Argo

The AI that knows you,
without owning you.

Argo is a private AI journal. It reads every entry you've written, finds patterns you'd never see, and asks the question you weren't asking yourself. It never sells your data. It never trains on your words. The key never leaves your device.

See how it works
Daily journaling

Three pages a day.
That is the whole ask.

Write it, speak it on a walk, or film it before bed. Argo transcribes it all and counts every word toward your day. Cross 750 words and the day is yours: your streak grows, and it stays grown. No streak you have earned is ever taken back.

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The Argo Journal list, filterable by All, Text, Voice, Video, and Image
The payoff

Get the highlights.

The moment you hit 750 words, Argo reads the day and hands you something back.

A real Daily Insights card generated by Argo, including its gem haiku

A real Daily Insights card. Generated the moment you cross 750 words.

The gem

An idea born, takes shape in voice and silence, a gift to the world.

A real gem from that card: a three-line haiku distilled from a real day of writing, abstracted so it is safe to share.

What is on the card

An insight. A new perspective. One question worth sitting with. Your streak, your word count, and the emotional texture of the day.

All grounded in what you actually wrote that day.

Yours to keep

Tap Share to send it to Messages, Instagram, or anywhere else. Nothing leaves your device unless you choose to send it.

Sharing is always your call, never automatic.

The Argo entry composer, showing Record, Photo, Video, Dictate, and Upload
Capture in any format

Write it. Speak it. Film it.

Voice, text, video, or a photo of a handwritten page. Argo transcribes it all and counts every word toward your day.

A voice entry being recorded in Argo
Whatever the moment calls for

Talk it out on a walk.

Recording is always one tap away. Come back later, or let Argo transcribe it the moment you stop.

An AI that has read every entry

It asks the question
you were not asking.

Argo does not hand you answers. It draws on your actual history to ask the question that makes you say it more truly, and reads across months of entries to return a view of you that you could never construct from inside your own head.

An Argo journal entry with an AI summary and a Chat about this entry buttonA live voice conversation with the Argo AI companion

Nobody can read it. Not even us.

Zero-knowledge
Open source
Confidential AI

The key never leaves your device. Our servers hold noise. Transcription and OCR happen on-device; AI insights use private, encrypted, anonymized cloud processing.

What Argo Won't Do

  1. Art. I.

    Sell your data

    Because the architecture can't. Your key never leaves your device. Our servers hold noise, not your words.

  2. Art. II.

    Train on your entries

    Because speech-to-text and handwriting recognition run on your device, and AI inference is anonymised. Your writing is never training data, not ours and not anyone’s.

  3. Art. III.

    Show you ads

    Because Argo is paid for by its members. There is no advertiser to serve, so there is nothing about you to sell.

Own your practice

Every day becomes a star.

Every day you cross your 750-word goal becomes a star in your On-Chain Soul: a soulbound token on Base, public, provably earned, impossible to fake, and permanently yours.

The community

Built in public, with you.

The Argo flywheel: podcast, AI course, kids class, and community feeding one another

The Argo Podcast

12+ guests

Verified voices from crypto, AI, and startups, all building things that don’t extract their users.

The kids class

3 classes, 10 paying subscribers

AI and STEM education that teaches sovereignty: not just how to prompt, but how to own your tools.

The AI Power Users course

$100+ per head

Free online. Paid in person, in Singapore, and now Cambodia. AI literacy as a practice of independence.

The community

100,000+ views, ~$0 ad spend

AI education, kids programme, yoga, DJ livestreams. A membership where privacy is the standard, not the premium.

Real results

What early readers, guests, and subscribers are saying.

12+ podcast guests. 10 paying kids-class subscribers. Live on the App Store today.

Chong Ing Kai on the tension of a $1M startup: Social vs Enterprise
David Johnston of Morpheus: Own your AI or be a serf
Daniel Im of Belief Market, Hinton's student, on building TikTok for opinions
A photo marking Argo's first paying customer

Merge with AI. One conversation at a time.

Free to download. Requires iPhone with iOS 17 or later.

Download on the App Store
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