Vesper.
the assistant in your messages
named for the evening star — a companion for the hours after work.
Harvest Moon,
George Inness, 1891. oil on canvas
George Inness, 1891. oil on canvas
Vesper lives where you already talk: your texts. Say what you need the way you'd say it to a person — it remembers your people, your dates, and your way of doing things, and it gets a little better at being yours every week. There's nothing to install and nothing to set up. Text it, and it begins.
messages · vesperthu 6:12 pm
you
can you get mom flowers for thursday
vesper
done — peonies from the florist on elm, arriving thursday by noon. the receipt is in your email.
you
what shouldn't i forget today
vesper
the lease addendum. you told anna she'd have it by five — it's drafted and ready to send.
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I.
A day with it
7:40
Your morning note arrives
the day ahead, the weather, and the two things you promised people yesterday.
12:05
The dentist is booked
you said “sometime this month.” it found the gap in your calendar and took it.
16:30
A nudge, in time to matter
anna needs the lease addendum by five. it's drafted — you just say send.
21:15
You say goodnight
it files the day away and quietly gets a little better at being yours.
II.
Why it's different
It's already in your pocket
vesper lives in the texting app you use all day. there is no new app to learn, no account to make, nothing to configure.
It teaches itself your life
every week it looks at what it got wrong and fixes it — so the longer you keep it, the more it feels like yours.
You can look inside
the whole assistant is open source. anyone can read exactly what it does with what you tell it.
1 — on github the project is called companion — same work, older name
2 — open source, like everything the studio makes
↻ built by Artificial Illumination · vesper · the assistant in your messagesAI.