Markdown notes
Plain markdown files you wrote. The easiest place to edit the graph, and the system never touches them. On your machine, in your folders, yours all the way down.
ConsilienceLegal
Data usage.
What's stored where, what's regenerable, and what never leaves you. Your knowledge graph is yours all the way down.
Storage layers
From the longest-lasting to the easiest to rebuild. The higher up, the more it's yours; the lower down, the more it's a regenerable cache. Concepts and relationships found in your markdown become the graph, and everything below it is regenerable.
Knowledge graph files (portable)
Portable, standard-format knowledge graph files that sit next to your notes. Built from the concepts and relationships found in your markdown. You can diff changes at a glance, and they're rebuilt from your writing anytime.
Topic maps
Topic reports built by automatically clustering related subjects. Plain text that both humans and AI can read. Regenerable too.
On-device search index
An index that learns the terms you use in your notes and is optimized for fast search. A cache that makes search fast. All rebuilt from your notes.
On-device knowledge graph store
The most volatile layer, there to keep search and connections running fast. Delete it and it's restored from your knowledge graph files and notes.
Our promises
Four principles for how we handle your data.
Everything regenerable is regenerable
The knowledge graph, search index, knowledge graph store, and topic maps are all built from your markdown. Delete them and they grow back from your writing. The graph never holds your words hostage.
What gets sent to AI
Reading the concepts and relationships out of your notes, and turning a query into a vector, are AI calls. That text travels through our metering proxy — which relays it without storing the content, keeping only usage metadata — and on to the model provider that runs the AI. Ranking, the knowledge graph, and keyword search run on your machine, and your notes, the graph, and the search index never leave it. Web access is off by default.
No training
We don't train AI on your data.
Export, opens anywhere
Knowledge graph files are a portable, standard format, and markdown opens in any editor. Nothing locks you in. Delete Consilience and your notes and graph stay right where they are.
What's stored where
Consilience is local-first. Your knowledge lives across several layers, but the order is clear. Concepts and relationships found in your markdown become the knowledge graph, and everything below it is a regenerable cache. In order of how long it lasts:
- Markdown notes: the markdown files you wrote. The easiest place to edit the graph, and the system never changes them.
- Knowledge graph files: a portable, standard-format knowledge graph found from your markdown. It sits next to your notes, and you can diff changes at a glance.
- Topic maps: reports that automatically cluster related subjects. Plain text both humans and AI can read.
- Search index: an index for fast search. It learns the terms you use in your notes to make search fast.
- Knowledge graph store: the most volatile layer, keeping search and connections running fast.
Everything regenerable is regenerable
Everything below markdown notes is regenerable. The knowledge graph, topic maps, search index, and knowledge graph store are all built from your writing. Delete them and they're rebuilt from your notes. The graph never holds your words hostage. Delete Consilience and your markdown stays right where it is.
What gets sent to AI
Your notes, the knowledge graph, and the search index live on your machine and stay there. Two things do leave: the note text we read concepts and relationships out of, and the text we turn into vectors. Both travel through our metering proxy — it relays them without storing the content, and keeps only usage metadata like the model and token counts — and on to the model provider that runs the AI. Ranking, graph traversal, and keyword search are local. Web access is off by default, and untrusted web content is handled separately.
No training
We don't train AI on your data. We never intercept, retain, or use your notes for training.
Export
Nothing locks you in. Knowledge graph files are a portable, standard format, and markdown opens in any editor. You can take your notes and knowledge graph and leave anytime. That's the local-first promise.
Your knowledge graph, yours all the way down
Local-first, no training. Build the graph with markdown, and the agent reasons on top of it.