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Appalogue is a one-person Mac-first software studio. Its flagship product, bimi, is a memory-rich AI agent that runs on-device by default and ships with an auditable memory you can browse, edit, and trust.

Appalogue is a Florida-registered software studio building bimi — a memory-rich AI assistant for macOS that adapts to its user's work. bimi runs a local model by default, keeps an editable constellation of what it remembers about you, and routes cloud work transparently, with the provider named per request.

Appalogue LLC is a one-person Mac-first software studio building bimi, a memory-rich AI assistant for macOS built on a simple bet: an assistant is only as good as its memory — and its usefulness compounds when it adapts to your work. Where mainstream chatbots are stateless web tabs hosted on someone else's servers, bimi is a SwiftUI Mac app with an on-device default lane, a structured editable memory, and per-request transparency about every cloud call.

The product ships in beta today. Memory architecture, voice diarization, and a hub-and-spoke topology across iPhone, iPad, Watch, Vision Pro, and TV are landing in waves. Appalogue is bootstrapped, has no third-party telemetry SDKs in the binary, and treats the privacy posture as the product — not a setting.

Appalogue LLC is a one-person software studio based in Florida, building bimi — a memory-rich AI assistant for macOS. bimi's focus is the half of AI assistance the platforms don't ship: an auditable memory that compounds for years — private, on-device, and yours to edit — plus expert skills adapted to the user's profession, from network engineering on out.

bimi is a SwiftUI Mac application, end-to-end. Its default execution lane is on-device, using a local model for classification, extraction, and memory work, with local embeddings for retrieval. Long-form reasoning runs on whatever provider the user configures (Anthropic, OpenAI, or anything OpenAI-compatible), and every cloud call is named in the sidebar.

The product's centerpiece is the Memory Constellation — a category-organised, editable graph of every fact bimi remembers about its user. Each fact has provenance, confidence, sensitivity, and graph links to related memories. The user can browse, edit, hold in review, or delete any fact; nothing about the user exists in a place they can't inspect.

Appalogue is bootstrapped, has no third-party analytics SDKs in the binary, and uses MetricKit for crash diagnostics — attached only to user-initiated bug reports. The company treats its privacy posture as the product, not a setting.

Steven Imbimbo is the founder of Appalogue LLC and the sole developer of bimi. He's a network engineer by background, with enterprise networking experience at TBC Corp. The bimi project started as a personal experiment with on-device LLMs and grew into a full native AI agent for Mac. Steven speaks publicly on memory architectures and on-device AI; an upcoming session is planned for Cisco Live (the conference, not the employer).