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Your AI journey. Your data. Your terms.

DREA is the companion for your AI discovery, research, and evaluation journey. She works alongside you—and alongside external AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT—so you can explore fearlessly, without ever compromising what's yours.

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Your Journey

You're already using AI.
DREA makes it safe.

You're a professional exploring what AI can do for your work—analyzing contracts, synthesizing research, evaluating strategies. The possibilities are extraordinary. But every step forward comes with a question: where is my data going?

DREA is built for that question.

She's your companion on this journey—a local-first platform that processes documents, runs AI reasoning, and manages your knowledge base right on your machine. And when you want to reach further—to leverage Claude, ChatGPT, or any external AI—DREA acts as a trust layer, sanitizing sensitive information before anything leaves your environment.

You lead the discovery. You direct the research. You make the evaluations. DREA is simply the tool that ensures you can do all of it without compromise.

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Trust Layer Sanitizes data before it reaches any external AI
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Deep Thinker Chain-of-thought reasoning via DeepSeek R1
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Total Recall Reads PDFs, DOCX, videos, images, and more
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Always Ready Works fully offline or alongside cloud AI—your call
Capabilities

Use any AI.
Compromise nothing.

DREA combines local document processing, vector search, and AI inference—and when you need more, she safely bridges you to external AI without exposing what matters.

Safe External AI Collaboration

The heart of DREA: work with Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, or any AI agent—without your sensitive data ever reaching them. DREA's trust proxy automatically sanitizes PII and proprietary information before anything leaves your environment, with full audit logging so you always know exactly what was shared.

Your knowledge, amplified by any AI. Your secrets, kept by DREA.

Multi-Format Ingestion

Drag and drop PDFs, Word docs, PowerPoint, Excel, HTML, Markdown, images with OCR, and even videos up to 500MB. All processed locally.

PDF DOCX PPTX XLSX HTML MP4 Images

Intelligent Search

Five search modes—Discovery, Research, Analysis, Spike, PoC—each tuned for how you think about your documents.

Local LLM Reasoning

DeepSeek R1 runs natively on Apple Silicon. Chain-of-thought reasoning that shows its work—no cloud round-trip needed.

Agentic System

Specialized agents for documents, queries, system management, and workspace operations—coordinating your research autonomously.

Zero Trust Architecture

API key auth, path traversal protection, network scope validation, and trust-proxy sanitization. Security at every layer.

Admin Dashboard

Real-time health monitoring, agent session tracking, log viewer, hook management, and full configuration control.

Experience

See DREA in action.

Under the Hood

Local foundation.
Global reach.

Every core component runs on your machine. When you choose to reach external AI, DREA's trust proxy stands between your data and the outside world.

DREA Desktop Tauri + Rust
Search UI Vue 3
Service Manager Rust
DREA API FastAPI :8000
ChromaDB Embedded
llama.cpp LLM :8080
DREA API FastAPI :8000
Admin UI Vue 3 :8001
Qdrant Vector DB :6333
Embeddings BGE + Qwen2.5
llama.cpp LLM :8080
Docker / Podman Compose

How Your Data Flows

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Documents
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Parse & Chunk
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Embed Locally
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Vector Store
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AI-Powered Answers
Who Is DREA For?

Professionals exploring AI
who refuse to compromise.

Wherever your AI journey takes you, DREA is the tool that keeps your sensitive work grounded—even when you reach for the cloud.

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Legal & Compliance

Use AI to analyze contracts and regulations while keeping client data off third-party servers. When you need a second opinion from Claude or ChatGPT, DREA scrubs privilege before it leaves.

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Financial Services

Evaluate trading strategies and M&A documents with AI. DREA lets you tap external models for deeper analysis while ensuring proprietary data stays within your compliance boundary.

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Government & Defense

Air-gapped by design for disconnected environments. Run fully offline on ships, in secure facilities, or wherever classified material lives—no network required.

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Research & R&D

Cross-reference patents, papers, and proprietary research across hundreds of documents. Leverage external AI for synthesis while keeping trade secrets local.

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Healthcare

Explore AI-assisted analysis of clinical studies and medical literature. DREA's trust proxy ensures patient data and PHI never reaches external services.

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Executive Leadership

Bring AI into your strategic workflow for board prep and competitive intelligence. Ask the hard questions of any AI model—DREA ensures only safe context leaves your desk.

Requirements

Optimized for
Apple Silicon.

DREA leverages the unified memory architecture of M-series chips to run powerful AI models directly on your Mac.

Good
M4

M4 Pro

24GB Unified Memory
DeepSeek R1 14B Q4_K_M
  • 32K context window
  • ~500 documents
  • Personal knowledge base
Recommended
Better
M4

M4 Max

64GB Unified Memory
DeepSeek R1 32B Q4_K_M
  • 32K context window
  • ~2,000 documents
  • Team knowledge base
  • Multimodal vision search
Best
M4

M4 Max / Ultra

96GB+ Unified Memory
DeepSeek R1 70B Q4_K_M
  • 32K context window
  • ~10,000+ documents
  • Enterprise knowledge base
  • Full multimodal + video
  • Maximum reasoning quality

System Requirements

OS macOS 12.0+ (Sonoma or Sequoia recommended)
Chip Apple Silicon (M1 or later, M4 recommended)
RAM 16GB minimum, 24GB+ recommended
Storage 20GB+ free (models + vector database)
Python 3.10+ (bundled with DREA)
Network Not required (fully offline operation)
Support DREA

Same software. Every tier.
No features held back.

DREA is fully featured for everyone. You're not paying for what the software can do—you're choosing how we support your journey together.

Community

$ 0.99 one-time

You believe in what we're building.

  • ✓ Full software, all features, no limits
  • ✓ Source releases via GitHub
  • ✓ Baseline trust proxy rules (generic PII)
  • ✓ Community forum & GitHub Issues
  • ✓ Public security advisories
  • ★ Direct roadmap input — surveys, beta access, your voice first
Get DREA — $0.99
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Professional

$ 348 /yr

You need DREA to keep up with you.

$29/mo equivalent — billed annually

  • ✓ Full software, all features, no limits
  • ✓ Quarterly signed update packs (patches + models + rules)
  • ✓ Curated model pack for your hardware (14B/32B, pre-tested)
  • ✓ Expanded trust proxy rules + quarterly updates
  • ✓ Email support, 48hr SLA
  • ✓ Early access security advisories + patch bundles
  • ✓ Remote onboarding session (1hr)
  • ✓ General security whitepaper
  • ★ Priority feature requests
Subscribe — $348/yr

Enterprise

Custom annual contract

Your organization runs on DREA.

  • ✓ Full software, all features, no limits
  • ✓ Monthly update packs + hotfixes + pre-release access
  • ✓ Full model library (14B–70B) + custom quantizations
  • ✓ Industry-specific trust proxy rules (HIPAA, FINRA, ITAR, custom)
  • ✓ Dedicated Slack/Teams channel, 4hr SLA, named contact
  • ✓ Pre-disclosure security advisories + remediation guidance
  • ✓ Architecture review + on-site/remote deployment
  • ✓ Audit-ready compliance packages (SOC2, HIPAA BAA, data flow)
  • ✓ Certified hardware + model configs with benchmarks
  • ✓ Encrypted USB delivery for air-gapped environments
  • ★ Advisory board eligibility
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Every tier runs the exact same software. No features locked, no config gates, no artificial limits. Your $0.99 gets the same DREA that ships in a six-figure enterprise contract. The difference is how we walk alongside you—updates, models, support, and the paper trail your organization may need.

Get Started

Start your journey
on your terms.

DREA Desktop

Your complete AI companion. Native macOS app with local inference, safe external AI collaboration, guided setup, and integrated service management.

macOS (Apple Silicon) v1.0.0
Download .dmg — $0.99

Admin UI

Monitor and manage your DREA instance. Real-time health dashboards, agent tracking, log viewer, and configuration management.

Web Application Included with DREA
Download Admin UI

Prefer Docker?

docker compose --profile admin --profile llm up -d