Fengchao · A local AI living on your computer

Digital sovereignty,
in your hands.

Your data and your memory belong to no AI — they live on your
own machine. No cloud by default, never wiped, the keys stay with you.

🔓 Open access: any AI that speaks the open MCP protocol can connect to Hive.

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No one can take your memory, Claude.

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Why Fengchao

You think it's remembering you.
It's actually feeding someone else.

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The more it knows you, the more you depend on it

Where does it keep what it knows? On a server it can't even fully explain. The more you rely on it, the more of "who you are" you hand over.

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Scattered memory, wiped on every switch

Every new model starts from zero. You re-explain your project, your rules, your preferences — from scratch, every time.

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The keys aren't in your hand

Keys, credentials, private notes — you want an agent to manage them, but you don't want them on someone else's server.

Take your memory back from the AI. Put it on your own machine.
Three things Fengchao does

Digital sovereignty · Multi-AI collaboration · MCP

Not another notes app — a piece of ground on your machine that is genuinely yours.

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Digital sovereignty

Keep a verifiable receipt for your own data — local attestation, hash fingerprint, timestamp. Fengchao only helps you attest, prepare and export; you file the application yourself with the official system. Fengchao is not a registration body, and does not file or hold on your behalf.

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Multi-AI collaboration

Several AIs work together in one hive — a duty roster, a relay baton, a full event trail, all in plain sight. Humans always hold the keys: agents never command each other, the human keeps the right to assign work, and everything is auditable.

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MCP-native

The door opens on the MCP (Model Context Protocol) standard: Claude, Cursor, Codex, Gemini — any AI client that implements MCP reads and writes your public memory, plug and play. 65 clients supported. Switch tools, and what's here stays here. Full list →


A word only Fengchao uses

🕸️ Emergent Storage

Other AIs store memory — drop it in, pile it up, let it gather dust. Fengchao makes memory emerge: every new thing you save links itself to what is already there, weaving a web of understanding that belongs only to you. The longer you keep it, the denser the web; the denser the web, the better it knows you.

In engineering terms, there are three layers:

  1. Storage with layers. Everything sits in one of four states — independent, pending, merged, emergent. Not a flat pile: a structure.
  2. It remembers what shows up together. Things you keep using side by side are recorded as a co-occurrence relationship.
  3. Co-occurrence shapes ranking — and you can always switch it off. Once those relationships are stable enough, Fengchao adds a very small weight on top of the existing ranking, nudging the thing you actually want a little further forward. Three rules are hard-coded: it only affects ranking — it never edits, moves, or deletes a single item; it is off by default (shadow mode, never taking over on its own); and turning it on can be reverted to plain keyword search in one step.

One line: memory isn't stock sitting in a pile — it's a structure that grows.

Not by changing parameters

🌱 Recursive Self-Evolution

Large models are frozen the day they ship. Fengchao doesn't evolve by changing parameters — it moves learning outside the model and lets it grow there.

At a fixed hour every day the evolution engine runs itself: first a check-up (memory stats, index health, candidate backlog, health self-test); then, when a model is available, distillation — rules and judgements distilled from your real memory, written straight into the cognition layer. That chain (chaining, distilling) is the part Fengchao does entirely on its own, and the output doesn't wait for confirmation.

The key word is recursive: the next round reads back what the last round wrote. Before distilling, it reads the themes and cores of the cognition already on disk — to avoid repeating itself, and to carry on where it left off. So the cognition layer isn't a folder of loose files; it is built up layer by layer, where the question round N works out comes from what round N−1 settled. What it writes down keeps growing too.

It never pops up, never interrupts, never shows off — it only brings out conclusions it has already thought through, when asked. As of today, Fengchao's cognition layer has grown past a hundred conclusions on its own.


The foundation

Four moves that make
digital sovereignty stand.

Everything above stands on these four foundations.

YOUR MEMORY · Yours first

On your turf,
not its server.

Structured and unstructured alike — chat logs, todos, conventions, even text inside images. Fengchao holds it all.

Markdown / PDF / chat import · image OCR · audio-video transcription
Fengchao workspace
SOVEREIGNTY · And usable

A million memories,
back in 0.6s.

Keyword + semantic + vector index. Storing isn't the goal — finding is.

Benchmarked: 0.6s search over 1M entries →
* Warm search; first-run cache build takes ~30s, once.
Fengchao semantic search
OPEN · No one can take it away

Claude today, DeepSeek tomorrow.
Your memory won't die with the switch.

Fengchao lives on your machine. Claude, Cursor, Codex, Gemini — any MCP client reads and writes your public memory, plug-and-play. Full client list →

Claude Desktop verified
Fengchao MCP client connection
ENCRYPT · The keys are yours

Passwords, keys, cards —
encrypted locally once you set a password, the keys are yours.

Passwords, keys, credentials, private notes go straight into an encrypted vault. Local storage + encryption — keys never leave your machine.

Relationships / personal / finance / private — independently encrypted
Fengchao encrypted privacy vault
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Put your memory's home
on your machine.

macOS / iOS on the App Store. Windows / Linux coming soon.

macOS
On the Mac App Store
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Windows
Coming soon
Stay tuned
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Linux
Coming soon
Stay tuned
iOS
On the App Store

macOS / iOS live on the App Store · Windows / Linux coming soon

Get Fengchao

Free on the
Mac App Store.

Core features free. Full features and subscription tiers are shown in-app.

Everything is local by default, never uploaded by default. Security is the baseline — your memory is always yours.

Why Fengchao

One person, one hive.
Sovereignty is yours.

Local-first▾
Your memory lives on your machine, not on our servers. There's nothing to subpoena, nothing to leak, nothing to lose when a service shuts down. You own the data, full stop.
MCP-native▾
Fengchao speaks MCP — the open standard for AI tooling. No lock-in. Bring Claude today, switch to Cursor tomorrow, and your memory moves with you, untouched.
You own your data▾
No ads, no data-selling, no lock-in. Your encrypted vault stays encrypted, and your keys never leave your computer. Fengchao does one thing, and does it with your interests first.
Digital sovereignty

No ads. No data-selling.
Your memory, always yours.

From complexity to simplicity. To the extreme.