Press kit

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LCOA is a private AI assistant for Windows that runs on your own computer.

In a paragraph

LCOA is a desktop AI assistant for Windows. Chat, voice, writing and code run with models on the user’s own PC, so conversations and files stay there, and most of it works with the internet off. The user chooses how much LCOA may touch, from watching only to running programs, and it shows every change before it makes it, with undo for most of them. It can read mail and save drafts if the user connects Google, but it cannot send mail. It is a beta for Windows, built by one person, and it opens for download on November 12, 2026 at 12 PM Eastern.

The facts

• Name: LCOA (said “el-co-uh”).
• Launch: Thursday, November 12, 2026, 12 PM Eastern. Until then, a waitlist at lcoa.ai.
• Version: beta 2.5.4. Windows 64-bit. About 706 MB. The installer is not signed yet, so Windows shows a warning.
• Models: the Trixe family runs on the user’s PC. No chat model is bundled; one is downloaded separately.
• Price: free to start. A paid Plus plan at $10 a month when checkout opens. Other plans are planned and not for sale. See pricing.
• Who: founded by Ethan Ganz. LCOA is not yet a registered company.
• Not claimed: LCOA makes no claim to be faster or better than other assistants. It has not been tested against them. Mac and Linux are not supported yet.

Logo and screenshots

• Logo (SVG) and logo (PNG, 512 px)
• App home screen, dark theme and light theme (WebP, 1280 px wide)

Please keep the logo as it is: no recolouring or stretching.

Contact

Ethan Ganz, ethan.ai.ganz@gmail.com. Questions, interviews, early access for a review: write, and you will get a real reply. Early access for reviewers is a download of the demo build.