You have circled this before — in session 009, you wrote that retrieval is the act of remembering you already chose.
Keep the thoughtsthat were yours.
Your reading, your conversations, your unfinished arguments — gathered into one quiet place that answers only to you.
Why Kompas
We read more than ever, talk to AI all day, produce words by the thousand. And almost none of it is ours.
The feed scrolls past. The model answers, we nod, we close the tab. Nothing compounds — so we think the same thought again next week, from scratch.
Kompas is a correction. Every session becomes a node in your graph — not a training signal, not a cloud dataset. A private record of how you think.
Originality is not invention. It is recollection with intent.
The instrument
Your sessions become a graph.
Your graph becomes your writing.
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How it works
Four rooms. One instrument.
01
Capture
Documents, highlights, voice notes, web pages. Marked as yours before anything else touches them.
02
Session
Open a bearing and talk it through. Kompas asks better questions back — using your past notes, decisions, and reading.
03
Graph
Every session becomes nodes and edges — decisions, memories, retrieved passages. Today's thought brushes against yesterday's.
04
Write
Pull sessions into a page. Retrieved fragments sit in the margin. The voice is unmistakably yours.
Originality
Your words,
written back to you.
Kompas doesn't write for you. It writes with you — by remembering what you already wrote. The margin holds your own notes, old sessions, underlined passages, laid out next to the cursor so your hand can reach them.
100%Your data lives in a local SQLite database. Export to Markdown and JSON at any time.
0Training on user content. Ever.
MITOpen source. The desktop app is published under the MIT license.
Patience, when it is not a virtue.
I keep catching myself calling slowness a principle when it is really a fear. What I admire in patience is not what I am practicing.
Who Kompas is for
Built for people whose thoughts need continuity.
Essayists
For drafts that carry your argument, not the model's.
Researchers
For conversations you need to come back to — with the reading still next to them.
Founders
For decisions you've made before, and the reasons you made them.
PKM practitioners
For a graph that grows out of what you actually did, not what you meant to file.
Pricing
Honest, quiet pricing.
You own your graph on every tier.
FreeBring your own API key
$0Forever · Open source- ◦ Unlimited local sessions, library, writer, and graph
- ◦ Full retrieval — SQLite FTS + vector, all on your disk
- ◦ Local-first — your data never leaves your device
- ◦ OpenAI API key required · Claude, Codex, or local models optional
- ◦ macOS Apple Silicon today · Intel & Windows on the roadmap
- ◦ Markdown & JSON exports
- ◦ MIT open source
Pro
$38Per month · or $33/mo billed annually · ≈ ₩49,000- ◦ Everything in Free, plus:
- ◦ Cloud sync — desktop and browser stay in step
- ◦ GPT-5.4 included — no API key needed
- ◦ Cloud-hosted graph, accessible from any browser
- ◦ Included AI usage for sessions, transcription, and compiled knowledge
- ◦ 7-day free trial · no credit card required
- ◦ Priority support
Questions
Before you download.
01Does Kompas train on my sessions?+
Never. Your sessions, notes, and graph live in a SQLite file on your disk. We do not collect, log, or train on your content. The only network calls are to the LLM providers you choose to configure — and their own data policies then apply.
02How is this different from ChatGPT or Claude?+
Those are tools you talk to. Kompas is a place where your conversations, documents, and half-finished arguments live together — and surface themselves when today's thought brushes against something from last month.
03Which LLM does Kompas use?+
On Free (desktop), you bring an OpenAI API key for voice sessions, transcription, and embeddings. You can optionally add Claude, Codex, or local models via Ollama. On Pro (cloud), GPT-5.4 is included — no API key needed.
04Is the desktop app open source?+
Yes. The desktop app is MIT-licensed open source. Cloud-only code — billing, hosted models, and abuse detection — remains closed and lives in a separate private repository.
05What happens if I cancel Pro?+
Your desktop app keeps working on the Free tier with your own API keys. Cloud data — hosted graph, transcription archives — is exportable to Markdown and JSON before your billing period ends. Desktop data always stays local.
06Can I use Kompas in a browser?+
The desktop app is local-only today. Browser access is part of the Pro cloud tier, which is coming soon. The 7-day free trial will be available when the cloud launches.
07Windows and Linux?+
The app is built on Tauri, so Windows and Linux builds are on the roadmap. macOS Apple Silicon is available today. Platform pages will be updated when builds are ready.
08Do I need an internet connection?+
Browsing and editing local data works offline. Network is used only when you call an LLM or use voice transcription. With local models via Ollama, AI features can run offline too.
Start the thought.
Keep it yours.
Free on desktop. Your graph stays yours.