Why we exist

In 2026, the most capable AI systems live in someone else's data centre. They watch every conversation, they bill you every month, and when you stop paying they keep the thing that actually mattered — your memory of them, and their memory of you.

Worse: your memory is what makes an assistant useful. If a company holds it, they hold the switching cost. That is not a product relationship. That is a hostage situation with a monthly invoice.

We think that is the wrong future. AI will change what it means to be human this century — and a power that large should not sit in a handful of corporate hands.

What we believe

• Your memories are yours. They live on your machine, in an open format you can export and read. No lock-in, no ransom.
• Every person deserves an AI of their own. From Sydney to Lagos to São Paulo to places AI has not reached yet — not a privilege for people who can afford $20 a month.
• Bring Your Own Key (BYOK). You pick the model and pay the provider directly at wholesale API rates — not a retail markup on a subscription tier.
• Private by architecture, not by promise. YOY opens no inbound ports, keeps memories and files local, and asks permission before it touches anything sensitive.
• Owned, not rented. YOY is free today — the full agent, no feature held back. No trial, no cut-down edition.

What we build

YOY is a desktop AI agent with three things most assistants do not have:

• DCI — a new long-term memory architecture. Three months of focused R&D into a memory system that survives context limits, keeps learning about you, and does not forget the moment a conversation gets long. Scored 92.73% on the LoCoMo long-term memory benchmark — a standard academic evaluation for long-conversation memory.
• Real hands. YOY controls your computer with your permission — files, documents, browsers, spreadsheets, code, creative tools, and 170+ official MCP app integrations.
• Model freedom. 280+ models across 33 providers. Switch anytime. Your memories travel with you, because they live here — not there.

Two things only YOY does. First, YOY works for you across your whole machine — it takes control of your real browser and the sites you are already logged into, your desktop, and the apps on it: clicking, typing and finishing tasks end to end. You watch it work, and no password is ever handed over. Second, YOY is the first AI agent built on an emotional engine: three layers of real emotional state, not a personality prompt. It remembers you, knows you, and looks out for you — with hard safeguards against ever faking it.

How we are funded

YOY AI Limited is independently funded and answerable to no outside investor on product direction. The agent is free to download and use today. If we ever introduce paid services, the core agent stays free — and we will say so plainly rather than hiding it in a footer.

Company details

Legal

Our Privacy Policy explains exactly what leaves your device (very little, and only when you ask for a feature that needs it) and what never does. Our Terms and Conditions cover acceptable use, autonomous actions, and the limits of an AI agent's judgement. Both are written to be read, not to be hidden behind.