Press kit

Covering AiLocally?

Welcome. Whatever angle you're writing — privacy, MLX performance, indie founder, the future of local AI — this page has the assets and facts you need. Anything missing, email hello@ai-locally.com and we'll get back same day.

One-line description

AiLocally is a native macOS app that runs AI agents, pipelines, and chats 100% locally on Apple Silicon — with cross-conversation memory and an OpenAI-compatible server built in.

Longer (for an opening paragraph)

AiLocally is an indie Mac app built for developers and power users who want local AI without compromising on UX. Where Ollama gives you a great CLI runtime and LM Studio gives you a friendly Electron front-end, AiLocally goes one step further: a native SwiftUI app, MLX-accelerated inference, 22 built-in agents, a visual flow editor for multi-agent pipelines, and persistent memory backed by plain-text Markdown files. One-time licence, no subscription, no cloud, no telemetry.

Quick facts

Founded: 2026
Maker: Hector Rodriguez (indie)
Platform: macOS 26.1+ (Apple Silicon only)
Pricing: $29 Early Bird · $49 Personal · $129 Teams (lifetime, one-time)
Distribution: Direct download (not Mac App Store)
Status: v1.0 launched, beta cohort open

What makes it worth covering

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MLX-native, not yet another GGUF runner. AiLocally is built on Apple's MLX framework end-to-end. Benchmarks show 20–35% throughput gains over llama.cpp Q4_K_M on 30 B+ models — that changes which models are practical on a MacBook Pro.
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Crypto-only payments, by design. Built by a Venezuelan indie founder operating under US sanctions: no Stripe, no Lemon Squeezy. Pays via NOWPayments + USDT, settles directly to a self-custodial wallet. A real case study in how to ship a SaaS-grade product from a banked-out region.
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Private by architecture. No cloud, no telemetry, no account required. Licence verification happens offline via an Ed25519-signed JWT — server is contacted only to mint a new licence at purchase time. Memory entries are plain Markdown on your disk.
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Agents + pipelines, not just chat. 22 first-party agents, drag-and-drop multi-agent flow editor, gated tool execution. The thing the rest of the local AI ecosystem leaves to your shell scripts.

Quotes you can drop in

"Cloud AI made privacy the price of intelligence. Local AI on Apple Silicon makes that trade obsolete — we just had to build the app that takes advantage of it properly."
— Hector Rodriguez, maker of AiLocally

"Ollama and LM Studio cracked open the runtime. AiLocally is what happens when you treat the runtime as just one piece — and build the agents, pipelines, and memory layer on top, natively."
— Hector Rodriguez, maker of AiLocally

Logos & assets

All assets free to use in any coverage of AiLocally. No clearance needed.

Open Graph image

1200 × 630 PNG · for social embeds

Wordmark / favicon

SVG · vector, scales to any size

Need higher-res / additional aspect ratios / app screenshots? Reply to hello@ai-locally.com with what you need — we'll ship within 24h.

Brand guidelines (short version)

· Name spelling: AiLocally — one word, mixed case (capital A, lowercase i, capital L). Not "Ai Locally", not "ailocally", not "AILocally".
· Pronunciation: "ay-eye lo-cal-ly" — three distinct beats.
· Brand colour: #7C3AED (violet). Use sparingly — it's an accent, not a wash.
· Don't: add taglines onto the logo, recolour it outside grayscale, or place it on busy backgrounds without a backdrop.

Want a review copy?

We give complimentary lifetime licences to journalists, podcasters, and YouTubers reviewing the product. Email hello@ai-locally.com with your outlet / channel and we'll send a key within a day. We're also happy to do a demo call.