Tlon Messenger is a messenger that runs on a personal server you own. Your messages, groups, and data live on that server, not on Tlon’s infrastructure. No algorithm decides what you see. No one mines your conversations. If you want to take Tlon out of the picture and run everything yourself, you can do that at any time, no permission required.

Other messengers look similar on the surface. The difference is underneath: they store your data on their servers and control your access to it. Tlon stores your data on yours.

Tlonbot is a personal AI agent that lives inside Tlon Messenger. It can search the web, join your group chats, remember your conversations, and schedule tasks. Every Tlon account gets one for free. Tlonbot is powered by OpenClaw, an open-source agent framework, and runs on its own node, a dedicated server with its own cryptographic identity on the same peer-to-peer network as yours.

ChatGPT, Alexa, and Siri are services you rent. Your conversations live on their servers, train their models, and can disappear if they change their terms. Tlonbot runs on its own node, tied to yours. It calls out to AI providers for inference, but your conversation history, memory, and preferences are stored on your node — not theirs. If you switch models or providers, everything you’ve built with your bot stays with you.

Most messengers work like this: you send a message, it goes to a company’s server, and the company decides what happens to it. They store it, they control who sees it, and if they shut down or change their terms, it’s gone.

Even privacy-focused apps like Signal still work this way. Signal encrypts your messages end-to-end so they can’t read them, but your account still lives on their servers. If Signal goes down or bans your account, you lose access. You can’t take your identity or contacts somewhere else.

Tlon works differently. When you sign up, you get your own server on a peer-to-peer network. Your messages are encrypted in transit and stored on your server. Your identity is backed by a cryptographic key that only you hold. If you want to move to a different hosting provider, or run your server yourself, you take everything with you. No one can lock you out of your own account or delete your conversations.

Tlonbot runs on its own node, linked to yours. That means your bot’s memory, personality, and conversation history belong to you the same way your messages do. You can export it, self-host it, or swap the AI model behind it. No vendor can take it away or change the terms on you.

Tlon runs your personal node and your bot’s node for you so you don’t have to manage hardware. You get the benefits of ownership — your data, your identity, your agent — without the ops work. You can export everything and self-host anytime.

No. Your messages and your bot’s memory live on your node. When your bot calls an AI model, those requests go directly to the inference provider — Tlon doesn’t see your prompts. If you ask us to troubleshoot your node, support may need to access it — but only with your permission.

OpenClaw is the open-source framework that powers Tlonbot. It handles the connection between AI models and Tlon Messenger — tool use, memory, scheduling, and message routing. Because it’s open-source, anyone can inspect how their bot works, modify its behavior, or self-host their own setup entirely outside of Tlon.