Sunil here, posting on behalf of myself and my cofounder Payal, we built OctoVault as a two-person team. The use case started personal: I have a folder called `important_docs/` with 84 PDFs in it - passports, my wife's I-797, our lease, paystubs, the kids' birth certificates and every time someone asked me "when does that visa expire?" I lost ten minutes digging through it. NotebookLM solves this by uploading everything to Google. ChatGPT by uploading to OpenAI. For these documents specifically, that always felt wrong. So Payal and I built the third option. OctoVault is a Mac app that runs the AI locally (Ollama, qwen3:8b + nomic-embed-text), extracts facts from each document, and links them in a knowledge graph you can chat with. The vault is SQLCipher-encrypted with a key derived from your password. Zero outbound calls in product runtime - the landing page has a DevTools screenshot to prove it. A few things we'd love PH's read on: 1. The graph view vs plain chat — is the graph the actual killer feature, or does Q&A alone do the job for 90% of cases? 2. A Chrome side panel that auto-fills DS-160 / I-130 / school forms from the same vault is in private beta. Useful, or creepy? 3. First-run installs Ollama for you if you don't have it (~5GB for the two models). Tolerable, or where does it break? Free for personal use. Pro $9/mo — reserve at launch and the price locks for life. Lifetime $499, capped at 200 seats (honest counter on the page). Mac DMG, signed + notarised: https://octovault.ai Bug reports & requests: support@octovault.ai (forwards directly to me). What's the most annoying piece of paperwork in your life right now? We'll reply with exactly what OctoVault would do with it.

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