AI Assistant
Will help with writing, learning, summarising, planning, and everyday questions.
Local AI for everyday people
AI that stays on your device.
AI should benefit people directly.
Kavai is a planned non-profit initiative in Norway, working to make AI a personal benefit available to everyone, privately and independently, without gatekeepers, surveillance, or dependence on third parties.
Why Kavai exists
A personal benefit available to everyone.
Everyone should be able to use AI privately and independently, without asking permission, being priced out, surrendering personal information, or having somebody looking over their shoulder.
Kavai exists to help make that future practical.
Local AI, public demonstrations, older-hardware optimisation, guided deployments, and grant funding are the practical means. They are not the purpose itself.
Local means under your control
What local AI means
Traditional cloud AI sends your request away for processing. Kavai’s destination is AI that runs on the device you already own and benefits you directly.
Based in Oslo
Starting with one person and a few early users.
Kavai is being set up by Kristoffer Rolf Deinoff in Oslo. The first trials will be deliberately hands-on because the difficult part is not merely running a model. It is making the entire experience clear enough that a non-technical person can say, “That just worked.”
Kristoffer is a software developer with more than 20 years of experience building systems for companies, organisations and the public sector, including banking, election and government platforms. Since 2023 his work has focused on AI, including running AI models locally. In 2022 he co-founded Paracrew, a volunteer humanitarian aid effort for Ukraine.
The first demo (in preparation)
Try the idea before installing it.
A public demo will help identify ideas that create genuine personal value. Successful concepts can then be simplified and prepared for private use on ordinary hardware.
The demo is meant to show that the idea is useful. The destination remains AI that works for the user, on their own device.
You
Summarise this rental contract and tell me what I should pay attention to.
Summarise this rental contract and tell me what I should pay attention to.
Assistant
The notice period is three months. The deposit is NOK 30,000. Pets require approval. The contract also makes you responsible for minor interior maintenance.
The notice period is three months. The deposit is NOK 30,000. Pets require approval. The contract also makes you responsible for minor interior maintenance.
✓ No subscription✓ No advertising✓ No data sold
From idea to your device
How Kavai makes the mission practical.
The process starts where AI can consistently help, then removes complexity and outside dependence until ordinary people can use the core function themselves.
The destination
AI as natural as a spellchecker.
AI that benefits people directly in everyday life, privately and independently, without somebody looking over their shoulder.
No subscriptions.No technical expertise.No surveillance.No dependency on a third party.
Projects
One demo in preparation, with more ideas being explored.
Image Enhancement
Improve photographs without automatically uploading them to a cloud service.
Voice to Text
Turn voice notes into text while keeping recordings under the user’s control.
How Kavai plans to stay free
Evidence should fund the next free tool.
Funding is a means of protecting access, not Kavai’s reason for existing. Real use will create evidence of personal and public value. That evidence can support grants, donations, sponsorships, and CSR partnerships.