Today's AI makes you faster. We are building the AI that makes you smarter.
Wise is not an artificial mind to replace yours; it is a **sovereign extension of your mind** that works even in airplane mode.
The Paradigm Shift
The AI Butler is a Dead End
Today's tools automate your work. Engelbert augments your mind.
Traditional AI
- Model-Centric: A single, black-box model tries to do everything.
- Cloud-Dependent: Your data is sent to a server, creating privacy risks and vendor lock-in.
- Reactive: Waits for your command and suffers from context amnesia.
- AI-Directed: The AI tells you the answer, potentially creating over-reliance.
Engelbert
- Orchestrator-Centric: A smart kernel selects the best local model or tool for the job.
- Sovereign & Local-First: Your "Second Brain" stays on your device, solving context and memory problems.
- Proactive: The Insight Engine finds connections you missed, without being asked.
- User-Directed Reasoning: Cognitive Lenses let you shape the AI's entire thinking process.
Wise in Action: A Day in the Life
This isn't just a faster workflow. It's a deeper mode of thought.
The Trigger
Sabina, a developer and student, sees a critical bug alert. She uses a "Cognitive Screenshot" gesture.
> [SYSTEM] Gesture detected. Vision model activated. Context saved to Second Brain.
When she opens Wise, it doesn't wait. The Insight Engine greets her with a proactive connection between the new bug and a biology paper from her archives.
The Pivot
The insight is brilliant, but she's drained and hesitates. Wise detects her pause and proactively engages the Reflective Lens 🧘.
> [WISE - Reflective Lens]:
"I sense some hesitation. This feels like a moment of 'All-or-Nothing Thinking,' a common cognitive distortion. Let's reframe this with a Socratic prompt: What's one small part of this problem we can solve right now?"
The Co-Creation
Centered by the Socratic prompt, Sabina feels a creative spark. Wise picks up on this shift.
> [WISE - Proposing Shift]:
"Your focus has shifted. Are you ready to brainstorm a new architecture? I can activate the Muse Lens 🎨 and engage the local diffusion model to help you visualize it."
She replies, "Yes." She begins to sketch, and Wise co-creates the new architecture diagram with her in real-time.
The Execution
With a clear plan, she gives the final voice command: "Okay, execute this." The SageMind Orchestrator analyzes her intent and presents its agentic workflow for approval.
> [ORCHESTRATOR PLAN]:
- Code Agent: Generate patch for
auth.pyusing a local CodeGemma model. - Email Agent: Draft summary for Davin, referencing the biology paper insight.
- GitHub Agent: Authorize connector to open a new Pull Request.
- Calendar Agent: Find 15-min sync slot on shared calendar.
Proceed? (Y/N)
Frustration → Insight → Breakthrough → Execution
From panic to pull-request in four moves—offline.
An Operating System for Thought
Built on three core principles that redefine human-AI collaboration.
Cognitive Sovereignty
Your Second Brain, models, and thoughts never leave your device. This isn't just a feature; it's our foundational promise.
Cognitive Lenses
Go beyond a single model. Switch between Scholar, Muse, and Reflective lenses to shape the AI's entire reasoning process for your specific task.
Agentic Workflows
Engelbert is an orchestrator. It chains tools, automates complex tasks, and executes multi-step plans from a single, natural language intent.
Sovereign by Design, Powerful by Architecture
Engelbert is not magic; it's a deeply considered architecture built for a new paradigm of computing.
The Engelbert Kernel
A local-first, application-level OS that orchestrates agents and tools via a proactive DPES loop.
The Sovereign Second Brain
Your private knowledge base, built on SQLite and LanceDB for structured and semantic memory.
Local Model Orchestration
Intelligently routes tasks to the best local model for the job (e.g., CodeGemma, vision models) via Ollama.
The Future: A New Knowledge Economy
Our long-term vision is the **"Knowledge Refinery"**—a marketplace built on Cognitive Sovereignty where you can choose to contribute your best insights, creating the world's first large-scale dataset of pure, structured human thought to power the next generation of specialized AI.
The Future of Thought is Here.
We have just submitted our V1 MVP for the Google Gemma 3n Challenge. You can now experience the first sovereign thinking partner.
The core app will always be free and open-source. Your data is always yours.