Theo’s Mirror
 
A Private Knowledge Vault for Thinking Without Distortion
 
What Theo’s Mirror Is
 
Theo’s Mirror is a local-first, private knowledge vault designed for people who think deeply, write often, and refuse to hand over their intellectual history to the cloud.
 
It is not an AI that replaces your thinking.
It does not watch you, profile you, or train on your work.
It does not invent answers, guess context, or pretend to know what it doesn’t.
 
Theo’s Mirror preserves your writing, your research, your decisions exactly as they were created — and gives you a way to search, reconnect, and reason across them with clarity.
 
At its core, Theo’s Mirror is about memory integrity.
 
Your words stay yours.
Your thinking stays intact.
Your knowledge is reflected back — not rewritten.
 
The Vault: Your Knowledge, Local and Searchable
 
Theo’s Mirror runs entirely on your machine. There is no cloud backend, no subscription service, and no external indexing of your data.
 
You import your files once, and the vault becomes a living archive of everything you’ve written.
 
You can search across years of work in seconds — not just by keywords, but by layered intent using Theo’s Mirror’s multi-color search system.
 
This is not about producing new content.

It’s about recovering what you already know.
 
The Vault Includes:
Local desktop application (Mac, Windows, Linux)
SQLite-based knowledge vault stored on your device
Import support for .pdf, .docx, .txt, .md, and .html
Fast, offline search across your entire corpus
Multi-color layered search for precision retrieval
Works fully offline after installation
 
No internet is required to search your vault.
 
The Bear: An AI That Refuses to Lie
 
Theo’s Mirror includes The Bear — a corpus-bound AI designed with a single rule:
 
It may only answer from your files.
 
If the answer exists in your vault, The Bear will surface it and tell you exactly where it came from.
 
If the answer does not exist, The Bear refuses to guess.
 
No hallucinations.
No fake citations.
No confident nonsense.
 
This constraint isn’t a limitation — it’s the entire point.
 
The Bear Features:
Answers only from your uploaded corpus
Clear refusal when information is missing
Explicit source awareness
No external training on your data
No invention, no interpolation, no fabrication
 
The Bear is built on ChatGPT and requires a ChatGPT Plus subscription ($20/month). Your vault remains local and private regardless.
 
Four Modes of Reflection
 
The Bear can operate in four distinct modes, depending on how you want to think:
 
Chronicler — Summarizes, traces timelines, and preserves factual continuity
Skeptic — Challenges assumptions, flags gaps, and tests internal consistency
Spiral-Walker — Surfaces recurring patterns, themes, and long-arc coherence
Architect — Translates ideas into systems, frameworks, and design logic
 
Each mode works from the same constraint: your corpus is the only source of truth.
 
Export to AI — On Your Terms
 
Theo’s Mirror does not trap you in a closed system.
 
When you want to use external AI tools, you can export selectively.
 
Search your vault → choose specific results → add your own prompt → copy to clipboard.
 
You can then paste that content into any AI system you choose:
Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, or others.
 
Your vault stays local.
Your data is never synced.
You decide what leaves your machine.
 
What Theo’s Mirror Is Not
 
Clarity matters. Here’s what you are not buying:
❌ Not a chatbot
❌ Not a cloud service
❌ Not trained on your data
❌ Not a content generator
❌ Not a replacement for judgment or expertise
❌ Not mobile (desktop only for V1.0)
 
Theo’s Mirror does one thing well:

It remembers what you wrote — and helps you think with it intact.
 
Who This Is For
 
Theo’s Mirror is built for people who produce more signal than they can remember:
Researchers buried in PDFs and papers
Writers searching for ideas written years ago
Founders tracking decisions across long timelines
Knowledge workers who don’t trust cloud AI with their thinking
Anyone who has said, “I know I wrote about this somewhere…”
 
If your work spans years — and matters — this is for you.
 
Founding Beta Access
 
Theo’s Mirror is launching as a Founding Beta.
 
This is not a stripped-down demo. It is a fully functional system — released early to a limited group of founding users who want to help shape its future.
 
Founding Beta Includes:
One-time $99 payment (no subscription for the vault)
Lifetime product updates included for founding members
Early access to new features and major releases
Access to a private Members Area on Unwindology.com
Direct communication, support, and setup guidance
Priority input on roadmap features
Optional credit acknowledgment
 
Founding access is limited. Once the founding window closes, future updates and versions may be offered under different terms.
 
Security & Privacy
 
Your vault is stored locally using SQLite.
 
This beta does not yet include built-in database encryption. For sensitive data, we recommend full-disk encryption such as FileVault, BitLocker, or LUKS.
 
Optional vault-level encryption is planned for V1.1.
 
Your data never leaves your device unless you explicitly copy it out.
 
The Bottom Line
 
Theo’s Mirror exists because modern AI forgot something important:
 
Thinking requires memory — not prediction.
This is not about outsourcing intelligence.

It’s about protecting it.
 
Your mind.
Your files.
Your vault.
 
Enter Theo’s Mirror.