Mandaire reads from every channel you choose to connect: email, messages, calendar, contacts, photos, notes, docs, files, AI conversations, past and ongoing. You decide what to plug in and what to leave out. It builds one private picture of the people, threads, and commitments in your life, joined across the sources you've connected. Each source connects via takeout (your existing history), live sync (everything going forward), or both. You then reach Mandaire over private chat, through the AIs you already use, and through the apps you've connected (email, messaging, calendar, notes, docs, files, and the rest). Here is how each part works.
Step 1
The fastest first step is dropping in a takeout export of your AI conversation history. Years of self-articulation in your own words land in minutes from a ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini export. You get something useful the same day, before you have connected anything else. It is the easiest, lowest-risk, highest-density source to seed a Mandaire with.
From there, Mandaire connects to the services where the rest of your life actually lives. You choose what to connect and when. Each source adds context; even one is useful on its own.
Every source supports one or both of two paths: takeout (a one-time bulk import of your existing history) and live sync (ongoing capture of new activity going forward). Email has both: a one-time IMAP backfill plus continuous sync. Photos have both: bulk metadata import plus live updates as you take new ones. AI conversations are the same: past via takeout, future via live capture. Most sources you will want both. You can also start with just one and add the other later.
Gmail, Outlook, or any IMAP provider. Mandaire reads your email history to understand who you communicate with and what you have discussed.
WhatsApp, iMessage, Telegram, Signal, and other messaging platforms. Where most of life's logistics, friendships, and family coordination actually happen, and where the big AI providers can never reach across. WhatsApp connects via your authorized account through a relay you control. iMessage connects via a local agent on your Mac that mirrors the conversations into your private store. Other platforms each have their own connection mechanism. None of these routes surfaces your messages to Mandaire's infrastructure.
Your AI sessions are a source class of their own. ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini all support both paths: takeout for years of past inner monologue captured in your own words, and live sync for every new session going forward. The AI you plug Mandaire into is also a source. Its conversations feed back into your context the same way the older ones do. Switching providers later doesn't lose the thread; the substrate underneath keeps it all.
The photo library is where co-presence lives. Mandaire reads photo metadata and face tags so it knows who you've actually spent time with, when, and where. A signal email and calendar can't see.
Google Calendar, iCal, or CalDAV. Mandaire knows what is coming up and who you are meeting, so it can prepare you in advance.
Google Contacts, Apple Contacts, or CardDAV. The people in your life, with whatever context you have already captured about them.
Apple Notes, Google Keep, Obsidian, Notion. Where you write things down for yourself: meeting notes, project sketches, journals, half-formed ideas. The thinking that doesn't happen in any inbox.
Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, Notion pages. The longer-form writing you've already done: drafts, briefs, plans, proposals. The work that already exists, finally available to your AI.
Google Drive, iCloud Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox. PDFs, spreadsheets, presentations, anything you've stored. Mandaire reads metadata and text content; binary blobs stay where they live.
Step 2
Once connected, Mandaire maps your relationship graph across every source. It resolves who is who (the "Sam" in your email is the same Sam in your WhatsApp, and not the other Sam from your old job), builds a unified timeline, categorizes activity types (travel, kid logistics, professional, social, formal-trust markers, community), and tracks how each relationship is trending.
Google does not see your Outlook. Microsoft does not see your iMessage. Meta does not see your Gmail. Apple does not see your Slack. Every platform holds a piece of your life. Nobody holds the whole thing. Mandaire is the neutral layer that sits above all of them and sees the complete picture, for you alone.
Mandaire organizes information around people, not inboxes. For any person in your life, you can see the full history of communication across every channel: what you discussed, what you promised, what is outstanding, and what is coming up.
As data accumulates, Mandaire recognizes patterns. Communication frequency. Reply cadence. Commitments that tend to slip. Topics that recur. The longer you use it, the better it knows your rhythms with each person: who you respond to fast, whose threads have been waiting longer than usual, what tends to slip. Observational, not psychologizing.
Step 3
Once Mandaire has the picture, the higher-order work begins. These are the capabilities on top of the substrate, the ones that take time to build and depend on having the full picture. Most product memory features stop at storing facts. Mandaire goes further.
Mandaire doesn't just store what happened. It infers what it means: who you respond to fast and who you let sit, who's been reaching out more than you reach back, the topic that's coming up across multiple channels in a way you haven't noticed. Today's inferences become tomorrow's starting point. The picture sharpens with use, corrections stick, and the longer you live with Mandaire, the less it gets wrong.
The most useful thing your Mandaire can tell you is often what isn't there. Three messages from Anna over six days, unanswered. The project that has gone quiet for two weeks without resolution. The friend you used to write weekly and have not all month. The change in cadence is observed; the interpretation is yours. No single provider can see these gaps; the gaps span their walls. Mandaire's job is to surface them, calibrated.
Most AI tools optimize for sounding confident. Mandaire optimizes for being right enough to act on. Every claim Mandaire makes carries its sources. When the corpus has a gap, Mandaire flags it: "I don't have post-trip notes" beats a plausible-sounding fabrication every time. The AI you talk to inherits this calibration. Your conversation gets more useful, not louder.
What you tell your closest confidant is not what you tell a colleague. Mandaire builds the audience model into the policy. You set the boundaries once: what your work assistant sees, what your family chat sees, what stays private. The disclosure engine enforces them on every reply, in every channel, as deterministic code that runs in front of every output. Not another AI judgment call you have to trust.
Each source carries one slice of the truth. Email shows what was discussed; calendar shows what was scheduled; photos show what actually happened; messages show what was said about it after. Mandaire reasons across them together. The conclusion you'd reach by triangulating four apps in your head, available as a single answer in any chat.