Introducing Projects on Okara

If you’ve ever found yourself re-explaining the same context to an AI chat again and again, this update is for you.

We’re excited to introduce Projects on Okara.

Projects let you create a dedicated, long-running chat space with your own files and instructions as permanent context.No resets. No repeated prompts. No “as I mentioned earlier…”

Just focused, continuous work.

What are Projects?

A Project is a personal chat environment built around a specific goal.

When you create a Project, you can:

• Upload custom files (documents, PDFs, notes, code, research)
• Add clear instructions that define how the AI should behave
• Keep all conversations anchored to that same context over time

Once set up, every message inside the Project automatically uses your files and instructions as context.

That means the AI already knows:

• What you’re working on
• The rules you want it to follow
• The background you don’t want to repeat

Why Projects exist

Traditional AI chats are stateless by design. They’re great for one-off questions, but painful for real work. Every time you have to resume your work, you end up re-explaining the context to get to the actual work. Keeping single long chat also doesn't solve it, because sometimes even though the underlying context is same, the task at hand requires a different thinking approach.

Projects solve three core problems:

1. No more context loss

You don’t have to restate goals, constraints, or background every session. Your Project remembers.

2. Deep, continuous conversations

Projects are built for long-running work. You can come back days or weeks later and continue exactly where you left off. You can start multiple chats within a single project.

3. Your data stays yours

Projects run inside Okara’s privacy-first environment. Your files and instructions are used as context, not training data.

What Projects are perfect for

1. Personal research & learning

Upload articles, papers, notes, and learning goals.

Use the Project to:

• Ask questions across all your material
• Build summaries and mental models
• Track ideas over time without losing context

Perfect for students, founders, and lifelong learners.

2. Writing projects (blogs, books, newsletters)

Create a Project for a single writing goal.

Add:

• Your drafts
• Style guidelines
• Audience notes
• Past writing samples

The AI now writes with your voice and remembers your direction across sessions.

3. Work projects & internal documentation

Projects shine for focused professional work.

Examples:

• Product requirement documents
• Strategy decks
• Sprint planning
• Meeting notes + follow-ups

Everything stays scoped to the Project, without leaking into unrelated chats.

4. Development & technical work

Upload code files, specs, APIs, and constraints.

Use Projects to:

• Discuss architecture decisions
• Refactor code with full context
• Debug without re-explaining the system each time

One Project per codebase keeps things clean.

5. Legal, finance, and policy analysis

Projects are ideal when accuracy and consistency matter.

Upload:

• Contracts
• Policies
• Compliance documents

The AI can reason within those documents across long conversations, instead of treating each question as isolated.

How Projects change the way you use AI

Projects turn AI from:

a chat tool you keep resetting

into:

a second-brain that evolves with you

You stop prompting from scratch and start building momentum.

Getting started

Creating a Project takes seconds:

1. Create a new Project

1. Set your instructions and upload your files.

1. Start chatting

From there, everything stays in context.

This is just the beginning

Projects are a foundational feature for how we believe AI should work: personal, persistent, private, and purpose-driven.

If you use Okara for more than quick questions, Projects will quickly become your default way of working.

Try Projects today and experience what it feels like when AI actually remembers what you’re doing.