An AI that actually knows you.
Not a chatbot you re-introduce yourself to every morning. Not another
big-tech product built to keep you hooked. A
personal AI that
remembers you, learns how you work, and grows more useful over time —
yours to keep. That's the real shift happening this decade this year, and you
don't have to wait for it.
Get occasional notes on personal AI
What's working, what's coming, and how to start. A few times a month, no more.
Or just email me — I read everything.
I'm Peter Kaminski. In the early '90s I helped people get online — phone lines, email, the World Wide Web. Today I help people get going with personal AI, and most of the time it's not as hard as it looks. More about me and what I'm working on →
Where to start
- Build your own, free — pkai-agent is a starter kit for a persistent, file-based personal AI you run yourself. Download it, open it, and it introduces itself and walks you through the rest.
- Read along — I'm writing The Age of Personal AI in the open and posting as I go.
- Work with me — coaching and hands-on help for people and companies putting personal AI to work.
Why personal AI
The frontier AI models are already extraordinary. The open question isn't how smart they get — it's how each of us actually puts them to work. "Chat with an AI" was the telegraph. A personal AI that knows you is the household current: always on, quietly in the background of everything you do.
A personal AI has identity, memory, and accumulated context. It learns how you think and work, keeps track across sessions, and earns more responsibility as it earns your trust. You own it and you direct it — it's a collaborator, not a vending machine, and not something you rent from a landlord who keeps the keys.
None of this is speculative. It runs today, on ordinary hardware, with tools you can pick up this afternoon. The Age of Personal AI is the case for living and working this way now — and this site is where I show how.
Curious, or not sure where you'd start? Email me and tell me what you're trying to do. Or grab the notes above and follow along.