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 ## About cognee
 
+cognee works locally and stores your data on your device.
+Our hosted solution is just our deployment of OSS cognee on Modal, with the goal of making development and productionization easier.
+
 Self-hosted package:
 
 - Interconnects any kind of documents: past conversations, files, images, and audio transcriptions