About
AI tools that amplify human creativity and learning.
MLAI LLC builds human-end-user-focused, local-first, privacy-focused, personalized AI experiences. Intense focus on individual end users. Based in Bellevue, WA.
Founded by Anand Ramanathan (RC), a developer and applied AI scientist with 20+ years of experience - founding-team Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft AutoML, Amazon, Ripcord, and independent ventures. Listed on Toptal as a leading applied scientist in LLM/GPT applications. Daily power user of Claude Code at the super-expert level.
Our products are built on a foundation of personalization for the human at the keyboard, local-first AI processing (with hosted models when the task demands it), privacy by design, and a track record of independently arriving at ideas before they became mainstream.
| Founded | Active |
| Location | Bellevue, WA, USA |
| Founder | Anand Ramanathan |
| Contact | rcanand@mlaillc.com |
| GitHub | github.com/mlaillc |
The products under MLAI LLC are part of a 20+ year journey of building at the intersection of technology, learning, and creativity.
| Year | Product | What |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Maibook | Your third brain - on-device personalized AI agents for Mac and Windows |
| 2025 | CC Viewer | Claude Code CLI session viewer |
| 2025 | ahai | Local AI idea discovery for Mac |
| 2024 | Haixu | AI educational comics - 68+ on Gumroad, 9 Kindle books |
No longer actively developed, but each one informed what we build today.
| Year | Product | What |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Ganglion | Personalized RSS news aggregation |
| 2015 | Meon | No-code web platform with 25 YouTube demos |
| Earlier | iOS Games (7) | Sumurai, Smart Run, Mathlon, Matchon, Pop Rage, Exy - 30K+ downloads |
| Earlier | Pikodo | Educational comics from Wikipedia - precursor to Haixu |
| Earlier | Deeppage | Multimodal Wikipedia navigation |
| Earlier | Thouwords | Visual layer over the textual web with knowledge graph |
| Earlier | Saynomo | Personalized educational content across modalities - where it started |
See the full product timeline on the founder's personal site.
| Products | rcanand.gumroad.com |
| Kindle | R. C. Anand on Amazon |
| Blog | rcanand.hashnode.dev |
| GitHub | github.com/mlaillc |
| X | @rcanand |
| Visual Guides | visualguides.mlaillc.com |
| ahai | ahai.app |
| Founder | rcanand.github.io |