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What Ounie Is

Ounie is your AI second brain. You add the things you read, watch, and write — files, links, notes, audio, and video — and Ounie turns them into a living, interlinked wiki you can ask anything, with answers cited straight back to your own sources.

The problem it solves

Knowledge workers capture information constantly and lose it instantly. Notes apps store what you put in them but don't think about it; general chatbots are brilliant but don't know your material and can't cite it. "I know I saved this somewhere" is the everyday problem Ounie exists to fix.

How Ounie is different

From a notes app: a notes app stores. Ounie reads each source, synthesizes it into a clean wiki page, connects it to everything related, and lets you ask questions that draw across all of it — answering in plain language with citations.

From ChatGPT and other general chatbots: those are trained on the public internet and can confidently make things up. Ounie answers only from the sources you added, and every claim links back to the exact page it came from. If the answer isn't in your brain, Ounie tells you instead of guessing.

The core idea: a "brain"

A brain is a knowledge container — a collection of sources, their synthesized wiki pages, and the knowledge graph that connects them. You can keep separate brains for separate topics, projects, or clients. Brains are private by default and shareable only by your choice.

Why knowledge compounds

Every source you add makes the whole brain smarter and more connected. When the same person, place, or idea appears across sources, it gets its own page that accumulates everything known about it. Knowledge builds on itself instead of being re-discovered from scratch each time you ask — so the more you add, the more useful and connected your brain becomes.

Who it's for

Researchers, students, consultants, creators, and small teams — anyone who lives in documents and wants an AI that knows their world, not just the public web.

The one-line pitch

Ounie is the AI that finally remembers everything you've ever learned — and helps you use it.

Is it live?

Yes. The web app at ounie.com is live in production, along with the iOS app, the Chrome extension, and the public API and MCP connectors. Your first brain is free forever, and no credit card is required to start.