A computer that's genuinely yours to think with.

Lisa OS is an AI-native Linux desktop. The intelligence is built into the system — and it runs locally, by default. Nothing leaves your machine without your say-so, and everything it does is written to a plain-English record you can read.

Early alpha · built in the open · runs on real hardware today
Why Lisa

The warmth of a personal assistant — without the cloud.

"Her, but yours." An assistant that sees, hears, and helps, that lives on your hardware instead of someone else's data center. Private because of how it's built, not because of a promise.

Local by mechanism

Models run on your machine. The daemons that read your context have no network access at all — privacy enforced by the system, not by policy.

Private by default

Nothing offloads to a provider unless you switch it on, per scope. When something would leave your hardware, it's marked in a distinct amber — you always know.

Yours, on the record

Every model call, every piece of context read, every action taken is written to an append-only Ledger you can read in plain English. No black box.

Alpha

What works today

We build in the open and we're honest about the state. Real, on real hardware, now:

  • Bootable, self-updating immutable OS (A/B with auto-rollback)
  • Local inference + guided generation as a system service
  • Append-only audit Ledger, enforced by the system
  • On-device context search with per-app permissions
  • Bring-your-own remote providers, off by default
  • Voice + wake-word loop (on-device speech)

On the way

  • Native AI panel in Settings
  • Always-on ambient assistant
  • Apps you can generate and install locally

Take your computing home.

Flash it to a USB stick, boot it, and try the alpha. It's free and open source.

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