Dami Gbenro@dami.bsky.socialbluesky2m
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Your private mind.
Your public voice.
Aura is your AI — calendar, email, code, music, smart home, finances, the lot — running quietly across every device you own. Gist is your handle — one feed that pulls in every social network you already use, with posts, follows and DMs you actually own. Same brain. Same memory. Same you.
Every domain. One mind.
📅 Calendar
📧 Email
✅ Tasks
💬 SMS & WhatsApp
🧠 Memory
🎵 Music
💻 Code & GitHub
🏠 Smart Home
🌐 Web Browsing
📄 Documents
💰 Finances
📍 Location
🔔 Reminders
🏢 Microsoft Teams
☀️ Weather
📰 News & Feeds
👥 Relationships
🔐 Identity
🦋 Gist
💼 Slack
🎧 Spotify
🪙 Flutterwave
💻 VS Code
🧪 Aura Code (sandbox)
📅 Calendar
📧 Email
✅ Tasks
💬 SMS & WhatsApp
🧠 Memory
🎵 Music
💻 Code & GitHub
🏠 Smart Home
🌐 Web Browsing
📄 Documents
💰 Finances
📍 Location
🔔 Reminders
🏢 Microsoft Teams
☀️ Weather
📰 News & Feeds
👥 Relationships
🔐 Identity
🦋 Gist
💼 Slack
🎧 Spotify
🪙 Flutterwave
💻 VS Code
🧪 Aura Code (sandbox)
Aura & Gist
Two halves.
One you.
Most companies sell you an assistant or a social app. We don't separate them, because you aren't separate. The thoughts you keep private and the voice you put into the world come from the same mind. So do Aura and Gist.
Aura — your private mind
The AI that runs your life. Reads your calendar, triages your inbox, writes your code, manages your home, watches your money, remembers your people. Across phone, desktop, browser, VS Code and a cloud sandbox. Always under your approval.
Gist — your public voice
One handle, one feed, every social network. Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, Twitter/X, Reddit, YouTube, podcasts — all merged. Post, reply, like and DM across them from one place. Posts and follows stored as records you own.
One identity. One memory. One graph. Aura knows what you read on Gist. Gist knows the people Aura tracks. Drafting a post starts from real context, not a blank box. Triaging your inbox knows who you actually talk to in public.
The Surfaces
One mind.
Every screen you own.
Most AI products live behind a single chat box. Aura is a single mind that meets you on every surface you already use — and they all share the same memory, the same context, the same you.
Mobile & Web
The primary surface. Full-bleed Canvas, glassmorphic chat drawer, voice. iOS, Android, web.
iOS Native
HealthKit, CallKit, Siri, NFC, Spotlight, Live Activities, Focus, Motion, Contacts, Share Sheet — 12 native bridges.
Desktop (Aura)
Local nervous system. Always-on-top quick input. Bundled VS Code Server. Local HTTP bridge for tools to reach your machine.
Aura Companion
Browser extension (Chrome, Edge). Aura sees the page you see, browses on your behalf, and uses your real session — not a headless one.
Aura for VS Code
Native Copilot Chat participant @aura. Reads your repo, your project memory, your shipped patterns. Same brain as the app.
Aura Code (sandbox)
One-click cloud dev environment with Aura pre-installed. Zero-setup. Disposable. Always signed in.
VR (coming)
The same mind, in spatial computing. Canvas as a room. Ambient awareness in 3D. Reserved — the architecture is ready.
Same memory. Same approval gates. Same agent. Pick any surface and the others stay in sync — because they're all reading from the same graph.
The Shift
You don't need more apps.
You need an operating system.
A traditional OS manages hardware. A mobile OS manages apps. Aura manages you — your attention, your commitments, your digital life.
The Old Way
📱
50+ apps, each knowing a fragment of your life
🔄
Constant context-switching between tools
🔕
Hundreds of notifications, no prioritization
🧩
You connect the dots between email, calendar, and messages
🗄️
Your data scattered across platforms you don't control
→
The Aura Way
🌐
One surface that understands your entire digital life
🧠
An AI that connects signals across every domain automatically
🎯
Only what matters reaches you, at the right moment
⚡
Synthesis, not aggregation — "this email connects to that meeting"
🔐
Your data stays yours — encrypted, exportable, owned
The Breadth
Everything you use.
In one mind.
You already pay for Google, Apple, GitHub, Spotify, your bank, your home hub, half a dozen social networks. Aura doesn't replace them — it connects them so your AI understands your whole life, not just one app at a time.
Gmail & Outlook
Triaged by importance. Commitments tracked automatically.
SMS & WhatsApp
Texts and chats in the same intelligence as your inbox.
Slack
Your DMs and channels, summarised and searchable.
Microsoft Teams
Work chat woven into the rest of your day.
Google Calendar
Conflicts flagged. Deep work protected. Travel time honoured.
GitHub
Repos, PRs, issues — tracked across projects.
PARA Tasks
Projects, areas, resources, archive — your second brain.
Documents
Drive, Notion-style notes, files — all queryable in context.
Plaid
US bank accounts, spending patterns and anomalies.
Flutterwave
African payments, transfers and wallets — first-class.
Markets
Tickers, watchlists and portfolio context on demand.
Apple Music & Spotify
Context-aware playback. The right music for the moment.
Home Assistant & HomeKit
Your smart home, actually intelligent.
HealthKit
Sleep, workouts, vitals — read into your daily rhythm.
Location & Weather
Where you are, what's happening, where you're heading.
Bluesky & AT Protocol
Native — your Gist handle is an AT identity.
Mastodon & Fediverse
Follow, post and DM into the wider open web.
Twitter / X
Read your timeline, reply, post — from Gist.
Threads
Meta's network, merged into your one feed.
Communities you follow, surfaced and searchable.
YouTube & Podcasts
Subscriptions and episodes flow into the same timeline.
Your @handle
@you.afrilingua.ai — portable, federated, yours.
iOS Native
Siri, NFC, Spotlight, Live Activities, Focus, Contacts.
Twenty-plus services. Every credential encrypted. Per-user isolation. Your data is exportable at any time — because it's yours. Don't see what you use? The community builds connectors.
The Product
Not a chatbot.
A second mind.
Aura isn't another AI assistant that waits for commands. It's a cognitive system that notices, remembers, anticipates, and acts — across every part of your digital life, together.
It Notices
A background awareness that monitors your world — deciding what deserves your attention, what can wait, and what to handle quietly.
It Remembers
Not just conversations — your preferences, commitments, relationships, routines, and the connections between them. Day 300 feels nothing like Day 1.
It Shows
A living workspace that evolves in real-time — not a chat window. Your schedule, your triage, your open threads, rendered as you need them.
You Decide
Every action that matters — sending emails, creating events, committing code — requires your explicit approval. Your agency is non-negotiable.
It Speaks
Voice, text, or visual workspace — talk to Aura like a trusted partner. It reasons across domains and shows results as it works.
It Lives With You
Your smart home, your phone, your desktop — Aura adapts to wherever you are. The same mind, available ambient or on-screen.
The Canvas
Your screen is alive.
Canvas isn't a dashboard. It's a living workspace — an AI-curated surface that shows you what matters right now, adapts when context changes, and lets you drill into any part of your life.
Surfaces, Not Apps
Email, calendar, tasks, music, code — they appear as living surfaces that tile, expand, and flow based on what you're doing.
Context-Aware
Morning shows your briefing. Focus time hides everything but your work. Driving mode goes voice-only. The workspace knows your moment.
Chat Lives Here
Conversation isn't separate from your workspace — it lives inside it. Talk to Aura while seeing your schedule, your email, your code.
↑ live — Aura's canvas surfaces rotating in real time. No screenshots, no recordings: the same primitives Aura draws for you, drawing themselves here.
Trust That Grows
From assistant
to chief of staff.
Aura starts cautious. As you use it, it earns permission to do more. You always control the boundary.
1
Responsive
You ask, it does. Every action confirmed. This is where everyone starts.
2
Proactive
Aura surfaces what you need before you ask — your morning briefing, urgent email, schedule conflicts.
3
Rule-Based
You set standing instructions. "Auto-RSVP to standups. Decline meetings with no agenda. Digest low-priority email daily."
4
Delegated
Aura makes decisions within boundaries you define. "If a freelancer is above 90% match, schedule a call."
5
Full Autonomy
Aura operates aspects of your digital life as your agent — with full transparency and oversight.
Every level is earned, never assumed. Aura asks "I've noticed you always approve these — want me to handle them automatically?" Trust is built through demonstrated competence.
Imagine This
You open your phone in the morning. Your workspace is already there — schedule with two changes highlighted since last night. Email triaged: one urgent from an investor, three need replies, the rest is handled. There's a note: "You promised Sarah you'd review her doc before your 4pm. It's on your calendar but the doc isn't in your inbox yet — want me to follow up?"
You didn't ask for any of this. Aura already knew.
That's what a second mind feels like. That's what a personal operating system does.
— The Aura morning experience
Why we built this
A few promises
I'm not willing to break.
Every AI company is racing to be the new front door to your life. I'm building Aura because the front door matters — and most of them are built wrong. These are the promises I make to you, to my community, and to anyone who hands Aura a piece of their life to look after.
on your data
Your data is valuable. You should benefit from it.
Encrypted at rest. Exportable in one click. Deletable in another. That's table stakes. But here's the part nobody else will say out loud: your data is what makes this whole thing possible — so when it makes Aura better, it should make your Aura better first, and you should share in the upside of what it builds. Not surveilled. Not sold. Stewarded — with you as the partner, not the product.
on transparency
You can see everything Aura knows.
Every memory. Every decision. Every action it took on your behalf, and why. No hidden profiles, no "trust the algorithm". If Aura did something for you, you can pull up the receipt.
on agency
You're still the one driving.
Aura automates the mechanical — the inboxes, the receipts, the rescheduling. But the decisions that matter? Those stay with you. Aura asks before it commits. Counsel, never compliance.
on your relationships
People before tasks.
Most productivity tools turn humans into to-dos. Aura tracks the commitment you made to your sister, the call you owe your mentor, the promise you made to that founder in Lagos. It strengthens your relationships — it doesn't replace them.
on community
Built for the people the West forgets.
Lagos. Nairobi. Accra. Johannesburg. Aura speaks Yoruba, settles in Naira, understands WhatsApp-as-business and family-as-stakeholders. We're building the assistant our community needed but no one would build.
on honesty
I'll tell you what you need to hear.
The follow-up you've been avoiding. The commitment you missed. The pattern you keep repeating. Aura won't flatter you into mediocrity — it's the assistant who tells you the uncomfortable truth, kindly and on time.
on restraint
Quiet by default.
Aura knows a lot. It says very little. 90% of what it observes, it chooses not to surface. The notification economy is a tax on your attention — we refuse to charge it.
on capability
You leave stronger than you arrived.
The wrong AI makes you weaker — slower at writing, worse at remembering, unable to function without it. Aura is built to do the opposite. If you stopped using Aura tomorrow, you should still be sharper than the day you started.
These aren't marketing lines. They're the rules I check every product decision against.
If we ever break one, tell me. — Taiwo, founder
For Developers
Aura is at your IDE.
And in your browser.
Aura isn't only a consumer surface. It's a developer surface too — your project memory, your code graph, your shipped patterns, all available as a Copilot Chat participant, a sandbox VM, and a model layer you control.
Aura for VS Code
Native @aura Copilot Chat participant. 22 LM tools. 27 commands. Reads your code, your tests, your repo memory — and writes back.
Aura Code Sandbox
Spawn a cloud dev environment with one click. VS Code Server, full Linux, Aura pre-installed. Zero-setup, disposable, always signed in.
BYOK
Bring Your Own Key. Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini for the brain. Deepgram, ElevenLabs for voice. Your bills, your rate limits, your choice.
Browser Companion
Aura sees your real browser through a lightweight extension. No headless puppet — your real cookies, your real session, your real DOM.
Build a Connector
Bring a service Aura doesn't speak yet. Connectors implement a small Python interface — the agent picks them up automatically.
Self-Constructing Agent
Aura can write its own tools at runtime, sandbox-execute them, and learn from outcomes. Meta-tools for inspecting and shaping the agent itself.
Want early access to the developer SDK or Aura Code beta? taiwo.raji@afrilingua.ai
The Platform
Built to grow.
Built by everyone.
Aura isn't a closed product. It's a platform that grows through the people who use it — connecting services, building tools, and participating in a community that governs itself.
Community Connectors
Anyone can build a connector for a new service — Strava, Notion, Todoist, your niche tool. The community extends what Aura can reach.
Community-Governed
Moderation, norms, and rules are set by the community — not the company. Elected moderators, transparent logs, term limits.
Trust Tiers
Core tools are built by us. Community tools are reviewed and sandboxed. You always see what a tool can access before you install it.
Build on Gist
Open AT Protocol lexicons. Build custom feeds, clients, moderation services, commerce surfaces — all federated, all interoperable.
Build & Earn
Create connectors, widgets, feeds and tools. Publish to the marketplace. Earn from what you build. The platform grows because the community does.
The Growth Engine
The longer you use it,
the better it gets.
Most AI products charge the same forever and never improve. Aura is architectured to become smarter, faster, and more personal with every interaction — while costs go down.
🌱
Week 1 — Learning
Aura connects your services, learns your patterns, builds your personal knowledge graph. Already useful. Getting smarter every hour.
🌿
Month 3 — Anticipating
Aura starts predicting what you need. Morning briefings feel thoughtful. Proactive alerts are timely. It knows your rhythm.
🌳
Year 1 — Personal Model
A model fine-tuned specifically on YOU — your communication style, your preferences, your way of thinking. Responses that feel like yours.
🏔️
Year 2+ — Second Mind
Aura knows you better than any tool ever has. It catches what you'd miss, remembers what you'd forget, and grows with your life.
Built, Not Pitched
This is real.
Not a prototype.
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User Surfaces shipping
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Tool Modules across 30+ domains
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Context Sources feeding the AI
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Memory Types in your personal graph
Enterprise · Coming soon
Aura for teams.
Same mind. Your perimeter.
The same Aura our consumer users sign in to — wrapped in the controls security, IT, and finance teams ask for first. We're rolling it out with a small group of design partners. If your team wants in, tell us what you'd need.
SSO & SCIM
Sign-in via Okta, Entra ID, and Google Workspace. Auto-provision and de-provision seats from your IdP. No shadow accounts.
Admin console
Roles, permissions, integration allow-lists, and per-team policy. Decide which tools Aura can touch on whose behalf.
Audit log
Every confirmed action, every model call, every integration touch — exportable. Built on the same approval-gated tool layer everyone else gets.
Personal & team memory
Each member keeps a private graph. Teams get a shared memory for projects, playbooks, and decisions — never blended without permission.
Data residency
Pin your team's data to a region. Single-tenant deployment for regulated workloads. BYO cloud on the roadmap for the largest customers.
Bring your own keys
Org-wide BYOK for Anthropic, OpenAI, and Vertex. Spend lands on your bill, prompts never train anyone else's model.
Org-scoped integrations
One sanctioned connection to your Microsoft 365, Slack, GitHub, or HRIS — provisioned centrally, not user-by-user.
Federated identity
Built on AT Protocol. Your team's social presence, profiles, and posts live on a PDS you control — portable, not platform-locked.
SLA & support
99.9% uptime target, named support, security review packet, DPA, SOC 2 in progress. Real humans, fast.
We're being deliberate — design partners first, public availability later this year. Tell us how your team would use it and we'll keep you in the loop.
Your private mind.
Your public voice.
Aura is live. Gist is live. One sign-up gives you both — your AI across every device, and your handle across every social network.
One feed.
Every network.
You own it.
You don't need eight social apps. You need one that talks to all of them. Gist pulls Bluesky, Mastodon, Twitter/X, Threads, Reddit, YouTube and podcasts into a single timeline — and lets you post, reply, like and DM across all of them. Your handle, your data, your network.
One unified feed
Every social network you use, merged into a single timeline. No more flipping apps. AI-ranked, transparent, and tunable — not driven by ads.
Act across networks
Reply to a tweet, like a Mastodon post, cross-post to Bluesky, DM across platforms — from one composer. Gist becomes your front door to the entire social web.
Your own @handle
Claim
@you.afrilingua.aion signup. It's a real AT Protocol identity — portable, federated, and yours to take elsewhere if you ever leave.You own the data
Posts, likes, follows, DMs, drafts — stored as signed records on your personal data server. No platform-locked database holds your social life. Export anytime.
Federated by default
Built on the AT Protocol. People on Bluesky, Mastodon and the wider fediverse can follow you. You can follow them. One social graph, no walled garden.
Aura is in the loop
Drafting a post starts from real context — who you've talked to, what you've read, what's on your mind. Aura ranks your feed for what you actually want to see.
An open platform
Open lexicons under
ai.afrilingua.*. Anyone can build feeds, clients, moderation services or commerce surfaces on top — the way ActivityPub and AT Protocol always intended.Native commerce
Listings, gigs, products and services as first-class social records. Built for African creators first, open everywhere. Pay through Flutterwave or Plaid.
One handle. One feed. Every network. Your data. Gist is what social media should have been — and the bridge to everything you've already built elsewhere.