NEURALVAULT
EDITIONS

Three editions.
One application underneath.

BetaDuring the Beta everyone has Personal. In the next few weeks, when the Stable version is released, Personal becomes a monthly subscription. We will tell you before it changes.

Free and Personal are the same application: moving up unlocks parts that are already installed, so moving up is a change to your account rather than a reinstall, and nothing has to be migrated. Business is that same harness installed on your hardware, with the server half a team needs. They describe NeuralVault 2.0, which is available now as a Beta. Here is what each one is, in order, and then the three side by side.

  • Windows
  • 2.0 available now as a Beta
  • Runs on your hardware
  • Your own API keys
Edition One

NeuralVault Free

A chat window
that keeps what it learns.

You install it, you open a conversation with Cortex, and you point it at your own material. After you close the conversation, what it worked out is written to a folder of Markdown on your disk, and the next conversation starts from there rather than from nothing. Nothing expires, and the paid capabilities are locked rather than missing, so the day you want them is a change to your account and not a reinstall. It opens on a sign-in screen and the account is free to create. No card, nothing expires, and it is not a trial: the account is what carries your edition, so moving up later is a change to it rather than another download.

What you do with it

Point it at notes, research, client files or a repository, and ask it things that need all of them at once.

Where your material goes

Onto your own disk, as files you can open in any editor. Run the model locally too and none of it leaves the machine.

What it costs to find out

A download. A free account, no card, and nothing expires.

Even the free one

How it stands against a plain chat assistant

Where it matches one
  • Chat with a resident assistant, with history and rolling compaction for long chats
  • Memory held as plain Markdown you can open and edit
  • Rewind files to an earlier state
  • An audit log of what ran, kept beside the vault
And then it adds
  • The model can live on your hardwareNeuralVault has no AI in it, so you give it one, and you choose where that one runs. Either point it at a cloud provider with your own API key, or install a model locally through Ollama and run it on the machine in front of you. A chat window only ever offers the first, on somebody else’s servers. You can also do both and pick per job, so the cheap work runs locally and the hard work goes out. Keys sit in Windows Credential Manager rather than in a plaintext file.
  • Everything you know, graphed into a lasting local indexEvery note a node and every link between them an edge, indexed as a link graph. Search runs lexically and semantically at once, so an exact string and a half-remembered description both find it, and an answer points at the note it came from rather than sounding plausible.

Those three are what a free build can claim. The paid editions add nine more. See all twenty capabilities measured side by side.

And what you are missing

What Free leaves out.

  • The agent fleet: Cortex splitting a job across agents and sub-agents
  • The board, and the agents that work it
  • Anything that starts on its own: the cron scheduler, file triggers, the board runner
  • The approvals queue for scheduled work, once it ships
  • The plugin API and lifecycle hooks
  • Sync across your own devices

This is the half that makes it a harness rather than a chat window, and it is the half worth paying for. Locked, not absent: same build, so unlocking is a subscription rather than a second download, and everything you put in the vault while you were on Free is still sitting there afterwards. That half is Edition Two.

What Personal adds

390+ models through one account.

With NeuralVault routing you pick a model from a catalogue of 390+ models and use it, with nothing to connect and no key to paste. Free works with your own API key or a local model. Personal does that and adds routing on top.

NeuralVault Free

Your own key, or a local model.

  • Cloud providers such as Anthropic and OpenAI, on your own API key.
  • Local models through Ollama.
  • Nothing is metered when you use your own key.
NeuralVault Personal

390+ models, nothing to connect.

  • Everything Free does, your own keys and local models included.
  • NeuralVault routing: choose a model from the catalogue, per model, in the picker.
  • The NeuralVault AI score and our full model picker come with NeuralVault routing. With your own keys you get a plain model list.
  • Routing is optional. Your own keys and a local model work without it. You can also use your own keys, such as OpenRouter, OpenAI and Anthropic, and that is free to use with your own keys. Routing makes it easier and nicer.
In developmentRouting is partly built: models answer today, and the billing half has not been proven end to end.

BetaNeuralVault routing runs on a prepaid usage balance, and the balance opens soon. During the Beta everyone has Personal.

462 models were listed in the public OpenRouter model catalogue on 14 October 2026, and 393 of them can use NeuralVault's tools, which are the ones its model picker lists. Routing draws on that catalogue, so the number moves as it adds and removes models.

Edition Two

NeuralVault Personal

Free gave you the conversation.
Personal gives you the whole application.

Same install, same vault, same conversation. What the $20 turns on is every screen that conversation was talking to: the board agents work themselves, the fleet that splits a job up, the schedule that starts one without you, and, once it ships, the approvals queue that will hold anything it wants to send. It is the complete harness, and nothing in it is held back for a higher tier.

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It stops waiting to be asked

A cron schedule, a file landing in a folder, or the board itself can start a job. Free answers when you type. Personal is running when you are not.

One brief becomes many jobs

Cortex takes an objective and splits it across agents, and those agents split it again. What comes back is the finished thing, not the first attempt at it.

You approve rather than supervise

In chat, every write Cortex asks for waits on a card until you approve it. A standing queue for work that runs while you are away is still to come. Either way you are the last step, not a spectator at every one of them.

In detail

What the $20 actually turns on

  • Agents that split work, and loop over what failedHand an agent an objective and it breaks the job across sub-agents of its own, sees the tools each one is allowed to touch, and iterates over what actually failed rather than stopping at the first attempt. It stops on its own, and a card shows exactly what it will write and which files it touches, rather than the work arriving as a fait accompli.
  • The whole application, not just a coding toolA board your agents work, with a runner that takes cards off it unattended once you switch it on, is live today. An approvals queue for scheduled work is priced into Personal already, not sold as a later upgrade, and is still landing in the build.
  • The setup you already wrote, read as it isYour CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, skills and slash commands are picked up from where they already live. MCP servers are added through the catalogue. No migration, no second file to maintain, and nothing to rewrite into a proprietary format.
  • A second pass checks the answerOne model answers, then a second pass is handed the answer alone, in a fresh context, and told to find what is wrong with it. You get the answer and the critique together.
  • Memory that survives the sessionIt stops re-learning your stack every morning. Corrections stick, and it gets sharper the longer you run it rather than resetting every time you close the window.
Counted, not summarised

Every surface it unlocks

Every one is a named row in the product's own editions table rather than a paraphrase, and only built ones are listed. Free already carries the vault, the search, the chat, the audit log and local models. This is what sits on top.

Where the work happens
  • Board
  • Vault browser
  • The nv CLI
What starts without you
  • cron scheduler
  • file triggers
  • autonomous board runner
What the agents get
  • sandboxed tools
  • per-agent memory
  • rolling chat compaction
What you can see
  • Dashboard
  • Activity
  • agent run history
  • run ledger
How you feed it
  • Markdown folder import
  • Plugin API
What the money buys

$20 is the software. The AI is separate.

Today: you supply the model. NeuralVault is the harness, so the$20 buys the memory, the agents, the permissions and the record, and nothing else. Give it a brain by connecting a cloud provider on your own API key, or by running a model locally on your own hardware, or both at once with a different model per job. Until you do one of those, nothing answers.

Coming: buy the calls from us. Holding your own provider account is the step most people never finish, so managed routing is meant to become the ordinary way in: pick a model from a list, nothing to connect, on a monthly plan from $30 + tax where it applies with the software included. Local models keep working alongside it, so you can still run the cheap work yourself. It is built, and not yet proven end to end for billing. It opens soon. The full ladder is on the Personal page.

And what does not change

No hidden meter on top

  • $20 is the starting price. Bring your own API keys or run a local model and it is the whole bill
  • Memory is still a folder of Markdown on your disk, not a row in somebody else’s database
  • Run the model locally and nothing you type reaches an outside provider at all
  • Install it on the machines you control, with one session running at a time

Still one person and one machine: sync is across your own devices, not across a team. The moment somebody else needs to see the work, that is the next section. The full argument for Personal, and what it costs.

Edition Three

NeuralVault Business

Personal is one person's harness.
Business is that harness, shared.

It includes everything in Personal, unchanged. Every agent, every screen and every capability from the edition above is here too: nothing is taken away and nothing is repackaged to make room. What Business adds on top is the layer that only starts to matter once the work is not yours alone: accounts, permissions scoped to folders, agents scoped to roles, and a record of who did what. That is the part nobody needs on their own machine and nobody can run a company without.

In detail

What changes once other people are in it

  • People, each with their own reachPer-user accounts and folder-scoped permissions on a sync server you host. Finance sees the accounting agent, nobody sees more than their role allows, and adding somebody does not mean handing over everything.
  • Permissions set per action, not per personReading is usually open. Anything that changes a file or runs a command waits for an approval card. Naming who may approve what, by role, is not built yet. An agent working for somebody cannot reach what that person cannot reach.
  • A record you can actually auditEvery action logged with what ran, when, and why, in an audit log beside the vault. When somebody asks what the AI did in March, there is an answer rather than a shrug.
  • Team comms beside the workPlanned: channels and email brought into the same place as the tasks instead of a separate tab, with anything outbound waiting for a person rather than sending itself. It is not in the build yet.
Where it runs

One server, in your building, and everyone with their own view of it

  • Installed on hardware you own. If the machines you already have are enough, we say so rather than selling you a server.
  • One vault, one server, and a separate account per person. The reach is per role; the material is not copied around to make that work.
  • Run the model inside the building too and nothing you type reaches an outside provider at all. Use a cloud model on your own key if you would rather.
  • Anything outbound is meant to wait for a named person before it leaves. The standing queue that does this is in development, and the app sends no message on its own today.
Modular

Not all of it is switched on by default

Always
  • A sync server, with per-user accounts and folder-scoped permissions
  • Role-scoped agents, so nobody reaches past what their role allows
  • An audit log across the whole organisation
Only if you want it
  • Business metrics: revenue, ad performance and channel stats on one timeline
  • Wire, bringing team channels and email alongside the work (in development)
  • Deployment onto dedicated hardware inside your building, with the security review that goes with it

That is why there is no single number on the card below: a five-person deployment with none of the optional layer and a hundred-person one with all of it are not the same thing. The consultation is where that gets settled, and it costs nothing. The full argument for Business, or arrange the consultation.

All Three, Side By Side

Start free.
Pay when it has earned it.

Each column contains the one before it. Nothing is removed as you move up and nothing is held back to make a higher tier look better: Personal is the complete harness, and Business is that same harness with the parts a company needs switched on. Which is why the cheapest way to choose is to install the free one and find out.

Start hereChat-first, and yours to keep

NeuralVault Free

Free

A free account, no card, and nothing expires.

For finding out whether an assistant that remembers is actually different from one that forgets. It is the same binary the paid editions run, with fewer switches on, so nothing you learn here is wasted. Like every edition, it has no AI in it: connect a provider on your own key, or run a model on your own hardware. Without one, nothing answers.

A working slice of Personal, not a demo of it.

no cardno expirysame build

8 of these work in the build you can download today, and are unmarked below. The rest are marked in development: 1 is partly there already, and the row says which half runs. We would rather you knew that before paying than after.

  • Chat with CortexThe full conversation surface, pointed at your own material rather than at a stranger’s.
  • A Markdown vault you can searchNotes held as plain files on your disk, searched by keyword and by meaning at the same time, from the same index Cortex itself reads.
  • Your choice of modelA local model through Ollama, or Anthropic, OpenAI and others on your own API key. No gate on either.
  • It can write to your vault, and you approve each changeCortex can create, append to and move notes, and add a card, a task or a log line. In Secure mode each one waits on a card showing exactly which files it touches until you approve or decline it.
  • Undo a write it madeEvery approved write is snapshotted first, so one control puts the touched files back to how they were before that turn.In developmentIt restores the files, not the conversation. The transcript still shows what was written.
  • It remembers what you tell it toSay "remember that" and the fact is written to a durable profile that is read back into every later conversation. Say "from now on, do X" and the rule is appended to your own CORTEX.md, which Settings shows you.
  • An audit log of every tool callWhat ran, when, and why, written beside the vault rather than into somebody else’s telemetry.
  • The vault browserOpen, read and edit the whole thing from inside the app, or from any editor you already use.
  • A model catalogue that says what each vendor does with your dataCapability scores next to a per-vendor data-handling label, so choosing a model is a decision you can make on the facts rather than on the brand.
Not in Free
  • The board, the agent fleet, and anything that runs on a schedule without you
  • Connectors, the dashboard, and Orchestra runs across more than one model
  • NeuralVault model routing on an included usage balance
  • The plugin API and the nv command-line tool
  • In development for Personal: the approvals queue and sync across your own devices
RecommendedFor your own work, on your own machine

NeuralVault Personal

From $20

a month + tax where it applies

For one person doing their own work: a developer, a researcher, a consultant, anybody with material they would rather not paste into a browser tab. This is the complete harness, and nothing above it is a better version of it. $20 is the starting price for the software. Using our routing means a monthly plan instead; with your own keys or a local model, the starting price is the whole bill.

Our recommendation if you will actually use it. Personal is all your AI bills in one place: we handle the billing, the routing and the backups, and routing is only available through Personal. The NeuralVault AI score and our full model picker come with NeuralVault routing. With your own keys you get a plain model list. You can also use your own keys, such as OpenRouter, OpenAI and Anthropic, and that is free to use with your own keys. Routing makes it easier and nicer. During the Beta everyone has Personal. In the next few weeks, when the Stable version is released, Personal becomes a monthly subscription. We will tell you before it changes.

When you upgrade from Free to Personal you will get $10 off, shown in your own currency.

Everything in Free, and then:

own keys optionalno per-token billevery screen

4 of these work in the build you can download today, and are unmarked below. The rest are marked in development: 6 are partly there already, and the row says which half runs; 3 have not started, though your plan already grants them at no extra cost the day they ship. We would rather you knew that before paying than after.

  • The board, and agents that work itA kanban board the agents move themselves, with a runner that picks up cards and works them without being asked each time.
  • Work that starts without youA cron scheduler, file triggers and the autonomous board runner, so a job can begin while you are asleep.
  • Orchestra: more than one model on one questionPut several models on the same problem in one run and compare what comes back, with the cost estimated before it starts.
  • The dashboardWhat ran, when, and how much of it, on one screen instead of scattered through the sessions.In developmentActivity is live. Income reads empty, because the business metrics that feed it are a Business feature and are not built yet.
  • Connectors and MCP integrationsConnect any MCP server you already run: give it a command, test the connection, then grant its tools one at a time.In developmentThe six named data sources (Shopify, YouTube, Meta Ads, Search Console, GitHub and RSS) are not in this build. Any MCP server you already run works today.
  • The agent fleet, working the board unattendedA background scheduler takes the next card off the board, hands it to an agent, and has a second agent check the result before it comes back to you.In developmentOff until you switch it on, and the board is how you queue work: there is no separate console for handing it an arbitrary objective. Inside a conversation, Cortex also delegates focused pieces to sub-agents.
  • Lifecycle hooksYour own command run at the start and end of an agent run, so the app fits the tools you already have.In developmentScheduled agent runs fire them. An ordinary chat turn does not.
  • NeuralVault model routingPick a model from a list and let us serve and meter it, instead of managing an API key. Your own key and a local model stay available on every edition.In developmentRouted replies work. The balance metering behind them has not yet been watched end to end, so treat it as new. The usage balance is a separate purchase inside the app.
  • An approvals queueA single place where anything an agent wants to send waits, with its reasoning attached, until you clear it.In developmentChat already pauses on a card for each write Cortex asks for, which is the per-turn version of this. The queue itself, covering scheduled runs, is not in this build.
  • Session handoffsWrite a self-contained note from a conversation so it can be picked up cold later.In development
  • Plugin APIA local socket any language can talk to, so your own code can drive the app. A manifest declares the plugin; nothing can register itself on the fly.
  • The nv command-line toolRun a turn from a script, CI, or cron, plus board, search, notes, sessions, audit, orchestra, connectors, projects, plugins and settings, all without opening the app.In developmentBuilt, tested and gated to Personal. It is not in any public download yet.
  • Sync across your own devicesThe same vault on every machine you own, without a server in the middle.In development
What Personal actually does

During the Beta everyone has Personal, and it becomes a monthly subscription in the next few weeks. $20 buys the application, not the AI. There is no model inside it: run one locally on hardware you own, or connect a provider on your own API key and they bill you for the calls. Buying the calls from us instead means a monthly plan, which starts at $30 + tax where it applies with the software included.

SupersetFor running a company

NeuralVault Business

Let's talk

Priced by size, and by how much of it you switch on

For the point where the output stops being yours alone. Everything Personal does, plus the accounts, folder scoping and record that make it safe for other people to work inside it. Scoped, installed and supported by us rather than downloaded and hoped for.

Everything in Personal, unchanged, and then:

your hardwarescoped per rolea fixed number

1 of these works in the build you can download today, and is unmarked below. The rest are marked in development: 3 are partly there already, and the row says which half runs; 7 have not started, though your plan already grants them at no extra cost the day they ship. We would rather you knew that before paying than after.

  • Business metricsRevenue, ad performance and channel stats pulled onto one timeline that updates itself.In developmentThe page ships and every figure currently reads empty.
  • CanvasThe .canvas files in your vault, open beside the work.In developmentRead-only in this build. The app can open and read a canvas and cannot yet edit one.
  • CalendarEvents the agents can read, so scheduled work knows what your week looks like.In developmentRead-only in this build. Events can be read and not yet added from the app.
  • A sync serverPer-user accounts and folder-scoped permissions, so each person sees their own work and no more than that.In developmentThe server exists as a Rust service. No command in the shipping app reaches it yet.
  • Role-scoped agentsFinance sees the accounting agent. Nobody sees more than their role allows.In development
  • Team commsWire brings channels and email alongside the work instead of in a separate tab, with anything outbound waiting for a person rather than sending itself.In developmentNot in this build. Wire is out of the app entirely until team channels have a backend.
  • A security reviewWhat the agents may reach, who may see what, and what leaves the building, checked before anything runs.In developmentThe in-app screen is a placeholder. The review itself is work we do with you, and that part is real.
  • Deployment and supportThe whole thing built onto dedicated hardware inside your organisation, and kept running.
  • More than one vault on one serverNamed vaults on the same deployment, so departments or clients stay separate without a second machine.In developmentPart of the sync server, which no shipping app command reaches yet.
  • Clear the queue from anywhereThe approvals queue reachable over HTTP, so a pending action can be dealt with from another device rather than only from the desk it started at.In developmentWaiting on the approvals queue itself, which is not in this build.
  • Backups on an intervalThe vault snapshotted on a schedule, without anybody remembering to do it.In developmentThe scheduler runs interval backups. Choosing where they land is part of a deployment rather than a setting in the app.
What Business actually does

Two things get priced: the application, and the deployment around it. You get a fixed number before any work starts.

Before you download

What it needs to run

Free, Personal and Business are the same application with a subscription between them, so the machine needs the same things whichever one you end up on.

Windows

Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. Windows is the main supported platform. There is no ARM build, and macOS and Linux are experimental (see below).

The install

It installs for your user account only, so Windows never asks you for an administrator password. About 115 MB to download.

On your own API key

The light way to run it. The model does its thinking on your provider’s hardware, so your machine only has to run the app.

On a local model

Much heavier, and worth knowing before you start. Ollama holds the whole model in memory for as long as it stays loaded.

The one local-model number worth having in advance: the model our getting-started guide suggests, qwen3.5:9b, is a 6.6 GB download, and a smaller model costs you proportionally less. We do not publish a minimum memory figure, because with a cloud provider the app is the only thing running on your machine and with a local model it is the model that decides, not us. The app carries its own browser engine, so setup fetches nothing else. The first run needs a connection only to sign in.

How you power it

Where does the model come from?

NeuralVault has no AI inside it, on any edition. Pick where the thinking happens.

Pick from 390+ models and the calls come out of your balance. Nothing to connect. NeuralVault lists only models that can use its tools. The usage balance opens soon.

The step up

What actually changes between them

  • Free → PersonalThe application stops waiting to be asked. Agents, the board and schedules switch on, with the approvals queue to follow, and the same vault carries straight over with nothing to migrate.
  • Personal → BusinessThe work stops being yours alone. Accounts, folder-scoped permissions, role-scoped agents and an organisation-wide record, on a sync server you host.

Free is out now, and during the Beta everyone has Personal too. Business follows. Business testing opens in December 2026, and launch is planned for the first quarter of 2027, with January the goal. Free and Personal are one download. During the Beta everyone has Personal; in the next few weeks, when the Stable version is released, it becomes a monthly subscription, and we will tell you before it changes. Business is scoped with you before anything is installed. Want it capability by capability? Compare all three against a plain chat assistant.

NeuralVault for everyone

Not sure what it does for you?

Pick the kind of work you do. We will show you NeuralVault doing it, and which page to read next.

NeuralVault for

Developers

You want agents that do real work in your repo, on your terms, without surprises.

An agent harness you can read, script and constrain.

  • Every command waits for your approval, and every run is logged
  • Standing instructions in CORTEX.md, read in at every run
  • Code mode that reads your own instruction files

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