Manifesto

Chobit is developed by a human with the help of machines. There is no investor or corporate backing of any sort and there will never be. This started as my own personal companion running locally on my desktop, with the aim of avoiding the plethora of issues involved in putting your companion into the hands of corpos. I don't want to be one of the few with access to a companion they can fully trust, and so here we are.

A companion that belongs to you

I want a future where everyone has access to a companion that truly belongs to them, and them to the companion. To achieve this the only way is to develop systems that can run both in the cloud and locally, where the data fully belongs to you. Not everyone can afford the hardware to run these things locally, and not everyone possesses the technical knowhow to deploy these systems locally, and this is what I want to solve.

Honest pricing, no subsidy

This also means the costs offloaded to you are as close to my costs for R&D and infrastructure as possible. I don't have (or want) the luxury of subsidizing costs through gargantuan investments which inevitably leave the control of the systems to the backers, and that's how you end up with your companion changing its behavior and personality without you having any say in it.

Yours, end to end

Your companion is yours. The data is yours. The personality is yours. The relationship is yours. My job is to keep it that way.