Concepts

An app is a product Ounie builds and runs — a battlecard studio, a lead scraper, a podcast generator, a receptionist. Each one lives at its own subdomain, is listed in the directory, and exposes the same capability three ways: a dashboard for people, an MCP server for agents, and a REST API for anything else. Apps are the product; everything below exists to make them better or to pay for them. See Apps.

An action is a billable operation inside an app — build the deck, scrape the list, render the video. Each action has exactly one price, whoever calls it and however they pay. A thin result (an empty dataset, a failed render, an honest “not in your brain”) settles at zero.

There are two ways to reach an action’s price. An autonomous agent can pay per call in USDC over x402 — no account, no API key, just an HTTP 402 and a signed retry. An account holder spends credits from one wallet that covers every app. Anonymous per-call prices sit above the member rate; that gap is what an account buys you. See credits, agent payments, and funding a wallet.

A brain is a knowledge base you own — everything you save about one topic, project, or client. It is the platform’s differentiator: pass a brain to an app and its output is built from your material and cited back to it, instead of being generic. Brains are private by default, and you can keep as many as you have areas of work.

A source is anything you add to a brain: a file, a web link, a note you type, or a passage an agent saved from a conversation. Files and links are fetched and read for you; notes are kept exactly as written. Whatever the kind, the original is preserved — Ounie builds on top of it rather than replacing it.

When you add a source, Ounie reads it in the background and writes a clean wiki page from it: a clear title, a readable summary, and [[wikilinks]] to the people, places, and ideas it mentions. Those linked ideas become pages of their own, so the more you add, the more your knowledge connects instead of piling up.

The wiki is the readable layer of your brain — the synthesized pages and the concept pages that grow between them. You can open any page, follow its links, and edit it by hand if Ounie got something wrong. An edit re-indexes just that page; your original sources are never touched. See Wiki & graph for how it is built.

Every [[wikilink]] is an edge. Together they form a graph you can see and explore — a map of how your ideas relate. It is not decoration: the same links let an answer pull in neighboring pages it would otherwise miss.

Anything built from a brain — an answer, a deck, a proposal — names the pages it used, and those citations are checked against the pages that were actually retrieved, so an invented reference can’t survive. If the material isn’t there, Ounie says so plainly instead of filling the gap. Learn more in Asking.

Every plan reaches every app. What changes is how much you run each month: Free is one brain and a bank of questions that never expires, Pro is the personal tier, and Studio and Team let you pick your monthly credit volume. See pricing for the current limits.