Saw Hayley's stance on on-device transcription and patterns staying on the phone. We made the same call and it is harder than it looks once you say it out loud. Minimi is an ambient memory layer for Claude. It captures what you see and what is said on calls, on your Mac, encrypted on-device. Keeping capture and storage local meant giving up some easy wins (cross-device sync, cheaper retrieval) in exchange for a promise we could actually stand behind. Two things I am still wrestling with: retrieval quality without cloud-side processing, and how to explain local-first to people who assume cloud by default. How are you framing it? We launched this week. If the local-first angle is your thing, I would genuinely like your read on it.
Most memory tools I have tried solve storage and retrieval well, but still rely on me to manually save context. The part that kept breaking for me was capture: the useful context is the call I just had or the thing I was reading 20 minutes ago, and I never remember to save it in the moment. We took a shot at the ambient version of this with Minimi. It captures screen activity and call audio on your Mac, keeps it encrypted on-device, and exposes it back to Claude over MCP, so retrieval happens inside the chat you are already in. Curious how this community thinks about the manual-save vs ambient-capture tradeoff, and whether on-device changes the calculus for you. If you want to see the approach, it is on our PH page from this week and I would value honest feedback.
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