🧠 AI Work Brain

A fully local, private AI assistant for work — built as an Obsidian vault plus a lightweight browser dashboard powered by a local LLM (Ollama). Nothing ever leaves the machine, so it can safely hold work knowledge that company policy forbids sending to external AI services.

Why

The company doesn't allow connecting external AI to work tools or data. This gives the same "ask an AI about my work" experience 100% offline — the vault is the source of truth, a local model answers from it, and no request ever hits the internet at runtime.

Features

• 💬 Chat — ask questions; answers are grounded in your own notes (local RAG) and cite their sources. Streaming responses.
• ◈ Vault — browse and read your notes with rendered Markdown and [[wikilinks]], and edit inline — no need to open Obsidian.
• ⟲ Previous Chats — every conversation auto-saves; reopen and continue any time.
• ◎ Interview — a guided Q&A that files your answers into structured notes automatically (drafts auto-save as you type).
• 📥 Capture — quick notes + drag-and-drop uploads. .docx/.xlsx text is extracted so documents become searchable.
• ⌕ Search — full-text search across the whole vault.

Tech

• Backend: pure Python standard library — no pip dependencies, no Node, no build step. A small http.server bound to 127.0.0.1 only.
• Frontend: a single self-contained index.html (inline CSS/JS), styled to match therugradar.com — dark starfield theme, red accent, Space Grotesk + JetBrains Mono (self-hosted, offline).
• LLM: Ollama running locally (default model llama3.1:8b).

Setup

1. Install Python 3 and Ollama.
2. Pull a model: ollama pull llama3.1:8b
3. Double-click Launch AI Work Brain.bat (or the desktop shortcut) — it opens in an app window at http://localhost:8765.

The app lives in the hidden .app/ folder. The vault (your notes) is everything else.

Privacy

Your actual work data — chats, captured notes, uploads, and interview answers — is git-ignored and never published. This repository contains only the application and the empty vault structure. Everything you create stays on your machine.

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Fonts: Space Grotesk & JetBrains Mono (SIL Open Font License).