Works with Claude, from AnthropicWhat it does for you
Memory
Tell it about a person, a meeting or a decision once, and it's there when you need it, months later. Ask in your own words; you don't need to remember how you put it.
Updates
Ask what's new on LinkedIn, or on any site you're signed in to, and get the short version. The people you already know are picked out for you.
Find that message from your accountant while you're out. Fabrik reads your mail, and never sends, moves or deletes it.
Content
Posts, proposals and replies that sound like you, because they're drafted from what you've already written.
Planning
Tell it what you're working on and what's holding things up, and it tells you what you can get on with next.
Networking
Before a call, ask who someone is and get everything you've noted about them.
Research
It reads the sources for you, and keeps the ones the answer came from.
Admin
Forms filled in from what you've already told it. You see the form before anything is sent.
Analysis
Prices, products or options weighed up across sites, with evidence.
Publishing
A one-page website, built and put live on your own account.
Reception
A chat box on your website answers visitors from the facts you choose, and nothing more.
Collation
Your notes and posts from LinkedIn, Notion, Obsidian, Substack and X, brought together in one place.
How it works
Your Claude
Connect fabrik to Claude once. Then just ask, on your phone, your computer or at claude.ai, the way you'd ask a colleague.
Your database
Setup builds it in a Supabase project you own. Nobody else has a copy, and you can change or delete anything in it.
Your Chrome
On sites you're signed in to, it works in your own browser while you watch. It asks before anything it can't undo.
Private by design
The new AI assistants run on their makers' servers and act for you whether you're watching or not. Fabrik doesn't.
| Question | Fabrik | Instinct | Muse | Dots | Claude Duet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where your data is kept | Your own Supabase project | Instinct's servers | Meta's servers | OpenAI's servers | Anthropic's servers |
| Who holds your logins | You, in your own Chrome | Not published | Meta, unseen by the agent | OpenAI's login service | Anthropic, unseen by the agent |
| Acts while you're away | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| UK and EU | Wherever Claude is | Not published | US launch | Not available | US only, by waitlist |
| Price | Free* | Not published | Free to $100 a month | ChatGPT Pro and up | Claude Pro or Max |
| Open source | Yes, MIT licence | No | No | No | No |
* Fabrik needs a Claude subscription and a Supabase account. Supabase's free plan covers light use; heavier use needs a paid plan.
Open source and free
Fabrik is open source, under the MIT licence. Anyone can read the code, the setup script and the plugins on GitHub.
It costs nothing to use. You pay Claude for your plan, and Supabase only if you outgrow its free one. A free Supabase project is paused after a week without use, and you can switch it back on.
Why fabrik exists
I'm Joel Smalley. I run several ventures, a stack of live projects, and the working relationships my income depends on. I'm also raising three young children on my own.
I built fabrik because I needed an assistant that holds all of that together: what was said, what I agreed, what comes next. It's the system I work in every day, and now it's yours too.
Get started
You'll need a Claude plan, a free Supabase account, and Chrome with the Claude extension. The README on GitHub walks you through setup.