The shift

AI assistants are becoming the interface to everything. Whoever holds your context holds you.

flowchart LR
  U[You] --> A[AI assistant]
  A --> C[(Their cloud)]
  C --- M[Your memory]
  C --- D[Your documents]
  C --- H[Your history]

Rented land

We have seen this before. Your members, history and data already live inside someone else’s business model.

flowchart TB
  O((Your organisation))
  O --> F[Facebook group]
  O --> W[WhatsApp]
  O --> G[Google Drive]
  O --> M[Mailchimp]
  O --> S[Website builder]
  O --> R[Registration app]

The inversion

Your organisation at the centre. Your data, tasks and knowledge stay in your own home, and AI comes to you.

flowchart LR
  C1[Claude] --> O
  C2[ChatGPT] --> O
  C3[Local model] --> O
  O(("Your organisation: data, tasks, knowledge"))

Talk to your organisation

Run members, tasks, events, comms and content by talking to any AI. Forms, tables and settings appear right in the chat. The site is the system of record, your public face, and the fallback.

flowchart LR
  subgraph Interface[Any conversation]
    A[Claude]
    B[ChatGPT]
    C[Local model]
  end
  P{{MCP with your permissions}}
  subgraph Platform[Your site]
    M[Members]
    T[Tasks]
    K[Knowledge]
    E[Events and money]
  end
  A --> P
  B --> P
  C --> P
  P --> Platform

Swap the left side any time. The right side is yours.

One platform, every layer

The same stack runs one person’s life or a 700-member club.

flowchart TB
  O["Organisation: website, CRM, membership, ecommerce, social network"]
  S["Services: email, SMS, push"]
  I["Infrastructure: our hosting or yours"]
  Y((Owned by you))
  O --> S --> I
  O -.- Y
  S -.- Y
  I -.- Y

LocalHero vs the big AI platforms

AI-addressable by design

A knowledge base and a task layer that people and AI both read, write and complete. Change your AI and lose nothing.

flowchart LR
  P[Person] --> SL
  AI[Any AI] --> SL
  subgraph SL[Shared layer]
    T[Tasks]
    K[Knowledge base]
  end

Run it anywhere

• Host with LocalHero, or on your own server
• Self-hosted sites keep the AI layer: knowledge base and tasks
• LocalHero’s own AI tools stay with our hosting. MCP is an open standard, so other plugins can supply tools

flowchart LR
  LH((Your LocalHero site)) --> H[Your own host: site and data]
  LH --> X[A different AI: tasks and knowledge intact]

How we work today

• No ads on paid sites or testing-phase sites
• The open core is published on GitHub
• Leave whenever you like, with a working site

Honest status

• Testing phase: everything is free for now, and hosting will be charged later
• Built and run by a solo developer
• Calendar sync and the relationships layer are still experimental
• Free sites may carry ads in future. Paid sites never will