For senior executives, entrepreneurs and knowledge workers

Maxy runs your routine.
You run your business.

Everything you work with in one place - the people you know, what was said, and what you've agreed - kept on your own private server. Maxy briefs you before each meeting and writes your proposals and reports in your own words. You spend more time with your clients.

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Why Maxy exists

Built by the person who needed it most.

Joel Smalley, founder of Maxy

Joel Smalley, Founder

I'm Joel Smalley, and I built Maxy because I needed it. 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.

All of that is my personal responsibility and it all needs doing at the same time. I needed an assistant that holds the whole of it together: what was said, what I agreed, what comes next. So I built one, and it is the system I work in every day.

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Who Maxy is for

Maxy is for two types of knowledge worker whose value depends entirely on their own judgement.

Profile 01

The Relationship Operator

Your value lives in trust, presence, and the quality of your relationships. Maxy manages what sits around that.

  • Every piece of information in one searchable, permanent graph
  • Email inbox managed with smart search and follow-up tracking
  • WhatsApp and Telegram channels in one place
  • Contact pipeline from first message to invoiced and paid
  • Morning briefings: who to call, what's pending, what needs a decision
  • Proposals, briefing packs, and documents produced on demand
  • Research on contacts and companies before you need to be in the room
  • Site creation and publishing without a developer

Profile 02

The Individual Contributor

Your value lives in what only you can think and make. Maxy handles what doesn't require your judgement.

  • Every document, note, and idea stored and searchable, indefinitely
  • Deep web research synthesised and cited, not just retrieved
  • Writing support: voice conditioning, editorial review, long-form assistance
  • Project and task tracking across all work streams
  • Reports, analysis, and presentations produced on demand
  • Browser automation for data collection and repetitive web tasks
  • Venture support: brand pack, prototype hosting, investor data room
  • Manuscript and prose review against your own voice

"I built this because I am both. The relationship network is the foundation of my commercial life; the intellectual output is the product. Maxy handles the infrastructure for each, without either needing the other's overhead."

- Joel Smalley, Founder

The stack

What you get

Everything below is configured automatically. You receive a working system, not a set of instructions for assembling one.

  • Claude Code Anthropic's coding and automation agent, and the engine that drives everything else in the stack
  • Knowledge graph An ontological Neo4j graph holding every person, document, conversation, decision and task you've touched. Each node is typed and connected; the whole graph is searchable by meaning, with no time limit.
  • Coding & automation Full software-engineering capability on request. Scripts, fixes, data wrangling and one-off tools are built by Claude Code directly, with no separate developer involved.
  • Ingestion engines Your existing knowledge bases imported on day one. Obsidian, Notion, LinkedIn, X, WhatsApp and more arrive as typed, linked graph nodes rather than static file copies.
  • Plugin layer Email, calendar, contacts, browser automation, deep research, document production, site publishing, and Stripe payments
  • Messaging channels Telegram via Claude's official integration; WhatsApp via the dedicated Maxy channel. Both managed in one place
  • Specialist agents Research, writing, scheduling, project management, content production, and data ingestion. Each is a dedicated agent, orchestrated by one AI
  • Remote access Reach your instance from any device via Cloudflare tunnel. No VPN, no port-forwarding, no static IP required
  • Hosting A Hetzner cloud server in a European data centre is one option, but Maxy Code also runs on Linux and macOS, so you can host it on your own Linux machine or Mac instead. Either way you own the environment and the data on it

How Maxy works

Maxy keeps a memory that lasts, and its agents work from it.

Most AI tools start a fresh conversation every time. Maxy is built around a knowledge graph that persists indefinitely, with specialist agents that read from and write back to it.

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Everything you touch lives in one graph

Every person, document, conversation and decision you've touched lands in a single ontological graph. Each node is typed and connected; the whole is searchable by meaning, not just keyword. Nothing is lost between sessions.

02

One Claude runs the specialist agents

Research, writing, scheduling, document production and publishing each have a dedicated agent, orchestrated by the main Claude. All of them draw on the same persistent memory. Ask once; the right specialist does the work and records the result in the graph.

03

The judgement stays with you

Maxy brings up what's pending, who to call and what needs a decision. It does not make those calls for you. The judgement that creates your value stays with you.

The AI second brain that Karpathy and Garry Tan popularised works, but it expects you to be a software engineer to build and run it, and it stores everything in a folder of markdown files. Maxy gives you the same outcome with none of that setup, on a graph that does more.  Markdown, or a graph? →

Getting started

Getting you set up takes three steps.

01

Get in touch

Fill in the form below and tell me what you're after. We agree what you need and I invoice the one-off setup fee.

02

We install

Together we configure your Hetzner server and run a single command. Maxy takes it from there: the knowledge graph, the plugin layer, and remote access all assemble themselves. There is no long checklist of manual steps.

03

You're running

You have a working system and you have me. I am available for questions, adjustments, and guidance on an ongoing basis. This is a personal relationship, not a one-time handover.

I can now put the same setup in place for you in less than an hour. You also get my time to get you going: Maxy Code customers get four hours with me, and Maxy Lite users get thirty minutes. Pick a time that suits you and we'll get started.

Book a time

You will need a Claude subscription (the Max plan, 5x minimum recommended, around £90/month) and somewhere to run it: a Hetzner cloud server at around $100/month, or your own Linux machine or Mac at no monthly hosting cost. Whatever it runs on, allow 8GB RAM minimum, 16GB recommended. The Claude subscription and any hosting you rent are billed directly to you by those providers. No ongoing fees from Rubytech beyond the one-off setup. Unlike other agentic tools, including Anthropic's own official Claude Agent SDK, Maxy runs within your flat Claude subscription, with no metered per-token charges.

Want to learn to build this yourself? The Maxy Institute teaches the principles and the practice. It complements a done-for-you setup; many people want both.

Pricing

Maxy Code is the full system, set up for you. We configure your knowledge graph and the plugin layer that handles your email, messaging, research, scheduling and publishing, then add remote access, so it can run your whole back office. It lives on your own server, Linux machine, or Mac, and we get you running with personal help.

Maxy Lite is the free version: a lighter agent you install yourself on your own Android phone, with its memory kept in plain files you own. One is done for you and complete; the other you set up yourself, and it stays on your phone.

£1,250 £2,500

Maxy Code, one-off setup fee. Half price for a limited time.

  • Maxy setup £1,250 once (normally £2,500)
  • Personal help to get running 4 hours included
  • Upgrades Free for life
  • Hosting ~$100/mo on Hetzner · £0 on your own Linux/Mac
  • Claude Max subscription from £90/month direct
  • Ongoing Maxy fees None
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Free

Maxy Lite · £0

  • Price Free
  • Runs on Your own Android phone
  • Setup One tap, no account
  • Distribution Direct download (no Google Play)
  • Upgrades Free for life
  • Claude subscription Your own Claude plan, Pro minimum (5× or 20× for heavy use)
  • Personal help 30 minutes included
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Version 0.1.29

Comparison between Lite and Code

What you get with each

Maxy Code is the full version. It runs on your own server, with a proper database behind it, the full Cloudflare setup, live websites and hosting, and the tools to deploy it and keep an eye on it. Maxy Lite is the free version. It runs on your Android phone, keeps everything as plain files, and connects to a few of your accounts, with no live websites.

WhatFeature FreeMaxy Lite £1,250 one-offMaxy Code
Where it runs On your Android phone. Claude runs under Termux in a Ubuntu environment. One owner, one account. On your own server, Linux machine, or Mac. Multiple accounts and brands, each fully isolated with its own database, tunnel, and services.
Your data Plain files on the device: contacts, notes, tasks, projects, calendar, and documents. No database. A Neo4j knowledge graph with a shipped ontology, scoped to your account and queryable.
Markdown viewer Works with Obsidian as the markdown viewer for those files. Not applicable: data lives in the knowledge graph, not in flat markdown files.
How you talk to it An on-device web chat pane. Three ways in: claude.ai/code, the terminal, and the admin web chat.
Remote access Runs on your phone. Your vault can sync to your own Google Drive or OneDrive. Reach it from anywhere: the full admin dashboard, a lighter operator dashboard for everyday use, and file sharing.
Messaging channels Telegram and WhatsApp. WhatsApp is reply-only. The same channels, plus specialist agent fleets and account orchestration.
Connectors Google (Gmail, Calendar, Drive), Microsoft 365 (Outlook, OneDrive, Teams), and any standard IMAP/SMTP mailbox. No Cloudflare. The full Cloudflare stack (tunnels, DNS, Pages, D1, Workers, Access, with per-scope token handling), plus the connector framework with OAuth sign-in flows.
Payments Not included Take payments through Stripe
Publishing and hosting Build only. No live links, no booking pages. Full publishing and hosting: live sites, decks, booking pages, custom domains, and public access over tunnels.
Public-facing agents Not included. Lite is single-owner, one account. Unlimited public-facing agents to help with knowledge sharing and running the business.
Skills Memory, contacts, projects, scheduling (with cron), deep research, email, owner profile, business assistant, work, sweep workflows, url fetching, vault sync, plainly, browser, image generation, and slides (build only, no live link). Everything in Lite, plus premium plugins: e-sign document signing, management consulting, venture studio, the writing and voice tools, teaching, and sales, the connector framework, and calendar booking sites.
Voice input Local transcription on the device. Available.
Support 30 minutes of Joel's time. 4 hours of Joel's time.
Price Free. £1,250 one-off, currently half price.

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