About
Everyday AI, under your control
Research & development · Updated October 2026
“How private, and how in control, can we stay in a world that’s becoming run by AI?”
At BnC Studios, we believe everyone deserves software built with their privacy and security in mind. Not just on the backend of a service, but from your phone to your computer to how the software gets built.
Everyone is going to have their own personal assistant, and we believe it needs to keep your data yours. Your life, your photos, emails, finances, love notes. All of it should be yours to share.
We’re working on it.
Privacy
Your data stays on your devices unless you choose to share it
Control
You decide what AI can see, what it can do, and where it runs
Build
Security designed in from the start, with the tools you want
Launch
Built to run on hardware you own
Products
Tools for everyday AI
- The frameworkPrivacy · Control
- A framework focused on your privacy and control. Built to run in any harness, on any device, with any model. Audit trails come built in. We want this to be the standard, so it will be open source under Apache 2.0.
- On the tip of your tonguePrivacy · Control
- An assistant focused on your life, that remembers what you tell it. It runs local first on your phone, so your memories stay yours.
- Your army, your wayControl · Build
- Every AI coding agent you run, across tools and machines, orchestrated in one place. Check in from your desk or your phone, then put your feet up.
- Organization in the AI ageBuild
- A workspace that turns loose ideas into projects and work items, for people and AI agents to pick up together. You bring the ideas, your agents do the heavy lifting, and when it all pours in, nothing gets lost in the drain.
- Room to stretchBuild · Launch
- Virtualization on hardware you own, where your agents can build, test, and ship real work, and you can call it yours.
Findings
Privacy isn’t free
Early testing
Every limit has a cost. We test how much usefulness each level of privacy and control takes away, and how little a big cloud model really needs to see to help.
- 138 → 0 of 487
- Account numbers, contacts and amounts that reached the stand in for the cloud model, before and after our limits.
- 40 → 23 of 80
- Correct decisions, before and after the limits. That’s the cost, and we count it.
Small tests on synthetic data so far, searching for what’s useful and what would make us all throw our hands up.
Client work
Have something to build?
We also take on some client work: building your website, scaling your backend, untangling your Kubernetes cluster, or trimming your cloud bill. If you have a project in mind, get in touch.
Contact
Get in touch
Questions about what we’re building, or a project of your own? Write us.
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