In the current software ecosystem, work is fragmented. You store knowledge in one set of tools (documents, file drives) and attempt to reason about it in another (chatbots, AI prompts).

This separation creates a friction point we call the Context Gap:

1. Stale Intelligence: AI models act as brilliant interns who know nothing about your company until you manually paste context into them.
2. Broken Flow: Every time you switch from "writing mode" to "prompting mode," you lose momentum.

Our Hypothesis: If we co-locate content (files, notes) and intelligence (inference, search) within a single runtime, we can transform AI from a passive tool into an active collaborator.

Rika is an AI-native workspace designed to test this hypothesis. It is not just a wrapper around an LLM; it is a system where your data is indexed, understood, and ready for reasoning the moment it is created.

1. Chat with Grounded Context

Most AI chats are ephemeral. In Rika, the chat is aware of your entire workspace.

• The Feature: When you ask a question, Rika queries your Notes, Files, and previous Discussions to build a grounded answer.
• The Result: You stop writing prompts like "Here is a file, please read it..." and start asking "What did we decide about the pricing model last week?"

2. Structured Notes that Think

Notes in Rika are more than static text. They are structured data that the system understands.

• The Feature: A rich-text editor that supports slash commands, real-time collaboration, and AI assistance.
• The Result: You can draft a specification, highlighting sections for the AI to critique, expand, or summarize, without leaving the document.

3. Intelligent Storage

File storage usually acts as a digital attic—write once, read never. Rika treats storage as active memory.

• The Feature: Upload PDFs, markdown files, or code snippets. Rika automatically chunks and embeds them in the background.
• The Result: Your "dead" files become "live" knowledge. A design spec uploaded three months ago is instantly retrievable by the AI when you're scoping a new feature today.

We built Rika for teams who ship.

If your work involves high-context decision making—engineering, product management, research—Rika is designed to reduce the "admin overhead" of intelligence. It is for people who want:

• Boring Reliability: Software that works, syncs instantly, and doesn't hallucinate context it doesn't have.
• Transparency: Clear visibility into token usage and costs.
• Privacy: Your data is yours. It is indexed for your workspace, not used to train public models.

We built Rika because we were tired of gluing tools together. We wanted a single place where our context lived and where our AI actually knew what we were working on.

Rika is the workspace we use every day to run our own company. We hope it becomes the place where you do your best work, too.