AURA runs your life, and remembers why.
Who you are, and where you end up, comes down to your decisions. Every one of them has a reason only you know. AURA captures that reason, on hardware you own, and gives it back to you and to the people you choose.
- “The money was running out.”
- “We had just bought the house.”
- “My wife didn’t like the city.”
- “The timing was wrong for the kids.”
Pre-launch. Charter cohort by invitation.
The Loss
We have Einstein’s equations. We lost his why.
What survived your grandfather? The buildings. The deals. The press clippings.
What didn’t: the room he walked out of in ’08 because something felt off. The hire he passed on because of one sentence in the second interview. The reason he held in March ’20 when everyone else sold. He never wrote it down, so no model in the world was ever trained on it, and the part that made him him is gone.
Other AIs only follow procedures. They never learn your why, so they can never act the way you would.
Be honest with AURA about why you choose. Over time it becomes the one AI that thinks like you.
The private reason
What changes tomorrow morning
Only what needs you.
- 6:00Wake up to 89 unread emails.
- 6:45Scroll through Slack to catch up.
- 7:30Search for that document from last quarter.
- 8:00Finally ready to actually work.
- 6:0089 emails processed. 8 need you, drafts ready.
- 6:02The Kestrel wire is matched to the notice. One tap to approve.
- 6:05Last quarter’s board deck is attached for today’s meeting.
- 6:12Three decisions today, about 12 minutes. Done. Go create.
Illustrative morning. Names and figures are fictional.
The Three Windows
Past · Present · Future
Three views on the same private archive. Tap through them in the interactive demo.
Chronicle
Every decision, with the reason you gave at the time and the sources it came from.
Ask why you passed on a deal and get your own words back, cited.
The people you choose can ask how you thought, not only what you owned.
“Why did we pass on the Lisbon hotel deal?”
→ Three sources from March. “I don’t want another asset I can’t visit.”
Today
Six agents work overnight. By morning everything is handled except the decisions that are yours.
A briefing with three things that need you, and nothing else.
Every approval teaches AURA how you decide.
“Approve by noon: wire $240,000 to Kestrel Fund II.”
→ Matches the Oct 2 notice. Same account as your last three wires.
Simulator
Runs the numbers, then weighs them against what you have said matters to you.
Compare selling in 2027 against 2029, in your own terms.
Your way of weighing a decision keeps advising the people after you.
“What if I sell Lumen Ridge in 2027 instead of 2029?”
→ 4 of your 6 past exits came after a launch, not before.
How it works
The why, captured in passing
One question at the right moment, answered in a few seconds by voice. Nothing in this loop leaves your hardware.
Capture
After a call ends, AURA asks one question: what tipped it? You answer in a sentence. Meetings, email and notes flow in the same way, through local connectors.
Structure
A model on your server links the decision, the reason and the people involved. Each record is time-stamped and stored on your hardware.
Cite
When you ask, AURA answers with the actual record. No record, no answer. It never invents a reason you did not give.
Your team
Six agents that work while you sleep
Each one owns a part of your life. You see what it finished today and what it is doing right now.
Finance
Matches wires to notices, tracks capital calls, flags position drift. Never moves money without you.
Comms
Reads your inboxes on your server. Drafts replies in your voice, with what you promised each person.
Scheduler
Protects what you keep protecting, like a recital every year, and declines the conflicts for you.
Research
Prepares the briefing before the meeting. Flags the lawsuit from 2023 before the buyer does.
Projects
Keeps the board deck, the launch and the renovation moving. Tells you only when a decision is yours.
Health
Moves the run after a short night. Notices the pattern you would miss across weeks.
The AURA Home Server
The brain lives in your home
Privacy guaranteed by physics, not by policy. It sits on a shelf next to the family photos, like an heirloom.
Every model runs on site
Open-weight models run on the server itself. No cloud API sits between you and your own archive.
Air-gap capable
Unplug the network and AURA keeps working, because your Chronicle never left the house.
Core Swap every five years
We ship a new compute module. You keep your data drives. Your memory stays in your hands, the brain gets faster.
You are the architect
Nothing irreversible without you
Review mode
Money, signatures and messages to the outside world wait for your approval. Every approval is logged.
Private forever
Mark a memory private forever and not even your heirs can open it. Your instructions are enforced by encryption, not policy.
Kill switch
One action destroys the keys. The archive becomes unreadable, permanently, with no copy anywhere else to recover.
Legacy
A legacy they can ask
Years later, the people you choose can ask how you thought, not only what you owned. Watch the 2041 scene in the story.
Sealed now, opened on your terms
- ✓Sealed copies on your own hardware, plus two held in different countries.
- ✓Your estate attorney holds the release and opens it as your will instructs.
- ✓Each heir sees only what you chose for them. Private memories stay sealed.
Your judgment, as an asset
- ✓Pick a part of your Chronicle, like how you invest or how you run a company.
- ✓AURA removes other people’s private details, then asks you to confirm every passage.
- ✓License it for a term. Revoke it any time.
“Leadership was never about command. My job was to set the north star and remove obstacles, then get out of the way.”
The merger was failing. We knew that if we did not liquidate the asset by noon we would be
The Alternatives
Why not just…
The honest comparison, as of October 2026.
AURA Hardware as a service | Meta Muse Consumer agent | ChatGPT Cloud AI | Executive Assistant Human | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | ✓ A server in your home | ✗ Meta’s cloud | ✗ OpenAI’s cloud | ✓ Your office |
| Remembers your why | ✓ Captured and cited | ~ Memory file, no reasons | ~ Memory, no sources | ~ In their head |
| Works with the internet off | ✓ Yes | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✓ Yes |
| Acts for you | ✓ Agents, with your approval | ✓ Goals in the background | ~ Limited | ✓ Yes |
| Outlives the company | ✓ You own the box | ✗ No | ✗ No | ~ They leave |
| Cost per year | ~ $36K to $144K hardware included | ✓ Consumer app | ~ About $240 Plus plan | ✗ $200K+ plus benefits |
Hardware as a service
Pricing
The monthly subscription includes the server. Each tier carries a one-time $5,000 setup fee for configuration, on-site installation and the first capture sessions.
Ascend Pro
Dedicated home server. Three concurrent agent threads.
- ✓ Dedicated air-gap capable server (hardware included)
- ✓ 3 agent threads
- ✓ Chronicle archive and export
Ascend Exec
High-performance server. Ten concurrent threads.
- ✓ High-performance server (hardware included)
- ✓ 10 agent threads
- ✓ Priority concierge support
Unlimited
Liquid-cooled rack. Unlimited threads. Charter access.
- ★ Liquid-cooled rack (hardware included)
- ★ Unlimited agent threads
- ★ Full API and early-access roadmap
Legacy Vault and Editions are optional services, priced separately after launch. No payment is taken on this site.
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Over 5 years the net saving is $468,750 against the subscription.
FAQ
Sharp questions, plain answers
What happens if AURA (the company) shuts down? +
You own the server. Your Chronicle and the models are stored on it, in your home. We commit to publishing the archive format, so your heirs or your IT team can read it without us.
Will it invent things I never said? +
Every answer cites the record it came from. If there is no record, AURA says so instead of guessing.
Can I delete specific memories? +
Yes. Redaction removes the records for a topic, a person or a date range, and everything AURA derived from them.
Who is behind AURA? +
AURA is built by Austin Nguyen. The product is pre-launch, so there is no customer list or investor list to show yet. The demo is the proof.
Built by
Austin Nguyen
Founder. Building AURA so that the only people who ever read his archive are the ones he chooses, and so that his children can one day ask it how he thought.
Pre-launch, founder-led. Designed in the United States.
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