Vellum is a personal AI assistant that you own and shape over time. It keeps long-term memory of your life, people, preferences and work, then acts on that knowledge: sending email, managing your calendar, browsing the web, building slides, writing code, running deep research and monitoring websites. The software is open source and free to download, and it can run on your own machine. Vellum Cloud adds hosted compute with Mighty at $30 per month, Super at $100 per month and Ultra at $200 per month, plus pay-as-you-go credits for usage.
People who want an assistant with real memory and control over their data are the target audience. Busy founders, operators and sales leads can hand off follow-ups, invoice chasing and CRM updates, while privacy-minded individuals can keep conversation history and credentials on their own hardware. Developers and tinkerers can inspect the code, extend it with community plugins or write custom skills. Anyone nervous about autonomous software benefits from the permission system, which holds high-stakes actions such as emailing new contacts or spending credits until you mark them as trusted.
A typical day might include booking a lunch spot, drafting a board deck, enriching and scoring leads, chasing unpaid invoices or planning a marathon training schedule. Built-in skills cover Google Workspace, Slack, Notion and your filesystem, so the assistant can read a document, update a calendar entry and post a summary to a channel. Because the same identity, chats and schedules follow you across Mac, iOS, Android, web, voice, email, Telegram, Slack and terminal, a task started on your laptop can be checked from your phone. Recurring background jobs handle routine monitoring and reports.
