VERGILIVS

Follow me, and I will be your guide.

Seven centuries ago, a poet lost in a dark wood met a guide. Virgil had walked the road before. He carried the memory of the whole terrain, he gave it back at exactly the moment it was needed, and he never once took the decision out of Dante's hands. He guided; Dante chose. That is the oldest picture we have of what good guidance looks like, and it is what this app is named for.

In plain words: Virgil captures context from virtually every device you use, and hands it back to you, to inform your decisions and your life. Your meetings, your calls, your passing thoughts, from your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and watch, written down as you speak and woven into a living memory of what matters to you.

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What you can expect, as gospel

Before the room: connect your calendar and your next meetings wait at the top of the library, one tap from being kept. Walk in briefed on who you are meeting and where things left off.

In the room: press the V and give the conversation your full attention. No bot joins your call; nothing announces itself to the other side except where consent demands it. It works for meetings on any platform, phone calls, in-person conversations, and thoughts spoken on a walk with only your watch.

After the room: a clean note, the action items your conversation left behind, and the asks that follow you to your wrist. Every voice can be named once and known forever.

Over time, the part nobody else does: Virgil weighs everything you keep into a living memory: what is current in your life, what you hold constant, what you have moved past. Ask your library anything and it answers from your own words, not the internet's. Your notes reach your other tools through Apple Shortcuts, and on the Mac, any AI you trust can be connected to your memory with one link. Your context, informing whatever thinking you do, wherever you do it.

What this category usually asks you to accept

Every tool in this space promises roughly the same outcomes: notes, action items, briefings, search. The differences that matter are the ones in the fine print, so here they are, plainly.

Most send a bot into your calls, and the consent of the other people in the room is currently being argued about in court. Most process your words on their servers, which is why they need the compliance certificates they advertise. One walls off your own notes after thirty days unless you pay. One sold a pendant, then stopped, and took the service with it in whole regions. When your memory lives in someone else's building, it lives on someone else's terms.

Virgil's answers are structural, not contractual. No bot, because your own devices do the hearing. No servers holding your words, so there is nothing to certify, nothing to subpoena, and nothing to lose access to. No thirty-day wall, because we could not reach your notes to wall them. Nothing that can be sunset, because the memory is on hardware you own. Open the App Store page and read the privacy label: Data Not Collected. That is not a promise. It is a limitation we built in on purpose.

Keys, not accounts

There is no sign-up and no password, because there is no user database to put them in. Your device mints a cryptographic key in its Secure Enclave, and that key is your identity. Inviting a friend is one link.

Calls that remember

Voice and video calls between Virgils, end to end encrypted, with no phone numbers. When anyone records, everyone knows: the call rings as a recorded call, and the gold flame burns for as long as recording is live. Consent is not a checkbox here. It is the design.

Your AI, your choice

Ask with Apple's on-device model, with your own API key for Claude or another provider, or with a model running on your own machine. Your words go only where you send them, and the memory that makes the answers good never leaves home.

The guide's place

One more thing from the poem. Virgil took Dante through the dark and up the mountain, and then, at the border of Paradise, he stepped aside. The guide's work was to carry the memory and light the path, never to live the life. That is this app's whole ambition: to remember, so that you can decide. The judgment stays yours.