You spend 5 to 15 minutes re-explaining your projects, your clients, your decisions to ChatGPT every single morning. That's 50 to 250 hours a year, gone. Synta is a local-first operating system that holds your context — so you brief it once, and it remembers forever.
When you run 3, 5, 7 projects at once — every tool you own treats each conversation as if you were a stranger. Here's what that actually costs you, in a normal week.
"What was that pricing idea I had on the train last week?" — gone. You scroll through three apps, find nothing, give up.
"Didn't we decide something about this last month?" — you can't remember which project it was in. You wing it and hope.
You re-brief the same context to ChatGPT for the fourth time this week. Each brief takes 8 minutes. You do this for every new chat.
Jumping from Project A to Project B costs you 23 minutes of re-orientation. You do this six times a day.
You wrote brilliant notes somewhere. You have no idea where. Notion search returned 47 things. None of them are it.
You're paying for Notion + ChatGPT Plus + Obsidian Sync + a second AI tool you forgot you signed up for. Combined: ~€60/month, every month, forever.
Synta isn't another note-taker. It's the missing layer that turns the notes you already have into an assistant that knows your business as well as you do.
Pick a folder on your Mac or PC. Synta sets up a clean structure for your projects, clients, and decisions. No account. No upload. 4 minutes start to finish.
Drop in a project brief, a meeting note, a client call transcript. Ask anything. It reads every file in your Synta folder and answers like a colleague who's been at every meeting.
No more rebuilding context every morning. No more "wait, which project was this?". Your past becomes an asset that compounds — instead of a graveyard you're afraid to open.
Synta runs locally as a structured folder of Markdown files. No server. No account. No one reading your client notes but you.
Version it with Git. Back it up with Time Machine. Take it offline on a flight. Walk away from Synta tomorrow and you keep every byte — they're just text files in a folder you already own.
That isn't a feature. It's the only honest way to build something a solopreneur can bet a business on.
No subscription. No seats. No "AI add-on" that doubles your bill next year. One payment, lifetime license, one year of updates included — and a real human (me) on the other end of the email.
If you're not the right fit for Synta, I'll tell you on the call and recommend what to use instead. No charge, no pitch, no follow-up sequence.
If Synta doesn't install or work as advertised on your machine within 14 days, full refund. Honest software needs an honest backstop — this is it.
Every license starts with a short call — you brief me on your setup, I show you whether Synta actually solves your problem. Honest answer either way, within 24 hours.
hello@synta.mdSynta is a local-first operating system for solopreneurs running 3+ projects: it remembers your clients, decisions, and context — so an AI you connect to it (GPT, Claude, or local) can answer like a colleague who's been at every meeting.
No. Synta lives entirely on your drive as Markdown files. No account, no cloud sync, no telemetry. Traffic only leaves your machine if you explicitly connect an AI model provider — and you choose which one (OpenAI, Anthropic, or a local model like Ollama).
Notion stores your life in someone else's database and charges per seat. Obsidian is a great editor but the intelligence layer is on you to build. ChatGPT forgets you every morning. Synta is the layer that turns the notes you already have into an assistant that answers back — on your drive, with your context, with no monthly tax.
The detailed comparison lives in the section above.
No. Most early customers run Synta alongside whatever they already have. Synta consumes Markdown, so if you already write notes in Obsidian or export Notion pages, they slot in directly. Some users gradually migrate; some keep both forever. Your call.
Anything you have an API key for: OpenAI (GPT-4, GPT-5), Anthropic (Claude), or local models via Ollama. You bring the key, you control the cost, you switch providers anytime without re-doing your data. We don't take a cut and we don't lock you to one vendor.
No. The founding-customer price ($99 / €89 / 349 PLN) is a one-time payment for a lifetime license on one machine, with 12 months of updates included. After year one, the version you have keeps working forever — you only pay again if you want new features.
Honest answer: I undercharged at launch and the deep research told me so. Standard price will be $199 / €189 / 699 PLN — still a one-time payment, still no subscription. The first 10 customers are buying at founding pricing because they're taking a bet on a young product, and their feedback shapes the roadmap. After that, the price reflects actual value.
Two layers, by design:
Before you pay: a 30-minute fit-call. If Synta isn't right for you, I tell you on the call. No charge.
After you pay: 14-day technical refund — if Synta doesn't install or work as advertised on your machine, you get every cent back. Email hello@synta.md.
Two reasons. (1) Solopreneur tools are notoriously over-promised — I'd rather lose a sale than ship a refund-incident two weeks later. (2) Your feedback in the fit-call shapes Synta itself. The first 10 customers aren't just buyers; they're co-architects. Worth 30 minutes on both sides.
Real concern. Three answers:
1. Your data is yours, on your drive, in plain Markdown. If I disappear tomorrow, your Synta folder still works in every text editor ever made.
2. I co-founded Rentals United (acquired by Guesty Group). I've shipped production software for years and I'm not leaving this market.
3. If Synta is ever discontinued, I'll open-source the core engine. That's a written commitment, not a marketing line.
Teams that need shared real-time editing (use Notion). People who want a beautiful note app and nothing more (use Obsidian). Anyone who isn't comfortable owning a folder of files on their own machine. If you nodded along to the "every morning, re-explain your business" pain — you're who this was built for.
Yes — they're plain Markdown files in folders. That format has been stable for 20 years and will outlive every tool on this page, including Synta. Format-lock is the original sin of productivity software; Synta refuses to commit it.
4 minutes for the install. The honest part: getting real value takes about a week of brief, bring, ask — drop in a project brief, ask Synta about it, drop in a meeting note, ask again. By day 7, most early users say it's the first AI tool that "feels like it knows them." By day 30, they say they can't imagine going back.