The Polleo Index · Issue 01

AI-native software, made with care for people who already think for a living.

Polleo is a small studio building a new generation of AI-first tools — software designed around a model's capabilities from day one, not bolted onto yesterday's workflow. Our first product is Hermes, a Claude companion that lives inside your Obsidian vault.

Read about Hermes → Our position

§ 01 The Catalogue

N°01 · Hermes Private beta

Hermes

Claude, inside your Obsidian vault.

A Claude chat integration for Obsidian with a two-axis security model: permission modes for convenience, protected-pattern rules for guardrails. Work faster without handing the keys to your notes.

§ 02 Our Position

AI-first means built around the model — not bolted onto an old one.

The obvious question in 2026 isn't whether your software uses AI. It's whether it was designed assuming AI existed from day one, or retrofitted onto a workflow that predates it. We only build the former.

Your data is yours. The model works for you.

We don't train on your content. We don't route your notes through our servers. AI-first is not the same as cloud-first — the best place for your second brain is still on your machine, and the best place for your API keys is still in your hands.

Small, careful, and human-scale.

We ship slowly and on purpose. Every release is cross-platform live-validated. Every safety decision has two independent axes. We'd rather make one tool you trust than ten you tolerate.