Claude is very good, and for a lot of work it is all you need. Maison lives on a computer you own, remembers your work, and keeps doing it after you close the window.
Plenty of people use both.
Careful answers to hard questions, on any device, with nothing to install. It can even work beside you in a folder of code.
One memory of your work on your own computer, and the ability to go and do the job while you are somewhere else.
Every person, decision, and reason, on your own disk. When a better AI comes out, the memory stays.
It works with your files, sends the mail you have okayed, follows up on schedule, and keeps going overnight. Talk to it out loud, even from the car.
Conversations are examples.
Claude is a conversation with a model, and a very good one. Maison is software that installs on a machine you own, keeps one continuous memory of your work, and goes and does the job while you are somewhere else. The difference is not how well either one thinks. It is what survives closing the window.
For some of what people use it for, yes, and plenty of people keep both. What Maison replaces is not the conversation. It is the re-explaining before it, the copying out afterwards, and the work you were going to go and do yourself once the answer arrived.
When you want it now, on any device, with nothing to install, and when the work fits inside a single conversation. Maison is by waiting list, needs a Mac with Apple Silicon, and takes about an hour the first time. That is a real difference and it points one way.
It keeps every conversation, person and decision in a database on your own disk rather than a few facts on a server. It has a machine of its own to act on, so it reads and writes files, sends the mail you have authorized, runs code and keeps going overnight. You can talk to it out loud from the car, and the speech in and out is generated locally.
Nothing you have to do. The memory sits beside the model rather than inside it, so it survives changing the model underneath. You keep the relationship and the reasoning gets better.
Not for everybody, and we would rather say so. If you open it, do a thing and close it, the memory and the hands are solving a problem you do not have. It is worth it when re-explaining costs more than the answer saves, and when the deliverable matters more than the description.