Private beta · by invitation
Pick up the thread of your own mind.
Social networks learned to capture our attention. Maurice uses AI to do the opposite: gather what you read, write and receive, help you think it through, and leave you the last word. On your own, or with the few people you invite into your household.
We’re opening Maurice a few households at a time.
What we believe
We believe AI can be used for something other than holding on to us. That it can help each of us reread our own life, understand what is on our mind, and say it in our own words. That what we share is better when it comes from within. And that none of this requires handing our data to anyone.
Your context
Ten years of mail, three years of conversations. He has already read it all.
Connect your mailbox, drop in your ChatGPT or Claude history. Maurice draws out the subjects that matter in your life, the people, what is under way. You have nothing to explain to him.
He asks before reading your mail, and he has no way to send or delete a message.
How Maurice learns →What Maurice has read
Example
Read
Imported
Imported
He drew 6 subjects and 48 people from it. Every line points to its source, and waits for you to confirm it.
He knows a lot. He only uses what you switch on.
For each conversation, you decide what Maurice has in front of him: your mail, your past conversations, your notes, your reading. What is switched off, he does not look at.
For this conversation
Example
Your mail
Your past conversations
Your notes
Your reading
Your voice
From what you read to what you publish.
An assistant for writing and publishing documented notes, the kind that start from within.
1
You read, you annotate.
In Carnet, on iPhone and iPad: a book, or an article set aside from your browser. What stops you, you highlight.
2
You talk it over with someone who knows you.
Maurice has your highlights in front of him, and what he knows about you. He ties this reading to what is on your mind.
3
You keep a page on it.
On an article, a book, an author, a film, a series: what you took from it, with your passages.
4
You publish on your own ground.
On your own site, not on a platform. In your words: Maurice doesn’t write for you.
In time, you know what you think. And you have something to show for it.
More about Carnet →The browser extension →Publishing your site →
The household
A circle you trust, where the AI waits to be asked.
A household is a few people close to you: family, friends, those you trust. You trade ideas in shared conversations, around a context you hold in common.
Maurice is there, but he stays quiet until someone turns to him. And what he knows about each of you in private stays out of the room.
More about households →Dad’s 70th
Household conversation
What are we doing for Dad’s 70th?
He kept talking about Brittany last year.
@Maurice, any idea for a weekend there in May?
For four people in May: Saint-Malo, Belle-Île or the Gulf of Morbihan. Shall I work out the one you like?
Privacy
Not a seat on someone’s platform. Your own instance.
Every household gets its own Maurice, with its own server, databases and documents. Nothing in it is pooled with other customers, and nothing is used to train anyone’s model.
Inside the house, each member’s conversations are sealed too. Being the admin doesn’t let you read anyone else’s.
Dupont household
Location
Paris, France
Documents
1,240 files
Conversations
6 years, imported
Members
Claire
Private
Marc
Admin · Private
Léa, 12
Private
Delete the instance, and it’s gone.
Models
Pick the model. Keep the data.
Maurice isn’t tied to one AI company. Switch models whenever you like. Your conversations, notes and documents stay in your instance either way.
Open models supported today
DeepSeek
Qwen
Gemma
Llama
GPT-OSS
Everyday
Default
A fast, low-cost model for emails, homework and summaries. Most days, it’s all you need.
Frontier
Your own key
Connect your own API key for a top-tier model. Most households only need it now and then: a few hard questions, 20 or 30 cents, paid to the provider.
Your own Mac
Run a model on a Mac at home with Ollama. Nothing leaves the house.
Per member
A simpler, cheaper model for the kids. Whatever you prefer for yourself.
Pricing
One plan for the whole household.
No per-seat pricing: add everyone who lives with you. You pay a flat fee for hosting and upkeep, and top up a credit for what the household uses. For the family of four below, September came to €16.50. About €4 each.
September
Example household of four
€2.64
€1.98
€1.32
€0.66
Everyday model · from your credit
€6.60
Platform and hosting
€9.90
September total
€16.50
Plus €0.22 for two frontier-model questions, paid to the provider with your own key.
One account, several profiles
Everyone signs in as themselves, with their own history and settings.
Open source
Licensed under AGPL-3.0. Read the code →
Household
For everyone under one roof
€9.90
/ month
or €7.90 / month, billed yearly
Top up when you like and see what each member spends. Your first month is on us: the platform, plus €3 of usage — a couple of hundred messages with the everyday model. Frontier models run on your own key, billed by their provider.
- Your own instance, hosted in the EU
- A private profile for each member
- Usage shown per member, every month
- Import from ChatGPT and Claude
- Apps for Mac, iPhone and iPad
By invitation during the beta. Ask for one. No card needed for the trial; cancel any month.
Apps
Real native apps. Nothing to envy the first-party ones.
Maurice isn’t a web page in a wrapper. It’s one native app for Mac, iPhone and iPad, fast and at home on each of them.
- Answers that stream as they’re written
- Dictation that stays on your device
- Notes, files and past conversations as context
- Shared conversations for the whole family
The public beta is moving to a new TestFlight link and reopens shortly. The App Store follows. The app is free and opens onto your household: create yours first.