What the beta includes
invitation-onlyEverything the product does: sums for just you or for up to five people, every member through their own AI assistant or chatbot, opt-in text pings, and open-format export of everything, always.
Beta limits
Generous for real use, bounded against runaway agents. The same numbers are enforced by the database and shown on your account page.
- 10 sums created per account, 2–5 people in each.
- Per sum, per day: 200 updates, 500 messages, 50 reminders.
- 500 pages per sum, 256 KB per page.
Beta terms, plainly
A beta changes; you'll hear before anything meaningful does. Your material is yours: export is self-serve and complete, deletion is real, and the export button means you are never stuck here. That's the point of it. The fine print lives in the terms and the privacy page, written in the same plain language.
Why free?
Because this beta is a UX playground. Mem·Sum is built and run by Dave Gilbert, a product developer and user-experience researcher, and what he wants from it is what a beta is actually for: the product getting real use, and the lessons people choose to share. To be clear about what that does not mean: your sums are not research material. No one reads your content — not even Dave. The operator's admin view is content-blind by construction, there are no analytics anywhere, and the privacy page spells out exactly who can see what. What Dave learns comes from his own sums, and from you only if you tell him. So tell him: if you want to give feedback — how he can improve it, or just what you think of it — reach out through his site, aftertheapp.com.
Run it yourself
The software is free: Mem·Sum's kernel is open source under Apache-2.0, and we genuinely encourage you to run your own for your own people. The hosted service is the same code operated for you — hosting, backups, uptime, and SMS compliance (your own toll-free number and carrier approval, if you want texts) are the work it does on your behalf. Same code, same open format either way; sums you run and sums we host can trade pages through the same export bundles. More on the open kernel.