# Rowboat Rowboat is an open-source AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph and acts on it. It builds a persistent, local knowledge base from your emails, meetings, and notes — then uses that accumulated context to help with tasks like meeting prep, email drafting, and document generation. Licensed under Apache 2.0. The key idea: instead of searching transcripts on demand, Rowboat compounds context over time. Relationships between people, projects, decisions, and commitments build progressively, so the assistant gets more useful the longer you use it. ## Key Features - **Knowledge graph**: Maintains an [[Obsidian]]-compatible vault of Markdown notes with backlinks and explicit relationships - **Fully local data**: All data stored on your machine, inspectable and editable - **Meeting preparation**: Surfaces relevant past decisions and open questions before meetings - **Email drafting**: Writes emails grounded in historical context - **Document generation**: Creates documents and PDF slides - **Voice memos**: Record voice notes that automatically update the graph - **Background agents**: Automated recurring tasks running in the background - **MCP support**: [[Model Context Protocol (MCP)]] for connecting external tools ## Integrations - Gmail (email) - Granola and Fireflies (meeting notes) - Deepgram (voice transcription) - Brave / Exa (web search) ## Tech Stack Primarily [[TypeScript]], with Docker support. Available as pre-built binaries for Mac, Windows, and Linux. ## References - GitHub: https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat - Website: https://www.rowboatlabs.com/ ## Related - [[AI Agents]] - [[Knowledge Management (KM)]] - [[Obsidian]] - [[Model Context Protocol (MCP)]] - [[Personal AI Infrastructure]]