Iva Agent

Iva is an open source, self hosted personal AI assistant that lives in Telegram. Users talk to it by text, voice note, photo or document, and it files, remembers and acts on what it receives. It is built by Majento, a software company the vendor describes as based in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and is built on eve. Memory is its central feature. Chats become plain markdown cards in an Obsidian compatible vault on the user's own server. Daily logs are kept word for word, then summarized upward each night into weekly, monthly and yearly layers. A short distilled profile rides along with every prompt, and typed cards track contacts, projects and decisions. Search uses BM25 on Node's built in SQLite with a link graph rerank, and one key enables a vector hybrid. Other capabilities include voice transcription with Deepgram nova 3, vision through the user's model provider, reading PDF, DOCX and XLSX files, a personal CRM, web search through Tavily, Exa, Parallel or Brave, tasks with a morning brief, and Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Sheets, Docs and Tasks from chat. Skills and MCP servers can be added, and a userbot mode lets it work from the user's own Telegram account. It suits individuals and small teams comfortable running a small VPS. The vendor says it needs no domain or webhook and runs as two systemd services. Iva is free under the MIT license. Users supply their own model and service keys. Custom company deployments are a separate engagement with Majento.