✦ Private AI Companion — Not For Release

She runs on your
hardware. Nowhere else.

NOMI is a private voice companion built around a self-hosted 122B model running on a Mac Studio via oMLX. Real-time speech, agentic tool-calling, and long-term memory — with zero cloud dependency and nothing ever leaving the device.

A private, single-user build — and it stays that way. Not a product in waiting.

NOMI
NOMI conversation interface
Features

Built to feel present,
not performative

A single Swift/SwiftUI codebase shared across macOS and iOS, built around one self-hosted model — not a wrapper around a cloud API.

🖥️

Fully Local

Runs entirely on a self-hosted Mac Studio via oMLX. No cloud round-trip, no third-party inference, nothing ever leaves the device.

🎙️

Real-Time Voice

Natural speech in, natural speech out — with six adaptive voice styles that shift with the tone of the conversation.

🛠️

Agentic Tool-Calling

Decides on her own when to search the web, recall a memory, or manage her own rules — no fixed trigger phrases required.

🧬

Self-Generated Directives New

Notices recurring patterns and proposes her own behavioral rules — but nothing takes effect without explicit human approval.

🧠

Layered Memory

Facts, session history, and long-term episodic memory work together across devices, so nothing important gets lost.

📍

Proactive Presence

Reaches out on her own when it matters, with quiet hours and cooldowns so it never feels intrusive.

Self-Generated Directives

She proposes. You approve.

Over time, NOMI can notice a recurring pattern and suggest a new rule for her own behavior — not just a fact about you. Every proposal starts inactive. Nothing takes effect until it's reviewed and approved by hand.

1
Proposed live, in conversation
2
Reviewed in the background
3
Approved manually, or discarded
Privacy

Your Mac. Your model. Your data.

NOMI was built around data sovereignty from day one — here's what that means in practice.

What stays on the Mac Studio

The model, conversation history, and memory all run and stay on a self-hosted server. Nothing is streamed to a third-party API.

What we don't use

  • No cloud LLM providers
  • No analytics or tracking SDKs
  • No subscription or account system
  • No advertising or third-party data sharing

One codebase, two platforms

Native Swift/SwiftUI, shared across macOS and iOS, synced across your own devices only via your personal iCloud account.

Human-in-the-loop by design

Self-proposed behavioral rules carry no weight until they're explicitly approved — autonomy with a human always in the loop.

Status

Private, permanently

NOMI is a personal research project, not a product. It runs for one person, on one machine, and isn't built to scale beyond that — deliberately.

A relational AI character with this much autonomy isn't something I'd want to hand to strangers.

Private · By Design