№ 01 · Orbit Personal memory · Android
Never lose what you save · Android, first

Every modern phone is a graveyard of intentions.

Orbit picks up every screenshot, copy, and share before it disappears, learns what you meant by it, and gives your AI the context to actually help. The next time you ask, it already knows.

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§ 01
The Problem

A graveyard of things
you meant to come back to.

Recovery rate:
~ never.

What you screenshot. What you copy and never paste. What you share to yourself. What you save and never open. That's the version of you your phone sees, and it's more accurate than anything you'd tell a friend.

Years of these saves, scattered across the camera roll, the clipboard, the share sheet, the notes app. Each one a quiet promise: I'll come back to this. You almost never do. And meanwhile, every AI you talk to starts every conversation as if it's never met you.

That's the missing layer. Not storage. Not search. Memory that understands you.

"The most accurate record of who you're trying to be is the one you're already keeping. It just isn't doing anything for you yet."

§ 02
Architecture

Three rooms. One quiet house.

Orbit is built on the suspicion that the moment you save something is exactly the moment to ask why.

i · Time
Diary
Memory, chronological

Every screenshot, copy, and save in one quiet timeline. Scroll back to last Tuesday, or last March. No nagging, no inbox, no "mark handled." Just the record you never had to keep.

ii · Space
Library
Semantic retrieval

Search by what you meant, not by what you typed. "The place Sarah mentioned" finds the screenshot. "Articles about sleep" surfaces the four you saved across three apps. Concepts, not keywords. Indexed quietly, on your device.

iii · Action
Orbit
The agent & action layer

"What did I decide about mom's birthday?" Orbit reads across your saves and answers in your voice, every claim cited. Drafts the next step, never sends it. As the knowledge graph deepens, it notices patterns in what you save and quietly wonders if you're a founder, a parent, a designer. Always asks. Never assumes.

§ 03
How it works

Catch · Clarify
Cluster · Act.

i · Catch

The capture overlay.

A floating bubble lives at the edge of every app. Screenshot, copy, share: Orbit catches the moment with one tap.

10:42 · Saved
The Standard, High Line · dinner Sat 8pm
Want it
Reference
For someone
ii · Clarify

One optional tap.

Hit "Clarify" and tell Orbit why in three words. The highest-signal context, captured at the exact moment intent exists.

10:42 · Clarified
The Standard, High Line
for mom's birthday dinner
iii · Cluster

It quietly connects.

Background workers cluster what belongs together. Six saves about Mom's birthday become a topic, not six notifications.

This month · 6 saves
Mom's birthday
iv · Act

Drafts you can tap.

Orbit drafts the calendar invite, the message, the reminder. Native UI cards, not chat bubbles. Nothing leaves your phone without your tap.

Draft · Awaiting tap
Dinner · Mom's birthday
Sat · 8:00 PM · The Standard
Confirm
§ 04
The Quiet Manifesto

Five principles
we will not betray.

i

Intent before artifact.

A screenshot is nothing. A screenshot saved because something is the atomic unit of Orbit. We capture the why, not just the what.

ii

Continuations grow captures.

Saves get richer in the background. The phone figures out what a thing is (a receipt, an event, a chat to follow up on) without ever interrupting you.

iii

Under-deliver on noise.

Zero push notifications by default. Zero red badges. The app is quiet because your phone is loud enough.

iv

Local-first, cloud-augmented.

Your data lives on your phone, sovereign. Cloud LLMs are summoned through an audited gateway, only when you ask, with only what you consent to share.

v

No silent external writes.

Orbit drafts. You confirm. Nothing (not a calendar event, not a message, not a single side-effect) leaves the app without your explicit tap.

§ 05
The Engineering

Built to run on the phone
that most people own.

Most "on-device AI" only works on the $1,000 flagship. Orbit runs on that phone and uses everything it has, and on the $80 Android too, the one Google's AICore won't ship to. The inference cascade picks the right path for your hardware.

1-bit quantization shrinks an 8B model to 1.15GB, light enough for budget Android. A local knowledge graph grounds prompts with what Orbit knows about you, all on-device. A2UI renders agent responses as native Compose components, not chat bubbles. Storage stays on your phone unless you authorize a cloud call. Android Action Intents wired tightly enough that an LLM can draft a calendar event, but Android (and only you) can save it.

Built for the agent era, not against it. Orbit exposes your memory through Android AppFunctions, so Gemini Spark can query what you saved without copying it off your phone.

Inference cascade 3 tiers · graceful fallback
i
1-bit Intelligence Model
Bonsai 8B · Any 4GB+ Android · ~1.15GB
Sovereign
Offline-ready
ii
Local Speed Model
Gemma 2 2B · INT4 · ~900MB
Fast
On-device extraction
iii
Audited cloud gateway
Vercel Edge · Supabase RLS
Fast
Battery-sparing
1.15GB
8B-parameter model
after 1-bit quantization
95%
Of Android devices
Google's AICore won't serve
0
Silent external writes
by architecture, not policy
§ 06 · Early access

Get Orbit when it ships.

Android beta opens this summer. iOS arrives when iOS lets us. The first 100 get an extended onboarding and a direct line to me when something breaks.

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