reading, and emotion detection all run locally on your machine — those work offline. The reasoning step uses an LLM that can be self-hosted via Ollama (fully offline) or routed to a cloud model. Your raw context never leaves your machine either way.

Is my data safe with AYO?

Four promises, no exceptions: no screenshots saved, no audio saved, no raw text saved, and only short summaries are stored — on your machine — which you can delete anytime. The only thing that ever reaches AYOLAB servers is the question you deliberately send.

What does AYO cost?

AYO is in early access — free to join the waitlist at heyayo.com. Founders pricing will be locked in for life for the first signups. No public pricing or download yet.

Which operating systems does AYO support?

AYO is built for Windows, macOS, and Linux desktops. Early-access builds roll out per-OS as they pass internal QA.

Can I turn off proactive help in AYO?

Yes. Proactive help is on by default but fully toggleable in settings. You can also tune sensitivity (how stuck you have to look before AYO speaks first) and silence it entirely in gaming mode.

How do I get AYO early access?

Visit heyayo.com, drop your email on the early-access card, and you will get a position number. AYOLAB emails you when your build is ready — early signups also get a wake-word model trained to your own voice.