# 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

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# 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_

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## Why now

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

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## 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.****

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