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1Presence
Summary
Every AI session starts from zero — you re-explain your project, your preferences, your history — because the tool forgot everything the moment you closed the tab. 1Presence is built against that specific failure: a personal agent that carries its memory forward, session to session, stored as plain markdown files you actually own.
1Presence pairs persistent semantic memory with a document vault and a connector layer that reaches Gmail, Google Calendar, Notion, GitHub, Slack, and Microsoft 365. The vault stores everything as Obsidian-compatible markdown in your own cloud — not a proprietary blob you cannot read or export. The agent can brief you before a meeting by pulling calendar events, email threads, and vault notes into a single summary, acting with your approval before anything moves. Pre-built 'Kits' install named agent crews, scheduled routines, and dashboards in one step, which means less configuration work for common setups. There is no API and no self-hosted option, so teams with strict data residency requirements or systems-integration needs hit a wall early.
Bottom line: Pick this if you are an individual professional who needs one AI that actually remembers your decisions week over week — skip it if your team needs to pipe its output into existing infrastructure, because there is no API to connect to.
Pricing Plans
Subscription- Price
- $8/month
Starter
Includes AI credit and lasting memory
- Persistent memory
- Private vault
- App connections
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Pros
Sign in to edit- Persistent semantic memory across sessions, so you stop re-explaining project history every time you open a new conversation — the agent already knows what you decided three weeks ago.
- Vault stores files as plain markdown in your own cloud, Obsidian-compatible and exportable, which means your notes and records survive even if you stop using the product.
- Cross-source briefing pulls calendar events, email threads, vault notes, and connected app data into a single summary before a meeting — without you manually aggregating four tabs.
- Pre-built Kits install a working multi-agent setup with routines and dashboards in one step, so you skip the blank-canvas configuration that kills adoption on most agent platforms.
- Actions require your approval before they execute, so the agent reads and drafts without sending or filing anything you have not reviewed first.
Cons
Sign in to edit- No API exists, so the moment a team needs 1Presence's memory or output to feed into another system — a CRM, a pipeline, a webhook — there is no path to build that connection. Teams with that requirement switch to platforms like n8n or Make that expose their agent outputs as callable endpoints.
- No self-hosted or local-run option is available, which means any organization whose data policy prohibits third-party cloud storage cannot use the product at all — the vault lives in the vendor's cloud infrastructure, not yours.
- The product is scoped to individual and small-team use; the connector catalog and Kit library set a ceiling on complexity. Teams whose workflows require custom branching logic across many agents or conditional routing based on dynamic data will find the catalog-driven model too rigid before they reach production.
About
- Platforms
- Web, Slack, voice interface
- API Available
- No
- Self-Hosted
- No
- Last Updated
- 2026-09-08T18:02:50.816Z
Best For
Who it's for
- Individuals needing persistent personal memory across sessions
- Users who want a private, readable document store alongside AI
- Professionals connecting multiple apps for automated routines
What it does well
- Managing email and calendar with learned writing style
- Building and maintaining personal or team dashboards from connected data
- Creating and reusing document templates filled from live sources
- Keeping living records and project notes in an explorable vault
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Sign Up to ContributeFrequently Asked Questions
- Is 1Presence free?
- 1Presence has a permanent free tier alongside paid upgrades (paid plans from $8/month). You can keep using a baseline version indefinitely without paying.
- Is 1Presence open source?
- No — 1Presence is a closed-source tool. Source code is not publicly available.
- What platforms does 1Presence support?
- 1Presence is available on: Web, Slack, voice interface.
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AI assistants that reset on every session force you to carry context in your own head and repeat yourself on every return visit. 1Presence addresses this by maintaining a semantic memory layer that spans all conversations, storing what it learns — projects, decisions, preferences, context — as plain markdown files in a user-controlled cloud vault. The core workflow is: you talk to the agent, it reads and writes to your vault, it acts across connected apps with your sign-off, and every interaction feeds back into memory so future sessions start informed rather than blank.
The vault is the differentiating feature. The vendor describes it not as a notes sidebar but as a primary document store — every file opens inside the product with the agent alongside it, so reading, editing, and asking questions happen in one place. Underneath, the files are plain markdown, Obsidian-compatible, and portable. That architecture means you can open, correct, or export your data without going through the product at all — a meaningful guarantee that most AI assistant tools cannot match.
The connector layer covers fifteen-plus services — Gmail, Google Calendar, Notion, GitHub, Slack, Microsoft 365 — and the agent assembles cross-source briefs with your approval before acting. ‘Kits’ let you install a pre-configured arrangement of agents, skills, scheduled routines, and dashboards in a single step, which reduces the setup overhead for common professional workflows. Where this breaks: there is no API, so any team that needs 1Presence’s output to flow into an existing system or trigger downstream tooling cannot build that connection. There is also no self-hosted option, so organizations with data residency policies that prohibit third-party cloud storage cannot deploy it at all.