Sharp questions, straight answers.

No. GPT-store entries are one-shot prompt containers — no memory, no cross-app reach, no local permissions. DeTars packs are stateful, growing, cross-tool agents that remember you. They don't let you lose anything because they never let you own anything.

Price cuts already happened — and they help us. Per-token price falls ~10× while agent loops push usage ~100×, so the consumer-agent bill rises. Caching-aware routing + provider-agnostic + local cooperation is the moat, and it gets more valuable as prices drop.

Fair. Our difference: we don't sell 'local' as a feature, we sell a reliable private AI team as the experience — sovereignty is a byproduct. And brick events plus regulation are moving the market from 1% geeks toward the mainstream.

Memory and identity are files on your disk; new memories need your confirmation. The full local voice loop runs on-device in v1. Honest boundary: always-on ambient companionship is still roadmap.

No. It does personal research with evidence checks and decision trails. It cannot place an order, because there is no broker integration anywhere in the product, no order tool, and nowhere to put brokerage credentials.

We don't bet on a single year; we bet on the decade. 2025 didn't break out because reliability, unit economics, and trust weren't there. Those are exactly what DeTars solves.