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Charla
Achieve your goals through better conversations

Words Matter

Your conversations shape your future.

Discover and achieve your life goals by understanding the patterns in your conversations. Upload recordings, get AI insights, transform how you communicate.

Privacy-first • Zero-knowledge encryption
How It Works

Transform Conversations Into Goals

Analyze conversations to uncover patterns, identify aspirations, and achieve your life goals.

01

Upload

Record conversations with friends, mentors, or yourself about life and goals.

02

Analyze

AI identifies recurring themes, values, and goals from your conversations.

03

Achieve

Get insights and actionable steps to achieve your goals through better conversations.

Conversation-Driven Growth

Your words reveal your aspirations. Reflect on meaningful conversations to crystallize what you want from life.

AI-Powered Insights

Discover patterns you didn't know existed. Find connections between conversations to reveal true goals.

Track Your Progress

See how conversations evolve over time. Monitor your journey with clear, actionable metrics.

External Perspectives

Sometimes others see us more clearly. Upload conversations with friends to discover their perspective.

Start Discovering Your Goals

Begin your journey toward achieving your life goals today

Our Values

Privacy-First by Design

Everything will always be as zero-knowledge as possible. We follow industry trends as AI security develops, with the goal that everything stays on your computer unless you choose to share it.

Option 1: Industry Standard

AssemblyAI & OpenAI

For now, we give you the option of using AssemblyAI and OpenAI as the easiest, cheapest, and most fully-featured option, but information is going to large companies. This is the most accessible path for users who want immediate, powerful AI capabilities.

Most features available

Option 2: Privacy-First

WhisperX & Qwen

The second option we currently have is sending your conversations to servers with WhisperX and Qwen that don't ever save any of your information past processing it. This provides a middle ground between full privacy and functionality.

No data retention
Everything is as local as it can be for the time being

The hopeful end goal is that everything stays on your computer unless you share it. We're building toward complete local processing as technology advances.

Security Architecture

Zero-Knowledge by Design

Your conversations are protected by strong encryption standards with user-controlled keys. While we work toward Signal-level privacy, here's how we currently keep your data secure.

Privacy-First Data Flow

Your Device

Password-based key derivation
Client-side encryption
Recovery phrase generation
AES-256-GCM

Processing

24hr temporary storage
Audio deleted immediately
Awaiting encryption
Pending → Encrypted

Encrypted Database

User-key encrypted
Audio files deleted
Zero-knowledge storage
PBKDF2 100k iterations

Audio Auto-Delete

Voice recordings are automatically deleted after successful transcription. Can't leak what doesn't exist.

User-Key Encryption

AES-256-GCM encryption with keys derived from your password using PBKDF2 with 100,000 iterations.

Subpoena Resistant

We cannot decrypt data without your active participation. Even under legal pressure, we have no access to your conversations.

24-Word Recovery

Industry-standard recovery phrase system. Your data can be recovered if you forget your password, but only by you.

Explicit AI Consent

AI processing requires your explicit unlock. Your password is held in memory only during processing, then cleared.

Password Verification

Cryptographic verification canary prevents wrong password acceptance. Secure by design, not just by policy.

Experience Zero-Knowledge Privacy

Start using Charla with strong privacy protection and user-controlled encryption