The age of AI is here, bringing incredible possibilities. But let's be honest – it's also brought chaos. We're drowning in scattered chatbots, siloed plugins, and countless tools that don't talk to each other. More importantly, we can't truly leverage AI's power with our most sensitive information because, frankly, it hasn't felt safe.
What if there was a better way? What if AI could be both immensely powerful and fundamentally private? What if your AI tools understood you, working together seamlessly across your devices, all while keeping your personal data firmly under your control?
That's Why We're Building Proxly AI.
Proxly is the first secure AI operating system layer and vetted App Store, designed from the ground up to solve the fragmentation and trust issues plaguing the current AI landscape. We're creating a new ecosystem – a central hub on your device where AI becomes truly personal and reliable.
The Proxly Difference: Power Meets Privacy
Our vision is built on five core pillars:
- Protect User Data: You decide what data each app sees – your calendar, files, browsing history – with granular, intuitive permissions. No app accesses anything without your explicit consent.
- One Shared Memory: Your preferences, context, and past interactions live securely in Proxly's OS layer, not scattered across apps. This allows AI tools to understand you deeply and work together intelligently, without you repeating yourself.
- Curated App Discovery: Find the best AI apps, agents, and models in the Proxly App Store. Every tool is reviewed and vetted for safety, quality, and compliance, so you can explore and install with confidence.
- Empower Developers: We provide powerful yet simple APIs and SDKs so developers can build sophisticated, context-aware AI applications without reinventing the wheel. Access shared memory, local model runtimes, secure system actions, and more.
- Seamless Payments: Easily access premium apps or features through integrated, secure payments, while developers have a straightforward way to monetize their creations.
Proxly Architecture
Proxly is a secure, privacy-focused operating system layer that allows AI tools to understand you deeply and work together seamlessly across your devices.
So, how does Proxly achieve this blend of power and privacy? At its heart lies a unique architecture designed for trust and integration:
- The Secure OS Layer: This is the foundation – a protected environment running on your device that manages and isolates AI processes.
- Sandboxed AI Applications: Apps downloaded from the Proxly Store run within this secure layer, sandboxed to prevent unauthorized access to your system or data.
- Capability-Based Security: Instead of broad permissions, apps request specific capabilities (e.g., "read calendar events for today," "summarize contents of this specific file"). The OS layer mediates these requests, prompting you for explicit consent when necessary.
- Core Service APIs: The OS layer provides standardized, secure APIs for apps:
- Shared Memory API: Allows authorized apps to access and contribute to your encrypted, personal context store.
- Computer-Use API: Enables apps to perform actions (like opening files or sending messages) *on your behalf*, but only with your approval managed through the capability system.
- AI Runtime API: Provides access to run computations using local AI models on your device or seamlessly fall back to privacy-preserving cloud resources when needed.
- Secure OS Integration: This entire layer interfaces carefully with your host operating system (Windows, macOS, etc.) to perform necessary actions without compromising the security boundary.
This layered approach ensures that AI applications gain the context and capabilities they need to be truly useful, while you always remain in control, ensuring your data stays private and your actions remain intentional.
How it Works
For users, the journey is simple and secure. You start by installing the Proxly AI on your desktop or mobile device. After signing in, you configure permissions and choose what context to share in your secure memory. Then, you can explore the vetted Proxly App Store, discover powerful AI apps, and run them. When an app needs access to your data or system functions, Proxly intercepts the request, allowing you to approve or deny it, ensuring you always stay in control.
For developers, Proxly provides a streamlined path to build and distribute AI applications. Register on the Developer Portal, use our SDKs and sandbox environment to build your app, leveraging the shared memory and compute APIs. Submit your app for review. Once vetted for safety and quality, publish it directly to the Proxly App Store, where you can monitor performance, manage updates, and easily monetize your creation through our integrated payment system.
Imagine the Possibilities
Imagine a travel AI that knows your family's seating preferences, an AI research assistant that cites the original source of an idea in a book you're reading, or a financial tool analyzing your documents securely on your local machine. With Proxly, these integrated, trustworthy AI experiences become possible.
We believe this is a "Zero to One" opportunity – a chance to build the foundational platform for the next era of personal computing. While Big Tech might eventually attempt this, the inherent conflict between their business models and true user privacy creates a window for a dedicated, user-centric solution like Proxly to lead the way.
We're incredibly excited about the future we're building, creating a thriving marketplace that benefits both users seeking powerful, private AI and the developers creating those experiences.
We know we have a big challenge ahead. We know it's not going to be easy, and some have even told us it might be impossible. But the reality is that we love a good challenge. We believe the energy spent tackling small problems is the same as for big ones – so why not shoot for the moon?
What do you think about what we're creating? What are your suggestions? Comments? Feedback? Please send us a message; we'd love to hear from you. Contact us at hi@proxly.ai.
We're excited to see what you think, and we're looking forward to building this with you.
