An AI that actually knows you.
The future of AI augmentation is personal AI: long-lasting AI assistants with identity, memory, accumulated context, and bounded autonomy, that learn how to work with a specific person. This is way more powerful than an AI chatbot — and the future is now. I've been helping people ship their own personal AI for the last couple of months. Email me or sign up below for updates about free and paid sessions.
My personal mission: equip as many humans as possible, as quickly as possible, with powerful personal AI that they understand and that is under their control.
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What's working, what's coming, and how to start. A few times a month, no more.
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I'm Peter Kaminski. I help people get going with personal AI. 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. Early beta, not for newbies yet.
- Read along — essays in Writing and notes from the workbench in Research. Both shelves are just getting started — there's more on the way soon.
- Work with me — free live workshops, hands-on workshop modules (coming soon), coaching for you or a few colleagues together, and consulting: ways to put personal AI to work, at whatever depth fits.
- Join PKAI Insiders — the paid membership: open-house session recordings, previews, and research posts before they go public.
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. Chatting with an AI means going somewhere, asking, and starting over each time. A personal AI that knows you is always on and already in context — in the background of everything you do, not a place you visit.
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.