GainWix 0.1.16: an AI that already knows your work
Give your AI memory that lives in files you own. Release 0.1.16 fills your Second Brain by asking you one question at a time.
Your AI can hold real memory of your work, but only if that memory lives in files you own instead of inside a chat window. GainWix gives you an AI avatar with a Second Brain: linked notes about you, your projects, and the people around you, kept as plain files on your own machine and drawn as a map you can see. Release 0.1.16 is about filling that map without it turning into homework.
Every morning, a stranger
Open a fresh chat and the work starts before the work. Who you are. What your company sells. Which project is live this week, which one you parked, and what you decided last Thursday and why you decided it that way. You type all of it out. Then you type it again tomorrow, in slightly different words, to an assistant that has no idea you have met before.
The tools do have an answer for this. Create a project. Write a system prompt. Tell it to remember. Every one of those is homework, and almost nobody keeps homework current past the second week. The project description still names a client who left in March. The system prompt describes a job you finished before that. So you stop trusting it and go back to re-explaining yourself, which is the thing you wanted to stop doing.
A colleague doesn't work like that. They know you. Nobody briefs a colleague every morning on what the company does, because last quarter is still in their head and so is the argument you both had on Tuesday about the launch date. Ask them a question and the answer already has your context in it. The difference between that and a fresh chat isn't intelligence. It's whether the memory belongs to you or to a window you closed last night.
A Second Brain you can see
Your avatar's memory is a Second Brain. Notes about you, your work, the people you work with, and the projects in front of you, each one linked to the notes it relates to. One note per thing worth remembering. Your company gets a note, and so does every client, every product you sell, every person you deal with often, and every decision you'd hate to have to work out again from scratch.
That last kind is the one people forget to keep. Most of what makes you quick at your own job isn't facts, it's settled arguments. Why you set the rate you did. Which supplier you stopped using and what went wrong that week. A note holding the reason, linked to the person and the project it came out of, is worth more to your avatar than a folder of tidy documentation nobody has opened since it was written.
Notes are files, not rows in a database
Open the Second Brain folder and there's nothing clever in there. Files. One per note, in Markdown, named so you can tell what they are without opening them. A few lines at the top say what kind of note it is and when it last changed. The body is a handful of sentences in ordinary English, and the links to other notes are written into the text itself, so the connection between the client note and the project note is something you can read rather than something you have to trust.
That plainness is the reason for storing them this way. Open a note in any editor and fix a sentence. Search the folder from a terminal. Copy it to a backup drive, keep it in a git repository, or read it in five years on a laptop that has never had GainWix installed. Nothing is locked inside a store you can't open, and nothing has to leave your machine for you to look at it.
Why the map matters
The app draws every note and every link as one picture. Notes are dots, links are lines, and the shape of your work appears as the collection grows. It looks good on a screen, and that isn't why it's there.
The map is how you see what your avatar believes. A dot sitting on its own means you mentioned something once and it never got connected to anything. Two dense clumps with nothing running between them usually means the avatar hasn't worked out that your biggest client and your newest project are the same story. Both of those are visible in a glance, and both are fixed by saying so out loud.
Memory you can't see is memory you can only test. You find out what it forgot when it gets something wrong in front of a customer. A picture you can read turns that into something you check on a Sunday evening and correct in one sentence.
Chat and Talk
The avatar's home is two places now, named for what they are. Chat and Talk.
Chat is where you type. Talk is where speaking lives. Both open onto the same avatar and the same Second Brain, so a note made in one is already known in the other. There's no second copy of you to keep in sync, and no setting to decide which half of your context each place gets.
Ask your avatar to interview you
Empty notes are why most second brains die in week one. Staring at a blank file and being asked to describe your own working life is a bad first task, so this release hands that part to the avatar.
Ask it to interview you. It asks one question at a time.
- It asks something small and concrete. What the company does, who your customers are, what you're shipping this quarter.
- You answer in a sentence or two, the way you'd answer a colleague at a desk.
- It writes a note, links it to the notes it fits with, and the new dot appears on your map while you watch.
- It asks the next question, shaped by what you already said.
- You stop whenever you want. Nothing is half-finished, because every answer was already saved as its own note.
Ten minutes on a Friday afternoon is enough to change what the following Monday feels like. There's no form, no onboarding wizard, no fifty-field profile to complete before the thing becomes useful. You shouldn't have to work at being known.
Come back a week later and the second session is a different conversation. The avatar has read what you already told it, so it stops asking about the shape of your business and starts asking about the edges. Who signs off on an invoice. What you do when a client goes quiet for a month. The questions get narrower because the map under them is denser, and the notes that come out of them are worth more for the same reason.
By the third time you're not really building anything. You ask your avatar an ordinary question about your own work, and the answer arrives with your context already in it, because it read your notes before it said a word. That's the point where the folder stops feeling like a chore.
It reads your notes before it answers
Every request your avatar handles starts the same way. Before it answers, before it touches a single tool, it reads what it knows about you. Ask it to draft a reply to a client and it already has who that client is, what you sold them, and what you agreed in June. You attach nothing. You paste no brief.
The same thing happens on the way back out. When something worth keeping comes out of the work, a decision, a name, a figure you had to go and look up, it becomes a new note linked into what was already there. The memory gets better because you used it. A system prompt does the opposite, quietly going stale from the day you wrote it.
What's new in 0.1.16
Three new things, three that got better, three that were broken.
| Change | Kind | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Chat and Talk | New | The avatar's home is two places, named for what they are. Chat is where you type, Talk is where speaking lives |
| Interview me | New | Ask from either place and your avatar takes you one question at a time, writing each answer into your Second Brain as a linked note |
| What's new, in the app | New | The release notes live inside GainWix, so you can read what changed in the version you're actually running |
| A bigger, calmer window | Improved | More room to work, and GainWix branding on every screen |
| Guided tours | Improved | A screen can explain what it's for, and a ? in the corner replays the tour whenever you want it again |
| One settings screen | Improved | Settings used to be split across two places. Now there's one, with the recycle bin beside it |
| Sign-up codes | Fixed | Codes arrive reliably |
| Editing a note | Fixed | Updating a note keeps its connections on the map instead of dropping them |
| The gateway card | Fixed | It no longer turns up on screens where it doesn't belong |
It runs next to Claude, on your machine
GainWix AI Studio is a local-first control plane for Claude Desktop, Cowork, and Claude Code. Every Claude tool call goes through one gateway you control, with per-tool allow-lists and budgets, an Approval Inbox for risky actions, and a tamper-evident audit log. Connecting your Claude apps is one step, and after that the Second Brain your avatar builds is the same memory those apps read from.
The plumbing under that is the Model Context Protocol, the open standard Anthropic published for connecting AI apps to tools and data. One protocol, many servers, one door in front of all of them.
If the gateway part is new to you, What is an MCP gateway explains the door itself, and One doorway is the story of a first real handoff. The GainWix Workmates page lists the roles you can hire.
Get 0.1.16
The macOS build is on the download page. The app is free. So are the Claude courses inside it.
Install it, open your avatar, and ask it to interview you before you do anything else. Answer five questions while your tea goes cold. Tomorrow morning, open Chat and ask it something about your own business, and watch it answer without asking you who you are.
Questions people also ask
Where does the Second Brain live?
The notes are plain files on your own machine, inside the folder GainWix uses for your Second Brain. You can open them in any editor, copy them to a backup drive, or read them years later without the app.
Do I have to write the notes myself?
No. You can ask your avatar to interview you, and it asks one question at a time and writes each answer into a linked note. You can also write or edit any note by hand, because they are ordinary files.
Can I fix a note the avatar got wrong?
Yes. Every note is an ordinary Markdown file, so you can open it in any editor and change a line, or delete the file outright. The map redraws from whatever the folder holds.
Sources
- Model Context Protocol — What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)? — checked 4 September 2026
- Anthropic — Introducing the Model Context Protocol — checked 4 September 2026
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