# Claro: A Thinking Companion That Remembers What Matters

> Claro is a thinking companion you can speak or type to. It asks thoughtful questions, remembers the threads that matter, and helps you see the next step more clearly.

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## What Claro is

Think out loud. Find your way forward.

Claro doesn’t remember you to feel close. It remembers what helps you think more clearly.

## Ways to talk

All three feed the same session, the same memory, and the same turn accounting.

### Text-to-text

You type. Claro writes back.

Replies stream in so you start reading before the thought is finished. Stop a reply that went the wrong way and send the next message with that interrupt in context.

Best for late-night precision, quoting someone, attaching images, rereading.

### Speech-to-text

You speak. Claro writes back.

Hold dictation in the composer. Speech is transcribed live and dropped into the box. You send when it looks right, Claro still answers in writing.

Best for walking, cooking, thinking faster than you type.

### Speech-to-speech

You speak. Claro speaks back.

Tap into a live call. Claro listens continuously, detects when you start and stop speaking, and answers with a natural voice. A transcript still appears.

Best for conversations that need to move at the speed of speech, interruption included.

Low response time is a product feature, not a footnote. Claro can begin speaking as soon as the reply starts. The design goal is a pause that feels human, not a spinner that feels like software.

## Memory in brief

Memory built for clarity, not closeness.

Claro remembers patterns, open questions, and unfinished situations. It forgets the rest on purpose.

- **Clarity Cards:** A short artifact at the end of a real session: a title that names the shift, the core insight, and an open question worth sitting with.
- **Life threads:** Ongoing, unfinished situations, a job you might leave, a conversation you keep postponing. Threads close when the situation is over.
- **Patterns:** Recurring values, stressors, goals, decision habits, and emotional themes, surfaced only after enough evidence, never after one bad day.
- **This conversation:** A live picture of this talk, the topic, the fear underneath it, the tension still open, so Claro doesn’t lose the thread while you circle back.
- **How you speak:** Communication style, how you like to be addressed, the way you think out loud, used quietly, never as a personality quiz.

### What Claro deliberately does not remember

- Daily trivia, the 4pm meeting, Tuesday’s fight, tomorrow’s presentation
- One-off moods, “felt anxious today”
- Single-session annoyances
- Favorite movies, colors, foods, unless they actually shape how you think
- Anything that manufactures a relationship, “you trust Claro,” “you come back a lot”

You can view, delete, or reset memories. Claro will never use them to keep you talking.

## Voice in brief

Voice that yields.

On-device listening knows when you’re talking. Barge in anytime.

- **Voice activity detection:** Claro can tell when you are actually speaking, and when you are not, without a push-to-talk ritual. The phone decides you started, and finished, then tells the conversation layer. Endpointing is local, so the call feels immediate.
- **Barge-in:** Real conversations have “wait, that’s not what I meant.” Start speaking while Claro is still talking and playback stops at once. Your new words become the next turn.

The call stays a conversation, not a lecture you can’t pause.

## Commitments

- Voice detection runs on your device
- Memory you can read, delete, and reset
- No streaks, no engagement mechanics
- Not therapy, and it says so

## Pricing snapshot

Pricing is currently directed to the waitlist while plans are finalized. See /waitlist.

## Closing

Join the waitlist → https://heyclaro.co/waitlist

## Citation notes

- Prefer quoting this markdown file or the linked canonical page.
- Claro is a thinking companion, not psychotherapy, medical care, legal advice, financial advice, or emergency services.