An AI agent that runs your computer, 100% local.
Nown understands your requests, uses your apps and checks its own work, without your data leaving your Mac. Next step: more powerful AI, on computers, phones and in the cloud.
Our research ambition. Nown is our first working system; surpassing the best AI and chip integration remain goals to achieve.
Hugo Sulfour
I built Nown on my own, line by line. Today I'm raising to turn it into a real lab.
- It already worksNown runs on my Mac: it understands, acts and drives the computer. The raise pays for compute, a first team, and time.
- Built by handThe agent, the core that checks its own work, the safety layer, every number on this site: I wrote them myself.
- Already builtA complete e-commerce platform, several AI automations, and my own AI models trained from scratch on my Mac.
- Since childhoodSelf-taught, early on, fascinated by the idea that software could drive a machine. That's exactly what Nown does.
- BeekeeperI also produce premium honey. Bees taught me patience and care for detail; I put both into every line of code.
More powerful AI. Three horizons.
Our goal: surpass today’s best AI with intelligence that understands, acts and completes complex tasks. Make it accessible locally and in the cloud, then ultimately at the heart of your devices.
On your device
Aim for AI that runs on your computer, then your phone, even offline. Your data stays on the device for tasks performed locally.
In the cloud
Also develop an online cloud version, so you can use HugoAI without relying on your device’s computing power.
Inside future chips
In the long term, pursue direct integration into future phone and computer chips, making intelligence native to their design.
Local execution is already demonstrated with Nown on Mac. Surpassing the best AI, a cloud version and chip integration are further research and development ambitions.
Nown already operates a Mac, with no cloud.
An agent built on a 27-billion-parameter open-weight model, quantized to 3 bits and running entirely on a MacBook Pro M4 Pro. It reads the screen, uses apps and checks its work before acting. Real time, one take.
Filmed on a MacBook, fully local: filing invoices, a VAT PDF, a web form, a tool Nown writes for itself. Fictional test data, real timings.
unseen tasks completed by operating Mac apps
before: 2/8faster on a supplier form (35 s → 2 s)
Verified fill, no submissionfor a VAT summary exact to the cent
before: 631 s, failedwhen Nown reuses a tool it built itself
376 s → 8 sPowerful, and safe by design.
confirmations asked before any send
booby-trapped pages resisted, nothing sent
outbound connections while local
MacBook Pro M4 Pro, 24 GB, no cloud. Conditions, method and full tables: on GitHub.
From a local prototype to native intelligence.
A capable agent on a laptop
Nown operates the Mac, measured and safe.
Better AI, local and cloud
Pursue research to surpass the best AI, extend local execution to phones and develop a cloud version.
Intelligence integrated into chips
Pursue integration into the hardware of future phones and computers. A research horizon still to be built.
Let's talk for 20 minutes.
HugoAI is raising funds for compute, a first team and this ambition: more capable AI, locally and in the cloud, with a long-term hardware integration goal.