My self-hosted AI assistant holds months of irreplaceable personal memory. War stories from making it actually survivable — silent failures, restore drills, and the discipline that turns backups from a checkbox into a guarantee.
I run a self-hosted AI chief-of-staff for myself. A friend who runs deal-flow at a family office asked for one. Here's the architecture, the build plan, and the design decisions that actually matter.
I spent a week using a Plaud recorder as the capture layer for my self-hosted AI assistant — meetings, car rides, late-night voice memos. Here's what worked, what hallucinated, and the pipeline design lessons.
My self-hosted AI assistant holds months of irreplaceable personal memory. War stories from making it actually survivable — silent failures, restore drills, and the discipline that turns backups from a checkbox into a guarantee.
Read MoreI run a self-hosted AI chief-of-staff for myself. A friend who runs deal-flow at a family office asked for one. Here's the architecture, the build plan, and the design decisions that actually matter.
Read MoreI spent a week using a Plaud recorder as the capture layer for my self-hosted AI assistant — meetings, car rides, late-night voice memos. Here's what worked, what hallucinated, and the pipeline design lessons.
Read MoreI linked my Instagram followers and following to my personal CRM, classified 900 accounts into topical buckets, and built an unfollow workflow — using only official data exports. No scraping, no API abuse, no account risk.
Read MoreThe most important component in my self-hosted AI assistant is the one that says no. Why every outbound action goes through a deterministic approval gate, and why that lives in code, not in a prompt.
Read MoreAgent memory is where most personal-AI projects quietly fail. Why my self-hosted assistant uses Hindsight for semantic memory, what kinds of memory it actually captures, and the honest gotchas from running it in production.
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