OpenAI
A personal backend for the AI era.
Start with a Pod you own. Connect the agents you choose. Build the experiences you need.
The web was built around companies.
- Products that get worse after you depend on them.
- A subscription for every new need.
- Your context, sold back to you.
- Every app holding another piece of you.
And it is about to happen again.
Everyone wants to be your everything app.
The idea is not new. What changed is who is building it, and how much of your life it would hold.
- 2011
WeChat
One app becomes daily life.
Tencent's messenger grows into payments, rides and shopping. From 2017, mini programs run inside it. A billion people live inside one company's app.
NN/g - 2018
Solid
The opposite idea: data pods you own.
Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the web, proposes personal data stores that apps must ask permission to use. The right idea, before AI made it urgent.
TechTarget - 2022
X
“X, the everything app.”
Elon Musk: “Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app.”
Musk on X
2025 to 2026The AI labs build it, one product at a time.
Anthropic
Claude moves into your work.
- Cowork: Claude working directly inside your files.VentureBeat
- Slack, Figma and Asana now run inside Claude.TechCrunch
Gemini moves into the browser.
- Gemini in Chrome reaches every Android user in the US.Google
They are racing to become the landlord of your digital life.
- Your memory.
- Your files.
- Your agents.
- Your decisions.
You won’t own it. You’ll rent it.
We built the same idea, turned inside out.
Apps on top of an assistant is the right shape. The question is whose data, and whose apps, sit in the middle.
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Gemini
- Grok
- Notion
- Perplexity
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Gemini
- Your apps
- Your views
- Your agents
Synap already works this way today: generate your own views, build apps on the SDK, install from the Marketplace, connect any agent.
Computing got Linux. Personal data needs one too.
Tim Berners-Lee was right in 2018. The AI race made it urgent.
An open foundation for everything you keep, that nobody can take from you. Run it on your own machine or let us host it. Any app and any AI plugs in, on your terms.
One person. One Pod. Every app and agent.
Backends are built for one company serving millions. A Pod is built for one person, served by everything they choose.
- Relaydecisions
- A Marketplace apptasks, notes
- Your agentproposes changes
Applications become guests.
They connect to your Pod and see only what you grant, instead of keeping a copy of you.
Records
Any kind of data, shaped the way you need.
Identity
One account for every app that connects.
Permissions
Each app sees only what you grant.
History
Every change is an attributable event.
Guidelines
How you work, written once. Every agent reads it before acting.
Proactive AI that asks first.
One Pod gives every agent the same data and the same rules. So it can act because you need something, not only because you asked.
It notices something.
An agent works from the data and guidelines you chose to share.
It proposes a change.
Anything consequential waits for review, in plain view.
You decide.
One tap on your phone. Your answer becomes part of the record.
Everything connected benefits.
Your apps, agents and views all see the same reality.
Help build the open one.
Synap already runs its founder's work every day. To become the community foundation for personal data, it needs more people and more use cases.
- Designers
- Make a user-owned internet feel obvious.
- Developers
- Shape the kernel, the SDK and the apps on top.
- AI engineers
- Make agents proactive, and safe because they ask.
- Anyone with a use case
- Tell us the job you would hand your Pod.
Start with your Pod.
Let Synap host it
Your Pod on our servers. We run the machine. The data is still yours.
Get your PodRun it yourself
The Data Pod backend is open source. Your hardware, your rules.
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Follow the build and shape what comes next.
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