Hitoku Draft - Local AI Assistant

A privacy-first, voice-activated AI assistant that runs entirely on your device and reads your screen context to understand what you're working on. Users get AI help with PDFs, emails, and calendar tasks without sending data to cloud servers. Target: privacy-conscious professionals and developers.

Local-first AI is having a real moment as enterprise data-leak incidents and EU AI Act compliance pressure push teams toward on-device processing — Ollama's explosive growth and Apple's on-device ML push both validate that the infrastructure is finally mature enough to support this. The closest incumbent is Microsoft Copilot with its local processing options, plus macOS has baked Siri deeper into app context, meaning the "reads your screen" angle is increasingly a platform feature, not a moat. The $5k–20k/mo band is plausible only if this lands as a team or enterprise license rather than individual subscriptions, since privacy-conscious solo users historically resist paying more than $10–15/month for assistant tools. The biggest risk is commoditization speed: Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all shipping on-device context-aware AI natively, and a small team cannot keep pace with what becomes a default OS feature within 12–18 months.