Private and secure AI for the professional.

The personal AI assistant for lawyers, doctors, engineers, advisors, and founders who cannot put confidential work into the cloud. Runs 100% locally on your Mac and iPhone—no enterprise IT setup, no cloud leaks, and zero data leaving your hardware.

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✓ 14-day free trial for Mac ✓ Zero token caps ✓ Cancel anytime
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The Cloud AI Dilemma

The intelligence you want. Without the cloud risk you can’t take.

You know AI can save you 10 hours a week on analysis, drafting, and research. But when your work involves privileged contracts, patient charts, proprietary financials, or trade secrets, sending your files to remote cloud servers is unacceptable.

01 / ABSOLUTE CONFIDENTIALITY

Subpoena-Proof Local Privacy

Your documents, prompts, and voice notes never leave your Mac and iPhone. HelloPartner.ai operates zero backend servers to inspect your work or log your usage. Even if subpoenaed, there is nothing to hand over.

02 / APPLE SILICON POWER

Deep Reasoning on Your Hardware

Engineered natively for Apple Metal and the Neural Engine. Sal runs pre-tuned, high-capability reasoning models right on the chip inside your machine—giving you unlimited analysis with zero token caps or cloud rate limits.

03 / ENTERPRISE & SOLO READY

Zero IT Infrastructure Required

No complex server deployments, cloud middleware, or API gateways to manage. For solo professionals, it’s turnkey in 60 seconds. For enterprise teams, Sal operates entirely inside the sandboxed Apple security model with zero network ingress—making compliance approval straightforward.

Engineered for Your Profession

Built around your ethics, liabilities, and daily workflows.

High-stakes professionals cannot accept cloud data leakage. Select your field to see how Sal operates inside your ethical boundaries.

Zero Third-Party PHI Ingestion

Synthesize complex patient histories with zero cloud exposure.

The Dilemma: Unbillable charting consumes hours of your day—yet feeding clinical notes to cloud AI triggers direct HIPAA penalties and risks identifiable patient histories being absorbed into external model corpuses. Furthermore, cloud services disconnect in hospital basements or suffer peak-hour throttling when you need immediate chart synthesis between patient consults.
100% On-Device & Always Ready: Dictation and charts are processed exclusively on your Apple hardware with zero data leaving your hands. Works 100% offline with zero network required, zero token meters, and complete immunity to cloud server outages.
  • ✓ iPhone Companion: Dictate clinical impressions immediately after a consultation. Native Neural Engine transcription processes audio entirely on-device into clean SOAP notes.
  • ✓ Mac Workstation: Pin dense clinical trial protocols, lab panels, and diagnostic literature to draft referral summaries and treatment options.
●●● Post_Consultation_Audio.m4a
PROMPT: "Format my dictated voice consult into structured SOAP notes and cross-check current medication list for contraindications."
SAL DEEP REASONING: Subjective: 48yo male reporting recurring migraine aura. Objective: BP 128/82. Assessment: Migraine with visual aura. Caution: Patient is currently prescribed Sumatriptan; avoid co-administration with SSRI noted in prior consult.
Fiduciary Duty & Financial Confidentiality

Discuss, audit, and analyze private financial data without exposing numbers to a remote server.

The True Risk: The financial dilemma isn't just about spreadsheets—it's about sharing any confidential financial information with a third-party remote server. Whether you are asking questions about a client's net worth, discussing M&A valuation assumptions, drafting tax guidance, or attaching a financial schedule, cloud AI routes those sensitive numbers through external infrastructure where they risk being logged or retraining models. Furthermore, cloud vendors meter every token, making iterative modeling unpredictable and expensive.
Complete Isolation & Real Tabular Power: Every conversation, memo, and figure stays strictly isolated on your Apple Silicon chip. For financial data, Sal delivers genuine local intelligence on structured spreadsheets and CSVs with clear headers and standard formatting—delivering reliable local audit and querying without overpromising on messy or irregular layouts. Plus, enjoy unmetered reasoning for a flat $4.99/mo with zero token caps.
  • ✓ Mac Workstation: Ingest structured P&L exports, tax workpapers, and valuation memos. Ask Sal to stress-test EBITDA assumptions, check capitalization tables, and draft advisory memos with zero cloud leaks.
  • ✓ iPhone Companion: Review confidential quarterly PDFs or tax updates on the go, or dictate private post-meeting client debriefs with on-device voice transcription.
  • ✓ Realistic Data Standard: Engineered for structured tabular data (CSVs and standardized sheets with defined column headers). For files that meet this format, the local analytical power is real—with zero guessing over messy layouts.
●●● FY25_Structured_Financials.csv
PROMPT: "Review this structured P&L export and private tax notes. Identify three-year margin compression trends and draft a client briefing memo without cloud exposure."
SAL DEEP REASONING: EBITDA margin contracted from 24.2% to 18.1% between FY24 and FY25, primarily driven by a 31% surge in third-party logistics costs. Cross-referenced against your tax notes to draft a 1-page private executive briefing with variance tables.
Air-Gapped Corporate Strategy

Draft board memos, term sheets, and IP strategy without leaking.

The Dilemma: You need a sharp thinking partner to stress-test M&A targets, term sheets, and IP strategy—but transmitting unreleased patents or cap tables over cloud APIs risks proprietary roadmaps accidentally training models that your competitors query. To make matters worse, cloud tools disconnect on flights and throttle your usage right before high-stakes board presentations.
Subpoena-Proof, Outage-Proof, Flight-Ready: Your strategic documents never touch the internet and can never train a model. Runs 100% locally even in airplane mode, with unlimited reasoning cycles and zero token caps or surprise API bills.
  • ✓ Mac Workstation: Synthesize confidential board decks, evaluate acquisition targets, and draft delicate strategic communications with frontier reasoning models.
  • ✓ iPhone Companion: Pocket debriefs between investor pitch meetings, triage incoming term sheets, and draft responses in airplane mode.
●●● Series_B_Term_Sheet_Draft_v4.pdf
PROMPT: "Review the Series B term sheet against our existing cap table. Flag any aggressive liquidation preferences or voting covenants."
SAL DEEP REASONING: Flagged: Section 4.2 contains a 1.5x participating preferred liquidation structure which dilutes common shares by an additional 14% on liquidity events under $80M. Recommended counter-clause prepared.
Proprietary Codebases & Trade Secrets Protected

Refactor, debug, and execute code with Terminal Tools—zero repo leaks.

The Dilemma: You want an intelligent AI partner to explore local repos, trace runtime call stacks, and automate build tests—but uploading proprietary code, internal APIs, or secret tokens to cloud LLMs creates catastrophic IP exposure and violates company security agreements. To make matters worse, cloud rate limits constantly disrupt engineering flow.
100% Air-Gapped Local Execution: Sal executes local shell and terminal operations directly inside Apple Silicon RAM. No repositories are uploaded, no code trains external models, and you enjoy unlimited debugging and reasoning loops with zero token meters.
  • ✓ Mac Workstation: Pin complete code repositories into memory. Run local terminal commands, debug stack traces, analyze git diffs, and create custom local plugins via Terminal Tools.
  • ✓ iPhone Companion: Review PR diff summaries, triage architectural issues, and dictate implementation notes without exposing proprietary code.
●●● ~/Developer/core-auth/session_worker.py
TERMINAL TOOL QUERY: "Inspect session_worker.py. Identify the race condition in the auth token cache, write a mutex patch, and run the pytest suite."
SAL TERMINAL EXECUTION: Executed: pytest tests/test_token_cache.py
Found unlocked dictionary mutation at line 142. Implemented thread-safe threading.Lock() wrapper. Reran test suite: 18 passed in 0.38s. Local disk only; 0 bytes transmitted.

Two Devices. One Mind.

A single assistant across iPhone and Mac.

Install one or run both. Sal handles sensitive work from your pocket on iPhone, and delivers deep analytical horsepower on Mac—sharing a single history and a continuous relationship with zero cloud leaks.

Pocket Companion · Beta

Sal for iPhone

Your private pocket confidant. Handle confidential matters on the move without ever transmitting a single prompt to a remote server.

iOS
Apple Neural Engine iPhone 16 or newer · iOS 18+
  • ✓ Native iPhone Share Sheet: Pipe incoming PDFs, NDAs, and confidential files directly into Sal without uploading to the cloud.
  • ✓ On-Device Voice Transcription: Dictate voice memos and get structured action items processed locally on Apple Neural Engine.
  • ✓ Total Pocket Privacy: 100% confidential. No telemetric feedback or server roundtrips.
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Flagship Desktop

Sal for Mac

Your desk powerhouse. Built for deep analytical focus, multi-step agentic workflows, and intensive local reasoning.

macOS
Apple Silicon Metal M1 · M2 · M3 · M4
  • ✓ Advanced Reasoning Models: Executive intelligence delivering over 2× to nearly 7× the capacity of mobile, rivaling frontier models like Gemini 3.8 Flash with zero cloud latency.
  • ✓ Terminal Tools for Coders: Inspect local codebases, automate shell tasks, execute test suites, and refactor code without ever exposing proprietary IP to third parties.
  • ✓ Open Plugin Architecture: Build and install custom tools using standard HTML, CSS, and JS. Everyday users and developers can extend Sal's capabilities with zero cloud reliance.
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Single Relationship. Single History. Powered by Private iCloud Sync.

Move seamlessly between iPhone and Mac without Sal ever forgetting context or losing focus. Research a contract on your Mac, step out to lunch, and continue the exact same conversation from your pocket on your iPhone. Your memory synchronizes privately through your personal Apple iCloud account—never passing through any HelloPartner.ai intermediary servers.

Prefer complete device isolation? You can turn off iCloud sync at any time in Settings. Each installed app will operate in its own 100% offline, isolated local SQLite database with full analytical capabilities and zero remote network requests.

The Competitive Matrix

Why Sal is in a category of its own.

A direct comparison between Frontier Cloud AI, Hobbyist / DIY Tools, and Sal.

Dimension Frontier Cloud AI
(ChatGPT, Claude)		 Hobbyist / DIY Tools
(Ollama, LM Studio)		 Sal by HelloPartner.ai
(Turn-Key Pro AI)
100% On-Device Confidentiality Zero data leaves the machine; zero server logs ✕ Never
Data sent to cloud		 ▲ Variable
Local, but often hits remote		 ✓ 100% Guaranteed
No server to phone home to
Turn-Key Ease (Zero Setup / No Terminal) Download, open, and work immediately ✓ Easy
Web sign-in		 ✕ High Friction
CLI, quants, GPU layers		 ✓ Pure Mac Native
Zero configuration
Zero Token Limits & Rate Throttles Work all day without hitting message caps ✕ Strict Limits
Throttles & rate caps		 ✓ Unlimited
Open weights		 ✓ Unlimited
Zero caps forever
Episodic Memory & Workflows Autonomous knowledge graph, document pinning, background notes ✕ Generic Web Chat
No local file integration		 ✕ Stateless Amnesia
Bare prompt; context lost on exit		 ✓ Autonomous Memory
Pinning, graph recall, files
Unified Multi-Modal Architecture Synchronized voice, vision, and reasoning without system crashes ✓ Cloud-Tuned
Multiplied cloud fees		 ✕ Memory Collisions
Competing runtimes crash system RAM		 ✓ Unified HID Engine
Zero RAM clashes on M-Series
Fair Pricing & Zero Surveillance Fraction of cloud subscriptions with zero token fees ✕ $240+/yr Rent
Recurring cloud rent		 ✓ Free (DIY)
Requires high-end gear		 ✓ $2.99 – $4.99/mo
Fraction of cloud cost
The Complete Solution Private + Turn-Key + Unlimited + Workflow Integrated 2 / 6 Boxes 2 / 6 Boxes
✓ 6 / 6 ALL BOXES
Architectural Guarantee

When you use Sal, HelloPartner.ai knows nothing about you and never will.

Most AI providers promise privacy through legal Terms of Service that can change at any time. Sal enforces privacy with hardware architecture. HelloPartner.ai operates zero backend servers to ingest your prompts, inspect your documents, or track your background usage. We cannot see your work, we cannot sell it, and even under subpoena, we have nothing to hand over.

Zero Ingestion Servers Zero Background Telemetry Subpoena-Proof Architecture Optional, User-Controlled Bug Reports
The Practical Reality

Apple Intelligence vs. Sal

Why high-stakes professionals run Sal alongside Mac and iPhone rather than relying on consumer OS intelligence.

01 · Dynamic Cloud Routing

"Did my client's confidential file just leave my device?"

Apple Intelligence: Simple tasks stay on-device, but heavy reasoning is dynamically routed across the web to Private Cloud Compute (hosted in Google Cloud data centers). You never know before hitting Enter whether a sensitive contract stayed on your Mac or traveled to a server.

✓ Sal: Zero servers by design. There is literally no cloud infrastructure to route to. Disconnect your Wi-Fi or work in airplane mode—everything stays 100% on your chip.
02 · Usage Throttling & Fees

"Will my assistant lock me out during peak workday hours?"

Apple Intelligence: Server-side models face dynamic daily usage caps and demand-based timeouts. During peak hours, complex requests can be throttled, with high-capacity tiers tied to iCloud+ plans reaching up to $59.99/month.

✓ Sal: Zero token caps forever. Whether you analyze 5 prompts or 5,000 pages of discovery, your local Apple Silicon never throttles. Flat $4.99/mo for complete desktop freedom.
The Rule of Thumb for Professionals: Use Apple Intelligence for casual consumer conveniences—quick typo checks, summarizing notifications, or organizing photos. Use Sal when the document in front of you involves strict NDA covenants, attorney-client privilege, patient records (HIPAA), proprietary financials, or files that cannot legally leave your computer.

The HelloPartner Intelligence Director (HID™ Engine)

Five native modalities. Zero cloud compromises.

Engineered exclusively for Apple Silicon Mac and iPhone. Sal’s native architecture (the HelloPartner Intelligence Director, or HID™ Engine) coordinates local compute across five specialized intelligence layers—delivering instant responses, laser focus across 100-page files, and persistent episodic memory without system memory clash.

File Intelligence

Local Semantic Engine

Content-aware document ingestion and autonomous semantic indexing that operates 100% on your local disk and Apple Silicon unified RAM.

Autonomous Semantic File Walking

Indexes local files during quiet compute moments on Apple Silicon Efficiency Cores with zero fan noise. Pauses immediately on user keystrokes. Search by meaning, not obscure filenames.

Content-Aware Format Routing

Automatically routes meeting audio files to on-device transcription, compiles structured tabular data (CSVs and standardized sheets with clear headers) into queryable local SQL models, and semantically parses lengthy PDFs.

Deep RAM Document Pinning

Lock 100+ page contracts, medical charts, and deposition files directly in unified memory. Cross-examine complex corpuses all day with zero cloud uploads or token limits.

Memory Intelligence

Predictive Context Architecture

An active cognitive scratchpad that synthesizes conversation history, eliminates context drift, and prepares neural caches ahead of time.

Real-Time Self-Notes

During active conversations, Sal actively jots internal notes on what matters, which files to cross-reference, and which outdated assumptions to ignore.

Chronological Topic Synthesis

Indexed via native SQLite FTS5. Reconstructs past discussions across time and projects without requiring you to dig through old chat tabs or re-paste briefs.

Predictive Pre-Warming

Uses quiet reading moments to pre-calculate prefix KV tensors (max_tokens: 0) with Darwin thermal-aware throttling—delivering sub-500ms initial tokens with ~99% cache hits.

Web Intelligence

Noise-Free Web Ingestion

Direct, privacy-first web research and media transcript parsing that feeds pure, unpolluted context into your working session.

Ad & Script Stripping

Extracts clean article substance directly from URLs, stripping tracking bloat, cookie popups, and ad scripts before tokens reach your reasoning buffer.

Video Transcript Ingestion

Automatically fetches and digests YouTube video transcripts to evaluate the actual spoken substance of lectures, hearings, and interviews directly.

Direct On-Device Fetching

Connects directly from your local device via privacy-first search (DuckDuckGo)—never proxying your research requests through third-party AI company servers.

Screen Intelligence

On-Demand ScreenCaptureKit

User-summoned visual context capture designed to give Sal eyes on your active work without invasive background screen monitoring.

Strictly User-Summoned Only

Active exclusively when you trigger it with a hotkey. Zero continuous background recording, zero screen daemons, and zero external video streaming.

Native ScreenCaptureKit Acceleration

Leverages Apple's official ScreenCaptureKit framework for instant, permission-controlled OCR and vision analysis of open exhibits, layouts, and code.

Enterprise MDM & IT Safe

Complies fully with corporate security baselines: operates entirely within the macOS sandboxed user space with transparent, system-level permission controls.

Image Intelligence

Vision: Mac & iPhone · Generation: Mac Only

High-resolution optical document analysis and private local visual generation. Image understanding and visual document inspection are fully supported natively across both iPhone and Mac. Private local visual generation (diffusion) is exclusive to Mac desktop workstations.

Optical Image Understanding (iPhone & Mac)

Multimodal vision models inspect complex diagrams, anatomical illustrations, architectural schematics, whiteboard snapshots, and tax exhibits directly on your device with zero cloud uploads.

Private Local Visual Generation (Desktop Only)

On-device diffusion models render presentation visuals and conceptual diagrams offline on your Mac with live step progress and zero external API fees. Generative diffusion requires desktop-class unified GPU memory.

Metal & Apple Neural Engine Pipeline

Direct hardware acceleration via Apple Metal on Mac and Apple Neural Engine on iPhone maximizes throughput while preventing thermal throttling during heavy optical and visual batches.

Sal for Mac Desktop Intelligence & Capabilities Engineered for Apple Silicon Metal
01 / Frontier Intelligence

Advanced Reasoning Models

On desktop, Sal unlocks executive reasoning engines engineered natively for Apple Silicon Metal. While mobile operates an agile on-device model, desktop workstations scale up to provide over 2× to nearly 7× larger capacity. In complex multi-step deduction and logic benchmarks, this desktop model directly matches frontier cloud models like Gemini 3.8 Flash*—delivering unmetered frontier-grade intelligence 100% on-device with zero token caps.

✓ 2× to 7× Mobile Capacity · Frontier Parity
02 / Developer IP Protection

Terminal Tools for Coders

Engineers, scientists, and technical founders cannot risk sharing proprietary source code, secrets, or internal APIs with third parties. Sal comes built with native Terminal Tools to inspect local code repositories, analyze git diffs, execute unit test suites, and automate shell commands directly on your Mac. You get an autonomous coding copilot with zero intellectual property leaks.

✓ Local Terminal · Zero Repo Leaks
03 / Infinite Extensibility

Open Plugin Architecture

Sal is built to be customized. With its open plugin architecture, everyday users and developers can build custom plugins using standard web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) to extend Sal’s capabilities. Automate specialized workflows, connect local databases, build personalized tools, and install verified plugins—all executing locally on your hardware.

✓ Explore Plugin Developer Program →
* Benchmark claim based on standardized evaluations (including SWE-bench Pro for agentic coding and IFBench for complex instruction adherence) comparing desktop-class local executive architectures directly against frontier cloud models like Gemini 3.8 Flash.
Sal for iPhone The Pocket Companion (Beta) Optimized for Apple Neural Engine

Native iPhone Share Sheet Ingestion

Received an NDA in Apple Mail or a sensitive PDF in Safari? Tap the native Share icon and select Sal. Instant local parsing and summary in seconds—without third-party cloud uploads.

✓ 1-Tap Mobile Ingestion

On-Device Voice Memo Transcription

Dictate client debriefs or patient observations immediately after leaving a meeting. Sal transcribes audio locally on your iPhone's Neural Engine and formats clean, structured action items.

✓ Zero Cloud Voice Ingestion

100% Offline Pocket Operation

Full intelligence ready even in airplane mode, hospital basements, or courtrooms with zero cellular connectivity. Unlimited prompts and queries with zero token meters or network dependencies.

✓ 100% Offline Capability

Fair, Accessible Subscriptions

Less than half the cost of cloud AI. Truly unlimited.

Sal for Mac includes an unconditional 14-day free trial. Sal for iPhone is currently open for public TestFlight Beta. No tokens to buy, no rate throttles, and zero data surveillance.

iPhone Companion · Beta

Sal for iPhone

Private intelligence for sensitive topics right from your pocket.

TestFlight Public Beta
$2.99 / month

Planned post-beta subscription · Free during Beta

  • ✓Public Beta access via Apple TestFlight
  • ✓Native iPhone Share Sheet file ingestion (PDF, CSV, audio)
  • ✓On-device visual & photo understanding (charts, exhibits, receipts)
  • ✓On-device voice memo transcription & actionable summaries
  • ✓Pocket document understanding with zero cloud uploading
  • ✓Email triage, quick drafting, and meeting prep
  • ✓100% on-device processing — zero background telemetry
  • ✓Compatible with iPhone 16 or newer (Apple Intelligence ready, iOS 18+)
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Flagship Power
Desktop Powerhouse

Sal for Mac

Heavyweight reasoning models, agentic workflows, and document mastery.

14-Day Free Trial Included
$4.99 / month

Billed monthly after 14-day free trial · Cancel anytime

  • ✓Advanced Reasoning Models: Executive models over 2× to 7× mobile capacity, rivaling frontier models offline
  • ✓Terminal Tools for Coders: Run shell commands, inspect repos, and debug code locally with zero IP risk
  • ✓Open Plugin Architecture: Create & install custom HTML/CSS/JS plugins to extend Sal
  • ✓Intelligent paginated Document Pinning for 100+ page files with zero cloud leaks
  • ✓Direct Apple Calendar & Reminders app integration
  • ✓Zero token caps — unlimited prompt & reasoning volume
  • ✓Apple Silicon M-Series (16GB+ RAM recommended for large files)
Start Free 2-Week Trial (Mac)
Looking to use both? Sal for Mac includes an unconditional 14-day free trial, and Sal for iPhone is currently open for public Beta on TestFlight. Sal functions as a single unified assistant with one shared memory across your iPhone and Mac. All-in-one companion bundle pricing is coming soon.
Hardware Transparency Engineered for Professionals Who Own Professional Hardware

Cloud AI vendors charge $240 to $600/year to rent remote GPU time while mining your telemetry. Meanwhile, practicing attorneys, clinicians, CPAs, and engineers already own M-Series Apple Silicon workstations with massive unified memory bandwidth. That sovereign computing power sits 95% idle. Sal provides the missing cognitive systems architecture—unlocking the hardware you already own with zero cloud rent, zero rate limits, and absolute confidentiality for just $4.99/month.

Mac Workstation: Any Apple Silicon Mac (M1, M2, M3, M4). For heavy document pinning (100+ page contracts, medical records, tax corpuses), 16GB to 64GB of unified RAM is recommended for fluid, instant responsiveness.
iPhone Companion: Requires iPhone 16 or newer (iPhone 16, 17, and newly announced 18 series running iOS 18+) for high-fidelity on-device voice transcription and local document triage.