Most "AI-powered" apps slap a chatbot on top and call it innovation.
ONA.UNO is different.
Not One Model. Eight Stages.
When content enters ONA.UNO, it flows through a precision-engineered pipeline:
- Extraction — Text pulled from PDFs, Markdown, emails, web pages
- OCR — Images and scanned documents become searchable text
- Transcription — YouTube videos converted to full transcripts
- Chunking — Long documents split intelligently with overlap
- Embedding — Each chunk transformed into semantic vectors
- Summary — Bullet-point overviews generated automatically
- Title — Descriptive names created from content
- Tags — Conceptual labels suggested by AI
Every stage has a purpose. Every model is chosen for what it does best.
The embedding model alone has 8 billion parameters. It doesn't match keywords — it understands meaning. Search for "project deadlines" and find notes about "delivery schedules."
Summaries, titles, and tags are generated by models optimized for speed and consistency. Thousands of items processed. Every one gets the same careful treatment.
Chat uses the largest, most capable models available — because when you're asking questions about your knowledge, you deserve real reasoning, not a parlor trick.
Two Modes. One Philosophy.
Here's where it gets interesting.
Online mode sends everything to cloud AI. State-of-the-art models. Parallel processing. The absolute best quality available today.
Mixed mode runs the heavy lifting on your Mac. Embeddings, summaries, titles, tags — all local. No data leaves your computer for these stages. Chat still uses cloud models (because local models can't match that quality yet), but the bulk of processing happens right on your hardware.
Switch between them anytime. ONA.UNO maintains complete, separate workspaces for each mode. No compromises. No hybrid mess. Each mode is fully optimized for what it does.
The Details Matter
Every answer in chat comes with citations — numbered links back to your sources. One click to the original document. No black-box answers.
This isn't AI as a feature. It's AI as architecture.
Why It Matters
You've seen apps that promise AI and deliver autocomplete. Apps that charge monthly fees for a thin wrapper around ChatGPT.
ONA.UNO is what happens when you actually engineer the AI layer. When you choose models deliberately. When you build a pipeline that makes your knowledge genuinely useful.
Find anything. Summarize everything. Ask questions and get answers grounded in what you actually saved.
That's the bar. That's what leveraging AI really means.
