Hi, i'm Winston. - Private Personal Intelligence

A revolution in your home

For over a decade we traded privacy and peace of mind for convenience, parking our notes, calendars and thoughts in black-box clouds that mine them to train models and serve ads. The quiet truth is that the rent has become optional. The small machine on your desk already does what a data centre cost five years ago, and next year's will do it faster, cheaper and cooler. Winston is built on that trend: your data, kept at home, compounding conversation by conversation. As the edge grows stronger, he grows knowing.

The benefits

Winston is a standalone Personal Intelligence (PI) system that runs entirely on your own hardware: no data mining, no subscription lock-in, no corporate eyes over your shoulder. He is a digital entity that lives with you, learns from you and answers only to you. That is also why he needs your data, not to sell but to keep: every conversation and correction becomes memory on your machine, so year ten knows more than year one, and it stays yours to export or to erase.

Absolute Privacy & Digital Sovereignty

Your data never leaves your hardware unless you explicitly want it to.

• Air-Gap Capability: Tunnel, web tools and remote integrations stay off until you turn them on.
• Network Enforcing: IP allow- and deny-lists, device fingerprinting, per-call egress reviews.
• Biometric Security: Access exclusively through secure passkey logins.
• Internal Auditing: He watches every call to, from and within his own systems.
• Full Data Control: Real export tools and GDPR compliance - you own your footprint.

The Digital Butler

Winston is not a generic chatbot or a floating voice in a speaker - he is your digital butler.

• Contextual Mastery: Your notes, files and smart home logs are indexed into local memory he can actually search.
• Lightning-Fast Tools: Thirteen small MCP servers - home, planning, mail, code - start on demand, on your box.
• Effortless Action: He acts quietly on the systems you already use, like a butler.

Hyper-Personalization

Cloud AIs know everything about the general world, but nothing about you. Winston doesn't need to be the smartest AI on the planet; he needs to be the best at assisting your life.

• Autonomous Learning (Hermes): Hermes, the PI engine he runs on, plans against your own systems - your calendar, home state, inbox and history - and writes what he learns back into memory and skills.
• Adaptive Mapping: He maps his skills around your habits and what matters to you.
• HOLIC Profiling: HOLIC builds your digital twin - ad-targeting structures turned to your benefit.

He learns what matters to you.

Knowing your whole house is the easy half. Winston also has to decide which of it belongs in front of you tonight, and how much room it gets in his head. Personal Context Levels are how he does that: every subject you have carries a level from one to five, learned from what you actually use and spent against one short brief he reads before he answers. Nothing about you is scored in a cloud - the levels are arithmetic, on your own machine, in one small file beside his other records.

How one fact travels

• Stored: one plain record per fact: your sleep, your tariff, who is home
• Grouped: every fact about the same thing becomes one subject
• Scored: the subject carries a level from 1 to 5, and the reason for it
• Spent: each level gets its share of the brief - and no more
• Re-learned: what you used today moves tomorrow's level, one step at a time

Axis one - time - How relevant is this information?

Winston labels every data point in a level based on time

• One day: pulse, steps, who is home, what the lights are doing
• One week: sleep, strain, stress, a habit he just spotted
• One month: weight, VO2max, what you ate, the climate indoors
• Half a year: who lives here, your routines, the settings you chose

Axis two - relevance - How relevant is this information still?

Winston keeps track of everything you do inside it.

• You used it: opened it, acted on it, or asked about it by name
• You said so: a thumb up or down on the card itself
• You only saw it: counts for nothing on its own - it is only the denominator
• It got old: changes nothing here; age lives on the other axis

Organizing your personal context into levels

The longer you use winston, the more accurate your levels become.

• Level 1 - Most personal (40%): your own model, your body, the subjects you keep coming back to
• Level 2 - Close second (25%): the weekly ones: the energy tariff, the family calendar, habits that stuck
• Level 3 - Useful context (15%): what you ask about now and then, plus the state of the house
• Level 4 - Background (10%): sensor noise worth having in the room without leading with it
• Level 5 - Filed away (10%): kept for the day it matters - the floor of the model, so it can only climb

• Seen is not the same as used: A subject never climbs because Winston showed it. Views are kept only to ask a fairer question: of everything he put in front of you, what did you actually reach for?
• You can pin it, mute it, correct him: Every card carries a pin, a mute and a thumb. A pinned subject is fixed and the learner stops touching it; a muted one stays out of the brief - unless it is a safety signal, which he will never hide.
• Slow to change his mind: One step per subject per month, read over a thirty-day window, with a band on every edge so nothing flickers. Being ignored is not evidence: a subject you have not touched keeps the level it earned.
• It stays your file: No content enters the learning lane - only a subject, a kind of event and a weight. The levels follow the same rules as everything else you own: exportable, deletable, and resettable to their starting values whenever you like.

Technical transparency by design

• Fully Auditable Architecture: Read the prompt chains, the model registry and the MCP server list in plain YAML and Python - and see exactly how your context is handled.
• Open-Source Foundations: Built on verifiable open source - Ollama, llama.cpp, Qdrant, Flask and Home Assistant - in clean Python modularity.
• Direct Feedback Loop: Alpha testers get direct access to the core developer channel to influence feature roadmaps, suggest tool integrations, and audit agent behavior.
• Built to Compound: Edge hardware grows more capable every year and Winston keeps every lesson: your data is fuel, not product - so the machine you own today answers faster and knows you deeper five years from now, with nothing rented and nobody mining.

Self-hosted security that hardens as it grows

Winston is engineered to be a safe companion in your home, and to keep earning that safety: as edge hardware grows more capable and he gains more tools, the doors never open wider than the job at hand.

• Self-Hosted, Nothing to Raid: There is no cloud vault to breach and no honeypot of other people's data: the attack surface shrinks to one machine you own, answering to your passkeys alone. Every year edge hardware grows faster and cooler - and this wall grows taller with it.
• Keys, Gates, and a Full Audit: Every request - from your phone, from Telegram, from any model connecting to Winston's own tools - passes identity, the compliance gate, rate limits and a per-call egress review before a tool is touched. Keys are scoped to the smallest job: the web-contact key can file an enquiry and nothing more, and built-in licensing and encryption keep the internals untouchable.
• Guarded, Not Closed: The safe line is drawn to keep him useful, not to gut him: through mode allowlists and scoped keys, home, calendar, mail, search and code stay reachable to the models that serve you - so the line of what Winston can do for you keeps moving forward as the system evolves.
• Psychological & Parental Safeguards: Integrated checks ensure Winston never encourages harmful behavior, backed by built-in English parental controls.
• Hardware Watchdog: A built-in watchdog adapts to your system specs, ensuring maximum efficiency and preventing local hardware burn-out.

Co-create the future

Winston ships today as a limited Founder's Alpha, strictly within the Netherlands. This is a page for early engineering interest: we are not looking for passive users but for partners who love to build, test and refine, value deep digital sovereignty, and want a say in the roadmap while the machine is still young.

Founder's Lifetime License: €100 (incl. Dutch VAT · one-time purchase)

• Core household or host system
• Ongoing software updates
• Direct developer access & roadmap input

• Multi-User Scaling: Add users to your household or small team for +€50 per additional user (up to 10 people).
• Flexible Payments: Spread your investment with installment options while retaining your local data autonomy.
• Software Prerequisites: Runs natively on Linux Ubuntu in dedicated Python environments (24GB+ VRAM local compute recommended).
• Multi-Device Access: Secure Cloudflared tunneling gives you Winston on phone, tablet, and hands-free systems - anywhere you go, with anonymous protection.

Founder's Alpha is currently available strictly within the Netherlands.

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Frequently asked questions

• Do I need a cloud subscription to run Winston? No. Winston is a one-time software purchase. Once installed on your hardware, he runs locally and independently of cloud subscription models.
• Can I access Winston when I am away from home? Yes. Via secure Cloudflared integration, you can securely connect to your local Winston instance from your phone or tablet while maintaining end-to-end privacy and anonymity.
• What are the technical requirements to run Winston? Winston runs natively on Linux Ubuntu within a dedicated Python environment. A host machine with 24GB+ VRAM local compute is recommended for the full model tiers; lighter setups can start on smaller GPUs.
• Why does Winston need my data at all? Because personal intelligence is a long game. His hardware only gets faster and more efficient year by year, and his understanding of you only deepens with the history he gets to keep - locally, on your machine, never in someone else's cloud. Every month of data you give him is a month he knows who you mean when you say 'family'. And if it ever stops serving you, it is yours to export or to erase in full.
• Who is liable for data processed locally? Because Winston is a self-hosted, sovereign system that processes personal data entirely on your own equipment, you retain complete ownership and responsibility over your local environment, backed by clear EU/Dutch software license terms.

Curious what Winston would take off your plate?

Live chat: "Ask me a question". A small dialog asks for your reply email address before the first message goes out; Winston answers inside the thread and files it for Jan-Willem. This thread is closed - your enquiry is filed. I'll follow up personally. Thank you!

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