Welcome to BrainDrive
I’m glad you’re here.
I’m Dave Waring the Co-Creator of BrainDrive. We’re on a mission to build a superior user-owned alternative to Big Tech AI systems.
BrainDrive is a personal AI system you own. It partners with you on your career, your relationships, your fitness, your finances — whatever matters to you. It interviews you to understand your goals, turns what it learns into a clear plan, and then works with you over time to follow through.
Every conversation builds Your Memory, and that memory lives on your machine under your complete ownership and control. The more you use your BrainDrive the better it gets to know you and the more powerful it becomes. And because you own your BrainDrive, that power compounds for you.
Where things are
- Welcome & Getting Started — you’re here. Install, set up, ask for help.
- Learn — the free course and our guides on running AI locally, AI privacy, models and hardware.
- Apps — one thread per BrainDrive app: what it does, how to install it, what changed, and what people are doing with it.
- BrainDrive Development — we build in public. Each app in development has its own thread, plus weekly dev-call updates and release notices.
- The Personal AI Architecture — the open standard BrainDrive is built on, for anyone building their own personal AI system.
Start here
- Getting Started with BrainDrive — install, connect a model, have your first conversation.
- How to Partner with AI to Define & Reach Your Goals — the free course on the method behind BrainDrive.
- Introduce yourself below. What do you want your AI to help you with? That’s the question BrainDrive is built around, and it’s the one we most want to hear from you.
Questions, problems, ideas — post them. Dave J and I read everything.
Welcome to the community!
— Dave W