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Valura

Your computer, with an intelligence of its own. Valura is a voice-first, local-first personal computer intelligence for macOS — it listens for a wake phrase, understands your screen and apps, and acts, rather than just answering questions in a chat window.

🔬 In Alpha macOS Local-first

What it does

"Hey Valura"

A local wake word and voice pipeline start every interaction — typing is a fallback, not the primary way in.

Sees your screen, acts on it

Reads the accessibility tree, app APIs, and OCR to understand what's on screen, then opens apps, clicks through UIs, and manages files and windows for you — not just describing what to click.

Catches you up

"Catch me up on today" or "get me ready for my 2pm" pulls a timeline from your calendar, email, and files and gives you a spoken briefing.

Connects to your services

Calendar, Mail, Gmail, Slack, Notion, Linear, Stripe and more, each opt-in with its own permission scope — the core assistant never requires any of them.

Local-first, always

Voice, reasoning, memory, and computer control all run on-device with zero mandatory API keys or cloud accounts. Cloud reasoning is an opt-in toggle, not a requirement.

Safety that scales with risk

Every action goes through a permission-tiered tool registry with an audit log — low-risk actions run immediately, higher-risk ones confirm first.

Where it stands

Deep into active development

The voice engine, screen understanding, agent loop, memory, connectors, automations, and idle-screen UI are all built and wired end-to-end. What's left is real-hardware QA, visual/audio polish, and packaging for release.

Alpha stage

Still pre-release and evolving quickly — this page will update as Valura moves toward a public build.