Dori Help Center
What Dori is, how it's different from a chat-only AI assistant, and where to start if this is your first time setting it up.
Dori is your local AI executive assistant. Share on WhatsApp, drop a voice note, or forward a file — Dori organizes it, remembers it, and has it ready the moment you need it.
Rather than competing with your existing AI subscriptions (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini), Dori sits underneath them as a permanent, local memory layer. Your files, decisions, and meeting histories are stored on your Mac as plain Markdown you own.
- Use Your Existing Subscriptions: Connect your existing Claude Pro/Max (
claude) or ChatGPT Plus (codex) CLI session to pay $0 extra in API fees. - Token Optimized: File indexing, speech transcription, and local search run on your Mac at 0 API token cost, sending only targeted snippets to your AI model.
Where to start
- Philosophy — our founding principles on memory ownership, token consciousness, radical simplicity, and zero lock-in.
- Life With Dori — an evocative story of how Dori transforms an executive’s daily workflow step by step.
- Getting Started — install Dori Desktop, connect your vault, and capture your first note.
- Using Dori With AI Models — discover why pairing Dori with Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini is 10x better than using any model alone.
- Using Dori — start with The Dori Advantage to see how it’s different from the AI you already use, then real jobs walked through end to end.
- MCP — connect external tools to Dori, or use Dori from Claude Code, Cursor, and other MCP-capable clients.
- Open Source Foundations — explore the open-source stack (shadcn, Tailwind, Tauri, Whisper, SQLite) and philosophical inspirations.
- Behind the Scenes — deep dive into Dori’s engineering choices, graph engineering DAGs, offline engine CLI, and context optimization.
- Features — everything Dori can do once it’s capturing for you day to day.
Quick reference
| I want to… | Guide / Feature |
|---|---|
| Walk into meetings prepared and automate follow-ups | Meeting Prep & Follow-up |
| Work out of my Mac folders without re-uploading files | Local Folder Sync |
| Sync your Markdown vault to a private GitHub repo | GitHub Vault Sync & Privacy Controls |
| Import specific Google Drive files with explicit privacy controls | Google Drive Integration & Privacy Controls |
| Track clients and deals without manual CRM data entry | CRM-Free Relationship Tracking |
| Capture decisions & debriefs by voice at 0 token cost | Zero-Cost Voice Captures |
| Capture decisions from voice notes & WhatsApp | Never Lose Commitments |
| Get a second opinion before sending pitches or hard emails | Get a Second Opinion |
| Prevent client context bleeding across accounts | Multi-Client Context Isolation |
| Draft proposals, briefs, and HyperFrames slide decks | Everything You Can Draft |
| Generate executive bios, speaker intros, and updated CVs | Tailored Executive Bios & CVs |
| Draft proposals & briefs from past vault notes | Draft from Vault Memory |
| Synthesize research notes & interview transcripts | Research Synthesis Brief |
| Assemble monthly board / investor updates in minutes | Investor & Board Updates |
| Save web articles into searchable project memory | Web Research to Knowledge |
| Summarize YouTube videos, webinars, and podcasts | YouTube & Podcast Summaries |
| Track travel expenses and receipts for reimbursement | Track Travel Expenses |
| Access Dori vault memory from my phone | Reach Dori from Mobile |
| Integrate live web search and external research tools | Live Web Research & Tools |
| Access Dori’s memory directly inside my coding IDE or chatbot | Use Dori in Claude Code & Cursor |
| See exactly what Dori did and why | See What Dori Did & Why |
| Work 100% offline with zero vendor data lock-in | Work 100% Offline |
| Summon Dori system-wide with a global hotkey (⌘+Shift+Space) | The Floating Action Bar |
| Understand the app layout — sidebar vs. command palette | Finding your way around |