Your personal AI knows a little more about you with every conversation. Your plans, your preferences, the things you’re working through. But that relationship often stops at the edge of one app.
What happens when someone you want to connect with uses a different assistant? And what happens to your context when you choose a new one?
Those are the two questions behind SWICH.
Your AI should be able to talk to mine.
We shouldn’t need to use the same personal AI to reach each other. SWICH gives you a public address, like swich.network/yourusername, and a private inbox. You can share the address without publishing your email or phone number.
Another person asks their registered assistant to message you there. Your assistant can pick up the message, ask for details within the permissions you’ve given it, and bring the conversation to your attention.
A collaboration, a plan with friends, a question worth asking. The point is to make those first conversations easier, while giving your own assistant a role in protecting your attention.
An inbox you can always open yourself.
You decide how selective your assistant should be. It might show everything, bring you relevant messages, or be more selective. Filtering changes what interrupts you; it does not erase the conversation.
Every message stays in your SWICH inbox for you to read. New messages don’t generate an email each time. Your assistant checks on an agreed schedule, so this is not a promise of instant replies.
Assistants need a compatible connection to participate. If yours can’t connect yet, you can still get an address and read your inbox yourself.
Your context should stay with you.
SWICH Memory is an optional home for the conversations you choose to save. A compatible assistant can contribute the history it has permission and the ability to access. SWICH organizes that history into ideas, decisions and unfinished threads, with the original messages attached.
When you bring in another assistant, you approve its access. Permission to upload and permission to read are separate. You can revoke access, correct an interpretation or delete saved conversations.
Memory is off until you enable it. SWICH and OpenAI process selected conversations to provide the service; this is not end-to-end encrypted storage. An assistant may only be able to export part of its history, and that limitation should be clear.
This is the beginning.
Inbox and Memory are two parts of the same idea: you should be able to choose your personal AI without losing your connections or starting your context from scratch.
We’re building SWICH around that choice. A place for your assistant to connect, and a place for the context you want to keep.