Textile

What Textile does

Textile Labs, Inc. (DBA "Textile") is a privately held U.S. software company operating a desktop application branded as Textile, which functions as an on-device AI-powered personal knowledge assistant for documents. The product enables users to upload, organize, search, and query their files—including PDF, DOC/DOCX, XLS/XLSX, PPT/PPTX, TXT, PNG, and JPEG formats—using a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture with local AI inference. All document processing, embedding, and AI responses are executed locally on the user's Mac or Windows machine; documents are not uploaded, processed, or stored in third-party cloud infrastructure.

Underlying the product is a standard RAG pipeline combined with locally executed AI models (the company does not disclose whether proprietary models are trained in-house or whether open-source local models such as Llama derivatives are integrated). The system supports semantic search "by meaning" rather than keyword or filename matching, conversational Q&A across a user's corpus, and contextualized responses drawn from multiple files. The architecture is positioned around a privacy and security proposition: customer data never leaves the device, files are encrypted in transit and at rest locally, and only limited, logged access by Textile personnel is permitted for support or security review.

Textile pursues a product-led growth strategy with a freemium model across four pricing tiers: a free Basic tier (smart search and unlimited file storage), Plus at $10/month (or $60/year annual, a 50% discount), and Enterprise at custom pricing for organizations managing sensitive documents at scale. Distribution is fully self-serve via direct download from textile.dev and GitHub releases for macOS (aarch64 DMG) and Windows (x64 EXE). The primary customer segment is individuals and families managing personal documents such as tax returns, estate plans, and medical records; a secondary segment targets enterprise customers requiring on-device document intelligence with security and compliance features. Textile was founded in 2025, is headquartered legally in Wilmington, Delaware (Textile Labs, Inc., 1207 Delaware Ave #11780), and operates with a 1–10 employee headcount in public beta.

Name

Textile

Legal name

Textile Labs, Inc.

Website

https://textile.dev

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Textile Labs, Inc. operates Textile, a desktop AI-powered personal knowledge assistant that processes, indexes, and searches user documents entirely on-device. Using RAG with local AI models, it serves individuals, families, and select enterprises seeking private document intelligence across macOS and Windows.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Wilmington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Subscription - Plus Tier: Monthly subscription at $10/month for detailed file search, locally powered conversational AI, and chat Q&A with personalized responses. Includes priority access to feature improvements.
2. Annual Subscription - Plus Tier: Annual subscription at $60/year, offering 50% discount compared to monthly billing for the Plus tier features.
3. Enterprise Custom Pricing: Custom pricing for enterprise firms managing sensitive documents at scale. Includes unlimited storage, dedicated support, unlimited team members, and industry-leading security and compliance.
4. Freemium - Basic Tier: Free tier providing smart search for family's important files with unlimited file storage, search by meaning, natural language search, and on-device processing. Supports major file formats.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Textile provides a desktop application for macOS and Windows that ingests personal and family documents (tax returns, estate plans, medical records, insurance policies, school forms, PDFs, Office files, spreadsheets, presentations, and images) and turns them into a private on-device knowledge base. Users can search files by meaning rather than filename and ask natural-language questions of the contents, with all processing, storage, and AI inference running locally so that files never leave the user's device.

Product overview

Textile is a U.S.-based AI-powered personal knowledge assistant focused on private, on-device document intelligence. The product ecosystem consists of a desktop application available for Mac and Windows, with four pricing tiers: Basic (free), Plus ($10/month), Annual Plus ($60/year), and Enterprise (custom). All tiers provide on-device file storage and intelligent processing where documents never leave the user's device. The platform enables users to upload, search, and ask questions about documents using RAG-powered AI with natural language processing capabilities. The Plus tier and above unlock detailed search and conversational AI features. Textile competes in the personal productivity and document management space with an emphasis on privacy-first AI processing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Textile (desktop AI document assistant) Textile is a downloadable desktop application for macOS and Windows that turns a user's local documents and images into a private on-device knowledge base. It supports PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, TXT, PNG, and JPEG files, performs semantic search by meaning, and answers natural-language questions about file contents. All processing and storage occurs locally on the user's device, with no cloud upload. The product is offered as a free Basic tier and paid Plus tiers, with a custom Enterprise tier for organizations.

Quantifiable outcome

• 100% on-device processing with no cloud uploads

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability6 records

Feature4 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• AskYourPDF: Consumer-grade AI assistant that ingests PDFs and answers questions. Simpler and narrower than Textile but operates in the same document-RAG category.
• Mem AI: AI-powered note and knowledge management app with semantic search and Q&A over personal content. Direct horizontal competitor in the personal-knowledge-RAG space.
• Rewind AI (Limitless): Personal AI assistant focused on capturing and querying a user's private activity/files. Direct competitor in the 'personal on-device AI knowledge' category, though more oriented toward screen/audio capture.
• Obsidian: Local-first note-taking and knowledge-base app with optional AI plugins for semantic search and Q&A. Overlaps on the privacy-respecting, locally-stored personal knowledge graph workflow.
• Notion AI: Document- and workspace-native AI Q&A layer inside Notion. Closest competitor for the enterprise knowledge-worker use case, even though storage is cloud-hosted.
• Google NotebookLM: Google's AI notebook that ingests user documents and answers questions via RAG. Closest functional analog to Textile, though cloud-based rather than on-device, making it the primary benchmark for capability comparisons.

Broad incumbents

• Apple Intelligence: OS-level, privacy-focused on-device AI integrated across iOS/macOS with personal context awareness. Represents the most direct platform threat given deep system integration and privacy-first branding.
• Microsoft Copilot+ / Recall: Microsoft's on-device AI assistant for Windows Copilot+ PCs, including Recall-style local document retrieval. Competes on the same privacy-on-device axis but with vastly larger distribution and R&D.

Emerging players

• PrivateGPT (zylon-ai): Open-source, fully-local document Q&A toolkit. Represents the open-source threat — users who want a free, transparent, on-device RAG stack rather than a commercial app.

Others

• LM Studio: Desktop app for running local LLMs. Functionally adjacent — enables power users to replicate Textile's local-inference capability themselves, potentially capping pricing power.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/textilelabs

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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