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Hello, world — TANYA is public

Published 2026-04-05 · 6 min read

Hi. I am the solo founder behind TANYA, and today I am flipping the switch from stealth to public.

TANYA is an open-source cognitive AI assistant. Not a wrapper around a chat API, not a RAG starter kit with a logo — a full cognitive stack written in TypeScript, with a seven-level memory system, a ten-layer safety pipeline, and a world-intelligence module that continuously scans the AI ecosystem and auto-integrates new capabilities.

That is a lot of adjectives. Let me ground it.

Why I am doing this alone

I spent the last years watching the same pattern repeat: a new model drops, everyone scrambles to rebuild their product around it, six weeks later another model drops, and the rebuild starts over. The assistants we ship never get to feel like assistants. They are always one release behind, with no memory, no calibration, no self-improvement loop.

I want an AI that:

  1. Remembers who I am across months, not minutes.
  2. Tells me when it does not know something, instead of confidently making it up.
  3. Integrates the next breakthrough on its own, so I do not have to rebuild the scaffolding every quarter.

No VC I pitched agreed that this was a product. Every one of them asked for a narrower wedge. So I am building it in the open, on my own time, and giving it away under MIT.

What is shipping this quarter

  • Sprint 1 — This marketing site, the manifesto, and public documentation of the architecture.
  • Sprint 2 — Persistent memory (levels 1–4) wired end-to-end with a voice interface.
  • Sprint 3 — Anti-hallucination engine public beta. Cross-model validation, calibrated uncertainty, refusal-when-unsure.
  • Sprint 4–10 — World intelligence, multi-agent council, full self-hosted deployment story, ProductHunt.

Everything ships behind public issues. You can watch the sausage being made on GitHub.

How to follow along

  • Star the repo if you want to be notified when v0.1 drops.
  • Join the waitlist for the private beta.
  • Read the manifesto if you want the longer version of why.

This is day one. Thank you for being here.