🪦 Dead
Vellum Personal Assistant (cloud)
Product killed · No Product-Market Fit · shut down November 7, 2026
- Born
- Died
- Lifespan
- 6m 4d
- Cause of death
- No Product-Market Fit
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- Service
Vellum introduced its 'Personal Intelligence' assistant on May 7, 2026: persistent memory, integrations across desktop, mobile and messaging, hosted in Vellum's cloud or self-hosted. Six months later the company cancelled paid plans on November 2, took a final export of every cloud assistant on November 7 and switched them off, citing competition that had 'grown incredibly fierce' and distribution it could not grow. Downloads close and data is deleted on December 13. The open-source assistant code stays online but is no longer maintained; a fork called Cadet carries the self-hosted version.