The personal assistant that understands you.

Sanctuary remembers the conversations, people, places, links and little details that make up your life — so your AI can actually help with the things that matter to you.

Download for Mac

Private by design. Your data stays on your Mac.

Sanctuary — Ask

What was that restaurant Mike sent me?

Monteverde, in Chicago. Mike sent it in March while you were planning the trip.

  • Monteverde

    Pasta, West Loop · monteverdechicago.com

  • You're in Chicago October 3–6

    From a thread with Mike two weeks ago

you have to go here when you're in chicago — sit at the pasta counter, don't book a table

Mike Alvarez · March 14 · Messages

3 sources, all on this Mac

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The problem

Your life is already full of context. Your AI just can't see it.

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Friends recommend restaurants.

You tell people you'll follow up.

Someone sends you a movie.

You talk about a trip three months before you book it.

You shouldn't have to manually save everything just because it might matter later. Sanctuary turns the things you've already said and received into usable memory.

From conversations to memory

It remembers so you don't have to.

Find anything

Find things even when you don't remember where they came from.

A name, a half-remembered detail, the week it happened — any of them is enough. Sanctuary looks through what people actually sent you and hands back the thing plus the conversation around it.

Sanctuary — Ask

What was that restaurant Alex sent me in New York?

Lodi, in Rockefeller Center. Alex sent it last November, the week before your trip.

  • Lodi

    Italian café, Midtown · lodinyc.com

  • Also from that thread: Court Street Grocers, Le Crocodile

    Alex Moreau · November 8

if you're near rock center go to lodi. the breakfast pastries, not dinner

Alex Moreau · November 8 · Messages

You never saved this. It was just in the conversation.

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Remember people

Remember the details that make relationships feel personal.

What they like, where they've been, what's happening in their life, what the two of you left unfinished. It's all in the messages already — Sanctuary just keeps it somewhere you can see it.

Sanctuary — People
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Alex Moreau

Design lead at Fieldwork · four years of messages

Recent

Moving to Brooklyn in the spring

Asked what monitors you ended up buying

Places they've recommended

Lodi · Le Crocodile · Court Street Grocers

A hotel in Mexico City you saved

Interests

film photographynatural winethe Knicks

Life events

Got married in June

New role in April

Open loops

You said you'd send your Chicago list

Shared links

17 links, 6 of them places

Every line links back to the message it came from.

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Follow through

Turn the things you say you'll do into things you actually remember to do.

Every I'll send that over and let me introduce you becomes an open loop with the person, the promise and the date attached. Nothing to capture, nothing to tag.

Sanctuary — Open loops

What did I tell people I was going to do this week?

  • Send Priya the deck

    You said “by Tuesday” · Messages, Monday

    Overdue
  • Introduce Chris to Dana

    You offered · WhatsApp, Thursday

  • Send Sarah restaurant recommendations for Rome

    You promised · 8 days ago

    Overdue
  • Book the Friday table

    Group thread with Mike and Sarah

  • Call your mother back

    You said you would on Sunday

Nobody typed these in. You said them out loud.

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Personal context

An AI that gets better at being yours.

Most AI starts from zero every time you meet it. Sanctuary builds a private understanding of your world over time — your people, preferences, projects, interests, conversations and history.

PeoplePlacesInterestsCommitmentsConversationsLinksProjects

The more of your life Sanctuary understands, the less explaining you have to do.

Taste, not algorithms

The best recommendations don't come from algorithms.

They come from people you trust. Sanctuary remembers the restaurants, movies, products, articles, places and ideas people send you — without making you organize them first.

Restaurants my friends have recommended in Chicago
MAMikeMonteverde

“sit at the pasta counter, don't book a table”

March · Messages

SCSarahDaisies

“went twice in one week. get the bread service”

July · Messages

CLChrisAlla Vita

“best room in the west loop, go early”

Last month · Messages

Your conversations become your personal recommendation engine.

People

Stay close without keeping notes on everyone.

Sanctuary quietly organizes the context already inside your conversations — so the thing you meant to remember is there when you need it, not three screens deep in a thread from August.

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Sarah Chen

Messages, WhatsApp, Mail

Recent
Planning an Italy trip
Likes
Natural wine, Japanese food, running
Mentioned
New job starting in October
Open loop
Send restaurant recommendations
Last talked
8 days ago

Built automatically from your conversations.

Works with your AI

Your context shouldn't belong to one AI.

Sanctuary gives the AI tools you already use access to the context you choose.

Claude DesktopClaude CodeOpenClawHermesThe model on your Mac

Switch models without teaching a new AI your life from scratch.

Any MCP client works: Claude Desktop and Claude Code connect in a click, OpenClaw and Hermes take a pasted config. You decide, per switch, what each one can read.

Privacy

Your life isn't training data.

The most personal AI requires the most personal data. That's why Sanctuary was designed around keeping that information under your control.

Local first

Your personal context lives on your Mac. Messages, contacts and mail are read on-device and stay there.

You choose what leaves

External AI only receives the context required for your request — and only when you've turned that on.

Inspectable

See where Sanctuary learned something, follow it back to the message, and correct it when it's wrong.

Personal AI without turning your personal life into someone else's dataset.

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Sanctuary

Catch me up on my life.

Today

  • 3 people you're waiting to hear back from

    Dana, Tomás and Jules — all about the beta

  • 2 things you said you'd follow up on

    Priya's deck, and the intro you offered Chris

  • Mike sent you a restaurant you might want for Friday

    Monteverde, West Loop — he sent it in March

  • Sarah's birthday is next week

    She's been planning an Italy trip since August

  • You haven't replied to Daniel in 6 days

    He asked whether you're around this month

Assembled on your Mac, from your own conversations

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The things that need you, without another inbox to manage.

Give your AI some context.

Start building a private memory of the things you've already talked about.

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