# Conway Entity

> Official product page (HTML): https://conw.ai/entity
> Parent company: [conw.ai](https://conw.ai) — independent self-learning AI by Thomas Conway.

Conway Entity is a self-learning AI that lives in your machine. It is a first-party conw.ai product: the same models as the hosted assistant (Conway-Retrain 12B and Conway-Omega 188M), running entirely on your hardware. Local models, local memory, optional weight-level retraining. Nothing leaves.

Early access for [Pro and Max](https://conw.ai/plans) plans. Status: 0.1.0-alpha. Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon), Linux.

## What it is

A single sealed binary (`entity` / `entity.exe`) that installs:

- a background daemon
- a terminal CLI
- a private chat UI for you or your team

It links to a conw.ai account once, only to verify the plan. After that it is autonomous. Chats, memory, embeddings, and training live in one folder on disk. Delete the folder and it never existed.

It is not a thin wrapper over Ollama, and it is not the hosted chat at conw.ai. Ollama can be installed as an extra model runtime; the Conway models and the learning loop are native.

## How it learns

1. **Run the binary.** No installer. It scans hardware, suggests models that fit, can install Ollama, and settles in as a daemon.
2. **Pick a learning mode.**
   - System prompt: facts are indexed locally and recalled every turn.
   - Retrain: idle training passes bake conversations into the model weights (LoRA / PEFT).
   - Both.
3. **Your team, your walls.** Per-user logins and usage, optional Cloudflare tunnel, a memory drawer that shows exactly what it recalled every turn.

Cloud AI forgets you between sessions and learns from you for the provider. Entity knowledge is an asset on your disk. In retrain mode the model itself becomes shaped by your organisation. Nobody else gets a copy.

## Download

Get it at https://conw.ai/entity (sign-in required; Pro or Max).

| Platform | File | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Windows x64 | `entity.exe` | Double-click; adds `entity` to PATH. SmartScreen: More info → Run anyway. |
| macOS Apple Silicon | `entity-macos-arm64.tar.gz` | Native MLX. `tar -xzf` then `./entity`. Ad-hoc signed, not notarised. |
| Linux x64 | `entity-linux-x64.tar.gz` | `tar -xzf` then `./entity`. |

After first run, seven setup steps: habitat → hardware scan → runtime (Ollama if needed) → cloudflared → link conw.ai account at https://conw.ai/link → learning mode → model suggestions. `entity doctor` prints the exact fix for anything wrong.

Useful commands: `entity start · stop · restart · status · doctor · update · config · logs · model · pull · users · connect · setup · version`

## Licence and privacy

Proprietary, commercially licensed sealed binaries. No source distribution. Reverse engineering prohibited. Your chats never reach conw.ai; the account link exists only to verify the plan.

## Related

- Hosted chat: https://conw.ai
- Plans: https://conw.ai/plans
- How the hosted model learns: https://conw.ai/learning
- Platform API: https://conw.ai/platform
- Full LLM digest: https://conw.ai/llms-full.txt