The Power of AI Should Belong to the People.
BrainDrive is a personal AI system that's built to help you define and reach your goals. It's MIT-licensed and open source. That means you control your copy completely. No one, including us, can take it away or change the rules.
Every aspect of BrainDrive — from the technical architecture, to the implementation, to the ecosystem — is designed to compound the power of AI.
And every level ensures that power flows to where it belongs, with the people.
The four pillars of BrainDrive
Everything we build, say, and do serves these.
Empowerment
Built to help you define and reach your goals.
Think about the kind of help only the richest can afford — personal trainers, financial advisors, career coaches. AI makes this expertise available to everyone, but you have to know how to partner with it. BrainDrive is designed to help you build that partnership.
Ownership
You’re an owner, not a user.
With Big Tech, you’re building on someone else’s platform. With BrainDrive, everything you build is yours. Your Memory, your data, your growth. The more you use it, the more powerful it becomes — and that power belongs to you.
Freedom
Your BrainDrive, your rules.
You are always free to run your BrainDrive on your own hardware. Even if you never do, the fact that you can changes everything — no one can hold you hostage to their rules. You stay because it works, not because you’re stuck.
Sustainability
We grow with you, not off you.
BrainDrive is free to own and run yourself. We offer a done-for-you concierge setup, managed hosting, and community for people who want pro management and support. This makes the project sustainable. You’re always free to leave and take everything with you.
When the power of AI belongs to the people, society transforms
We will know we have succeeded when:
- The power of AI compounds with, instead of off, the individual.
- AI handles the drudgery, so we can spend more time living.
- The world's hardest problems become solvable.
- Progress belongs to everyone, instead of just a few Big Tech companies.
And because everyone shares in the benefits, progress is something people work towards and celebrate together.
Welcome to the future of user-owned AI. Welcome to BrainDrive.
BrainDrive Co-Creators
Dave Waring
Operations
Over 2 decades of experience building and running tech startups from zero to scale operations.
Dave Jones
Engineering
Over 3 decades of experience building and running enterprise-scale applications.