v2.0 ships. Image and PDF chat. PDF RAG so your contracts and term sheets become AI context. Read aloud through a local Piper sidecar. A sandboxed plugin marketplace with four working day-one plugins. A community templates marketplace. A browser demo at keepance.com/try with no signup. Spanish and German. Long-context [Compress] for two-hour conversations. Honest list of what didn't ship and why.
By Jameson Daines · 2026-04-18 · 8 min read
v1.5 is out. Memory that indexes your work. An MCP server that exposes your workspace to Claude Desktop and Cursor. Side-by-side AI editing with per-hunk accept or reject. Voice input and Ollama as a local-model provider. Here's what changed, what didn't make it, and how to upgrade.
Most AI writing tools ship with 100+ templates. Keepance ships with 15. Here's the rule I used to decide what was in and what was out, and a walk-through of six of them with why ChatGPT and Notion AI fail where it matters most.
I kept having great AI conversations about my business and losing them a week later. Here's why I designed Keepance around fixing that, and how it actually works in practice.
The product had been ~95% built and 5% commercialized for over a year. Here's exactly what it took to close the gap and launch a paid software product as a solo founder, on 5-10 hours a week, alongside a full-time job.
"Local-first" sounds like a technical preference. It's actually about who owns your business plan, your customer interviews, and your strategy docs. Here's why that matters more for founders than for anyone else.
Keepance ships with 15 interview-driven templates for the documents indie founders actually write. Picking which 15 was harder than building any of them. Here's the criteria, the runners-up, and the templates that didn't make it.