The memory of your life.
Your passions pursued.
Instead of filing dead notes in folders, chanio turns your daily conversations into a living memory on your Mac. It observes where your attention actually returns, remembers what you decided, and keeps you aimed at what matters — for $0.
Own the memory on your Mac. Rent models by the token. Pursue what you love.
A real model downloads into this tab (~430 MB, once). Teach it something. Nothing leaves.
The cloud rents your mind back to you. This runs on what you own.
chanio is the layer underneath: your memory and your model live on your own device, and what gets built on top is meant to belong to the people it serves.
The model runs on your own chip and answers from your own notes. An answer costs $0. A question goes to a bigger cloud model only when you choose to send it.
Ask by iMessage and the answer comes back in the same thread, made on your Mac instead of in someone else’s cloud.
The first business built on it is co-op.care: home care owned by the caregivers who deliver it.
Memory is living. Files are dead.
Save a chat, an idea or a decision with chanio capture, or paste it into the door. No folders, no tags, no digital housekeeping.
An honest mirror. Every night on Apple Silicon, it maps where your attention actually returns across your work.
Not an archive of dead files. A living 6KB memory pack that keeps you aimed at your throughline and primes any AI for pennies.
Own the memory. Rent the models.
Every answer on your Mac is $0, quoted from your own notes. What’s worth sending becomes a short brief — your own key, your own cap, and you press Send.
Free for the everyday. Pennies for the biggest AIs — only when you want them.
Built by Blaine Warkentine, MD — his whole working life runs on it nightly, on his own machine, since July 2026.
Get chanio
One yes, one tap for your device, and it sets itself up.
curl -fsSL https://chanio.com/install.sh | shno account · works with the AI you already use · Mac today, iPhone next
New here? Your first ten minutes, step by step →
Use it right now. Nothing leaves your machine.
All tools →Free right now. Free for the first 100 users.
No card, no trial. We're building this with the people actually using it before we ever charge anyone.
Everything. At night, you paste the day's hard questions into the AI you already use.
Get chanioThe overnight-run version (chanio does the paste for you, automatically) is next. A small group tests it first — it's not for sale, and won't be until it has earned that. Ask to be in that group →