March 23, 2026
Using computers feels increasingly adversarial. Every time I open my laptop, I feel a familiar spike of dopamine and dread.
Computers are supposed to be bicycles for the mind, but the business model of the internet rewired everything: if the product is free, you're the product, and if you're the product, the goal is to harvest your attention. The bicycles started pedaling us.
We believe in a future of quiet computers.
Littlebird is a desktop app that remembers everything you’ve been working on – meetings, messages, docs, browsing - then helps you stay focused, prioritize, recall, and move projects forward. Unlike any product on the market today, Littlebird uses sophisticated screenreading to understand all the text on screen, for all applications, without any cumbersome setup. It understands who said what, when, and keeps track of your projects in great detail. It uses that context to build a rich understanding of your life: who matters to you, what you're working on, and what you care about this week and this year. It extends your working memory and your capacity to think and create.
You control what Littlebird sees, what it remembers, and what it forgets. We designed Littlebird to be private, secure, and user-controlled by default.
The use cases are so broad it’s impossible to cover in a single post. Almost anything you would ask another AI application will result in a more insightful answer from Littlebird. Every day, I ask questions like “what is important this week” or “what should I focus on” and often receive surprising and thoughtful answers. I use it for professional advice and coaching, for filling in gaps in my own technical knowledge, and even for planning dinner parties. AI is far from perfect, but it’s already incredibly helpful when it understands your life deeply.
Littlebird presents simply and elegantly, but the engineering to make it work is anything but. It's a work in progress and an ongoing research project. We are early, and we are working on some of the hardest and most thematic problems in computing. Littlebird won’t always get every detail right – it sometimes will miss that a colleague is on vacation, or that a project is completed, but you will be amazed by how well it gets to know you.
Is it possible to build AI that actually understands you? We believe so, and we’d love to show you.
Today we're announcing that we've raised $11 million led by Lotus Studio, with participation from Lenny Rachitsky, Scott Belsky, Gokul Rajaram, Justin Rosenstein, Shawn Wang, and Russ Heddleston. We’re grateful for the support and thrilled to keep building.
– Alex Green
Co-founder @ Littlebird
