I've been building Ash because I wanted something completely different from a normal, cloud-hosted AI chatbot. Instead of asking an AI what I should do and then copying/pasting everything myself, Ash is a fully local workspace. She uses local tools to actually work with files, email, browser tasks, calendars, and ongoing goals. The biggest difference? Zero cloud data leakage. You download and extract Ash as a local folder. Everything—your context, your files, your history—stays 100% on you...