Every AI assistant today
PROMPT CONTEXT ANSWER

Trace

A privacy-first ambient memory. Trace turns what you see into typed, cited text, on your device and in real time, then destroys the frame. Nothing is recorded, so surveillance is structurally impossible.

The paradigm shift

Same three words. Opposite order.

Today's assistants record and store the world so they can search it later. Trace inverts the pipeline: it perceives first, keeps only the meaning, and throws the raw footage away.

Everyone else: prompt-first

PROMPT → CONTEXT → ANSWER

Capture everything, store the raw audio and video, then search through it when you ask. The footage of your life, and everyone around you, lives on a server, breachable and subpoena-able forever.

retention is the business model

Trace: context-first

CONTEXT → PROMPT → ANSWER

Perceive on the device, convert to typed evidence, discard the frame in milliseconds. When you ask, the answer is drawn from text you already own, never from stored recordings, because there are none.

there is nothing to leak
Two things it cannot do

By architecture, not by promise.

01

It never stores what it sees.

Raw pixels exist for milliseconds and are destroyed. There is nothing to leak, breach, or subpoena. A natural fit for strict EU / German GDPR expectations, because compliance is a property of the design, not a policy you have to trust.

02

It never pretends to know.

Every answer cites the evidence it was built from, or it refuses. Trace is measured on a reproducible benchmark and answers “I don't know” instead of hallucinating.

Q: Where did I leave the drill?
A: On the garage workbench, next to the red toolbox.
· label read: “DEWALT” · when: yesterday 6:12pm
cited · confident
Q: How many unicorns are on the desk?
A: I have never observed a unicorn.
no evidence
How it works

Perceive, don't record.

One pass, entirely on your own device. The raw frame never leaves the phone, and never survives it.

01

On-device perception

Local AI reads the frame. No cloud, no upload.

02

Typed evidence

“desk · black keyboard · label reads DEWALT · 14:32”

03

Frame destroyed

The pixels are discarded in milliseconds.

04

Encrypted memory

Only the text is kept: local, encrypted, never deleted.

05

Ask anything

Cited answers, drawn from evidence you own.

Where we are, honestly

It runs. It cites. It refuses.

  • Working end-to-end prototype: live camera perception to cited answers
  • Runs entirely on local AI models: no cloud, no API keys, no frames kept
  • Honest refusals: says “I don't know” instead of guessing
  • A reproducible benchmark that measures information survival and confident-wrong answers
  • Built solo, on consumer hardware
0%
confident-wrong answers
measured on a reproducible battery: one command, exits red on any violation

Research-grade and improving in the open. Firm counting and a wearable form factor are on the near-term roadmap, and we'll tell you exactly what isn't done yet.

Early access

A memory that keeps the meaning
and deletes the evidence.

Leave an email and we'll invite you to the closed beta. No tracking, no newsletter machine, just an invite when it's ready.

Perfect recall, zero recordings.