Intelligence should come to your data.

For twenty years the deal has been the same: if you want software to be smart about your work, you ship your work to the software. Your documents go to someone's cloud, your meetings to someone's servers, your habits to someone's analytics. The intelligence lives there; you visit it.

Spike Local is a bet that the deal is about to flip — that models are now small enough, and machines strong enough, for the intelligence to live where the data already does.

That flip changes more than a privacy checkbox. An assistant that lives on your machine can read everything — every contract, every meeting, every draft going back years — because nothing has to be uploaded, sampled, or trusted to a third party. It can build a real, persistent memory of your work, because that memory never becomes someone else's asset. And it can prove its answers, because the sources are right there on the same disk.

What we hold ourselves to

• Local by default, always. The core product must work with the network cable pulled. Cloud is an option you grant, never a dependency we sneak in.
• Proof over prose. Citations on answers, sources on facts, badges on every response, a privacy report generated from the running app. If we can't show it, we don't claim it.
• Honest labels. Shipping means shipping. Preview means rough. Roadmap means not yet. This applies to our marketing as much as our UI.
• Your data has no second landlord. No account, no telemetry, no server-side copy of your brain. If we disappear tomorrow, Spike keeps working.

Where it came from

Spike Local was built the unglamorous way: against a real working archive — thousands of documents across dozens of customers, in Thai and English — by people who needed the answers themselves. Most of the engineering you'll never see is about trust: keeping one customer's files out of another's answers, refusing to invent numbers, making Stop actually stop. The features came second; the discipline came first.

Where it's going

The near-term list is public and honest: macOS and Linux builds, in-app updates, end-to-end encrypted backup and multi-device sync (built, being hardened), and team vaults where a company's shared brain stays inside the company's walls. Follow the changelog — it's the record of what's real.

"Your machine remembers" isn't a slogan we wrote for the website. It's the window title of the app.