Hey r/DeepSeek — we're launching Irene today, and I want to be straight about what it is, why we built it, and where it's going.

What makes Irene different

Affordable with massive token limits and the latest open-source models

We have generous token limits on current-gen open-source models (GLM, Kimi, Qwen,Minimax, Deepseek). BYOK from day one — bring your own API keys for any provider. Running Ollama locally? Full support with the starter pack. All token limits are transparent

Agents that learn and evolve as you use them

Irene isn't a stateless prompt box. Every agent builds a memory of your workflows, preferences, and patterns over time and improves by learning from its mistakes. It learns how you work — not just what you asked last.

Custom Skills with UI — an app factory

This is the big one. You can build fully interactive skills — data models, business logic, and actual UI — inside Irene. Not prompts-in-a-trench-coat calling themselves "agents." Real tools with real interfaces. An attorney can build a Term Sheet Analyzer. A biologist can build a Protein Viewer. A controller can build a Month-End Close Accelerator. The AI builds software for itself and for your domain expertise. No deployment. No infra. It just runs.

Deep context from tool calls and desktop timeline

Irene records and summarizes tool calls, maintains a timeline of your work, and builds local context from what's happening on your desktop. It doesn't just see your prompt — it sees your workflow.

Build custom agents and agentic teams

Delegate specialized work to agents that carry your context. Build teams of agents that hand off to each other with shared understanding. Not just one bot answering questions — coordinated intelligence that understands your domain.

Why we built this Two things drove us:

Affordability was non-negotiable. AI tools are pricing out the people who need them most. We wanted to build an awesome harness around open-source models — making them genuinely usable for everyone, not just people who can drop $200/month. The $5 starter tier with BYOK and local Ollama support isn't charity; it's the point. Open-source models deserve a first-class interface, and people deserve access without gatekeepers.

AI should build software for you — and you should keep your skills. Custom skills with UI is our answer to "just use ChatGPT." Generic AI gives you an answer. Custom skills give you your answer — encoded with your domain expertise, your logic, your workflow. But here's the critical part: we don't want AI to make you dumber. Agents should understand the user, help them improve, learn from experience, and build context around real workflows — so you retain expertise while working with AI, not offload your thinking to a black box.

What's next Making Irene even more affordable. We're experimenting with fine-tuning small models that run locally, applying techniques like MoLora to make them genuinely effective for Irene-specific workflows. We're also working with various inf…

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