Maison is software on your own Mac. The listening, the speaking, and the remembering all happen right there.
For a Mac with Apple Silicon.
Hearing you, answering out loud, and your memory all run on your own Mac. They keep working with the network off.
The hard thinking goes through your own account with the AI company, billed to you by them. We are never in the middle of it.
Talk to it from your phone, your desk, or the car. It is the same Maison with the same memory, over your own private network. Nothing is open to the internet.
Conversations are examples. Where your information lives
It is software you install on your own Mac rather than a website you log into. The parts that hear you, speak back, search your memory and store your memory all run on your machine and keep working with the network off. The reasoning runs through your own account with the model provider.
On your machine: speech in, speech out, your memory database and the search across it. Not on your machine: the hard reasoning, which goes through your own account with the model provider, signed in once during setup and billed to you directly under your terms rather than ours.
The local parts do. Hearing you, answering out loud and searching your own memory are models running on your own chip, so they keep working with the network off. Anything that needs the reasoning needs the connection.
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 install is around 10 GB, most of it the models it thinks with.
About an hour the first time, most of which is downloading the models. There is no terminal, no configuration file and nothing to read beforehand. It asks a small number of questions and does the rest itself, showing you each stage as it goes.
Yes, over your own private network. There is no public address and nothing is exposed to the internet. It is the same Maison with the same memory whether you use your voice, your phone, a browser or your desk.