Research the web
Looks things up, reads the pages and tells you where every fact came from.
Advancing
intelligence.
Aethra Intelligence builds AI that does real work, not just conversation. Meet Prometheus — a team of AI employees on your own computer.
Mission
Intelligence
is the engine.
Every breakthrough starts with someone thinking a problem all the way through. Discoveries, inventions, companies that last — they all began that way. What has always been scarce is not ambition. It is the time and attention to do the thinking, and the work that follows it.
We build AI that gives people more of both. Not another chat window, but software you can hand a goal to. It works out a plan, does the work, checks the result and shows you everything it did along the way.
5 AI employees
research, analysis, writing, organizing and web tasks
Checked work
against your goal, before it reaches you
Your computer
the work happens on your machine — no account needed
Prometheus
Give it a goal. Get the work done.
A team of AI employees that works on your computer. Prometheus gives you a researcher, an analyst, a writer, an organizer and an operator — and an AI manager who runs them. Tell the manager what you need in one sentence. It decides who does what, hands out the work and checks the result before it reaches you.
No prompts to learn, no workflows to draw. Ask for a summary of your meeting notes, a tidy downloads folder or a PDF of this week's news with sources — the way you would ask a colleague. Your files stay on your computer, and anything that can't be undone waits for your yes.
Screenshot · 01-ask
Screenshot · 02-result
Screenshot · 03-approval
Screenshot · 04-progress
Screenshot · 05-plugins
It works where your files already are
Prometheus runs on your own computer, in your own folders. Use free AI models that work offline, or connect the AI provider you prefer — the choice is yours.
Nothing permanent happens quietly
Reading and drafting just happen. Sending, spending, deleting and publishing stop and wait for you — and you can stop a run at any moment.
It checks its own work
Before starting, Prometheus writes down what "done" means. Afterwards it compares the result with what actually happened on your computer — not with what the AI says it did.
How it works
From one sentence
to finished work.
You say what you need
In your own words, like a message to a colleague.
The manager makes a plan
It writes down what a good result looks like, then picks the right employee for each part.
The team does the work
Researching, writing, sorting, calculating — on your computer, in a folder made for the task.
You get a checked result
Work that falls short is sent back and redone. Anything permanent waits for your approval.
Read this week's meeting notes and make a one-page PDF of decisions, one line per person. Then email it to the team.
- Manager planned three tasks and wrote down what "done" means: every person listed, one line each, saved as a PDF.
- Researcher read 6 files of notes and pulled out 14 decisions.
- Writer created decisions.pdf — one page, 9 people.
- Manager checked the file against the plan: everything is there.
- Waiting for you: send decisions.pdf to the team?
What it can do
Real work,
not just answers.
Write documents and PDFs
Reports, summaries and briefs, saved as real files you can open and share.
Tidy your files
Puts a messy folder in order and tells you exactly what it moved.
Analyze data
Works through spreadsheets and data files and calculates the answer instead of guessing it.
Answer from your documents
Add contracts, policies or manuals. Answers quote the document they came from — even when you ask in another language.
Use websites for you
When a site has no simple way in, the operator works it in a browser — the way a person would.
Connect your services
Gmail, Google Drive, Notion, Slack, GitHub and more — each one only for the employees you allow.
Work on a schedule
"Every morning" or "every three hours" — and it still asks before anything permanent.
Remember how you like it
Your preferences carry over, so "do the same for the returns folder" just works.
Why Prometheus
What makes it
different.
There are many AI tools. Most of them talk, run in somebody else's cloud, or follow steps you set up by hand. Prometheus is built around a different idea: an AI team you can trust with real work, on your own computer.
Your computer, your data
The work happens on your machine. There is no Aethra account and no Aethra cloud. With local AI models, your documents never leave your computer.
It does the work, not just the talking
A chat assistant gives you text to copy and paste. Prometheus delivers the result itself: the file, the folder, the report.
It checks before it reports
Success is defined before the work starts and checked against what really happened. If something is missing, it tells you plainly.
You stay in charge
Anything that sends, spends, deletes or publishes waits for your approval. A question you don't answer counts as a no.
A team, not a single bot
A manager and specialists, each allowed to use only what its job needs — so a writer can't send your email.
Open source, no lock-in
Free under the MIT license. Use free models on your computer, or OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini and OpenRouter with your own key. No subscription.
| Feature | Prometheus | Chat assistants | Cloud AI agents | Automation tools |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Understands a goal in plain words | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partly |
| Delivers finished work — files, reports, sorted folders | Yes | Partly | Yes | Yes |
| Works with the files on your own computer | Yes | Uploads | Usually not | Partly |
| Can run offline with free AI models | Yes | No | No | No |
| Checks the result against your goal before reporting | Yes | Rarely | Varies | No |
| Asks before anything permanent | Always | Varies | Varies | If you build it in |
| Keeps a record of every step, including refusals | Yes | No | Partly | Run history |
| Free and open source | MIT | No | Rarely | Some |
| Lets you choose the AI model | Any | One vendor | One vendor | Some |
Get started
Install it with
one command.
Prometheus is free and open source under the MIT license. Open Terminal on your Mac or Linux computer and paste this:
git clone https://github.com/ysz7/Prometheus.git && cd Prometheus && ./start.sh
What it does
Downloads Prometheus and runs start.sh. The script installs what Prometheus needs, sets up its database and opens the app window. The first run takes a few minutes.
Next time
Start Prometheus with the same script, from its folder:
cd Prometheus && ./start.sh
What you need first
Python 3.12+ with uv, Node.js 20+, the Rust toolchain, and either Ollama for free local AI models or a key from an AI provider.
Vision
Beyond
today's AI.
Today's AI answers questions. Tomorrow's will carry a project. For a week, a quarter, a year — remembering what matters, changing the plan when the facts change, and knowing the difference between what it checked and what it only assumes.
Getting there takes trust, not just bigger models. AI that forgets what it should forget, stays inside the lines you draw, asks before it acts, and can always show its work.
Prometheus is our first step. Everything we learn from it goes into what comes next.
FAQ
Questions,
answered.
What is Prometheus?
Prometheus is a desktop app from Aethra Intelligence. You describe what you need in plain words; an AI manager plans the work, hands it to AI employees — a researcher, an analyst, a writer, an organizer and an operator — checks the result, and asks you before anything permanent happens. It runs on your own computer, with free local AI models or a provider you choose.
How is Prometheus different from ChatGPT and other chatbots?
A chatbot answers in a conversation and leaves the work to you. Prometheus takes a goal and does the work: it makes a plan, splits it between specialized AI employees, creates the actual files, checks the result and shows you what it did. It runs on your own computer, and it can still answer a quick question directly. Read more about the difference.
Does my data leave my computer?
Your files, the finished work and what Prometheus remembers stay on your computer. With free local AI models, your requests are processed on your computer too. If you connect a hosted AI provider, the text of each request goes to that provider, and web searches reach the sites being searched. Aethra Intelligence receives none of it.
Is Prometheus free?
Yes. Prometheus is free and open source under the MIT license. There is no subscription and no account. With local AI models it costs nothing to run. With a hosted AI provider you pay that provider for what you use, and Prometheus keeps track of the cost.
Which AI models does Prometheus work with?
Free models that run on your own computer through Ollama, and hosted models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini and OpenRouter. You can choose a different model for different kinds of work.
Can Prometheus do something I did not approve?
Reading, and writing inside the task's own folder, happen right away. Anything that sends, spends, deletes, publishes or runs code it wrote waits for your approval, and a question nobody answers counts as a no. Every action is recorded, including the ones that were refused.
Do I need to be technical to use Prometheus?
To use it, no: you type what you need in plain words. To install it, for now, a little: you paste one command into Terminal, and a few developer tools need to be installed first. Step-by-step instructions are in the project's README.
How do I install and start Prometheus?
On macOS or Linux, with Python 3.12+ and uv, Node.js 20+ and the Rust toolchain installed, run:
git clone https://github.com/ysz7/Prometheus.git && cd Prometheus && ./start.sh
The start.sh script installs what Prometheus needs, sets up its database and opens the app. To start Prometheus again later, open the Prometheus folder in Terminal and run ./start.sh.
Can I add my own AI employee?
Yes. An AI employee is a short description of its job and of what it is allowed to use. Add one, and the manager starts giving it the work that fits.
Who makes Prometheus?
Aethra Intelligence, a small research and engineering company building AI systems people can trust with real work.
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