The Anvil series

Building Anvil, one honest piece at a time.

A weekly walk through what Anvil does, why each part was built, and how it actually helps. No hype — if a piece is half-built, we say so.

Anvil's memory rendered as a 3D galaxy
01 · 6 Sep 2026 · ~9 min

Your AI has amnesia. I got tired of paying for it.

Why we built Anvil: a private, local memory-and-reasoning brain that sits under the AI you already use — so it remembers your work, learns from it, and never leaves your machine.

Read the introduction →
Next week
02 · Coming soon

The memory brain

How Anvil decides what's worth remembering, hands the right piece back at the right moment, and why "structured" beats "a pile of text" every time.