Chat-first assistant

Turn chats, voice notes, and loose follow-ups into finished work.

Karna is built to feel less like another chatbot and more like the person who keeps your day from slipping. It lives where conversations already happen, remembers what matters, and helps you actually follow through.

  • Capture voice notes when typing is too slow.
  • Keep one assistant across web, mobile, and messaging apps.
  • Use memory, reminders, and workflows to close loops.
13+
messaging channels where Karna can live
97+
tools, actions, and integrations for real work
Web + mobile
surfaces for staying in the loop wherever you are
Safe by default
pairing, mentions, allowlists, and defensive routing in shared channels
Why Karna

The wedge is not "more AI." It is reliable follow-through.

People do not keep assistants because they are impressive once. They keep them because they remove everyday drag: missed follow-ups, half-remembered commitments, scattered notes, and context switching between chat, voice, and tools.

Lives where your day already happens

Karna is designed for chats, not just dashboards. That makes it easier to build a daily habit around the assistant instead of treating it like a destination app.

Voice-first when speed matters

When you are walking, commuting, or between meetings, voice is the fastest capture path. Karna is built to turn that rough input into something usable.

Memory that earns its place

Instead of restarting every session from zero, Karna can carry context forward and keep long-running threads useful over time.

Power underneath the friendly surface

Workflows, integrations, tools, and plugins mean Karna can graduate from answering to actually helping you move work forward.

A day with Karna

What the habit loop should feel like.

The goal is simple: less overhead, faster capture, better recall, and fewer dropped commitments.

01

Capture

Send a message or voice note the moment something matters. Karna can be there in chat, web, or mobile instead of making you switch context first.

02

Clarify

Karna can summarize, break work into next steps, and keep the thread grounded in who asked, what changed, and what still needs doing.

03

Follow through

Memory, reminders, and workflows let Karna stay useful after the first answer, which is where most assistants lose people.

Built for trust

Useful assistants need guardrails, not just reach.

Karna already treats inbound channels defensively by default so shared spaces do not turn into accidental auto-reply chaos.

Defensive channel behavior

Unknown DMs can require pairing, group chats can stay mention-only, and shared channels can run in allowlist mode when you need tighter control.

Control when it matters

Karna is grounded in a self-hosted foundation today, which means your data, keys, memory, and integrations can remain on infrastructure you control.

What exists today

Karna is already a real product surface, not just a vision deck.

Today's Karna ships as an open-source assistant stack with web, mobile, CLI, memory, workflows, analytics, traces, and multi-channel messaging. That foundation is what makes the bigger consumer ambition believable.

Use it now

Web dashboard, mobile app, CLI onboarding, voice flows, memory, workflows, operator tools, and 13+ channels are already in the repo today.

Why it can grow

The product already has the hard layers under the hood: routing, sessions, traces, access control, tools, integrations, and deployability.

The direction

Sharpen the wedge around one daily-use promise: a chief of staff that starts in chat, works with voice, remembers context, and helps you keep up.

Karna should feel less like "another AI app" and more like your most reliable operator.

Try the demo if you want the product feel. Read the repo if you want the architecture and the self-hosted core. Both paths point toward the same goal: make Karna useful enough to become a daily habit.