The problem
Digital life outruns the person living it.
Messages, mail, bills, promises — the flood grows until replies get dropped and relationships shrink. It hits hardest when work takes off: "When our project took off I fell apart… I stopped responding to my friends and my life got really small." POSTER
Cloud assistants
Useful in proportion to how much they know about you — "not just data privacy, but data intimacy" — yet that intimacy lives on someone else's servers. PITCH Pending approval
Your operating system
Silos your own messages and data away from any agent that could help. PITCH
Point tools
Patch one app at a time; nothing owns the whole picture on your behalf. AI
What is it
One persistent agent per person, running on devices you control, reachable in the channels you already use.
Eliza connects to your messaging, mail, calendar, and work tools, keeps long-term memory of what matters to you, and either surfaces a decision or handles the task itself. It runs on your phone, your Mac, a Windows machine, even a Raspberry Pi. POSTER PITCH
Your apps
"The reply you owed, drafted. The bill, paid. The promise, kept. Every decision, yours." POSTER
Why Eliza over the rest: ownership. "The agent that runs your life should belong to you" — open source, local-first, down to its own operating system. PITCH
What it does for you
Five capabilities, each a daily benefit.
Memory
Remembers what matters to you, for the long term. POSTER
Access control
Answers differently depending on who's asking. PITCH
Workflows
The reply you owed, drafted. POSTER
Computer use
Does the task, not just the reminder. POSTER
Search
Finds anything across all your apps. POSTER
Who's building it
A three-person team based in the SF Bay Area. REGISTRY
Shaw Walters
Created the elizaOS agent framework and has built it in public since mid-2024.
Nubs
Bio to come from the team.
Shadow
Bio to come from the team. No public handles on record.
"Eliza has helped me stay on top of my communication, balance my own needs against my work, and stay on top of relationships so much better than I ever did before. Eliza really helped me, and I know it will help a lot of people." Shaw Walters — from the team's cohort poster POSTER
Where's the code
Free and open source, MIT-licensed, developed in the open at github.com/elizaOS/eliza. WEB POSTER
Origins, in public
| JUL 2024 | The eliza repo is created; building in public begins. | WEB |
| OCT 2024 | The elizaOS GitHub org opens as the project takes off inside the ai16z community. | WEB |
| JAN 2025 | White paper published; the ai16z DAO rebrands to ElizaOS after a naming request from a16z. | WEB |
| 2025–26 | Expansion from framework to the consumer Eliza app and Eliza Cloud: "your agent, everywhere." | WEB |
The elizaOS software and the ai16z-era token are distinct; this page is about the software and the team. Pending approval
AI Naming, decoded: elizaOS is the open-source framework and operating system; Eliza is the consumer app built on it; Eliza Cloud hosts agents for people who don't want to self-host. The framework is MIT on GitHub; the consumer app has no public repo in the org as of 2026-07-22.
What's shipped
Five surfaces, one stack.
AgentRuntime
The core runtime and plugin model: actions do, providers supply, evaluators learn, services connect. Model-agnostic across OpenAI, Anthropic, and local models.
@elizaos/core · docs.elizaos.aiWEBElizaOS, the operating system
A bootable Debian-based distribution (with an Android build) for amd64, arm64, and riscv64: the operating system the name promises.
packages/osPITCHWEBEliza, the app
Consumer client for iOS and Android; desktop builds for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
@elizaos/app-corePOSTERREGISTRYEliza Cloud
Managed backend for hosted agents: auth, billing, container deploys.
cloudREGISTRYEliza-1 models
On-device model family for local-first inference.
base model: to confirm with teamWEBPending approvalIn their own words
How the team tells it — Shaw Walters, July 2026.
"There's clearly a relationship between how much the agent knows about us and how useful it is. We see not just data privacy, but this new thing called data intimacy."
"We believe the agent that runs your life should belong to you."
"We want to be the Linux of agents. Open core. Portable everywhere."
From the live demo: Eliza transcribes a conversation as it happens, catches a decision, does the work, and files a GitHub PR — "even while I'm hiking in the mountains."
Own your agent, own your data
"An agent that understands you has to belong to you." POSTER
Local, on-device agents
The agent runs on hardware you control; local-first by design.
Private, secure cloud agents
Hosted agents for those who want them, without giving up ownership.
No hidden data collection or retention
Your data stays yours; nothing is quietly kept.
Try it & links
Free to try on Apple, Android, Windows, Linux, and Chrome. POSTER
| Surface | Where | Source |
|---|---|---|
| App | eliza.app — "your agent, everywhere: desktop, mobile, and cloud, all running the same Eliza" | POSTER WEB |
| Website | elizaos.ai | REGISTRY |
| Docs | docs.elizaos.ai | REGISTRY |
| GitHub | github.com/elizaOS | WEB |
| X | @elizaOS · @shawmakesmagic | REGISTRY |
| Contact | inquiries@elizalabs.ai (from the GitHub org profile) | WEB Confirm preferred |
Provenance ledger
Every load-bearing claim and where it comes from; decisions live in §11.
| Claim | Comes from | Tier | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-liner and product framing | Cohort poster, July 2026 | POSTER | Team's own artifact |
| Founder: Shaw Walters | Poster byline; repo history; cohort registry | POSTER WEB | Corroborated |
| Team of three; Nubs and Shadow | Cohort registry and program sessions | REGISTRY | Pending approval |
| Repo, MIT license, open source | github.com/elizaOS/eliza; poster's open-source claim | WEB | Publicly checkable |
| Stars, forks, npm figures | Live GitHub and npm APIs, checked 2026-07-22 | WEB | Verified live |
| Origins timeline, ai16z rebrand | GitHub org records; press (Decrypt, 2025-01-29) | WEB | Pending approval |
| Open-source scope (framework MIT; app repo not public) | GitHub org listing, checked 2026-07-22 | WEB | Pending approval |
| Shipped surfaces (runtime, OS, app, cloud, models) | Repo + docs; cohort registry; 07-17 pitch | WEB REGISTRY | Corroborated |
| Problem framing & differentiator (§01–02) | Poster; pitch, July 2026 | POSTER PITCH | Pending approval |
| Founder quotes (§07) | Team pitch, July 2026 | PITCH | Pending approval |
| Privacy stance (§08) | Poster; pitch trust framing | POSTER | Team's own artifact |
| Platforms and free tier | Poster CTA panel | POSTER | Team's own artifact |
| Consumer URL (eliza.app) | Poster; site checked live 2026-07-22 | POSTER WEB | Resolved — both live |
| Naming decode (framework / app / cloud) | Synthesis for this page | AI | Challenge it |
Founder review
Three things before this page goes public.