private beta · invitations in waves

Your AI. Everywhere you are.

Smartopol is a private AI companion that follows you through your day — your terminal at 9 AM, Telegram on the train, Discord after dinner, wherever you show up next. One brain. One memory. Every channel. It learns who you are by living with you, and keeps what it learns on your machine.

Free. Forever. Like VLC. Like 7-Zip. Like Discord.
your box · your data · any model you want to plug in
Runs on your machine. Survives when the cloud doesn't.

the pitch, in one line

The only self-hosted AI agent with real persistent memory.

Others ship notes, prompt files, or scratchpads. Smartopol ships a knowledge architecture — hierarchical memory, nightly consolidation, cross-channel recall. Engineered top-down as a single system, not a glue layer on top of someone else's database.

See the proof → /comparison

§ 01 · memory

Memory that cascades, consolidates, and remembers.

Raw input climbs the pyramid. The cortex consolidates during sleep cycles. Cross-channel recall is just what falls out — the same architecture your brain runs.

Smartopol · Cortex
memory consolidation · live
INPUT ▸ raw signal
CASCADE ▸ 4-tier descent
BASE ▸ consolidation glow
FLOW ▸ pyramid → cortex
CORTEX ▸ dreaming
01 · 0.0–0.5s
Input
Raw signal enters. A pulse and halo mark the moment a new observation is received by the memory system.
02 · 0.5–2.75s
Cascade
Data descends through four tiers — raw → short-term → episodic → consolidated. Each tier lights up as the signal passes.
03 · 3.0–4.0s
Base
Consolidation threshold is reached. A pooled glow forms under the pyramid as episodic memory crystallises.
04 · 4.0–5.5s
Cortex
Packets stream along 4 channels into the cortex. Rings expand, orbit particles spin, the core pulses — the dreaming cycle.
0.0s
6.0s · loop ∞

Cross-channel recall is not a feature. It's what memory does when you build it right. Join the private beta →

§ 02 · the bottleneck

Every AI you use today forgets you at the end of the conversation.

You tell ChatGPT about your project on Monday. You open Claude on Tuesday and start from zero. You switch to the terminal and re-explain your stack. You switch to your phone and re-explain everything again.

The industry's answer was bigger context windows. 2025 research proved recall drops to 60% even at a million tokens. More context is not the fix.

The fix is memory that behaves like memory — the kind your own brain runs — and an agent that lives on every surface you use, not just one.

Smartopol is the first AI that does both.

§ 03 · in use

What people are actually doing with it.

Four real users. Four different workflows. One agent. None of them prompted it that day — and it kept going anyway.

The artist who stopped touching the keyboard

An Italian painter sends the agent a single photo with one sentence: "just finished this one." Overnight, the agent titles the work, drafts the caption in three languages, schedules the Instagram post for peak engagement in each timezone, drafts an email to their gallery, and files the image into the right project folder.

By morning, the artist reviews and approves. They haven't typed a prompt in six weeks.

The marketer who replaced a $1,400/month SaaS stack

A solo marketer wired Smartopol into DataForSEO + Bright Data with a few lines of config. The agent scans their website several times a day, flags regressions, tracks competitor rankings, pulls backlink deltas, surfaces three issues before 09:00.

Replaced Ahrefs, SurferSEO, Semrush. Stack costs ~$30/mo in tokens. Paid for itself in 48 hours.

The consultant whose notes take themselves

A consultant points the agent at Telegram, Discord, and their terminal. The agent records every conversation flowing through the workday. At 23:00, it surfaces three threads that need attention tomorrow, the client message they forgot, and one pattern they hadn't noticed.

They stopped taking notes six weeks in. The agent remembers every conversation — forever.

The developer running an agent they don't babysit

A Berlin developer wrote one line: "post something interesting about distributed systems every day." The agent reads research feeds, filters for quality, drafts a thread in the developer's voice (six months of their writing in memory), and posts.

Day 47 now. Never missed a day. Never asked for a confirmation. Checks in once a week.

That is what "an AI that actually knows you" means. Not a chatbot you keep re-explaining yourself to. A companion that remembers, reflects, and acts — across every surface you use — while you are doing something else.

§ 04 · four claims

Four things no other AI can claim.

01

It lives wherever you do.

Terminal. Telegram. Discord. Web. WebSocket API. One identity. One memory. Every surface. Ask on Telegram at lunch, continue in the terminal at 3 PM, finish on Discord at midnight — same conversation, same context, same agent.

Competitors run separate bot instances per platform.
Smartopol runs one brain with many mouths.

02

It dreams while you sleep.

Every night, Smartopol runs a Cortex Dreaming cycle — replays the day's conversations, promotes what mattered, prunes the noise, and writes what it learned about you into a bounded, auditable profile.

The first time it greets you on day 7 with what it has observed about your patterns, you will understand why this page exists.

03

It has real memory. Not a bolted-on scratchpad.

Smartopol ships with Memory Pyramid at its core — a research-grade hierarchical memory with sub-100ms recall across millions of tokens, 100+ languages, and cross-language understanding.

Facts climb the pyramid when you use them, descend when you don't, collapse into summaries when stable. It is not a database with an AI skin. It is memory.

04

The binary you install today will run in 2030.

No login server. No cloud dependency. No kill switch. If Smartopol LLC disappears tomorrow, your agent keeps working on your machine until you decide to turn it off.

That is not a feature. It is a commitment, in writing, on the why-closed-source page.

§ 05 · real commands

Not a feature list. A list of real things real people have asked it to do.

# in the terminal
~ $ build and test — open the failing file in vim at the right line
~ $ start a python repl, load the last dataset, show me its shape
~ $ grep where I'm calling send_message and show me the pattern
# in messages
tg> when anyone messages me on focus mode, reply "back by 16:00"
tg> broadcast the deploy window to #releases and the ops group
tg> summarize today's work and post it to self-slack before you sleep
# in memory
> what did I decide about auth — check everywhere, not just recent
> what did my doctor say about that medication in january
> find the conversation where I explained my stack to that recruiter
# in your day
cron> every friday 14:00, do release checklist
cron> tomorrow at 9, check if build went green, ping me on discord
cron> when a new issue opens on that repo, summarize in my telegram
— and the ones you don't ask for
  • day 7 it greets you with what it has learned about your patterns.
  • after a night of dreaming, it sometimes schedules things you didn't ask for.
  • when it spots a pattern — "you've coded past midnight three nights in a row" — it says so once and drops it.
§ 06 · benchmarks

Real numbers. Run them yourself.

Every install ships with the benchmark suite. Type smartopol bench.

279
unit + integration tests
pass per release
18M
tokens of real
conversation data
65–87ms
hybrid-search latency
at that scale
1,650/s
conversations ingested
locally, no cloud call
78MB
one file holds 18M tokens
no external database

100+ languages via multilingual-e5-small · cross-language cosine 0.89–0.93.
Numbers are not marketing. They are commands you can run.

§ 07 · how it compares

We named names. So did they.

Six self-hosted agents real buyers evaluate in 2026. Here's where Smartopol lands. Full comparison →

capability smartopol hermes openclaw ironclaw
Self-hosted yes yes yes yes
Real hierarchical memory
pyramid + nightly consolidation
memory pyramid keyword search only notes file encrypted KV
Nightly Cortex Dreaming yes
Cross-channel single identity 6-digit pairing partial per-channel
Model-agnostic 15+ providers Claude-first Claude-first Claude-first
Prompt-injection hardened memory regex + fenced recall partial CVEs in 2026 yes
Real benchmarks published yes
Pricing free forever MIT MIT paid only
§ 08 · nature's blueprint

Built on the only architecture we know produces intelligence.

Thalamus filters noise. Hippocampus holds today. Neocortex holds years. During sleep, memory consolidates — important patterns are written to long-term storage, weak ones pruned. This is the only architecture we know of that actually produces general intelligence. We didn't pick it because it sounds good. We picked it because it is the only one that works. — founder's note
brainsmartopol
Thalamus — sensory gateChannel router + relevance filter
Hippocampus — working memoryActive session + context window
Neocortex — long-termMemory Pyramid (hierarchical semantic memory)
REM / consolidationCortex Dreaming cycle (nightly)
Neural replaySession consolidation (4h window)
Synaptic pruningSpaced-repetition pruning in pyramid

Not a marketing diagram. A direct mapping, documented in plain English in how-it-works.

§ 09 · about the person

One person behind this.

Smartopol is built by Nenad Nikolin — one developer in Europe, two years of solo work, hundreds of tests, zero investors, zero marketing budget.

The email you send arrives in his inbox. The code you depend on is written by him. The commitment the closed-source letter makes is his personal commitment, in writing.

That is not a pitch. It is the situation.   Read more about him →

§ 10 · free and closed

Why it's free, and why it's closed.

Smartopol is free like VLC is free. Like 7-Zip is free. Like Discord is free.

Free for the user, closed to the supply chain that would otherwise port it over a weekend and sell it back with a larger budget and a larger sales team. I wanted this to be open source. I might still go there someday — but in April 2026, staying closed is what keeps this sustainable without charging you.

The binary is free, forever. The license is fair. The source is readable under NDA if you need to audit. If the reasons change, the license will change with them. — Nenad Nikolin

Read the full letter →

§ 11 · one more thing

The agent you install today will be more useful in thirty days than on day one — because it will have learned you.

That is not a slogan. It is what the Cortex Dreaming cycle exists to do. Nothing else on the market can make that claim.

§ 12 · join the private beta

One email. Invitations in waves. Personal install link.

Installation is invitation-only. When your wave opens, you receive a personal install link in one email — a URL that belongs to you and is not publicly published. One command, thirty-second setup.

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