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A personal AI agent with memory.

Ari remembers every conversation, every project, every goal I've set — for months. Reads my calendar and email with permission, drafts outbound, and tells me when I'm about to drop a ball. Runs locally on my Mac.

What Ari does → How it's built
FrameworkOpenClaw
Modelgpt-5.4
Messages467 logged
Lifetime cost$21.82
ari@sessions  // live
[23:14] user → “What's on my plate tomorrow?”
ari → reads calendar (3 events), inbox (7 unread), pulls 2 open goals from memory...
[23:14] tool call: calendar_read
[23:14] tool call: memory.query “open goals”
[23:14] tool call: inbox_scan
3 meetings. 2 are fluff — skip. ReplyGhost screenshots still owed to App Store reviewer. Also, Jon hasn’t replied in 9 days. Want me to draft a bump?
What Ari does

The "second brain" version that actually works.

Most "AI second brain" tools are notebooks with a chat interface. Ari has tools, a persistent memory file, and explicit goals it refuses to let me forget.

📅

Reads my calendar

Scans events each morning, flags low-value meetings, drafts decline copy when I ask.

📬

Triages inbox

Scans unread, surfaces the 3 that actually need me. Drafts replies when I say "handle it."

🎯

Tracks open goals

Persistent file of what I said I'd do, and when. Won't let me silently drop a thread.

🧠

Remembers context

Every person, project, and past conversation is in Ari's memory — for months, not sessions.

✉️

Drafts outbound

Cold reaches, follow-ups, intros. I approve before send. Ari's draft beats my blank page.

🔔

Proactive nudges

"Jon hasn't replied in 9 days" — Ari surfaces what I'd otherwise forget.

How it's built

OpenClaw + gpt-5.4 + a Mac.

Nothing exotic. The trick is the persistent memory architecture — Ari writes to structured files between sessions, not a vector database.

467
Priced messages
Every exchange tracked with exact token + cost
$21.82
Lifetime cost
Since the agent was first deployed
26M
Tokens processed
Across input, output, and cached reads
$0.05
Avg per message
Cheaper than a coffee for a full brain
Framework
OpenClaw — open-source persistent-memory agent runtime. Session checkpoints, tool registry, identity/soul files.
Model
gpt-5.4 via OpenAI API. Cost is pre-computed per message and logged to session JSONL.
Memory
Structured Markdown files (MEMORY.md, GOAL.md, IDENTITY.md, SOUL.md, DREAMS.md) that Ari reads at session start and appends to on key events.
Tools
Calendar, email, file system, Telegram, memory. Everything gated through OpenClaw's tool permission layer.
Host
Local macOS. Ari is always-on only when my Mac is awake — an intentional design to keep it bounded.
Interface
Chat via terminal, Telegram, and a macOS menu bar widget. Same agent, three surfaces.

Thinking of building one?

OpenClaw is open. The hard part isn't the framework — it's the memory layer design.

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