rowboat

Rowboat is an open-source AI coworker that integrates with your email and meeting notes to build a persistent, local knowledge graph. It utilizes this context to assist with tasks like drafting documents, preparing for meetings, and tracking projects while keeping all data in an editable Markdown format. By maintaining long-lived memory on your machine, it allows for compounding context that improves over time without relying on external cloud storage.

Rowboat is a local-first AI coworker designed to transform fragmented work data into a persistent, structured knowledge graph. By storing information as an Obsidian-compatible vault of plain Markdown files, it ensures that user context is transparent, editable, and portable, avoiding the limitations of opaque, on-demand retrieval systems. This architecture prioritizes data sovereignty and compounding memory, allowing the AI to act on historical context while maintaining privacy by keeping all data on the user's machine.