Maple is preparing for the release of a co-working agent. You install it locally and it works with your files, whether it's office work or building websites and apps. It's a turnkey solution, as easy as Claude Code, that keeps your data secure and private, no data sharing with closed AI labs. This is THE sovereign AI app for individuals and businesses who want powerful AI while retaining ownership of their information. Why build an agent into the Maple app when other agents already exist? Easy, we want to give you control over your work. We don't have a business plan that incorporates making money off our users' data. In the age of AI, your information, whether it's personal or company trade secrets, is the single thing that differentiates you from everyone else. We all have access to AI that can build a professional website for selling shoes. But your strategy and network for how you sell shoes should not be shared with your competitors. Sovereignty is the path to protecting what makes you, you. Maple sits at the intersection of Usability and Sovereignty. Maple gives you the best tools that are both easy to use and maintain your data sovereignty. Sovereign for one, sovereign for all. It has been a journey to get here. We brought to market the very first personal chatbot with end-to-end encryption using TEEs in late 2024. Prior to that there were proofs of concept but no full product offerings. Every other AI chat product on the market handled your data in plain text, either selling you a service to get your data or asking you to trust that they won't snoop on you. Quickly people found Maple and latched onto its open-source code and verifiable encryption. We didn't stop there. You may remember earlier this year we teased a product called "Maple Agent" and opened up a waiting list. That product is a mobile app that acts as your AI "friend", maintaining one long continuous chat, and getting to know you over time. I dislike using the word "friend" there, but it's the best way to convey the UX in a few words. AI is a tool, always has been, always will be. Any kind of friendly personality on top is just synthetic. In our testing, the UX of Maple Agent is really powerful for what it does. Think about the many short AI chats you have in your favorite app, whether it's looking up a historical fact or asking advice about a topic. With Maple Agent, those all go away in favor of the long-running chat with the friendly agent. It's like you have your own personal assistant who knows you so well and can look up anything for you. When I ask AI certain questions, I want to ask an expert who already understands my situation so I'm not repeating myself for the 100th time. That's the amazing value the personal agent brings to the table. We still see great utility for a personal agent like the "Maple Agent". Thousands of people on the waiting list, hoping to get their hands on it, agree that the concept is worth exploring and trying out. We were constrained in launching it due to a few circumstances, one of them being access to the scale of compute needed to power it. We have a clear path laid out for how to get there, but today is not the day to execute on that. It will be in the near future. Instead we have a different agent ready to go that we think is also incredible. We now have an agentic harness inside of the Maple Research app. This thing is a powerhouse. It even builds and publishes its own software releases. The agent in Maple Research works with your local filesystem, speaks to the largest open models running in TEEs, utilizes local models for certain tasks, is compatible with MCP tools, has an API for connecting to anything you need, and also supports the ACP protocol, which means it can be extended in the future to speak to other tools like Claude Code, Codex, and local models running on your own hardware. A big unlock for us was the Goose Development Kit, which powers the core of our agent harness. More on that to come as we publish articles and documentation later about the agent. The agent inside Maple Research doesn't have a name. At least not yet, not sure if it ever will. For now we call it "Chat Mode" and "Agent Mode". Think of this as the workhorse, the truck, the heavy lifter. Our other "Agent", the phone app, is your sidekick in your pocket, ready to help with quick things and ongoing conversations about life. I am incredibly excited about the Maple Research Agent. While I'm already seeing great results using it for internal work items, I'm especially thrilled about the personal health and wellness work it's doing for me. I know there are plenty of apps out there for compiling wellness data, but I'm having it build a tool tailored specifically for what I need, without the extra fluff. And none of my health data is being donated to the closed AI labs or sent to advertisers. I know that the AI logic is not being silently adjusted to fit the whims of a large corporation that has paid for product placement. It's me, state of the art AI, and my data. That's how I want it. Maple's new agent makes that possible. We can't wait for you to try it out. If you want early access, comment here, email us, reach out in some way. To those on the other agent waitlist, you're already in the queue. Thanks for reading this lengthy update. :)

Had a great time interviewing @jesseposner @marksuman and @neil_chilson today at Freedom Tech, the @bitcoinpolicy summit, on engineering and legislating AI sovereignty!

“I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” - Thomas Jefferson We must keep AI as an open tool for all. Creating a regulatory moat around two closed companies creates the ultimate platform for tyranny of the mind.

For decades, the term "IT" referred to Information Technology, the discipline of managing systems that support an organization. I think that term is being replaced with a new definition. Intelligence Technology, managing the shared intelligence layer for an organization.

We are honored to be included in this guide. Maple is a platform for open intelligence, empowering people from all walks of life to utilize powerful AI in bettering their situation.

"We've given governments a monopoly on violence. We shouldn't give them a monopoly on intelligence also." - @marksuman of @TryMapleAI

Okay to torrents we go. Hugging face had its moment.

Completely surprised that @pulley is shutting down. It’s a great product and business, I’ve had nothing but quality interactions with their team. No details as to why and no acquisition mentioned. So curious to know more.

This is just one of many reasons why we built @TryMapleAI to defend against… Use an AI that verifiably CAN’T do this.

If your AI isn't end-to-end encrypted, assume a stranger is reading your chats. Because they are. Time to use an AI where no one reads your chats. Not even us.

For big tech companies, this is par for the course: hire an army of contractors to tag data for improving the product. You claim they don't have access to PII, but internal enforcement is sometimes very weak. Even worse, the data is not only viewed by outside parties, it's often duplicated to computers that are outside the big tech company's control. Data bundles get downloaded and dragged to their desktop. Once the worker moves onto the next task, cleanup is forgotten. If the contractor is in a remote work situation and rolls off the project, it could be weeks before their equipment is returned.

Add this to the “Best photos of 2026” list

When it comes to AI, the world is and will further become multi-agentic. You won’t hear businesses say, “We are an Anthropic shop” in the same way businesses used to standardize on Google, on Microsoft, or on IBM. It takes hybrid setups to tap the full potential of this tech.

My favorite quick model just got better

lesson for life, but in ai it’s a daily lesson

Can't wait to run my agents on this macrumors.com/2026/08/25/app…

First wave of invites for our Agent Beta are going out today. We're excited to see what you create with your new sovereign co-worker! If you want to join the list, go to trymaple.ai/agent

Graduating high school and getting to my first college midterms

Maple Agent Beta Update Over the last two weeks, the Agent has become more capable. Here's a rundown of things added: - Queue and Steer instructions - Navigate and recall prior Agent prompts - Sidebar redesigned to be more interactive - Rename projects and tasks - Kimi K3 (for Max users) and DeepSeek V4 Flash - Font size customization - More reliable retry logic