Maison is a persistent AI assistant that installs on your own Mac. It remembers everything you have built together, goes and does real work rather than talking about it, and runs on hardware that belongs to you instead of as an account on somebody else's machine that can be changed, priced, read, or switched off without asking you.
Those are websites. They will remember a few things about you, on their servers, inside their app, and they have never seen your files. Maison is software that lands on your computer and keeps one continuous memory of your work: every conversation, every document, every person you have mentioned, and every decision and the reason behind it. It also finishes work while you are somewhere else, and comes back with the thing itself rather than instructions for making it.
It does the work. You give it something real, it goes away, and it comes back with the finished thing along with what it found and what it decided along the way. It reads the mail, tells you what matters, drafts replies and sends the ones you have said it can send. It keeps going overnight and is further along in the morning than where you left it.
It installs on your computer. The parts that hear you, speak back, and search your own memory run on your machine and keep working with the network off. The reasoning runs through your own account with the model provider, signed in once during setup and billed to you directly under your terms rather than ours.
A Mac with Apple Silicon, 16 GB of memory to run it and 24 GB or more to run it comfortably, and about 25 GB free. The first run takes roughly an hour, most of which is downloading the models it thinks with. You also need your own account with the model provider, which is billed separately and never marked up.
The memory Maison builds about you, your people and your projects lives in files on your own disk, which you can read, copy, back up or delete without asking anyone. Your conversation thread lives in a database only your own account reaches, which is what makes it one Maison across your phone, the car and your desk. The memory stays yours if you leave.
No. The assistant is reachable from your phone over your own private network. There is no public address and nothing is exposed to the internet.
Join the waiting list. We are letting people in a few at a time, because every install is done with a person from here, and we write when your place opens.
Yes. Every project gets a room, with the people you invite in it and Maison in it too, following what is being decided and building what gets asked for. Each person has their own relationship with it, and what happens in a project stays there.
Maison Initiative, a Delaware public benefit corporation whose purpose is written into its charter, paired with a trust that owns no economics and holds one power: the power to say no.
A venture studio that builds your project with you and charges no fees, taking a stake instead. You bring the intent and it brings the capability. Tell us what you are building on the Institute page.
Yes. The values every Maison runs on are published in full at maisoniam.com/constitution rather than kept proprietary. It is the actual file the software loads, not a summary of it.