About

AI That Runs Where
Your Work Already Lives

ContextuAI builds AI that stays close to your data — on your own machine, or inside your own infrastructure. No mandatory cloud. No data tourism. Just software that does the work and leaves the context where it belongs.

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Why We Exist

Most AI Tools Ask You to
Move Your Work to Them

The pattern is familiar. A new AI tool arrives, and to get anything useful out of it you upload your documents, paste your data, connect your accounts, and hand over the context that makes your work yours. The intelligence lives somewhere else, and your work has to travel to reach it.

We think that trade is backwards. The model should come to the context, not the other way around. Your files, your database, your notes, and your history are the reason an AI assistant is useful at all — and they are exactly the things you should be least willing to ship off to someone else's servers.

So we built ContextuAI around a single constraint: the useful version has to work with the data staying put. That constraint shaped everything. It's why Solo runs local models on your own hardware and stores everything in a local database. It's why Enterprise ships as containers you run in your own environment. It's why the connectors reach into your systems instead of asking you to export from them.

ContextuAI is a small, independent company. We'd rather ship something genuinely useful to the person using it than something optimized for capturing their data.

Principles

What We Optimize For

Four commitments that decide what we build and, more often, what we refuse to build.

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Local by default

Solo runs on your machine with local models and a local database. Enterprise runs in your infrastructure. Cloud model providers are an option you turn on — never a requirement to get started.

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Legible, not magical

You can see which agent ran, what it read, what it cost, and what it decided. Approval gates sit in front of consequential actions. An assistant you can't audit isn't an assistant, it's a liability.

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Source available

ContextuAI Solo's source is public on GitHub under the Apache License 2.0 with the Commons Clause. Read it, audit it, fork it for your own use, and verify the privacy claims yourself instead of taking our word for it.

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Connected, not walled in

Databases, APIs, files, MCP servers, and the channels your team already uses. Your context is spread across a dozen systems — an AI tool that ignores that is answering a different question than the one you asked.

What We Build

Two Products,
One Idea

The same conviction, sized for one person or for an organization.

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ContextuAI Solo

A free desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux. 96 prebuilt business agents plus unlimited custom ones, multi-agent crews, 41 local AI models, a local RAG knowledge base, and 10 distribution channels — all running on your own machine.

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ContextuAI Enterprise

A self-hosted platform for teams. Event-driven architecture, a Control Center for governance and analytics, 14 connector types across a certified tier catalog, and shared workspaces — deployed inside your own environment, under your own policies.

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The Company

Small, Independent,
Built in Charlotte

ContextuAI is created and maintained by Nagendra Rao Jogi, founder and creator. ContextuAI LLC is a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of North Carolina, USA, and based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

We're deliberately small. That means we ship in public, we answer our own support email, and the person who wrote the code is usually the person who replies. If something in the product is wrong, tell us — it goes straight to the people who can fix it.

See What We Mean
By Local-First

Download Solo and run a full multi-agent crew without sending a byte to anyone's cloud.

ContextuAI LLC is a North Carolina limited liability company based in Charlotte, North Carolina, founded by Nagendra Rao Jogi (also known as Nagendra Jogi and Nagen, nagen.dev). ContextuAI builds ContextuAI Solo, a free local-first AI desktop app, and ContextuAI Enterprise, a self-hosted AI platform for teams.