by9am is easier to show than to tell. Here's the whole idea in six pictures — what it is, what it can do, when it works, how it comes together, why it's actually yours, and how it scales across your whole life. The detailed questions people ask are answered further down.
01 — What it is
Your data in. Action out.
Everything you touch — health, calendar, email, conversations — flows into one wiki-style memory. by9am reads the whole picture, runs the right skill, and acts through the tools you've switched on. Raw signal enters one side; finished work leaves the other, reaching you on every channel.
Sources
Health dataLife eventsCalendarEmailsFlagsTranscripts
extract & file
Unified memory
your wiki — one source of truth
People · HealthProjects · PlacesEvents · Money
reads it
by9am
orchestrates · runs skills
HealthLifeScheduling
acts via
Tools
EmailMessagingCalendar+ grow
to
You
every channel
The shape: your memory and by9am are the machinery in the middle — they turn raw signal into action you just approve.
02 — What it can do
Add skills. Make your own.
by9am starts with a few skills and grows. Install ready-made ones from the community, or build your own — and for each skill you choose exactly which tools and capabilities it can touch. Switch them on as your life needs them; everything still shares the one memory underneath.
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Tools & capabilities it can use
You decide which tools each skill may touch — nothing more.
The point: by9am isn't one fixed product — it's a base that you extend, skill by skill, granting each only the reach you choose.
03 — When it works
Go to bed behind. Wake up ahead.
Hand off the day's loose ends at night. While you sleep, by9am clears the inbox, preps tomorrow's meetings, chases the follow-ups and runs the research — so the morning starts with the work already done and a short list of what truly needs you.
The promise: the night does the work. You stop being the bottleneck on your own day.
04 — How it comes together
A dashboard that builds itself.
Your view of by9am isn't fixed — and neither is where things live. The same skills render to fit every screen, and you choose which modules show on which surface: the essentials on your iPhone, the full board on your Mac, and the kitchen tablet kept to family — shopping, the shared calendar, the week ahead. Set any module to any surface below and watch all three update.
Your dashboardlive · across your devices
The control: sensible defaults out of the box — phone glanceable, Mac the full desk, kitchen family-first — and every module is yours to place, add or hide, per surface.
05 — Why it's yours
Yours. Actually yours.
by9am lives on your own private VM — hosted wherever you like (any cloud, or your own box) — with a database you choose, an open by9am core and your model key, all under one roof you own. You reach that single home from wherever you already are: Telegram or WhatsApp on your phone, Claude Code on your Mac, even a shared kitchen screen the family uses for the shopping list and the week's calendar. Same by9am, same memory, always in sync — and you can pick it up and leave whenever you like.
The trust model: a home you own and visit, not an account you rent — single-tenant, inspectable, portable. The phone shows the glance, the Mac the full desk, the kitchen the family — same memory underneath, and the privacy is auditable, not just promised.
06 — How it scales
One you. Many Spaces.
Your life isn't one bucket. by9am holds Personal, Family and Business as separate, sovereign Spaces — like Notion workspaces, but each its own private store. A module can be shared across them by reference (one source of truth, never a copy), and a personal "Me" lens rolls the bits you care about into one dashboard. Work stays in work; your one screen still shows the whole day.
Personal — your VMFamily — the shared Family SpaceBusiness — the company's
Personal
your VM · just you
HealthNotesMoneyTravel
Family
shared · the Family Space
CalendarShoppingKidsMeals
Business
the company's Space
ProjectsTeamClientsInbox
the Me lens pulls a thread from each
Your dashboardthe Me lens — one view across every Space
Personal
Morning training done · sleep 7.3h
Business
14:00 client call · brief ready
Family
15:30 school pickup — Mia
Family
Shopping: milk, eggs, pasta
The model: one identity, many Spaces — each sovereign, shared by reference, federated not pooled, and rolled into a single view whenever you want it.
Questions
The questions people ask before they join
Everything above, in detail — plus the practical ones about cost, channels and access.
What is by9am, really?
An ambient assistant that lives in the channels you already use — Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, email, Signal, voice — and works through the night so you wake up ahead. It reads what's coming at you, remembers everyone you know, and does the work before you ask: drafts the reply, preps the meeting, books the table, chases the follow-up.
It isn't an app you open. It's a quiet layer over your whole life — work and personal — with one shared memory underneath.
Where does my data live?
Your own database
In a store you own — your repository and database, on your infrastructure. Your memory, your contacts, your notes, your history. It is single-tenant: nothing is pooled with other members, and none of it is ever used to train a model or sold to anyone.
You can read it, export it, or delete it at any time. Leaving means taking your data and the code with you — there's no hostage situation.
Whose AI is it running on?
Bring your own key
Yours. by9am runs on your own Anthropic / Claude key or plan. Model usage is billed to you directly, at cost — no markup, no reselling tokens, no middleman reading your prompts.
Because the intelligence is your key and the data is your database, the trust model is simple: we operate the plumbing, you own the brain and the memory.
Is it open source?
Open foundation
Yes. by9am is built on an open-source foundation you can inspect, fork and extend. No black box: you can see exactly what it does with your data and your key, and the community improves the core in the open.
If you ever want to run the whole thing yourself, you can — the managed service is about convenience, not lock-in.
How do I get it set up?
Done for you
We do it with you, one to one. We provision a private VM for you, connect your channels, wire in your model key, and migrate the context that matters — so on day one it already knows your world.
This is why access is members-first: every onboarding is a hands-on session, not a self-serve signup, and there are only so many in each wave.
What does it cost?
Hosting & improvement
A membership fee covers the managed hosting — your private VM, the channel bridges, monitoring, security and updates — plus continuous improvement: by9am gets sharper every week, and that work flows to you automatically.
Model usage is separate and passes straight through to your own key, at cost. So you're paying for the service and the hosting, never a markup on the intelligence itself.
Which channels does it work on?
Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, email, Signal and voice today. It's the same assistant with the same memory wherever you reach it — message it from your phone in the morning and your laptop at night, it doesn't lose the thread.
Is it private and secure?
By design. Single-tenant infrastructure, your own keys, your own VM, your own data store. Nothing is shared across members and nothing is mined. The open foundation means the privacy claims are auditable, not just promised.
How do I get access?
By nomination, or by applying. Most members are nominated by someone already inside; if that's not you, you can apply and we open a few seats each wave — every request read by hand.
Ready to wake up ahead?
Get nominated, or apply for one of the seats opening in the next wave.