Mawl

A little different. In development.

AI teammates
you own.

A self-hosted home for your AI conversations.
Choose the model. Make the teammate yours.

Explore on GitHub Get to know Mawl

Small presence. Big ideas.

Self-hosted. Model-independent. Unmistakably yours.

A familiar place.
Your kind of AI.

Give a teammate a name, a personality, and a model. Then pick up the conversation in a calm space made for your next thought.

Illustrative preview

NoraYour thinking partner
Your chosen model
I've got an idea for a tiny bookshop.
Help me find a place to start?
Nora

A tiny bookshop is a lovely starting point. Let's make the idea a little more tangible.

Before the shelves, the space, or the name, there's one question worth sitting with:

What would make someone walk past a big bookshop to come to yours?

A particular kind of book? A feeling? A community? We can build from there.

A conversation, on your terms.

A glimpse of the interface, with an example conversation. Mawl is actively being built.

Good company.
Your rules.

AI should fit the way you think.
And leave the choices with you.

A model you choose.

Go with Anthropic, OpenAI, or OpenRouter. Run a local model through Ollama. Or connect an OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

  • Anthropic
  • OpenAI
  • OpenRouter
  • Ollama
  • OpenAI-compatible

A teammate you shape.

A name, a personality, a model. Make a focused writing partner, a patient sounding board, or someone to think through the next idea with.

A space you host.

Mawl's server, database, and provider keys live on your machine. Conversations go to the model provider you choose. With a local Ollama model, the model can run locally too.

A work in progress, out in the open.

Little by little.
Built with intention.

Mawl is early. Multi-provider chat and teammate personalities are here. A Windows desktop host is in development, with more on the roadmap.

For now, you can run the app with Docker Compose. Follow the code, see what's next, or help shape what Mawl becomes.

See the roadmap

A few things
you might wonder.

Can I use Mawl today?

Yes, if you're comfortable self-hosting an early project. The repository includes Docker Compose setup instructions. The Windows desktop experience is still in development; there isn't a ready desktop installer here yet.

Read the setup guide
Do I need a particular AI subscription?

You can use an API key for a supported provider, or a local model through Ollama. Mawl also includes ChatGPT sign-in and a Claude plan connection. Provider access, subscriptions, and usage charges depend on the connection you choose.

Where do my conversations go?

Mawl stores its data on the machine where you host it. When you use a cloud model, prompts are sent to that provider under its terms. If you choose a local Ollama model, model inference can stay on your machine too.

Mawl, a smiling pistachio mochi with round ears.

Make a little
room for Mawl.

Your models. Your machine. Your next idea.

Meet the project on GitHub In development. Built in the open.