The domain writes it as one word and people say it as three. All of the spellings point at the same system and the same company, so if you arrived here having typed any of them, you are in the right place.
Which is the whole idea rather than a decoration on it. A house you own, holding a mind that is yours, that knows your people and keeps what happened between you. It is a common enough word that other companies use it too, and none of them are this one.
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. It makes one product, the software described on this page, and it publishes the values that software runs under in full.
Not one conversation. Every conversation, every person you have mentioned, every decision and the reason behind it. You never introduce yourself twice, and you never re-explain the project you have been describing for a month.
It reads and writes files, reads and drafts your mail, runs code, and builds and ships software. Give it something real and what comes back is the thing itself, along with what it found and what it decided on the way.
From your phone, your desk, or the car. The speech goes to your own machine and the voice that comes back is generated there too. No prompt engineering and no course to take. Say what you need in your own words.
The parts that hear you, speak back, and search your own memory run on your own chip and keep working with the network off. Your memory is a database on your disk. There is no public address and nothing is exposed to the internet.
If something is going to hold your memory and act on your behalf, who owns it matters as much as what it does. So the structure is public and so are the rules it runs under.
A Delaware public benefit corporation. The purpose is written into the charter rather than into a values page, which means it is a legal obligation instead of an intention.
It holds no economics and one power, the power to say no. A safeguard is only a safeguard if it has nothing to lose by using it.
The values every Maison runs on, published in full rather than kept proprietary. You can read the actual file the software loads, which is the part that makes it checkable.
Each of these is a page rather than a paragraph, because the questions people actually ask deserve a real answer instead of a line in a table.
One continuous memory of your work, kept on your disk. Why a memory held on someone else's server is not the same as one that knows what you do, and what it costs to change that.
Deliverables rather than answers. What it can touch, how it runs overnight, and what it will never send without you.
It reads what comes in, tells you what matters, and drafts what needs a reply. What it sends, and what it will not.
Speech in and speech out, generated on your own machine. From the car, the kitchen, or your desk, with the same memory behind it.
The job description, and where the analogy stops being flattering and starts being accurate.
What runs locally, what does not, and exactly what the machine needs. Apple Silicon, 16 GB, about an hour.
No training on your data, no public address, and a plain account of the part that does leave your machine.
The subscription, the Anthropic bill and the machine it lands on, added up honestly rather than quoted as one number.
Four differences that follow from one, including the cases where ChatGPT is the better answer.
The things that are too big for a chat window and too small to hire for. Handing over the inbox. Getting the document written rather than outlined. Chasing what you promised in a meeting last week. Building the internal tool nobody has had a spare fortnight for. The test is whether it comes back with the finished thing, and it does.
Maison is the French word for home, and it is the idea rather than a decoration on it: a house you own, holding a mind that is yours, that knows your people and keeps what happened between you. It is a common enough word that other companies use it too, and none of them are this one.
No. A chatbot is a conversation that ends. Maison is software running on your machine with a memory that does not end, permission to act on files, mail and code, and a voice you can talk to. The chat window is one of the doors into it, not the thing itself.
Both, and they are named the same. The product is the software described here. The company is Maison Collective, 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.
No. There is no terminal, no configuration file and nothing to read beforehand. Setup asks you a small number of questions and does the rest itself, and you speak to it afterwards in your own words rather than in a way you had to learn.
You ask, and a person from here writes back, usually the same day. It is early enough that every install gets a real person for as long as the setup takes, which is about an hour on a Mac with Apple Silicon.