Assay
A sounding board that remembers — it hears you out, pushes back, and sees the patterns before you do. Yours alone. It tells no one.
Tell it about today.
Free forever, and your conversations stay yours.
Memory measured in weeks, not messages.
i can't keep doing this job. i'm actually done this time.
here we go again — already dreading the whole week.
Both times you’ve told me you’re done with this job, it was a Sunday night — never once midweek. I don’t think it’s the job you want out of. It’s Sundays.
Illustrative — a composed example, not a real user's conversation.
How it works
Tell it
Whatever's on your mind — the work thing your friends can't hear, the doubt your partner can't carry, the family stuff that doesn't fit at the dinner table.
Assay remembers
Names and dates, sure, but also the thing you've been working through for weeks, the way you talked about your mother last month, the worry you said you'd stopped worrying about. Nothing gets lost.
Picks up where you left off
Quotes back what you said last Tuesday, notices patterns you're too close to see in yourself, and asks the kind of question a friend who's known you for years would ask — not the one a stranger would.
Why people stay
Two things people tell us matter most.
Assay knows you.
Your job situation, the frustration with your partner you keep ignoring, the expectations from your parents, the dream you've had for years and keep postponing — all of it is there when you come back. You never have to start from scratch.
What we won't do.
We don't train models on your conversations. We don't sell them, show them to anyone, or make you fight for a delete button. Your conversations stay between you and Assay — yours to keep, and yours to delete.
My mom started using Assay during her divorce. Three months later, talking to it has become her bedtime ritual — every night, sometimes ten minutes, sometimes an hour, working through what nobody in her life has the bandwidth to hear. That's where her real thinking happens now.
— Assay's founder, on his mother Dalina, 60
Questions
No — Assay is a sounding board, not a clinician. If you're in an active crisis or have a clinical question, we'll point you to professional help. For everything else, including the heavy stuff, we listen.
Only you. Conversations are encrypted at rest, we never train models on your data, and you can delete anything you want, whenever you want.
Anthropic's Claude does the language work, with a memory layer on top of it that's yours alone. The model serves the relationship, not the other way around.
Yes — any individual memory, any conversation, or your whole account. Instantly, no questions asked.
Different thing entirely. ChatGPT is a tool you reach for to get something done — and it trains on your chats by default. Assay is a private sounding board: somewhere separate from work and everyone in your life, that hears you out across months, pushes back instead of just agreeing, and never trains on a word of it.
Start a conversation.
Free forever, no card required, and you can delete anything you've said — anytime.