A real-life AI platform in development

AI that understandsyour real life.

Katally is a connected family of devices and software that turns everyday moments into memory, understanding, and support — with you in control.

SenseLifeNote
A Katally Sense prototype clipped to a backpack strap, its small display showing the voice and saving indicators.
Katally Sense — working prototype

Why Katally

AI knows what you type.It does not know how you live.

Today's AI understands prompts, documents, and online activity. But most of life happens away from a keyboard — in conversations, routines, relationships, physical spaces, and unfinished ideas.

Katally creates a thoughtful bridge between real life and AI, so support can be grounded in your actual context rather than a blank chat window.

How it works

From moments to meaningful context.

Katally is designed to move beyond raw recording and toward structured, understandable, useful personal context.

01

Experience

Katally devices observe selected moments from everyday life.

02

Understand

AI turns media, movement, and interaction into structured context.

03

Connect

People, places, projects, ideas, and events stay related over time.

04

Support

Katally helps you remember, reflect, communicate, and act.

Built, not rendered

Real hardware, iterated in the open.

Katally Sense has been through custom boards, printed enclosures, and days of wearing prototypes around a city. Every photograph on this site is a device that exists — because a context device has to survive real life before it can understand it.

3hardware generations
ESP32-S3camera, mic, and motion
Maker Fairetested with real visitors

Long-term context

Not a timeline. A growing understanding of your life.

Katally is designed to connect people, places, projects, ideas, and experiences — making the relationships between moments as useful as the moments themselves.

Explore Katally Note
Personal context graphGrowing over time
ProjectKatally SensePersonAlexPlaceStudioEventPrototype testIdeaMagnetic dock
Ask your context

“What did we decide about the charging dock?”

Privacy by design

Your life belongs to you.

Katally is being built around user control, transparent sensing states, local-first storage, and flexible retention — because personal context requires personal trust.

Read our principles

Pause directly

Clear device states and immediate controls.

Keep control

Choose what becomes lasting personal context.

Stay portable

A product direction built around exportable knowledge.

katally-extension.py

from katally import Context

class FocusSignal:
  def on_motion(self, event):
    if event.state == "still":
      Context.add(
        "signal": "deep_focus",
        "confidence": 0.82
      )
Extension running locally

Open edge

Build new senses for Katally.

Katally is being designed as an extensible platform for creators, researchers, and developers exploring how AI can understand the physical world.

Hardware references3D-printable accessoriesMicroPythonWebAssemblyContext APIsLocal integrations
Explore the developer direction

Follow the build

Help shape AI for real life.

We are looking for early users, researchers, families, and developers to try prototypes and challenge the assumptions behind them.

Start a conversation

Write to hello@katally.com — we read every message.