Atelos
Your AI tools are smart. They just don't know your clients.
Atelos is a desktop app that keeps your decisions, strategy, and context in a local vault — so every AI session starts where the last one left off.
Local-first. Your files never leave your machine.
The Fragmentation Tax
$210K
per year at a 42-person Series A company
Decisions in Slack. Strategy across Notion docs. Context in AI chats that expire in 24 hours. Your institutional knowledge is scattered across tools that don't talk to each other — and someone pays to reassemble it every single time.
The Bottleneck Is You
Everything important lives in your head.
Your pricing rationale, your client history, your competitive intel. Your team asks and you answer from memory. AI could help, but it doesn't know any of this. You are the institutional memory of your company, and there's no backup.
The Cold Session Problem
Session 1 of ∞
You explained your business to Claude last Tuesday. Today it has no idea. Four projects, four blank slates. Every AI session starts from zero because nothing transfers between sessions — ever.
The Trust Problem
Your context is someone else's asset.
In December 2025, the leading local-first AI memory product was acquired by the world's largest data harvesting company. For founders with sensitive IP, cloud-based AI context is no longer a neutral choice.
"...we decided $99/mo but check with Dan about—"
#strategy · 3 weeks ago
"Based on what you've shared, your positioning is—"
Session expired · context lost
Q2 Strategy Memo — DRAFT
Last edited 3 weeks ago
"Re: Stratford proposal — can you resend the—"
Inbox · 147 unread
4 tools. 4 partial answers. No single source of truth.
You are the API. There is no backup.
Remember last week — we were working on the Stratford pitch?
I don't have access to previous conversations. Each session starts fresh. Could you give me some context?
Leading local-first AI memory product acquired by the world's largest data harvesting company.
User vaults will migrate to cloud infrastructure.
Step 1
Drop your files in.
Meeting notes, strategy docs, client briefs, research transcripts. Atelos reads your existing structure. No reorganization, no templates, no setup.
Step 2
The vault indexes everything.
Claude reads every file automatically — extracting decisions, tagging topics, building a structured index. It stays current as your vault grows. You never manage this.
Step 3
Run a skill.
Ask for your morning brief, a client summary, a competitive snapshot. The skill reads only the files that matter. No copy-paste. No re-explaining your context.
Step 4
Output that knows your business.
Not a generic template. Specific, sourced, and connected across everything in your vault — surfacing what you know but haven't said out loud.
Top priority
Stratford renewal is in 60 days. Last touchpoint was 6 weeks ago — and their CTO flagged pricing concerns in the February meeting. No follow-up logged.
2 other items in your brief →
A morning with Atelos
Your day starts differently.
8:02 AM
You open the app.
One click. No browser tab. No prompt to write. The vault is local — it was there all along.
8:03 AM
The brief is already building.
Atelos reads the vault and surfaces what matters. Not a search. Not a summary. A brief — assembled from everything you've captured.
8:04 AM
Three things to move today.
Pulled from open threads across all your projects. Each one cited. Each one linked back to the file it came from.
8:05 AM
The one you almost forgot.
Stratford renewal in 60 days. Last touchpoint 6 weeks ago. You didn't search for this. It found you.
8:07 AM
You're ready.
Before your first coffee. Without touching a tool. Without explaining yourself to an AI that doesn't know you.
connecting to vault...
vault connected — 214 files
Daily Briefing · 8:03 AM
Focus · 3 items
↗ investor-narrative/pitch-arc.md
↗ clients/stratford/notes.md
↗ business-plan/gtm/distribution.md
Flagged · needs attention
Stratford renewal in 60 days. Last touchpoint 6 weeks ago — CTO flagged pricing concerns in February. No follow-up logged.
You didn't search for this. It found you.
8:07
AM
3 priorities · 1 flag · 0 things you need to remember
Before your first coffee.
Built-in skills
One click. Your context. Every time.
Skills read your vault, produce structured output, and write back — so each run makes the next one sharper.
Start every day oriented.
One click — no prompt needed
- 3 priorities pulled from open threads across all projects
- Stratford renewal in 60 days — no follow-up logged
- 2 decisions from Friday's call not yet filed
Turn any transcript into structured notes.
Paste transcript →
- Summary, decisions, and action items extracted
- Each item assigned to a person with a deadline
- Filed back to the vault automatically
Close the loop before the week ends.
One click — end of week
- 2 items closed, 1 still open, 1 stale since Monday
- Stratford follow-up flagged with no activity
- Next week's priorities seeded from open threads
The Whitespace
ChatGPT can't remember last week. Notion can't think. Neither keeps your strategy off someone else's server.
Atelos does all three.
| AtelosLocal-first. AI-native. | ChatGPT / ClaudePowerful, but amnesia after every session | Notion / Google DocsWhere your work lives, but AI can't reach it | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best-in-class AI output | |||
| Remembers your business | |||
| Data stays on your machine | |||
| Consistent repeatable skills | |||
| Accumulates over time |
In December 2025, the leading local-first AI memory product was acquired by the world's largest data harvesting company. For founders with sensitive IP, cloud-based AI context is no longer a neutral choice.
Built For
Built for founders who don't have time to teach AI their business.
The side-project founder
Running 4 projects in 1-2 hour windows. Every AI session starts blank.
One view across all your projects. Capture ideas from anywhere. The vault remembers so you don't have to.
The stretched CEO
You are the institutional memory of your company. Everything important lives in your head.
Meeting notes, action items, and client history. Structured and searchable without you organizing it.
The product operator
3 research calls a week. 4 hours turning transcripts into a synthesis your PM reads in 5 minutes.
Drop the transcripts. Get patterns with citations, ready to send to your VP.
Atelos · /ˈæt.ə.lɒs/ · Without End
Every session compounds.
The vault grows with every decision logged, every skill refined, every pattern captured.
The pursuit is the point.
Early access — no credit card required to join.