SimpleAI: What It Is
(And Isn't)

That's it. Not artificial general intelligence. Not a replacement for your judgment. A tool that surfaces patterns you'd miss because you're too close to the data or too busy to dig.

What We Believe

AI is a tool, not a replacement

A carpenter's level doesn't build the house. It helps the carpenter see what's true. SimpleAI works the same way — it looks at your invoices, your appointments, your notes, and shows you what's there. You still make the decisions.

Your data is yours

We're not interested in your data. We don't collect it, we don't store it, we don't analyze it. When you ask SimpleAI a question, your data goes directly from your computer to the AI provider you chose, using your API key. We're not in the middle.

If that's not private enough, use Ollama. Everything runs on your machine. Nothing leaves. Ever.

Transparency over magic

There's no mystery here. SimpleAI is a bridge — it takes your question, adds your data as context, sends it to an AI, and brings back the answer. You can see exactly what's being sent. You can see exactly what it costs. No hidden fees, no "AI-powered" pricing that's really just a markup.

Simple over clever

We could have built a complex system with fancy features. We didn't. SimpleAI watches a folder for requests and writes responses to another folder. That's the whole thing. It's boring on purpose — boring means reliable, boring means you can understand it, boring means it won't break when you need it.

How It Actually Works

Your App                    SimpleAI                    AI Provider
   │                           │                            │
   ├── writes request.json ───>│                            │
   │                           ├── reads your question      │
   │                           ├── sends to AI ────────────>│
   │                           │<──────────── gets answer ──┤
   │<── reads response.json ───┤                            │
   │                           │                            │

That's the entire architecture. Files in, files out. No servers, no accounts, no subscriptions.

What SimpleAI Does

Pattern Recognition
"You invoice Client X every 6 weeks like clockwork, but Client Y is sporadic — sometimes 2 weeks, sometimes 3 months."

Anomaly Detection
"This invoice is 4x your average for this client. Intentional?"

Trend Analysis
"Your Tuesday appointments have increased 40% over the past quarter."

Prediction
"Based on the past 6 months, you'll likely need to follow up with these 3 clients in the next two weeks."

Summarization
"Here are the key points from your 47 meeting notes this month."

What SimpleAI Doesn't Do

Make decisions for you
It shows you what's in the data. You decide what to do about it.

Replace expertise
If you're an accountant, it won't do your accounting. If you're a therapist, it won't counsel your clients. It's a tool for experts, not a replacement for them.

Phone home
There's no telemetry, no analytics, no "anonymous usage data." We literally don't know you're using it.

Lock you in
Want to switch AI providers? Change one setting. Want to stop using it? Delete the app. Your data never touched our servers because we don't have servers.

Supported Providers

On Pricing

Traditional SaaS charges $30-100/month for AI features bundled into bloated apps. You pay whether you use the AI or not. You pay for features you'll never touch.

SimpleAI costs what the AI actually costs:

• A typical analysis request uses 500-2000 tokens
• At current rates, that's $0.001-0.01 per request
• Heavy users might spend $5-10/month on API calls
• Light users might spend $0.50/month
• Ollama users spend $0/month (runs on your hardware)

You pay your AI provider directly. We don't mark it up. We don't take a cut.

On Privacy

Cloud providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Mistral, Groq):
Your data is sent to their servers, processed, and the response is returned. These companies have privacy policies you should read. They generally don't train on API data, but the data does leave your machine.

Ollama (local):
Nothing leaves your machine. The AI runs on your computer. This is as private as it gets. The tradeoff is that local models are less capable than cloud models (for now), and they use your computer's resources.

SimpleAI itself:
We see nothing. We store nothing. The app runs entirely on your machine and communicates only with the AI provider you've configured.

The Bottom Line

We built SimpleAI for people who:

• Want AI as a tool, not a crutch
• Care about where their data goes
• Are tired of paying for bloat they don't use
• Value transparency over marketing

If that's you, welcome. If not, no hard feelings.