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Detailcognira logo cognirasmao logo smao
What it doesSelf-learning AI that learns from your chats and runs on a single iMac AI phone assistant that answers calls, clarifies inquiries, and hands over to your team
StageStartup Startup
Founded2026 2025
Based inGB DE
Pricing modelFreemium Freemium
PricingFree: £0/forever with 25K tokens/week. Pro: £15/month with 500K tokens/week. Max: £30/month with 2M tokens/week. API: £1.50 per 1M tokens, minimum £5 top-up. Pay as you Go: 0.35 € per minute without base fee; Advanced: 249 € per month (annual contract) or 299 € monthly, 1,250 minutes included; Scale: 449 € per month (annual contract) or 499 € monthly, 3,000 minutes included; Enterprise: from 0.15 € per minute; additional chat messages at 0.006 € each, SM
Key features
  • Private memory that works immediately when you teach it
  • Verified shared knowledge with public rejection ledger
  • Local MLX inference not forwarded to external API
  • cognira Entity for local on-device AI with optional weight retraining
  • OpenAI-compatible API endpoint
  • Served from single 16GB iMac not a GPU cluster
  • Background learning loop with safety filtering
  • Chat history, pinning, and search
  • One-tap Forget button to remove memories
  • No ads and no data sales
  • Call analysis: automatically evaluates conversations and transfers inquiries, contact details and urgency to CRM, ticketing or workflows
  • Internal dashboard chat for simulating calls and testing knowledge database
  • Outbound calling: scheduled or event-based calls with clean tracking
  • Personal call transfer to the right contact person
  • Call transcripts: all conversations documented, traceable and exportable
  • Widgets for simple interfaces leading callers to the AI assistant
  • Knowledge database: answers from your own know-how, versioned and controllable
  • Support for 10+ languages including German and Swiss German
  • On-Premises deployment option on customer's Linux and Docker infrastructure
What makes it different
  • Self-learning from user chats with verified public ledger of what stuck
  • Runs on one iMac not a GPU cluster with measurable low energy use
  • Independent model served directly, not a wrapper around external API
  • Immediate private memory plus verified weight updates to shared knowledge
  • No OpenAI or US AI subprocessors in conversation processing
  • Cloud hosting in Germany with GDPR and EU AI Act compliance
  • No AI training with customer data
  • Setup in minutes without technical knowledge required
  • 50 free minutes for testing without credit card
Free planNot given Not given
Open sourceNot given Not given
PlatformsNot given Not given
Public APINot given Not given
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)23 −1 (down) since last check35 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)012
Citation Flow (Majestic)2326
Referring domains (Majestic)4444

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