Manifesto

The thesis

The next AI moat isn't intelligence. It's personal context.
People won't choose the smartest AI. They'll choose the AI that knows them.
Omi is the most personal AI

What's broken

Today's AI is a vending machine: prompt → answer → forget.
Real progress needs continuity: memory, goals, patterns, follow-through.
Advice doesn't change behavior. Timing + context does.

What Omi is

Omi is your personal AI mentor
It learns your life from what you say, do, and work on.
It doesn't just answer. It nudges.
It doesn't just remember. It pushes.
It doesn't just help. It keeps you honest.

The belief

Personal context beats raw IQ.
A smaller model with your history beats a bigger model with none.
The killer feature isn't chat. It's proactivity.

The mission

Make humans 1,000× more productive.

How we win

By collecting ALL data about the user
To achieve it, we commit to privacy and open-source
Use the data to give the maximum personalization

Roadmap

Phase 1 — Desktop software (now)

Start where your life already happens: your computer.
Capture the three signals that matter:
- Meetings (what you said)
- Files (who you are)
- Screen (what you're actually doing)
Give back what people crave:
- "Here's what you should do today."
- "Here's how you should do it"
- "Here is what I noticed"
Success isn't "Omi is smart."
Success is: "Omi knows me."

Milestone before next phase: 200k software users — this milestone will make us self-sustainable (~$100k MRR) and will prove that the product is useful enough to grow organically

Phase 2 — Necklace (offline life)

Work isn't your whole life. Conversations are.
Capture the world AI never sees: real life.
Turn talk into outcomes: tasks, follow-ups, coaching.

Milestone: 100k necklaces before moving next. This will prove a PMF and make it self-sustainable. Most likely we will kill the necklace after glasses are launched.

Phase 3 — Glasses (real-time)

Eyes beat ears for context by 10x
AI sees what you see. Understand what you're doing as it happens.
The jump: from "helpful" to situationally aware.

Milestone: 1M glasses before moving next. This will prove a PMF and make it self-sustainable. Glasses are a great formfactor cuz ~3B people already wear glasses

Phase 4 — Brain (intent)

The final unlock is intent before action.
Start with silent speech.
Then brain signals non-invasive.
Go invasive only when society is ready.

Milestone: 7 billion devices. Our mission is to make ALL humans 1000x more productive. We will connect all humans into a single network/metaverse. At first, it will be in the glasses but eventually the screen will be ditched

Why now

Models are commoditizing.
Context is the new moat.
The winner is the AI that sticks.

Why us

We ship hardware + software as one system.
We use open source as a trust wedge.
We're not building "a recorder." We are collecting context to build the most personal AI

thought to action.

Based Hardware Inc.

81 Lafayette St, San Francisco, CA 94103

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