VAND is built by one person.

VAND is built and maintained by Quentin Vandorme, a solo founder based in France. There is no team, no parent company, no investors, and no acquisition path — and there will not be one.

That is not a missing piece of the story. It IS the story. A personal AI cannot have a business model that requires extracting from its user. Every AI you use today — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Siri, Apple Intelligence — is owned by a company whose growth depends on training on you, tuning for engagement, or storing your prompts. VAND is the first AI that structurally cannot become that.

Concretely: VAND runs on your Mac. It uses a local LLM (via Ollama). It stores everything you log in a single AES-256-GCM-encrypted file at ~/Library/Application Support/vand-desktop/vand.json. There is no VAND server, no user account, no analytics, no telemetry, no third-party SDK that touches your data. The entire network surface of the app is the optional auto-update check.

I'm building this in public on GitHub. If you have feedback, a bug, or a question, email me directly at vand.app.ai@gmail.com — I answer everything personally.