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A local AI platform for Windows. One app, not four subscriptions.

Stop renting intelligence.

ABZI runs chat, code, research, images, and voice on your own hardware. Standard is free forever: not a trial, not a preview.

  • 100% local inference.Your conversations, code and research are processed on your machine.
  • Free forever.Standard is $0, in writing.
  • 1000s of local models.Downloaded from Hugging Face, every one free to run.
  • None of your data sent to us.No account, no login.

Roadmap: Linux (WSL2), then native Linux, then macOS. Windows first, done right, then everywhere else.

ABZI
Professional. Local. AI.
PlatformWindows 10/11, 64-bit
BackendsCUDA, ROCm, CPU
NetworkWorks offline
LicenseOwned, not rented
The ABZI dashboard, running locally on a Windows desktop An ABZI chat generating code, with the live prototype renderer beside it The ABZI Model Store listing models that are free to download and run The ABZI Model Library showing the models already on the machine The ABZI Code Workshop managing a project, with file tree, task plan and build steps The ABZI Image Workshop generating images locally, with prompt, resolution and aspect-ratio controls

Dashboard

You are already paying for this. You just don't own any of it.

Four tools cover the same ground ABZI covers alone. Here is the invoice you are on today, and the one you could be on instead.

ChatGPT Pluschat
$20 / mo
Cursorcode, in the cloud
$20 / mo
Perplexity Proresearch
$20 / mo
Midjourneyimages
$10 / mo
ABZI Standardall of the above, on your machine
$0 / mo
Rented vs. owned, per year $840 $0

Same work, done on hardware you already own. Your prompts, files and code stay on your disk. A 16GB NVIDIA GPU runs roughly $350 to $800, one time — used cards at the low end, new ones at the high. A year of those subscriptions pays for it, and it keeps running ABZI for the rest of its life. OWNED, NOT RENTED

Not a chat window. A workshop.

People run five tools because each does one job well. ABZI does each job locally, in one application, with your files never leaving the machine.

02.1

Code Workshop

A local alternative to Cursor. Monaco editor, light Git integration, restore points, diff view and agent execution. Auto-compact keeps the agent focused across long sessions without losing the thread of your project. Your code stays yours.

The ABZI Code Workshop: editor, diff view and agent panel
02.2

Chat Platform

Conversation branching, bookmarking and mid-chat model switching. ABZI Boost restates your original ask at the end of every prompt so the model doesn't drift. Compact manually, or let auto-compact keep a long session coherent.

02.3

Notebook Studio

A local alternative to NotebookLM. Upload your documents, ask questions, get citation-linked answers you can trace to the source. Your research stays on your machine.

02.4

ABZI Web

Web search built into every chat, with organized, sourced answers instead of link lists. A small local agent strips ads and SEO fluff so your model sees clean facts. Web is off by default — the only thing that leaves your machine is the search query you run.

02.5

Prototypes

Ask for an interface and preview it instantly (HTML, React, SVG) in a local sandbox. No copy-paste, no dev server.

02.6

Projects & Skills

Persistent projects and custom AI instructions, grouped into one-click presets. Your setup survives across sessions.

02.7

ABZI Store

30+ hand-picked models matched to your hardware, plus thousands of GGUF models from Hugging Face, installed in a click. Every local model is free to run, always.

02.8

Voice: Dictate & Talk

Whisper turns speech into prompts. Kokoro reads answers back and skips code blocks. Both run locally: no cloud, no API key.

02.9

Environmental Dashboard

Estimates the energy your session saved versus routing the same work through frontier cloud models. Honest, visible, every session.

02.10

API Server & MCP

An OpenAI-compatible local API server plus MCP, so you can point your own tools at your own models.

02.11

Image Workshop Live in beta 17

Local image generation and editing on your GPU. No image subscription, no upload, nothing leaves the machine. Need cloud models? Connect OpenRouter to generate images there too.

02.12

Writer Workshop Coming Soon

Long-form writing with version history, style matching to your own voice and consistency checks. DOCX export.

02.13

Movie Workshop Coming Soon

Type a scene, get a video. Turn a prompt or a single image into a cinematic clip locally, powered by open models like Wan 2.2 and HunyuanVideo 1.5. Private, offline, unlimited, or connect OpenRouter when you need more horsepower.

The others are good, but they don't do everything in one place. All local.

Model runners and chat apps solve one slice well. ABZI builds the rest of the workspace on top, and keeps it on your machine.

What it does ABZI LM Studio Ollama Odysseus Cloud AI
ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini
100% local — your data never leaves your machineYesYesYesYesNo
Works offlineYesYesYesYesNo
Simple install — no terminal or DockerYesYesPartialNoYes
Hardware-matched models + crash protectionYesPartialNoNoNot applicable
AI coding workspaceYesNoNoNoYes
Document Q&A with citations (local RAG)YesPartialNoPartialPartial
Live app previews (Prototypes / Artifacts)YesNoNoNoYes
Deep research from the webYesNoNoYesYes
Voice — dictate & talk back, fully localYesNoNoNoNo
Skills + persistent projectsYesNoNoPartialYes
Environmental dashboardYesNoNoNoNo
OpenAI-compatible API serverYesYesYesNoNot applicable
Bring your own cloud key (optional)YesPartialYesNoNot applicable
Free to run — no usage caps or throttlingYesYesYesYesNo

✓ = yes  ·  ◐ = partial / limited  ·  ✗ = no  ·  — = not applicable  ·  Based on publicly available information, June 2026. Cloud AI column reflects what the products have in common; individual features vary by product and plan.

Ollama install ◐: Ollama has a desktop app, but most features and model management still live in the terminal.   Document Q&A ◐: LM Studio has built-in document RAG but no source citations; Odysseus has vector memory (ChromaDB); Google's NotebookLM is a separate cloud product.   Cloud key ◐: LM Studio can reach external providers only through a community plugin; Ollama has first-party cloud routing.   Skills ◐: Odysseus supports custom agents; cloud products offer Custom GPTs, Projects, and Gems on paid plans.

The part of AI nobody puts on the box.

Data centers already consume more electricity than most countries, and draw water in regions that can't spare it. Running inference locally doesn't fix the industry. It does mean you stop adding to the pile.

Why local, honestlyA hyperscale data center batching thousands of users onto shared hardware is genuinely efficient per token, and we won't pretend otherwise. The real waste is the size of the hammer: frontier reasoning models can burn 70x+ the energy of a small model on a single response. ABZI right-sizes: a small local model for the everyday 90%, and the energy footprint that comes with it.
Your electricity bill, honestlyRunning local AI does use power. It's not much different from a gaming session, and for most real-world use the cost is well below what people assume. If you need agentic workflows running around the clock, that's where hybrid comes in: local for the 90% you do every day, cloud on your terms when you need the horsepower.
Visible, not comfortingThe dashboard estimates what your session would have cost in energy if the same work had gone through frontier cloud models. Not to make you feel better. To make the real cost of AI visible.

Fair. Locked. In writing.

Standard gives you the whole platform with minimal limits, free forever. Pro Lifetime is for people who want to go deeper: one payment, no subscription.

Standard

Free forever

$0
  • Full chat platform with branching
  • All workshops (with limits)
  • ABZI Transcribe and ABZI Web
  • ABZI Prototype
  • 30+ curated local models and the ABZI Store (thousands more, all free to run)
  • Optional: connect your own API keys (GPT-5.5, Claude Fable, Gemini 3.5, OpenRouter and more)
  • API server and MCP
  • Environmental dashboard
  • Up to 2 projects in each workshop, swap between them anytime
  • 5 skills created, 3 active, 2 groups
  • No Infinite Mode
Get ABZI, free
Pro Lifetime, beta price. Closes at general availability.

Pay once. Keep it.

$49.99

At general availability: $99, locked forever. Never higher.

  • Everything in Standard, with no limits
  • Unlimited projects across all workshops
  • Full AI action suite in every workshop
  • Unlimited skills (5 active at a time) and unlimited skill groups
  • ABZI Infinite Mode
  • Dedicated email support
  • Every future Pro feature included
  • No recurring charges. Ever. Honored permanently, in writing.
Buy Pro Lifetime

Standard is free forever. No countdown. Using ABZI with a team? Pricing is handled case by case: [email protected].

Not ready to buy? Join the mailing list for one email when beta opens, occasional updates, and a heads-up before Founders pricing closes. No spam. No pressure.

The written commitments behind these prices are in Standards, section 2.

Get ABZI for Windows.

One installer. Everything runs on your machine. First launch detects your hardware and assigns a profile (High, Moderate or Lite Performance) so you never load a model your PC can't carry. Installing, updating and downloading models need an internet connection; running ABZI never does.

Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit

NVIDIA CUDA, AMD ROCm and CPU backends. A GPU is recommended. CPU-only machines are supported, and ABZI tells you plainly what to expect.

Download for Windows

Latest beta: release notes

Windows may show a blue "protected your PC" screen.

That's expected right now. The installer is digitally signed by Mynml LLC: you can verify it under the file's Properties, Digital Signatures. Windows SmartScreen still warns until a new app builds up download history, and as a small independent company we're at the start of that curve. To continue, click More info, then Run anyway.

First install needs an internet connection: the installer (.exe) comes from GitHub, and models are downloaded from Hugging Face the first time you use them. Updates need a connection too. But running ABZI does not — once a model is on your machine, the app works fully offline for as long as you want.

Linuxnative binary in active developmentIn development
macOSafter Linux native shipsRoadmap
Why isn't ABZI open source?

Honestly — fair question, and I owe a straight answer. A huge amount of what ABZI stands on is open source: llama.cpp under the hood, open-weight models you can inspect, whisper.cpp, Kokoro. I'm not going to pretend the open ecosystem didn't make this product possible. It did, and it gets credit by name.

The application itself is closed — like almost every AI product people actually use today, including LM Studio. And here's the real reason for mine: I'm building ABZI either way. If it made a hundred dollars I'd still be here, because I think this genuinely matters. But there's a difference between a fight one person runs on nights and weekends and a fight that can go the distance. Pro is what makes it the second one. Publish the source under a permissive license and the first fork strips out Pro — and with it, the thing that lets Standard stay free forever without an investor, an ad model, or your data.

In other words: open versus closed was never really the question. The question is whether you stay in control — and that never required my source code. ABZI works offline. It needs no account. Your data sits in open formats on your own disk, yours to take anywhere. You can watch the network traffic yourself, so here's the honest inventory: the app checks periodically for updates to ABZI and to the engines that run it (llama.cpp, ComfyUI). Web search is off by default and only runs if you switch it on. A cloud model — OpenRouter, OpenCode, or your own key — is reached only if you deliberately connect it and accept that whatever you then send is on you. Beyond that, nothing leaves your machine: your prompts, files, and conversations stay local. I've told you what it's built with, what my mission is, and that I'll make mistakes and fix them in the open. Trust the behavior you can verify.

Could parts of ABZI open up down the road? Possibly, as the platform matures. But I'd rather tell you it's closed today than dangle a promise I haven't committed to.

Why I Built ABZI

From the founder

I'm tired.

Tired of the status quo. 18+ months ago I started on a journey out of sheer frustration for something that simply didn't exist. At first, I was blown away by AI. The possibilities were endless. Doors were suddenly open to me that were previously only a dream. After a while I started to see the problems like everyone else.

I will preface this by saying I have two kids, a full time job, and started building something on the side not because I wanted to, but because I had to. No one else was doing the thing that I thought was obvious. At least not in the way I personally wanted. The price of doing these things separately required a lot of research and work. I got there, but by then my mind was made up. One platform, all purposes, honest, not controlled by a few companies that want your money and data on their terms.

Let one thing be clear. This might be obvious, but you don't need a PhD-level intelligence to write an email. To summarize a document you already own. To organize your notes, search your own files, write a first draft. These are everyday tasks we do a thousand times a day. Somewhere along the way the industry decided you did. They said only the most powerful AI ever built was good enough for your daily workflows. Then they built a subscription around that idea.

Now, local models are not GPT-5.5 or Claude Mythos [or insert your super mega ultra model of the month here]. Open source hasn't beaten the frontier (yet). But they're doing things today that would have required frontier models a year ago. The gap is closing fast. Qwen 3.5/3.6 and Gemma 4 are proof of that.

Here's what I've actually built: Of course we have normal chat and vibe coding (everyone has this). We have projects that work like Claude, only local. I built a Code Workshop for developers who want a local alternative to Cursor (yes, I am aware of OpenCode and do love it too) and tools like Aider and Cline. I created Notebook Studio for researchers: upload your documents, ask questions, get answers with citations. Like NotebookLM, but private. On your machine. Nobody else's. And ABZI Web for when you want answers from the web the way Perplexity gives them. Organized, sourced, not a list of links to click through. The reading and refining happens on your machine — a small local agent strips the junk from the results and hands your model just the facts. The only thing that ever leaves your machine is the search query itself. No account, no profile, no history stored anywhere but locally.

One platform. Everything in one place. Completely local, secure, and environmentally conscious.

I am not doing this because I claim it's better than every tool out there. I am doing this because you shouldn't need five different subscriptions and five different logins to do your best work. Nor should you need to be a developer or work in Software/IT to understand how to get it to work on a machine in the first place.

I don't know about you, but I'm tired of paying $20 a month or more for Claude. Another $20 for Cursor. $10 for Midjourney. Subscriptions stacked on subscriptions, each one promising to make my life easier, while quietly making my wallet lighter and tightening their limits, so I get less and less over time.

More recently, I love the quiet emails that arrive on a Tuesday. "We're updating our policies and pricing to better reflect the value we provide." What they mean is: we have you now. You built your workflow around us.

And if you want real usage, it's $100 to $200 a month now!?

$20 was originally just something that "sounded good." The head of ChatGPT admitted it was picked to turn away casual users. Not based on value. Not based on cost. Just: what price makes people think twice?

Everyone else followed. Claude. Gemini. Copilot. All $20.

It certainly hasn't gotten better.

And the cost of these superpowers besides money? Every conversation you have, every document you write, every idea you share — it's going somewhere. Training their models. Product improvement. You clicked agree. Remember?

OpenAI started as a non-profit with one goal: benefit humanity. That was the mission. That was the promise. They changed that mission statement six times in nine years. In 2025 they removed the word "safely" entirely.

You can decide what that means.

These platforms are not designed to care about you or your interests. You are not the mission. You are the revenue.

But that's just one side of it. Here's what doesn't get talked about enough: Data centers consumed more electricity last year than all but 10 countries on Earth. Communities are fighting proposed data centers to protect their water supply. 208 million tons of CO₂ last year — comparable to Argentina's entire national output. Every query to a cloud AI is a small piece of that. ABZI tracks what you save by running locally, right there on your dashboard, every session. Not to make you feel better. Just to make it visible.

I don't answer to a board. I'm not chasing a billion dollar valuation. I'm not trying to extract maximum value from you before the next funding round. I have bills like everyone else. I'm just trying to offer a different path.

Don't believe me? Good. Try it. It's free. Not a trial. Not a preview. The core of what ABZI is — free. No expiration date.

As I add more I'm not moving the foundation. Pro is there for people who want to go deeper. But I'm not building a wall between you and something useful just to upsell you.

My goal is never to give you "just enough" to then make you pay.

It's time to come home.

ABZI mascot

— Chris, Founder of ABZI

What we never do. What we commit to.

Written honestly, without legal fog. If we fall short, call it out.

Hard lines — never

  • ✗Train on your data. We have no access to it.
  • ✗Sell or share your data. There is no advertising model.
  • ✗Change terms on existing users without clear, advance notice.
  • ✗Retroactively move Standard features behind a paywall.

Active promises

  • ✓Standard is free forever; Pro Lifetime is one payment, never a subscription.
  • ✓Honest about limitations — local models aren't frontier models.
  • ✓Human in the loop: nothing agentic acts without your confirmation.
  • ✓Environment visible on the dashboard, every session.

Read the full standards  ·  Privacy policy

What's coming

The Roadmap

We ship when it's ready. Dates are targets, not commitments. Founders and Pro users get everything as it lands.

September 2nd, 2026

Beta Launch — Windows

Chat Platform · Code Workshop · Notebook Studio · ABZI Web · ABZI Prototype · Transcribe · Voice · TTS · API Server · Environmental Dashboard · ABZI Store · Image Workshop

Q3 / Q4 2026 — After Launch

Workshops Expansion

The first wave of post-launch features, in priority order.

2027 & Beyond

The Long Game

Bigger platform features and new product territory.

Live & Coming After Launch
Live in beta 17

Image Workshop

Local image generation and editing. Shipped in beta 17 — no image subscription, no upload, nothing leaves the machine. Need cloud models? Connect OpenRouter to generate images there too.

Coming Soon

Movie Workshop

Local video generation powered by Wan 2.2. No node graphs. No ComfyUI. Simple interface — describe what you want and watch it render on your hardware.

Coming Soon

Writer Workshop

ProWritingAid and NovelCrafter alternative — local. Version-controlled chapters, style matching to your own voice, character knowledge base, plot consistency checking. DOCX export.

Coming Soon

Music Workshop

Generate original music locally using ACE-Step. AI-assisted lyrics, local generation engine, built-in audio editor. Regenerate any section. Export WAV, MP3, FLAC.

Coming Soon

Desktop Workshop

Local desktop automation and file management powered by AI. The Cowork alternative — automate tasks, manage files, and control your desktop through natural language. No cloud relay.

Q3 / Q4 2026

Family Mode

App-level controls, content restrictions, and child-safe profiles. Local AI for households. No parental control subscription required. Your rules, your machine.

In Development

Linux Native

Native Linux installer following Windows stabilization. WSL2 in the works. A proper native binary is next.

2027 & Beyond
2027

macOS

macOS requires a separate Metal/MPS inference backend. We're doing it right rather than fast. Coming after Linux native ships.

2027

ABZI Horizon

Your window to the web — done differently. Local web intelligence agent. Monitors what you care about, summarizes the web on your terms, surfaces only what matters. Scout finds. You choose.

2027

ABZI Constellation

Train your own LoRA models on your own data, on your own machine. Custom fine-tuning based on your conversations and documents. Your model. Your machine. Yours.

2027

ABZI Flow

Local automation pipelines. The n8n alternative — build workflows that execute real tasks, connect your files and apps, and run entirely on your hardware. No cloud relay required.

2027

Mobile

Android companion app connecting your phone to your desktop ABZI over local WiFi. Your GPU. Your models. In your pocket. iOS to follow.

Patches and model updates ship continuously. We ship when it's ready — not when a calendar says so.

Standards

The ABZI Standards

Our personal commitments, intentions, values, and hard lines. Written honestly, with no legal jargon or PR deflection.

Privacy & Transparency

Privacy Policy

Effective date: July 10, 2026 · Last updated: July 10, 2026

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You're in. Welcome to ABZI!

Thank you, genuinely. It means the world to me that you took a chance on what ABZI stands for. My commitment back to you: keep building this in the open, keep the promises we've made, and make ABZI something you're glad you backed years from now. — Chris

Next steps
  1. Check your email for your license key and receipt (usually within a few minutes).
  2. Download ABZI and install it.
  3. Open Settings → License, paste your key, and unlock everything.

You bought in during the beta, so you're a Founder. Your price is locked forever, every future Pro feature is included, and I won't forget who showed up early. — Chris

No key within 10 minutes? Check spam, or write to [email protected] and I'll sort it out.