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Vinci

A live AI product with open weights. Use it today, and keep the intelligence you depend on.

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iOS + Android

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Vinci is the AI product I'm building at SimpleDirect, now live on the web, iOS, and Android. It pairs a production product you can use today with open weights you can download, inspect, and keep.

Live on the web, iOS, and Android
Open weights you can download, inspect, and keep
Character and a Constitution, not just benchmark scores
Built and hosted in Canada

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ReleasedMIT

Ghost Narrator

Self-hosted AI narration that replaces ElevenLabs. Runs on a Mac.

$330

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Zero

API Keys Required

None

Rate Limits

Ghost Narrator turns written blog posts into narrated audio — automatically. A local LLM (Qwen 3.5 14B) rewrites articles into natural narration scripts, and an open-source voice cloner (Qwen TTS) generates audio in a cloned voice. The entire pipeline runs on hardware you own. No API keys. No per-word billing. No rate limits.

Local LLM rewrites articles into natural narration scripts
Open-source voice cloner generates audio in your voice
Swap in better TTS models as they release — same pipeline
No API keys, no per-word billing, no rate limits

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