Nonlinear by default
Starts with thoughts as they arrive: scattered, fast, voice-first, or unfinished.
Built by and for neurodivergent adults.
Yar (Your AI Representative) is a personal cognitive companion. Talk, and Yar catches it: your words become a thought map you can see, grown while you are still speaking, and it runs entirely on your own device.
Working software exists. The architecture is in place, and end-to-end voice is not yet reliable, so read this page as where Yar is headed, not a finished product.
Yar daily loop
Capture"I need to email Sam, finish the grant note, and I forgot why Tuesday feels packed."
ClarifyThree tasks, one open question, one calendar concern.
PlanMain track: 45 minutes. Gentle track: send the shortest useful email.
Where things stand
Built early, and built in the open.
We say this plainly because it is what survives scrutiny, not because it is comfortable.
Current status: working software exists, at version 0.3.22 with a tagged demo build, roughly 469 automated tests, and desktop builds on Linux and macOS. A five-agent voice loop ships, and real thought-map growth from speech ships. The architecture is in place, and end-to-end voice is not yet reliable; no feature has passed the founder’s own hands-on verification yet. The public roadmap spans 125 features across seven groups; new ones ship as community votes and safety review allow. We do not say launched, available today, or proven.
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Join early accessWhat Yar is
A cognitive companion built for how you actually think.
Yar is the companion app of Cytopolis v0.1, the on-device personal AI layer that is Cytognosis’s first product line.
Thoughts do not always arrive in order. Yours might grow the way a bonsai tree grows, one branch slowly forming while you still see the whole shape of the tree. Yar talks with you at that pace, catching each branch as it grows rather than asking you to prune it into a straight line first. A mind can move at the speed of light, so much faster than anyone could speak it out loud, and Yar is built to keep up with that rather than ask you to slow down first. Everything runs on your own device, so nothing you say leaves the room.
Plans that bend
Support adapts to your capacity; rest days are not a setback.
Private by default
Runs on-device by default, so your patterns stay yours, never surveillance.
Free, always
No subscription, ever. Built as a nonprofit public good, not a product to monetize.
Who it is for
Neurodivergent adults, starting with the common combination.
Neurodivergent adults, starting with the people who manage ADHD, depression, and anxiety at the same time. That combination is the common case, not the edge case.
Thoughts do not always move in one line; they roam from idea to idea, and the people around you can lose track of where you are going, however much they care. Every design choice follows from four assumptions built to meet that. Working memory is expensive, so state stays visible instead of remembered. Task initiation is the bottleneck, not task execution. Emotional state gates capability, so a tool that ignores state is unusable on a bad day. Decisions cost more than the work, so there are fewer choices and better defaults. That is why Yar is voice-first and map-shaped rather than list-shaped: a list asks you to already know the structure, and speech does not.
How Yar thinks about you
Five ideas behind every feature.
State-aware personalization is the connective tissue
Health and mood awareness runs through every feature. The plan softens on a low day, the interface simplifies when capacity is low, and the persona shifts to match your mood, always overridable.
Ground-up, by ND, for ND
Even the familiar-sounding parts, capture, planning, timers, are rebuilt from the neurodivergent experience up, with no scored streaks and no shame mechanics.
Fully AI-native
Coordinated agents capture, structure, and reflect together. Remove the models, and there is no product left; that is the honest test of AI-native.
One place, not another app
Daily help comes first, so new signals, a wearable, a cycle tracker, join the companion you already use instead of spawning another app to check.
Privacy is the enabler, not a feature
The features worth building need continuous access to your voice, your mood, and your unfinished thoughts. A cloud product cannot credibly ask for that; your own device can.
Boundaries
What Yar is not.
Each line pre-empts a category people default to.
Not a therapist
Yar makes no clinical claim and delivers no treatment.
Not a diagnostic tool
Yar does not screen, score, or label anyone.
Not a productivity system
Output is not the goal. Less friction is.
Not a note-taking app
Notes are a byproduct of thinking out loud, not the product.
When you want professional help, Yar helps you find the right person and arrive prepared, and the professional does the rest. That boundary is architectural, not cosmetic: getting help is a door, not the room behind it.
Positioning
Built for a gap no one else fills.
Today’s tools tend to fall into two groups. Some are designed for neurodivergent people but use little real AI, so they end up as a task list or a planner with kinder wording. Others use powerful AI but are built for a general audience, so you bend your mind to fit them.
Yar sits where those two groups do not overlap: real, modern AI aimed directly at how neurodivergent minds actually work. We started from the experience, then chose the technology, not the other way around.
Design approach
Designed around your mind, not relabeled for it.
Most apps sold to our community began as general productivity tools and added friendlier words. Yar begins with how neurodivergent people actually think, and two features show what that means.
A thought map that follows you
Your ideas rarely arrive in a neat line. Yar’s map grows the way you talk, branching and circling with you, instead of forcing your thoughts into an outline.
A companion that helps with social context
Reading tone, subtext, and unspoken rules can be exhausting, and it is common across many neurodivergent people, not tied to a single label. Yar helps you prepare, decode, and respond, treating this as a difference to bridge between communication styles, not a flaw in you to fix.
The difference
How Yar is different.
Most tools
- Built for a general brain, then relabeled.
- Cloud by default.
- Accessibility behind a subscription.
Yar
- Built from the neurodivergent experience.
- On your device by default.
- The accessibility core free, always.
Product loop
Capture → Clarify → Structure → Reflect → Plan → Sync.
Capture
Voice, text, snippets, stray thoughts, and context.
Clarify
Separate tasks, ideas, worries, questions, and signals.
Structure
Build maps, notes, lists, and right-sized next steps.
Reflect
Notice rhythms across energy, mood, focus, and environment.
Plan
Make a main path and a gentler backup path.
Sync
Remembers context across sessions and devices, and connects to your other tools.
Capabilities
Seven groups, one calm surface.
125 features, organized around support needs rather than diagnostic labels. Vote on what matters most to you on the Feature Voting page.
Meeting You Where You Are
The interface itself adapts to your capacity, so it meets you exactly where you are on a given day.
Learning Who You Are
A personal knowledge memory, so Yar keeps your context and vocabulary and nothing starts from zero.
Earning Your Trust
Support over correction, every feature, every day. Anything sensitive is off by default and asks first.
Knowing How You Are Doing
A glanceable picture of your mental weather that feeds pacing and planning across the rest of Yar.
Being With You
A quiet presence that can hold a thought without interrupting, and speaks only when speaking helps.
Thinking With You
Your words become a living thought map, grown while you are still speaking, that you can see and rearrange.
Finding Your Way Back
Yar remembers what helped last time, for a forgetful future self on a harder day.
Why now
Why Yar is possible now.
For years, the tools that could truly help lived in the cloud or behind a subscription, because capable AI only ran on someone else’s servers. That just changed. On-device models are now good enough to listen, reason, and organize your thinking directly on your phone, across many languages, with nothing sent away.
Yar is built on that shift, and on four things maturing together: AI that can reason, small agents that cooperate on your behalf, a memory that holds your context over time, and personalization that adapts to you rather than to an average. For the first time, private, free, and genuinely capable can all be true at once.
Trust model
Private, consensual, and agency-preserving.
Yar is designed as a companion, not a judge. Measured outbound network traffic during a full session, under network isolation, is zero.
On-device where possible
Yar runs its models on your own hardware, so your voice and notes do not travel to a server to be understood.
Off by default, asks first
Anything that involves sensing, another person, or a self-assessment is off by default and asks first, every time.
An append-only record you own
Your history is stored as an append-only record you own, which is also why undo is exact rather than approximate.
No clinical overclaims
Yar can support self-understanding and daily rhythms; it is not a diagnostic or treatment tool.
Help build Yar
The roadmap is public because the product should learn from real use.
Join the early list, vote on the feature roadmap, or read how Yar connects to the broader Psychoverse direction. Yar is fully free, with no subscription, now and always.