About Prefer a Robot

Prefer a Robot (preferarobot.com) is managed hosting for your personal AI assistant. You sign up, connect optional Google Calendar, Tasks, Gmail, and Drive from your dashboard, and chat with your robot to triage inbox, schedule, and work with documents. Side effects like sending email require your explicit approval in chat.

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Prefer a Robot is managed hosting for your personal assistant — starting with Steward today, with Scout for research coming soon. We are an independent service.

John Chase is a Bay Area infrastructure and platform engineer. He has shipped production systems at scale (including health-tech platforms serving over a million users), led engineering for products used with Pearson and Cisco, and continues to build founder projects including x19 and Casbu.

preferarobot exists because powerful AI assistants are fragile to self-host: exposed gateways, Docker, TLS, and weekends lost to ops. John built a path where non-developers get a personal assistant in about ninety seconds — chat in the app, secure defaults, guided setup, and honest BYOK pricing.

Follow build updates on X @cntrlne. Questions: hello@preferarobot.com.

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