We built a way for AI to find, understand, and use your local files. Would you use something like this?

Hi everyone,We’re building Linkly AI, a local knowledge layer for AI agents.

It turns the documents, notes, saved web pages, images, audio, and video on your computer into private context that AI can search, read, and cite.

That means ChatGPT, Claude, Codex, and other agents can all work with the same personal knowledge base.
We started building Linkly AI because we kept running into the same problems:

1. Many AI tools struggle with large collections of files or long PDFs and EPUBs. Sometimes they only process part of the content, so the AI never sees the full picture.
2. Every time we wanted to ask AI a question, we had to find the right files and upload them one by one. That gets old quickly when you have a lot of material.
3. We regularly switch between different AI tools because each one has its own strengths—and its own usage limits. But every time we switch, we have to upload the same files all over again.

Linkly AI indexes your local files once. After the initial setup, you can simply ask a question and let the agent find, read, and use the relevant material on its own.
In other words, we’re trying to replace this:
You find the files, upload them, and explain the background—over and over again.

With this:
The AI finds, reads, and cites the information it needs.
We’ve also added a few other features along the way:

1. You can upload a knowledge base to the cloud and share it with your team or friends. You can also discover knowledge bases shared by other people, connect them to your own agents, and use several knowledge bases at the same time.
2. Linkly Clipper lets you save content from the web directly to your Linkly AI space, where it becomes searchable context for your agents.
3. Notes gives you a place to capture quick thoughts and ideas so they don’t disappear into some forgotten app or file. You can also ask AI to save useful parts of a conversation directly to Notes.

The idea is simple: the files you already have, the things you come across online, and the random ideas you jot down should all be available to your AI when you need them.

Linkly AI is local-first. When you use a local knowledge base, your original files stay on your computer. Content is uploaded only when you actively choose to create or use a cloud knowledge base.

We think this could be especially useful for people who have a lot of files on their computers or use AI agents heavily.
There are more AI products showing up every day, and every one of them has its own pitch. What we like about Linkly AI is that it stays lightweight and out of the way. You don’t have to reorganize your files or prepare the same material again for every agent you use.

But we’ve hit a very real problem: getting people to notice it.
We don’t want something we’ve put a lot of care into—and something that already works—to quietly disappear simply because nobody got around to trying it.
So we’d really appreciate your honest feedback:
Would you use something like this? What would you use it for? Which features sound genuinely useful, and which ones feel unnecessary?

Even if your answer is, “No, I wouldn’t use this because…,” that would still be extremely helpful.

You can try it here:https://linkly.ai

Thanks for reading. We’d love to hear what you think.We built a way for AI to find, understand, and use your local files.

Would you use something like this?