Short answer: K-AI is a personal AI agent. A personal AI agent whose memory lives on your Mac: Kai watches the mail, chat and calendar you choose, runs errands such as reorders, bookings and forms on its own virtual computer inside your Mac, and waits for your OK on payments, deletions and account changes.
K-AI
Key facts
| Website | https://getk-ai.com/ |
|---|---|
| Vendor | Kai Shade (independent project; operator named in the K-AI terms) |
| Channels / category | Native Mac app (Windows builds exist internally but are not ready). Watches the Gmail or IMAP mail, Google Chat and calendar you choose. Cloud models (with secrets masked) or local models via a bundled llama.cpp server. |
| Pricing / availability | Free public beta on Mac (7 Nov 2026). The local app is free and works with local models; an optional K-AI Cloud plan adds sync and browser access, but its price was not shown on the pages we checked (9 Nov 2026). |
| Launched | 2026-11-07 |
| Funding (reported) | Unknown |
| Channels confirmed | Desktop appEmail |
| From the site (verbatim) | “AI that lives on things you own. A personal agent on your computer, and a band that hears what you say you will do.” |
| Sources | [1] [2] [3] |
| Last checked | 2026-11-11 |
What can K-AI do?
- Live in public beta on 7 Nov 2026, free on Mac, announced by its builder Kai Shade source
- The default agent, Kai, watches the inbox, chat and calendar you choose and tracks shipments, orders, bills, appointments and bookings as events source
- You set each category to handle, ask first or ignore: orders and trips are handled on their own by default, bills and account cases ask first; quiet hours are available source
- Approvals are enforced in code outside the model for spending, messaging as you, deleting, account changes and installs; each approval works once, for that exact action, for ten minutes source
- Memory, skills, notes, tasks, calendar and mail state live in a folder on your disk with a local vector store; you can export and import them source
- The agent works on its own Linux virtual machine booted with Apple's Virtualization framework, with a browser, terminal and desktop you can watch live source
- A privacy bridge on your Mac swaps card numbers, passwords, keys, ID numbers, emails and phone numbers for placeholders before a cloud model sees a request; names are not hidden source
- Local models run through a bundled llama.cpp server (from Qwen3 4B up to Qwen3 14B or Gemma 4 26B); with a local model nothing leaves the machine source
- Kai works while your computer is on; Mac only for now, and the first run downloads the virtual machine and a local model source
- The local app is free; optional cloud adds sync and browser access. The software is offered under the Apache License 2.0 source
Frequently asked questions
What is K-AI?
A personal AI agent whose memory lives on your Mac: Kai watches the mail, chat and calendar you choose, runs errands such as reorders, bookings and forms on its own virtual computer inside your Mac, and waits for your OK on payments, deletions and account changes.
How much does K-AI cost?
Free public beta on Mac (7 Nov 2026). The local app is free and works with local models; an optional K-AI Cloud plan adds sync and browser access, but its price was not shown on the pages we checked (9 Nov 2026).
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