Why we built Orion

Most people start the day the same way. Inbox. Calendar. The banking app. The sleep score. Two or three project tools. Six or seven places, none of which know about the others — and by the time you have checked them all, the best half hour of the day has gone into assembling a picture instead of acting on one.

That is cognitive load, and data silos are what cause it. Every one of those apps is good at its own slice and structurally incapable of knowing about the rest. Adding a seventh app has never once fixed it.

Dashboards show you more of the same data, arranged differently. You still have to read it, and you still have to work out what it all means together.

General chat assistants start from zero every time. You re-explain who Sarah is, which deal she is on, which repo matters, what you decided last month. They are capable and they have amnesia, so the work of giving them context is the work you were trying to avoid.

What was missing was something that already knew — that reads everything overnight, keeps one unified memory of your people, projects and decisions, and hands you a single page at 6am. And that you can text back.

Orion connects to around 25 sources — mail, calendar, bank accounts and budgets, GitHub and Linear, sleep and training, notes and reading — and writes one brief from all of them, every morning. It maintains a personal wiki as it goes, so the context is already loaded the next time you ask something. And it acts: drafts the reply, books the event, closes the task, updates the page.

You can text it. No app to open, no tab to find — the way you would text a chief of staff from a checkout line, and get a real answer from your actual calendar and your actual notes.

It is not a team product. Orion is built around one person's whole life, and a shared company workspace is a different product with different tradeoffs. That is a decision, not a stage.

It is not a chatbot with your data bolted on, and it is not another app you have to remember to open. The brief arrives whether or not you think about it. That is the point.

Orion asks for more than most software does: your inbox, your calendar, your transactions, your sleep. That is a real thing to ask, and "we take security seriously" is not an answer to it.

So the answer is written down instead. The security page says what is stored and what is not, how tokens are encrypted, who can read your data, how to disconnect a single source, and how to delete everything — including the certifications Orion does not have yet. The privacy policy is the long version.

Orion is operated in the United States by Eric Scott Walpert, doing business as Orion. Questions before you connect anything: hello@hi-orion.com. It goes to a person.

Private beta, waitlist open, let in roughly in order. It changes most weeks; join the waitlist and you will hear about it when it is your turn.