Welcome to Anchoris

We are living through a rapidly changing AI era. More and more of our personal information, work, and everyday life are being uploaded to the cloud and placed in the hands of large companies.

I believe privacy matters. It matters deeply to me, and I believe everyone should have the right to a space of their own for work and life—a space they can control, without having to constantly worry about privacy and security.

At the same time, modern work has become increasingly fragmented. Files, notes, projects, calendars, links, and conversations are spread across different tools. Even when everything is technically accessible, the context around our work is often lost. We spend too much time trying to remember where something belongs, what it was connected to, and where we left off.

That is why Anchoris is not meant to be just another note-taking app, file manager, or AI assistant.

Anchoris is a local-first workspace designed to help people understand, connect, and continue their work. It begins with ordinary files in a folder on your Mac, then builds a visible layer of context around them—projects, relationships, references, time, recent activity, and the place where you last stopped.

The goal is not to automate your work for you. The goal is to help you keep ownership of your files, see the relationships around your work, and return to what matters without rebuilding the context every time.

I am also uncomfortable with the business model behind many AI products today. Before people have had a real chance to use or understand the product, they are already asked to pay for a subscription. In many cases, payment comes before experience, trust, or proven value.

I do not believe business and innovation should begin with finding ways to extract a monthly payment or charge people for a brief chance to try something. They should begin with creating real value for people.

That is part of why I built Anchoris: to create a local space that belongs to the user, to make work easier to understand and continue, and to build something genuinely useful before asking people to pay for it.

I originally began building Anchoris simply because I wanted a better way to do my own work.

I also know there are still many parts of the product that need to be improved. Since making Anchoris available, I have received more than a hundred emails with ideas, feature requests, product suggestions, and thoughtful criticism. I am deeply grateful to everyone who has taken the time to write.

Please keep sending feedback. Product suggestions, feature ideas, frustrations, unusual workflows, and honest criticism are all welcome. The product can only become better by learning from how people actually use it.

I would also be glad to hear from curious, highly self-directed people who may be interested in helping build Anchoris. If the ideas behind the product resonate with you, and you would like to contribute to its design, engineering, product thinking, or future direction, please feel free to reach out.

Whether you have an idea for improving the product, a feature you hope to see, or an interest in joining the effort, you are always welcome to contact me.

Questions, feedback, ideas, or an interest in contributing?

Email sayhi@anchoris.app.