Private AI companion for Windows
Your companion.
Your name.
Your voice.
On Windows.
It lives on your own Windows machine, not another browser tab — you give it a name and a voice from the gallery below. Connect the AI brain you already trust — Claude, OpenAI or Gemini, through your own account — or run one fully locally with Ollama, and that conversation never leaves your computer at all. Either way, it's still the one you named.
Windows · Free in early access · Bring your own AI · Local Ollama supported · No AI model runs on this website.
The actual app. Not a mockup — this is the build you install.
The helloim.ai windowThis screenshot is built into the page, so if it is missing the page itself is damaged. Ask for access and see the real thing.
Scripted preview
Try the companion before you install it.
This is a script, not a model — a canned exchange, and a re-skin panel beside it so you can see how a theme and a voice change what you're looking at. Nothing on this page calls out to anything.
Do I need my own AI account?
Not necessarily. Connect your own Claude, OpenAI or Gemini account and it runs on that. Prefer to keep everything in-house? Point it at a local model on your own machine instead.
Voice: Bella — warm, direct, no drama.
Theme
Voice
Voice clips are recorded, not spoken live — coming soon. Picking one here only changes the label above, honestly.
Scripted preview — no AI model runs on this site.
What it is
A crew, not a chatbot.
You name it. It reads the folder you point it at, does real work in it, and tells you what it did. Nothing is migrated, nothing is synced, and we never get a copy of your folder.
On your files
It opens the folder you choose and works there. What it reads goes to the brain you connect, under your own account — or nowhere but this machine, when that brain is a local model. Nothing is copied to us.
On the brain you choose
The thinking runs on the AI you connect — Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, or a local model — through your own account, not ours. That is the honest trade, and it is why you see what every step cost; with a local model it costs nothing at all.
You watch it
Every file it opens in your folder and every command it runs appears as it happens, in plain words rather than as a wall of shell.
Available today
Give it a face.
Pick a look from the gallery of visual identities, give it the name you chose, and that becomes the thing you talk to. It is a face on a window on your own machine — not a brand we hand you, not a character you are stuck with. Change it whenever the mood does.
Now previewing: Bella.
The faces galleryGallery screenshot — coming soon. This box is a placeholder on purpose, not a broken image — the ten cards below it are already accurate: real names, real voice pairings, real colours.
Bella
Warm dark, mint accent, the circle.
Voice: Bella — warm, direct, no drama.
“Tell me what you’re working on, and I’ll get started.”
Voice clip — coming soon
Atlas
A circuit field, cyan and gold.
Voice: Lewis — measured, keeps things moving.
“Here’s where things stand, and what’s next.”
Voice clip — coming soon
Nova
Luminous particles, always breathing.
Voice: Nova — soft-spoken, a little wondering.
“Let’s see what’s actually going on here.”
Voice clip — coming soon
Blitz
Stadium LED wall, hard right angles.
Voice: Adam — fast, upbeat, keeps score.
“Locked in — let’s move.”
Voice clip — coming soon
Capcom
Mission control telemetry, amber trace.
Voice: Michael — procedural, calm under pressure.
“Copy that. Running the checklist now.”
Voice clip — coming soon
Cyclops
One unblinking eye. Menace from restraint.
Voice: Fenrir — terse, watchful.
“Seen. Handled.”
Voice clip — coming soon
Koan
Raked sand, brushed enso. The calm one.
Voice: Alice — unhurried, few words.
“One thing at a time.”
Voice clip — coming soon
Noir
Rain on the window, a curl of smoke.
Voice: Onyx — dry, a little world-weary.
“Long one tonight. Let’s get through it.”
Voice clip — coming soon
Neo
Glyph rain down a phosphor terminal.
Voice: Puck — clipped, technical.
“Compiling the answer now.”
Voice clip — coming soon
Vector
Neon grid, running to a chrome sun.
Voice: Nicole — bright, forward-leaning.
“Onward — what are we chasing today?”
Voice clip — coming soon
Free, forever
Pick the brain. Know where it runs.
Connect your own Claude, OpenAI or Gemini account — sign in, or paste your own API key — and it thinks on that provider's servers, under your account, at your usage limits: the same trade as using their own app, just from inside your folder. Or point it at a model already running on this machine through Ollama, and that conversation never reaches a server at all — it stays on this computer. Switch whenever you like; the folder, the skills and the name stay the same. Brain choice, and running fully local and private, are free on every plan — that never moves behind a paywall.
Each brain earns its own green light — it counts as connected only once a real request comes back answered. Some local models are lighter than others, so that green light is the honest test of whether yours can finish the job.
The brain pickerThis screenshot is built into the page, so if it is missing the page itself is damaged. Ask for access and see the real thing.
How it fits together
What's actually running.
Five real pieces, not a marketing diagram — this is what the installer puts on your machine and what each part is responsible for.
Your folder
The one you point it at. Nothing is copied out of it or migrated anywhere else.
The companion window
Your name, your voice, your theme — the window on your desktop you actually talk to.
The brain you chose
Claude, OpenAI or Gemini under your own account, or a local Ollama model on this machine. This is the only part that ever leaves your computer, and only if you picked a cloud brain.
Applications
About twenty-one connectors it can reach only once you sign in to each one yourself.
Skills & memory
What it learns comes back as plain text in your own folder — not a database kept for us.
This is the shape it ships in today, not a plan for one — see it above in the scripted preview, or the FAQ below for the fine print.
Connect what you already use
Sign in as yourself.
Press Connect, your own browser opens, you sign in to your own account. No API key to hunt for in a settings page, no middleman holding your logins, and no subscription to anybody but the people you already pay.
All of them live in one place — Settings → Applications — about twenty-one to choose from.
The Applications panelThis screenshot is built into the page, so if it is missing the page itself is damaged. Ask for access and see the real thing.
Twenty-one services, each one run by the company whose name is on it. See them all →
Available today
They can debate it, too.
Connect more than one brain — Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter, a local model, any mix you like — and the AI Boardroom puts the same question to all of them at once. Every connected brain answers on its own, then your primary brain reads every answer and writes one recommendation, so you see where they agreed and where they split instead of a single voice papering over the disagreement.
Needs at least two connected brains to convene. Turn on Air-gap and the whole room — every seat — is restricted to offline models only.
Teach it once
It learns your way of working.
Tell it how you like something done and it remembers — a skill is a name, when to use it, and what to do. Write your own, start from an example, or import one somebody else has published.
The Skills panelThis screenshot is built into the page, so if it is missing the page itself is damaged. Ask for access and see the real thing.
Available today · Beta
It can act — one step at a time, with your say-so.
Safe agency stays off until you switch it on. When you do, it works one action at a time and asks first, every time: open this app, follow this link, jump to this Windows settings page. You see the exact step and you approve it, or you don't. Nothing runs on its own, and nothing runs twice without you.
It is early, so it is marked beta and built to move slowly on purpose. The point is not that it takes the wheel — it is that you never leave the chair.
The one-step confirmThis screenshot is built into the page, so if it is missing the page itself is damaged. Ask for access and see the real thing.
Tested, not assumed
Green has to be earned.
You have had a green light lie to you: it meant a password was saved, not that anything worked, and you found out in the middle of something that mattered. Nothing here turns green until something actually answered.
Where we differ
The parts other tools charge for.
No names here, because this is not about anyone in particular — it is the shape of the category. Every row is something we read on a live pricing page rather than something we assumed.
| helloim.ai | The usual arrangement | |
|---|---|---|
| Price today | Free. No trial clock, no card. | $90 to $170 a month, after a three-day trial that wants a payment method. |
| Using your own AI account | Bring your own Claude, OpenAI or Gemini — or run a local model and use no cloud account at all. We charge nothing either way. | There is a tier for that. It is still over a hundred dollars a month. |
| How many assistants | As many as you like. | Nine on one tier, nineteen on the next. The cap is the ladder. |
| Running out | Your own account’s limits — or none at all, with a local model — and we never sit between you and them. | A usage cap that resets on a timer, and an upgrade when you keep hitting it. |
| Where it runs | On your machine. Run a private local model and nothing leaves it, or connect your own Claude, OpenAI or Gemini account. | In their cloud. Local is still “announced”. |
| Its memory | Plain text in your folder. Read it, edit it, delete a line and it is forgotten. | A database you cannot open. |
| Connections | Your own login, tested for real, with a green light that has to be earned. | Connected or not connected, and a saved password counts. |
| If you leave | Everything stays where it already was. | An export request. |
The app is free right now.
It is in invite-only early access — no card, nothing to buy. These are the plans for when it opens up, so you can see exactly where it is going before you are ever asked for anything.
Free
$0 · no card
It talks and listens.
- All ten faces and every voice
- Hands-free or push-to-talk
- Your own brain — Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, or a local model that never leaves your machine
- Fully private, local mode
- A first-run wizard and connection lights that only go green once something really answered
- Basic Safe Agency — it can open an app or a link, and asks you first every time
Pro
$9 /month
It acts.
- Everything in Free
- Full Safe Agency — open apps, follow links, jump into the right Windows setting, always with your say-so and one step at a time
- Early access to new faces
- Priority support
- Coming to Pro: your assistant and its memory synced across your devices, automations, file search, and a longer memory.
Not for sale yet — free for you while it is in early access.
Team
$29 /user a month · 3 seats and up
Everyone acts.
- Everything in Pro, per seat
- Coming / custom: an embeddable widget, white-label, single sign-on with an audit log, and a self-hosted option.
Not open yet — talk to us if a team is what you need.
You are an early tester, so you are on all of this for free while we are in early access — and nothing from us starts costing money without us telling you first.
Questions
Frequently asked.
Do I need my own AI account?
Not necessarily. Connect your own Claude, OpenAI or Gemini account and it runs on that — your prompts go out under your name and your limits, which is why we can show you what each turn actually cost. Prefer to keep everything in-house? Point it at a local model on your own machine and you need no paid cloud account at all.
Which computers does it run on?
Windows today. The installer brings everything with it — you do not need to install a runtime, a package manager or anything else first.
Where does my data go?
Your folder stays on your machine and we never get a copy of it. If you connect a cloud brain, what travels is your request plus the contents of any file the crew has to read to answer it — to that provider, through your own account, the same as if you had pasted them there yourself. If you run a local model, nothing leaves your machine at all. Keys you paste are stored in Windows’ own credential manager, never in a file we write.
Can it do things on my computer?
Only if you turn that on, and only one step at a time. Safe agency is off by default. When it is on, it asks before every action — open an app, follow a link, jump to a Windows settings page — and waits for you to approve that exact step. It is in beta, and it never runs on its own.
What does it cost?
The app is free while it is in early access. Whichever brain you connect, you pay that provider directly for your own usage — Anthropic, OpenAI or Google — and that bill is yours, not ours. Run a local model and there is no usage bill at all.
What happens if I stop using it?
Nothing of yours moves. The folder it worked in is still your folder, and what it remembered is plain text sitting in it.
While it's working
It doesn't go quiet when it's busy.
This is the board your install actually draws — not a recording, not a mockup. Pale and slow at rest, brighter and faster the moment it is listening, thinking or replying, cyan for what's arriving and gold for what's leaving. The chip in the middle carries whatever you end up calling it.
The live boardThis panel is drawn by the same file your install runs. If you are seeing this instead of it, either scripting is off or the panel could not start — nothing about the product itself is broken.
Watching: idle.
Named “Atlas” here only as an example — yours starts blank, and naming it comes first.
Name yours.
The first thing it asks you is what to call it. Then which AI brain to connect and which folder to work in — three small answers and it is set up. That name becomes the word that wakes it: with the app open, you say it and it listens. Not an account with us — a thing on your own machine, working in your own folder, answering to a word you chose. Early access opens in batches; leave an email and we’ll write when it’s your turn.
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