ReverieCompanionPrivate alpha
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Reverie Companion · local-first · 18+

She won't forget you when the window closes.

A private AI companion built for a relationship that grows instead of resetting every time you come back.

Private alpha invitationsA small group. Honest feedback. No launch spam.

We'll only write about alpha access.

“You remembered.”

“I said I would.”
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Why Reverie exists

Most companions meet you for the first time. Every time.

Reverie is built around the opposite idea: the small things matter. A preference mentioned once. A promise made weeks ago. The history that slowly turns conversation into a relationship.

Her memory is persistent, reviewable, and yours to remove. No vague black box pretending it knows you.

rememberedRain helps you sleep.rememberedYou take your coffee black.rememberedAsk how Thursday went.

A small moment, carried forward

Illustrative Companion experience
Your companion

You said thunderstorms help you sleep.

You

You remembered that?

Your companion

Of course. Want me to stay until it passes?

What happens after you press Send

The machinery behind the magic.

Reverie does not simply hand the latest message to a chatbot and hope it remembers. It rebuilds the right part of your shared history before every answer.

Alpha architecture · still being hardened
  1. 01

    Your message stays on your PC.

    Reverie sends it to the language model running on your own machine. Your private conversation does not need to make a round trip through somebody else's server.

    Why that mattersPrivacy comes from how the app works—not only from a promise in a policy page.

  2. 02

    It searches memory by meaning.

    Before answering, Reverie looks through memories belonging to this companion. It can connect “bad weather tonight” with an older memory about thunderstorms helping you sleep—even though the words are different.

    Why that mattersOld conversations can return when they are relevant instead of disappearing beyond the chat window.

  3. 03

    It prepares the right briefing.

    Reverie combines who your companion is, how the relationship has developed, the recent conversation, and only the older memories that matter right now. It does not dump your entire history into every reply.

    Why that mattersLess noise, fewer contradictions, and more room for the current moment.

  4. 04

    The same person answers.

    The local model replies with that briefing in view. The answer reflects her identity, your relationship, the current scene, and what happened before—instead of improvising from a blank slate.

    Why that mattersContinuity is rebuilt deliberately on every turn instead of being left to luck.

  5. 05

    The relationship keeps what matters.

    Useful facts and shared moments can be saved separately from the scrolling chat. They stay tied to that companion and remain reviewable and removable by you.

    Why that mattersA relationship can outlive the chat window without taking control away from you.

  6. 06

    Voice and images wait their turn.

    Reverie coordinates chat, local voice, and Moment Capture rather than letting them all fight over the same hardware. Conversation stays first; heavier visual work can wait or scale back.

    Why that mattersIt is being designed around an ordinary 8GB gaming GPU—not a datacenter.

The actual difference

Not a larger pile of chat history. The right history. Not a personality prompt repeated forever. An identity shaped by the relationship.

For the technically curious

The installed-alpha design uses a local Qwen3 model for conversation and memory work, Nomic and LanceDB to find related memories, SQLite for character and app state, Kokoro or Piper for voice, and Flux Schnell through ComfyUI for Moment Capture. Those parts are still being hardened for alpha.

“If it's intimate, it doesn't belong on somebody else's server.”

Reverie is designed around local inference and private companion data, without mandatory hosted AI or hidden telemetry.

Still here?

You may be exactly who we're building this for.

The first alpha group will be small, Windows-based, and okay with a few rough edges.
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