About
A friend. A moment. A layer.
From lantern to pal.
We started as Lantern: a flame you could carry because glass kept it contained.
As the product became a companion, we kept the light and dropped the lamp. The flame became a dot, a single moment of attention.
पल means “a moment.” A pal is someone who shows up in it.
Three meanings, one name.
pala friend
Someone who acts for you, and checks with you before anything that matters.
पलa moment (Hindi)
Your day is made of moments. pal brings you the few that need you and handles the rest.
P·A·LPersonal Agentic Layer
The layer underneath: the runtime that keeps agents durable, contained and yours.
The PAL Promise
What we hold ourselves to.
Sounds like you.
pal writes the way you write. Every reply is scored against messages you really sent, and a draft that drifts from your voice is rewritten before it goes out.
How it worksRemembers your people.
One memory of each person across iMessage and WhatsApp: what you talked about, what you planned, what you promised.
How it worksAsks before it promises.
Money, commitments and anything it cannot verify are held for your yes. Nothing that matters goes out on a guess.
How it worksNever stops, never leaks.
Runs pick up where they left off after a crash. Untrusted code runs in a microVM, keys stay outside it, and every run can carry a signed receipt.
How it works
How we build it.
- Calm over clever. pal should feel like the most reliable friend you have, not the funniest.
- A prompt is advice; a gate is a guarantee. Anything that protects you is enforced in code, before the send.
- Honest by default. No invented customers, logos or numbers. Every claim on this site maps to code you can read.
- Yours to run. Apache-2.0, on your Mac or in your cloud.