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# Welcome to BonzAI

BonzAI is a private AI workspace for creating, training, and automating without surrendering your work to a centralized platform.

Most AI products ask you to send prompts, files, images, business ideas, and training data to someone else's servers. BonzAI takes the opposite path: useful AI begins on your device and remains under your control.

## The Problem BonzAI Solves

Cloud AI is convenient, but it separates users from their data, models, and operating context. Traditional local model tools protect privacy but often stop at a prompt box.

BonzAI connects the work around the model:

```
private context -> structured data -> generation -> training -> automation
```

Captured context can become a reusable dataset. A dataset can improve a model. A model can support a companion or an agentic business team. Useful work accumulates instead of disappearing into isolated chats.

| Option              | What you get                                                  | What is missing                                                       |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Cloud AI apps       | Powerful models and polished UX                               | Local control, privacy, and inspectable infrastructure                |
| Local model runners | Private local inference                                       | Connected capture, memory, training, agents, and business workflows   |
| BonzAI              | One private loop where work can accumulate, improve, and ship | Hardware still matters, so BonzAI spans browser and desktop workflows |

## The Three Products

| Product            | Plain-English purpose                                                                                               |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **BonzAI Web**     | Try private browser AI and find the right BonzAI workflow.                                                          |
| **BonzAI+**        | Chat about pages, capture text and images, follow video, generate images, and build datasets in the browser.        |
| **BonzAI Desktop** | Generate across modalities, train models, run companions, and deploy agentic business teams from a local workspace. |

## What You Can Do

* Chat privately with local AI.
* Generate images, audio, music, video, and interactive 3D scenes.
* Capture useful text and images while browsing.
* Turn captured material into structured datasets.
* Import datasets into Desktop for local training and fine-tuning.
* Create companions with persistent identity and memory.
* Operate agentic business teams that prepare, execute, review, and remember real work.

## Sovereign Ownership Layer

Wallets, `$BONZAI`, minting, staking, markets, rewards, and provider economics are part of the BonzAI architecture. They connect private creation to portable identity, public settlement, contributor attribution, and programmable revenue.

Local inference remains private. Onchain actions remain explicit: users choose when to publish, mint, stake, pay, claim, or grant an agent permission.

## Start Here

* New users: [Choose Your BonzAI](/start-here/getting-started.md)
* First session: [Your First 10 Minutes](/start-here/first-10-minutes.md)
* Business automation: [Agentic Teams for Business](/business-automation/zero-human-company.md)
* Ownership and network economy: [Web3 & Onchain Economy](/ownership-and-network/web3.md)