Maple is preparing for the release of a co-working agent. You install it locally and it works with your files, whether it's office work or building websites and apps. It's a turnkey solution, as easy as Claude Code, that keeps your data secure and private, no data sharing with closed AI labs. This is THE sovereign AI app for individuals and businesses who want powerful AI while retaining ownership of their information. Why build an agent into the Maple app when other agents already exist? Easy, we want to give you control over your work. We don't have a business plan that incorporates making money off our users' data. In the age of AI, your information, whether it's personal or company trade secrets, is the single thing that differentiates you from everyone else. We all have access to AI that can build a professional website for selling shoes. But your strategy and network for how you sell shoes should not be shared with your competitors. Sovereignty is the path to protecting what makes you, you. Maple sits at the intersection of Usability and Sovereignty. Maple gives you the best tools that are both easy to use and maintain your data sovereignty. Sovereign for one, sovereign for all. It has been a journey to get here. We brought to market the very first personal chatbot with end-to-end encryption using TEEs in late 2024. Prior to that there were proofs of concept but no full product offerings. Every other AI chat product on the market handled your data in plain text, either selling you a service to get your data or asking you to trust that they won't snoop on you. Quickly people found Maple and latched onto its open-source code and verifiable encryption. We didn't stop there. You may remember earlier this year we teased a product called "Maple Agent" and opened up a waiting list. That product is a mobile app that acts as your AI "friend", maintaining one long continuous chat, and getting to know you over time. I dislike using the word "friend" there, but it's the best way to convey the UX in a few words. AI is a tool, always has been, always will be. Any kind of friendly personality on top is just synthetic. In our testing, the UX of Maple Agent is really powerful for what it does. Think about the many short AI chats you have in your favorite app, whether it's looking up a historical fact or asking advice about a topic. With Maple Agent, those all go away in favor of the long-running chat with the friendly agent. It's like you have your own personal assistant who knows you so well and can look up anything for you. When I ask AI certain questions, I want to ask an expert who already understands my situation so I'm not repeating myself for the 100th time. That's the amazing value the personal agent brings to the table. We still see great utility for a personal agent like the "Maple Agent". Thousands of people on the waiting list, hoping to get their hands on it, agree that the concept is worth exploring and trying out. We were constrained in launching it due to a few circumstances, one of them being access to the scale of compute needed to power it. We have a clear path laid out for how to get there, but today is not the day to execute on that. It will be in the near future. Instead we have a different agent ready to go that we think is also incredible. We now have an agentic harness inside of the Maple Research app. This thing is a powerhouse. It even builds and publishes its own software releases. The agent in Maple Research works with your local filesystem, speaks to the largest open models running in TEEs, utilizes local models for certain tasks, is compatible with MCP tools, has an API for connecting to anything you need, and also supports the ACP protocol, which means it can be extended in the future to speak to other tools like Claude Code, Codex, and local models running on your own hardware. A big unlock for us was the Goose Development Kit, which powers the core of our agent harness. More on that to come as we publish articles and documentation later about the agent. The agent inside Maple Research doesn't have a name. At least not yet, not sure if it ever will. For now we call it "Chat Mode" and "Agent Mode". Think of this as the workhorse, the truck, the heavy lifter. Our other "Agent", the phone app, is your sidekick in your pocket, ready to help with quick things and ongoing conversations about life. I am incredibly excited about the Maple Research Agent. While I'm already seeing great results using it for internal work items, I'm especially thrilled about the personal health and wellness work it's doing for me. I know there are plenty of apps out there for compiling wellness data, but I'm having it build a tool tailored specifically for what I need, without the extra fluff. And none of my health data is being donated to the closed AI labs or sent to advertisers. I know that the AI logic is not being silently adjusted to fit the whims of a large corporation that has paid for product placement. It's me, state of the art AI, and my data. That's how I want it. Maple's new agent makes that possible. We can't wait for you to try it out. If you want early access, comment here, email us, reach out in some way. To those on the other agent waitlist, you're already in the queue. Thanks for reading this lengthy update. :)

Don’t like seeing this. OpenCode users pay attention to your account.

For years the unofficial slogan of Utah was, “Family. Isn’t it about…time?”

My hot wheels always broke down at this point. Genius solution.

Done @TryMapleAI

I currently have a flat tire on my rental car. And i’m in the kind of small town where the only 24 hour tow company is a guy who owns a truck. I call the number and he picks up his cell to tell me he’s on vacation until next week. I need to move to a town like this.

I like working with companies that make products I use everyday. Glad to be considered in the same class as @obscuravpn.

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I actually like the idea of AI being an acronym for Augmented Intelligence or Augmentative Intelligence. But I doubt that'll ever become mainstream.

When we set out to make the most user-friendly AI that also protects user data, we had high standards of auditability, verifiability, and transparency. Our users need to be able to verify where the data is going and how it's being handled. We determined that we needed: 1. Open-source code 2. Reproducible builds of that code 3. Secure enclaves that provide cryptographic attestation of the code they are running (also known as a trusted execution environment or TEE) If you lose any one of those, it's difficult to nearly impossible for users and businesses to audit the process and verify data security. It's not easy bringing together all three. I'm thrilled to say we've accomplished that feat, thanks in large part to our partnership with Tinfoil. Tinfoil shares our vision and desire for high standards of verifiability in AI. We're excited to be working with them and hope to have many more years of success together!

Mom when you're coming in hot from a rough day of 8th grade.

Final episode of Silo: Juliette Nichols randomly says, "Hey Siri, add Star City to my watch queue." Knox: "wtf are you talking about?" Juliette: "idk. Must be putting vitamin d+ in the water again."

now when  tv shows speak the line "hey siri" they can control the tv itself rather than just homepod

Myth: You can't raise a round during the summer. Verdict: False

Three 6’s rule smashed

Great article. Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic. And say yes to open weight models, @TryMapleAI, and @TinfoilAI. micahflee.com/just-say-no-to…