Research preview

Meet your Familiar.

A personal AI agent that triages your inbox, manages your calendar, runs your research, and remembers what matters — without the terminal, the babysitting, or the runaway bills.

By invitation while we're in research preview.

Douglas · keeps the inbox honest
Morning. 41 new emails — 3 need you. The rest I've handled. Two replies are drafted and waiting on you.
Send the one to Priya. Hold the other.
Done. I'll nudge you about the second after lunch.
The wall everyone hit

Personal AI agents arrived.
Then they got hard.

OpenClaw proved the dream is real. It also proved the problem. Setup takes a terminal, API keys, and Docker. Agents burn tokens on empty inboxes, rewrite their own configs, and fail silently. The power is there — but only for people willing to babysit it.

240K+
GitHub stars for OpenClaw — the demand is not in question
512
Vulnerabilities found in a single January 2026 audit
30K+
Agents found on the open internet with no password

Everybody's agent-curious. Almost nobody can do it alone. Familiar is the version that just works — hosted, safe, and useful in minutes.

Time to a working agent

The setup wall, gone.

Standing up a personal agent yourself can eat an afternoon. Your Familiar is working in the time it takes to read this page.

Self-hosted OpenClaw
4.5 hrs
Managed OpenClaw
45 min
Familiar
~68× faster
<4 min

Median time to a working setup in our own testing, early 2026.

Why Familiar

An agent you don't have to manage

Familiar runs in the background and reaches you where you already are. You stay in control of everything that matters.

Minutes, not hours

Sign up, have a short conversation, and connect your accounts with one click. Your Familiar is working before your coffee's cold. No API keys, no config files, no YAML.

Safe by default

It can read, draft, and remember on its own. Sending, spending, and deleting always wait for your okay — and it can never rewrite its own rules.

Genuinely yours

Smart on day one, indispensable on day seven. Your Familiar takes its character from the way you actually work and write — no two are alike, and yours sharpens the longer you're together.

One flat monthly price

No meter running, no tokens to count, no usage to watch. One price covers the models and the infrastructure — and an overnight job never turns into a surprise bill.

No model roulette

We choose the models, run the infrastructure, and keep it working — so you're not rebuilding your setup every time a new one drops. It's not broken, so we don't make you fix it.

How it works

From stranger to teammate in three steps

01

Have a conversation

Instead of a setup wizard, you meet your Familiar. It learns what you do, who matters, and where it can make you sharper.

02

Connect your world

One click links your email and calendar over OAuth. No keys to copy, nothing to configure — you're done in seconds.

03

Let it get to work

Your Familiar triages, drafts, schedules, and researches — then checks in. You approve anything that leaves the building.

What it does

What your Familiar can do today

A small set of capabilities we trust completely — not a marketplace of 5,700 half-working skills.

Inbox triage

Reads every email, surfaces the few that need you, and drafts the replies.

Calendar

Schedules meetings, catches conflicts, and writes your prep briefs before they start.

Web research

Looks things up, summarizes what matters, and tracks topics you care about.

Memory

Remembers your people, projects, and preferences across every conversation.

Reachable on Telegram

Message your Familiar from your phone. Slack, WhatsApp, and more are on the way.

Scheduled check-ins

Recurring tasks that run on their own — a morning brief, a Friday digest, whatever you need.

Safety

A capable agent on a short leash.

Most agent horror stories come down to one thing: the agent could do too much, too soon. Familiar is built the other way around.

On its own, it can

  • Read your connected accounts
  • Draft messages and replies
  • Look things up and summarize
  • Remember what it learns

It asks you first before

  • Sending any message
  • Posting anything publicly
  • Spending money
  • Changing or deleting data

It can never

  • Rewrite its own rules
  • Disable its guardrails
  • Touch a service you haven't connected
  • Act without logging it

Your accounts connect over OAuth, credentials are encrypted, and every action is logged. You widen the leash as trust grows — and you can always see exactly where it stands.

A woodcut engraving of a pine marten resting on a branch

Not an assistant. A familiar.

In folklore, a familiar is a companion that acts on your behalf — loyal, capable, a little uncanny. Yours takes shape from how you communicate and complements the way you work. It makes you look good to the world, and saves the clever bits for you. No two Familiars are the same.

“It felt like a real partner.”

From our research-preview cohort

Who it's for

Built with people who'd never touch a terminal

Our first users came from the hosted preview — sophisticated professionals, none of them developers, all of them with real work to hand off.

“It researches, tracks the developments I'm watching, and keeps the book moving while I think. I keep finding new things to hand it.”
Author & former tech executive
“Updating the calendar, sending invites — it used to eat my mornings. Now my days are just the calls, and the operational parts happen behind the scenes.”
Executive recruiter
“It doesn't judge the way a person would — it comes at the draft from an expert angle. I came for the novelty and stayed for the continuity tracking.”
Screenwriter

Composite reflections from our research-preview cohort. Named stories coming soon.

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Familiar is in research preview. We're onboarding new people in small groups, so every Familiar gets the attention it deserves.

We'll reach out when there's room. No spam, ever.