Your computer has apps.
It's time it had a companion.

Meet Zeno Your local-first AI desktop companion.

Zeno is a local-first AI desktop companion with a living 3D character, persistent memory, and a knowledge graph — not another browser chatbot. Chat, voice, tasks, and automation from your system tray while your data stays on your machine.

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Meet Rover — your 3D desktop companion

A desktop pet AI in your system tray with Quick Access chat, tasks, and personality. Click, scroll, and explore every animation — the same Rover model from the app.

This PC
Zeno
File Explorer

Your desktop — Rover lives in the tray. Click him to interact.

💬 Quick Access
Try clicking Rover below!
Tasks
Pet Rover
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4:24 PM

Every day, your information is scattered.

Chrome
Notion
Slack
Downloads
Clipboard
VS Code
PDFs
Calendar
Email
Photos
Tasks
Messages

Chaos.

Zeno.

Meetings, code, notes, and tasks — linked in one personal knowledge graph. One private AI assistant that sees your whole digital life.

Your AI second brain

Not folders. Not a notes app. Episodic memory and a personal knowledge graph — every interaction becomes context the more you use Zeno.

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Voice & natural conversation

A voice-controlled AI assistant with memory — no commands, no syntax. Just talk from Quick Access or the tray.

"Hey Zeno."
*looks up from tray*
"What did I work on last week?"
"You spent most of your time building the Memory Engine — 14 hours across 6 sessions. Want me to show the timeline?"
"Show me."
"Opening your project graph now."

Voice + conversation demo

Everything is connected.

Hover or click any node — Zeno traces how meetings, code, photos, tasks, and more link into one knowledge graph.

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🧠 Your Brain

Hover a bubble to see what Zeno connects.
Click to lock and explore the graph.

The brain never stops.

From morning to evening, Zeno quietly organizes your work into a living knowledge graph — a proactive AI assistant that surfaces your daily brief and learning timeline.

☀️ Morning

Daily brief, priorities surfaced

📅 Meeting

Notes captured, tasks extracted

💻 Code

Project context linked

📋 Clipboard

Snippets remembered

📷 Photo

Visual memory indexed

🌐 Browser

Research connected to projects

📄 Document

PDFs ingested into graph

🌙 Evening

Brain organizes everything overnight

Privacy-first. Local by default.

Run AI locally with Ollama, keep memory on-device, or bring your own API keys. Your data stays on your machine — cloud is optional, not required.

Offline AI Local Memory Semantic Search BYOK Cloud Your Data Your Choice

What can Zeno do?

An AI task assistant for desktop — voice, documents, clipboard, and local workflow automation in one tray app.

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Voice

Hands-free chat from the tray

Tasks

Capture and complete from context

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Documents

PDF ingest into your brain

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Trading

Domain packs & workflows

📷

Photos

Visual memory in the graph

📋

Clipboard

AI clipboard manager

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Projects

Living project context

Automation

Local workflow skills

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Memory

Second brain & RAG

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Browser

Research linked to work

Choose your 3D companion

One brain. Any character. A desktop character AI you can make yours — dog, robot, anime, or custom.

Marketplace

An ecosystem that grows with you.

🔌 Plugins

Extend what Zeno can do

🎨 Themes

Make your companion unique

🗣️ Voices

Personality packs for TTS

🐾 Characters

New companions to adopt

🧠 Memory Packs

Domain-specific knowledge

⚡ Automation Packs

Workflow templates

Open source. Built for developers.

Self-hosted local LLM desktop app — Tauri + Rust, MCP tools, Ollama, and plugins. Extend Zeno like you extend your editor.

MCP Ollama Tauri Rust Plugins API
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Where we're going

Living Companion

3D character, Quick Access, voice, chat, system skills. Shipped.

Second Brain

Knowledge graph, episodic memory, context engine, learning timeline.

Digital Employee

Proactive automation, document ingest, multimodal sources, integrations.

Life Companion

Habits, health, relationships, your complete digital life story.

Simple pricing

Open Source

Free

Self-hosted AI companion. No subscription. Local data. Full control.

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Cloud Beta

Free

Sync, premium models via BYOK, early access. Limited spots.

Join Beta

Join the journey

Be among the first to live with a private AI assistant on your desktop.

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Frequently asked

What is a local-first AI desktop companion?

An AI that lives on your computer — system tray, Quick Access, voice — with persistent memory on your machine. Zeno combines chat, tasks, and a knowledge graph second brain instead of a disposable browser tab.

Is Zeno a private AI assistant?

Yes. Memory, embeddings, and search default to local SQLite. Run models with Ollama offline, self-host the open-source build, or bring your own cloud API keys. Sync is optional.

How is Zeno different from ChatGPT or Jan.ai?

ChatGPT is cloud-first chat. Jan.ai is a strong local LLM UI. Zeno adds a 3D companion, episodic memory, a connected knowledge graph, and desktop automation — see comparisons.

Does Zeno work with Ollama?

Yes. Ollama is a first-class option alongside bundled local models and BYOK cloud providers — ideal for developers who want a desktop AI that remembers projects.