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A Friend

Your personal intelligence device.

A Friend is a personal companion that wakes when you call its name — and helps you capture life as it happens, understand it more deeply, and feel gently supported in return.

It brings together a physical presence, a thoughtful app, and deep intelligence layers so the technology feels close to your real life instead of hovering above it.

Why A Friend

AI is everywhere. But none of it is yours.

It was built to work. To scale. To collect. We wanted to build something different — something that belongs to you alone.

Personal memory

Built around you

A Friend learns your habits, routines and preferences over time. The longer you're together, the more personal it becomes.

Calm interface

No screens, no noise

No tapping, no scrolling. Just calm, natural conversation. Interaction designed to feel human, not technical.

Private ownership

It's yours.

A Friend exists for you. Not for advertisers, not for platforms. Your data belongs to you. Your conversations stay private. You own it, fully.

How it works

Four ways it becomes yours.

A Friend is designed to feel natural from the first moment — and grow more personal over time.

friend sitting on desk next to laptop
01

Wake

Give it a name. That's how it wakes.

No app, no screen. You choose a wake word — a name that belongs to your companion alone. Say it, and A Friend is there. The rest of the time, it stays quiet.

02

Reflect

It helps where it matters.

Decisions, ideas, a full head at the end of the day. A Friend is there for the conversations you don't always have with others. Calm, private and always available.

03

Grow

It grows with you.

A Friend learns how you think and what matters to you. Over time, it becomes less a device and more like a presence that genuinely knows you.

04

Personalise

Make it yours.

The shell is interchangeable. Switch colours, materials or limited editions anytime. One device — made to fit your space and your life.

Features of A Friend

Take a closer look.

This is what A Friend is actually for: speaking naturally, seeing patterns return, receiving gentle suggestions, and carrying the thread of your life forward without turning it into another dashboard.

A Friend companion on a nightstand beside a woman stretching in morning sunlight

Voice

Speak naturally

Patterns

See what emerges

Suggestions

Offer gently

Memory

Remember & grow

Trust

Stay grounded

Recap

Close the loop

Speak naturally

In the kitchen, on a walk, or at the edge of sleep, you can say what is on your mind while it is still alive. A Friend catches the moment without asking you to perform for it.

Patterns emerge

Inside the app, recurring feelings, themes, and names begin to gather into something you can recognize. It becomes easier to notice what your life has been trying to tell you.

Gentle suggestions

When a promise to yourself, a need, or a next step keeps surfacing, A Friend can offer a soft proposal that helps you move with a little more steadiness.

Traceable insights

When something meaningful comes back to you, you can follow the thread that led there. The insight feels grounded in your real moments, not dropped in from nowhere.

Quiet growth

Over time, the relationship holds more context about your people, your hopes, and your difficult days. The companion grows more attuned without becoming louder.

A gentle recap

After a conversation or voice note, the app can leave you with a calm summary that helps the important part stay with you when the day keeps moving.

Capabilities

Tangible, every day.

The things A Friend actually does for you — quietly, reliably, and without turning your life into a dashboard.

Presence

Always reachable

Say its name, and A Friend is there. No app to open, no screen to unlock. It listens when you need it and stays silent when you don't.

Gentle support

Proactive daily support

A Friend notices patterns and offers gentle suggestions — a reminder, an encouragement, a prompt to pause — without you having to ask.

Scheduling

Calendar and scheduling

Tell A Friend about your plans and it keeps track. It can remind you before things happen and help you see your week at a glance.

Living memory

Memory that grows

The longer you are together, the more A Friend remembers. Names, preferences, recurring themes — it builds context so every conversation picks up where the last one left off.

Knowledge recall

Search and find anything

Ask A Friend to look something up, find a past conversation, or pull a detail from your notes. It searches so you don't have to.

Expandable surface

Expandable capabilities

A Friend is designed to grow. New skills, integrations, and modes arrive over time so the device you own today keeps getting better.

Shell Configurator

Choose your shell.

A Friend is designed to feel at home in your daily space. Interchangeable shells let the companion shift with your room, your rituals, and the mood you want it to bring into the day.

The form stays calm and familiar while the finish changes — a small way to make the device feel more like something you live with than something you merely place on a shelf.

A Friend shell — Soft ivory

More finishes are on the way

This first set shows the calm direction. Future drops can add softer materials, deeper tones, limited editions, and finishes shaped for different rooms and moods.

Choose your setup

Choose your setup.

Three paths to having A Friend. Each one built around a different relationship with privacy, flexibility, and ownership.

Cloud

For the easiest way to begin

The simplest way to begin. Your A Friend connects to the latest intelligence in the cloud — always improving, never outdated.

€329

one-time device · + €19 /month cloud subscription

  • Always improving — new capabilities arrive automatically
  • Use A Friend from anywhere, not tied to one room
  • No technical setup: plug in, say hello, done
  • Quiet months cost less — it adapts to your rhythm
  • Your conversations are encrypted, data hosted in Europe

Local

For homes that want absolute ownership

Everything happens on your device. No subscriptions, no cloud calls, no data leaving your home. Full ownership from day one.

€4,999

one-time · everything runs on your device

  • Complete privacy — everything stays inside your home
  • Works offline, every time, with instant responses
  • No monthly fees, ever — you own it all
  • Choose and customise your own AI models
  • Hardware built for the next generation of intelligence

Self-Hosted

For those who want total independence

Bring your own hardware. Run A Friend entirely on your own terms — your servers, your environment, your data. For those who want total independence.

Custom

your infrastructure · your rules

  • Runs on your own servers or cloud environment
  • Nothing leaves your network — ever
  • Use your own AI models and connect existing tools
  • Dedicated onboarding and hands-on support
  • Enterprise-ready: access logs, single sign-on, custom agreements

Under the hood

Built to last. Ready for the next generation of AI.

Expand to see the full technical specification for each setup.

What this should make obvious

A Friend should feel calm, useful, and unmistakably yours.

Before anyone opens the appendix, the value should already be clear.

  • Voice notes, reminders, and memory belong to one companion flow
  • Gentle recaps bring back what mattered without turning life into a dashboard
  • The app stays readable, warm, and close to ordinary routines
  • Cloud or local changes the setup — not the relationship you build with it

Capture

Catch the moment.

Say it while it matters, before the feeling or idea disappears into the day.

Continuity

Find the thread again.

Names, promises, and earlier moments stay closer to hand when you want them back.

Ownership

Choose how close it stays.

Cloud keeps it easy. Local keeps it fully in your own hands.

Technical appendix

Open the full technical specification for each setup.

Compare the raw hardware profile once you have the product story and the visible surfaces in mind.

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Processor

Quad Cortex-A72/A53

RAM

8GB RAM

Storage

64GB eMMC

AI Performance

Cloud-streamed AI

Power

15W

Connectivity

Wi-Fi 6E + BT 5.4

Audio

4 MEMS microphone array

Camera

Dual camera (8MP + 2MP)

Battery

8000mAh

Display

3.5" touch display

OS

Custom Linux

Dimensions

142×72×38mm

Weight

~280g

Security

Encrypted cloud channel

In the world

Made to feel close in everyday moments.

A Friend belongs in the texture of real life: on the table, by the bed, in the quiet between meetings, in the moment after something important is said out loud.

Common questions

Frequently Asked Questions

The shortest answers to the questions people ask first.

Do I need a subscription?

No. You buy it once. It belongs to you. The local AI variant runs entirely on-device, with no ongoing costs. An optional subscription exists for cloud users who want managed AI access. It is never forced and never hidden.

What happens to my data?

With local AI, everything stays on your device. Nothing leaves your home. With our cloud AI solution, your data stays in your region. We will never analyse its content or use it for advertising.

What can it not do?

A Friend is not trying to be every tool at once. It is not a noisy productivity dashboard, not a general-purpose robot, and not a replacement for human care. It is strongest when you want to speak naturally, return to what mattered, and receive a calm next step back.

Can I change how it looks?

Yes. Swap the shell whenever you want. Different colours, materials, and special editions keep the same companion feeling familiar while the outer form changes with your space.

Will it become outdated?

No. When models improve, you update the software. When your space changes, you can change the shell. The hardware is being designed to stay useful for a long time, so you do not need to replace the whole object just to keep up.

A Friend companion sitting on a couch next to a woman reading a book in a cozy living room

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