Software that watches with you.

Overlay computing.

Most AI is still a chat window. You leave your work, switch apps, type out what you’re looking at, paste the relevant context, and hope the model understands. The friction filters out the interesting questions. The answers, if you get them, disappear into a chat log nobody opens twice.

The answer isn’t a better chat window. It’s the absence of one.

Lore is a new kind of layer on your Mac. It lives over everything you do — your editor, your browser, your PDF reader, your terminal — and sees what’s on your screen the moment you ask. You don’t describe. You point and ask. An orb flies to the thing it’s explaining. The answer comes out loud. Then it stays — as a markdown file on your disk that connects to everything else Lore has ever written for you.

We call this overlay computing. It’s a category that didn’t exist before, because nothing else could sit over your work this fluidly. Apple Silicon made the local part possible. Frontier models made the smart part possible. Plain markdown on your disk made the memory possible. The orb is what makes it all feel inhabited.

Cursor is for your editor. ChatGPT is for a tab. Lore is for whatever you happen to be doing.

Why we built it.

We kept watching people screenshot their screens, paste them into a chat, and type out what was already visible. The model was smart enough to help — but only after the user had done the work of describing the world to it. That tax is what we wanted to remove.

What we believe.

• Local first.Your wiki, your dictionary, your synthesis — all of it lives at ~/.lore/ on your Mac. Cloud is for the model call, not the memory.
• Voice is the interface.Typing out a question to a model that already sees what you're doing is a tax. Push-to-talk is faster, more natural, and doesn't pull you out of flow.
• Pointing beats describing.When the right answer is 'this thing here,' a luminous orb pointing at the pixel is worth more than three paragraphs of text.
• The model isn't the moat.Frontier models keep getting smarter and cheaper. What doesn't commoditize is what sits between you and the model — memory that compounds, voice that runs on your device, a cursor that knows what you're looking at. We're building the part you'd keep even if the model behind it changed.

Lore is a product of PantheonAI, the Knowledge Company of California.