Every AI assistant has the same quiet flaw: it forgets everything the moment you close the window. You open it again tomorrow, and it has no idea what you've been working on. It doesn't know that the client email came in Thursday, that your team is blocked on a project, or that you've been chasing that same invoice for three weeks.
OpenHuman is trying to fix that.
It sits on your computer and — every 20 minutes, automatically — pulls in updates from over 100 tools: your email, your Slack, your calendar, your project boards. It builds a running picture of your work and stores it entirely on your machine. No corporate cloud. No one else's server. Just your computer, quietly taking notes.
When you ask it something, it already has context. It knows your week. That's a genuinely different experience.
There's also a small detail worth knowing: it's smart about which AI model it uses for which question. Quick task? Cheap model. Something that needs real thinking? It routes it to a better one. This alone can cut AI costs significantly.
It's early software — rough in places — but the idea is sound. An AI that reads your actual work life, privately, and remembers it.
If you're juggling five tools a day and feel like your AI assistant is always starting cold, this is worth watching.
Local-first — the data stays on your machine, not in someone else's cloud. You own it, full stop.
Context — what the AI knows about you before you ask a question. More context usually means better answers.
Model routing — automatically choosing a cheaper or more powerful AI depending on the task, like picking a bicycle for a short trip or a car for a long one.
Open-source — the code is public and free to inspect. Anyone can see how it works, which tends to make privacy claims more trustworthy.