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At the same token budget, does a curated memory block beat just sending the most recent messages? On a 178-question benchmark the right pages answer 76 percent correctly versus 42 percent, and the gap holds even when you swap the reader.
Plain keyword search misses paraphrases. Plain semantic search misses exact identifiers. Korely runs both and fuses them with Reciprocal Rank Fusion.
A small open-weights embedding model running on your CPU turns every note into a 768-number vector. No API key, no upload, no cost per query.
People, projects, topics, dates. Korely pulls them out of your notes with GLiNER and stitches them into a graph that auto-links related work.
Whisper transcribes recordings and audio files on your computer, on every plan, and the audio never leaves it. On Personal and Business the summary is written from the text on servers in Europe.
Local models handle indexing and graph building. Larger cloud models are reserved for chat with citations, post-meeting recaps written in Europe, and the hard summary work.
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A local-first knowledge base for your meetings, notes, and ideas. It lives on your machine and connects to your AI tools, Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Yes. Korely reads your Obsidian markdown vault as-is, folders, frontmatter, wikilinks, attachments. Notion and Apple Notes import are coming next.
Your notes live as plain markdown files on your disk, kept only there unless you turn on sync. On Personal and Business, a meeting's transcript is also sent to write its recap, and Korely does not keep it. And your AI tools reach the vault directly via MCP, not through a proprietary chat box you don't control.
Not yet. The desktop app and MCP server may go open source down the line. Building in public means showing the work; the source comes when it's stable enough not to mislead anyone.
Free forever for the local vault, unlimited notes, hybrid search, MCP, Obsidian import. €14/month for Business: live meeting transcription, audio/video to note, AI chat with GraphRAG over your vault, cloud sync, MCP cloud multi-tenant.
Free forever. Your notes stay on your computer until you turn on sync.
