Rowboat

Open-source AI coworker that turns work into a knowledge graph and acts on it

Rowboat connects to your email and meeting notes, builds a long-lived knowledge graph, and uses that context to help you get work done - privately, on your machine.

You can do things like:

Build me a deck about our next quarter roadmap → generates a PDF using context from your knowledge graph
Prep me for my meeting with Alex → pulls past decisions, open questions, and relevant threads into a crisp brief (or a voice note)
Track a person, company or topic through live notes
Visualize, edit, and update your knowledge graph anytime (it’s just Markdown)
Record voice memos that automatically capture and update key takeaways in the graph

Download latest for Mac/Windows/Linux: Download

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Demo

Watch the full video

Installation

Download latest for Mac/Windows/Linux: Download

All release files: https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat/releases/latest

Google setup

To connect Google services (Gmail, Calendar, and Drive), follow Google setup.

Voice input

To enable voice input and voice notes (optional), add a Deepgram API key in ~/.rowboat/config/deepgram.json

Voice output

To enable voice output (optional), add an ElevenLabs API key in ~/.rowboat/config/elevenlabs.json

Web search

To use Exa research search (optional), add the Exa API key in ~/.rowboat/config/exa-search.json

External tools

To enable external tools (optional), you can add any MCP server or use Composio tools by adding an API key in ~/.rowboat/config/composio.json

All API key files use the same format:

{
  "apiKey": "<key>"
}

What it does

Rowboat is a local-first AI coworker that can:

Remember the important context you don’t want to re-explain (people, projects, decisions, commitments)
Understand what’s relevant right now (before a meeting, while replying to an email, when writing a doc)
Help you act by drafting, summarizing, planning, and producing real artifacts (briefs, emails, docs, PDF slides)

Under the hood, Rowboat maintains an Obsidian-compatible vault of plain Markdown notes with backlinks — a transparent “working memory” you can inspect and edit.

Integrations

Rowboat builds memory from the work you already do, including:

Gmail (email)
Google Calendar
Rowboat meeting notes or Fireflies

It also contains a library of product integrations through Composio.dev

How it’s different

Most AI tools reconstruct context on demand by searching transcripts or documents.

Rowboat maintains long-lived knowledge instead:

context accumulates over time
relationships are explicit and inspectable
notes are editable by you, not hidden inside a model
everything lives on your machine as plain Markdown

The result is memory that compounds, rather than retrieval that starts cold every time.

What you can do with it

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