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Egoist Machines
Egoist Machines builds AI Passport, a user-owned personal context layer that carries preferences, history, and identity across AI apps.
Egoist Machines builds AI Passport, a user-owned personal context layer that carries preferences, history, and identity across AI apps.
AI Passport is Egoist Machines' personal context layer: a user-controlled profile of preferences, history, and identity that carries across AI apps and services instead of being siloed in each one. Users connect everyday apps and assistants through one-click connectors and choose what to share, with whom, for what purpose, and for how long.
Integration for apps runs through Sign in with AI Passport, an OpenID Connect permissioned read/write loop that requests exact context fields and leaves an auditable trail users can review and revoke. The consumer product is free for individuals, ships as a live iOS app, and is offered to startups as a managed connector plan.
The company frames its thesis around data portability and memory lock-in: as AI assistants accumulate personal context inside closed products, users increasingly want preferences, history, and projects to travel between models and apps. Egoist Machines positions a user-governed context layer as the answer, citing open data-portability initiatives and regulatory pressure such as the EU's Digital Markets Act.
The addressable surface spans consumer AI assistants, e-commerce personalization, and enterprise support, where permissioned context can shorten cold starts and onboarding. Distribution today runs through connectors to major assistants and a live iOS app, with a partner integration program.
Egoist Machines' differentiation is user-governed memory: the passport keeps personal context under the individual's control, with purpose-scoped, revocable access and visible receipts, in contrast to context locked inside individual AI apps or model vendors. The company operates its own memory infrastructure with cryptographic per-user access controls rather than relying on third-party model providers.
For integrators, managed connectors with an OpenID Connect sign-in loop replace self-built OAuth and data plumbing, with the company citing 800+ connector sources. Competing approaches include app-locked assistant memory and connector platforms such as Nango, which the company's own pages contrast on consent, portability, and user-side control.
Egoist Machines prices AI Passport with a flat, permission-first model: the personal passport is free for individuals for life, positioning the consumer product as user-owned infrastructure rather than a metered subscription.
For companies, the startups program offers managed connectors at a flat USD 1,000 per month after a free period of three months, extended to six months for Y Combinator companies, covering OpenID Connect sign-in, connector management, and consent handling instead of in-house builds.
