# Jan: Current Status

Personal agent that is: privacy-first, local-first, open source

The (new) Jan agent can:
- Jan Agent is a like a remote worker you've hired
- Jan Agent has a wallet (& credit card?)
- Jan Agent can be given a budget to complete a task
- Can be per-task, or a more long-term persistent agent
- Jan Agent is interacted with like a real person
- Has a phone number (& Whatsapp, Telegram etc)
- Has an email
- Can just call it
- Can be put on always-on speakerphone
- Jan Agent can (optionally) be given access your systems
- Permanent access (for personal assistant use-cases)
- Per-request approvals (i.e. when-needed)
- Jan Agent can take action
- Per-request write access to systems (e.g. Gmail, etc)
- Human-in-the-loop approvals
- Needs an privacy-preserving, attested way to interact with the world (i.e. RentaHuman)

A safer OpenClaw that an average consumer would find useful.

## Users

1. (Originally) technical, AI enthusiasts, early adopters, who try new models and have a high tolerance for rough edges
2. (Increasingly) white-collar workers, e.g. lawyers, scientists (e.g. nasa), regulated industries (healthcare, finance, consulting) who cannot use OpenAI and/or need to use AI on airplanes.

## Metrics

"Jan" includes both a desktop application and a family of Jan open source models that run in it. Both are growing, but the models are growing faster than the app itself, which suggests that Jan is becoming a Agent/Model company, and not a app.

### The Jan App
> https://github.com/janhq/jan (Rust/Tauri Desktop App)

- ~10K daily recurring active users (most critical)
- 137K monthly active users
- 5.3M total downloads (since Jan 2024)
- 41k Github stars

### The Jan Model(s)
> https://huggingface.co/janhq

- Jan Models are local-first models intended to run on consumer hardware (i.e. ~16gb RAM)
- Focused on intelligence density
- Productize research in distillation, quantization-aware-training etc
- Jan models: [v1](https://huggingface.co/collections/janhq/jan-v1), [v2](https://huggingface.co/collections/janhq/jan-v2-vl), [v3](https://huggingface.co/collections/janhq/jan-v3), [Coder](https://huggingface.co/collections/janhq/jan-code)
- 10x growth in model downloads (last 6 months)
- surpassing app a bit?
- One of the more popular open source models

## Current Roadmap

| Area/Benchmark | Q1 2026 | Q2 2026 | Q3 2026 |
| ------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ------- | --------- |
| Agent | NA | NA | Jan Agent |
| Model | Jan v3 | Jan v4 | Jan v4.1 |
| [Remote Labor Index](https://www.remotelabor.ai/) | NA | 1.4 | ~1.9 |
| [Aider](https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/) | 18 | 24 | ~37 |
| [Terminal Bench](https://www.tbench.ai/) | NA | 42 | ~55 |

- Q2 2026:
- Jan Agent
- GTM as Jan as a better OpenClaw
- Jan v4
- Q3 2026:
- Jan Agent has a Wallet
- Jan v4 models (ARM-optimized)

# Here be Dragons

- Jan Team is currently underresourced
- Mainly based out of HCMC
- Team is very smart + at frontier of AI but will need to learn to be global + polished
- Jan Community may be anti-crypto
- Jan's current user base is mostly AI early adopters.
- They might not all like crypto or understand the value prop
- That said: there have been ~10 unauthorized launches of $JAN coin ([example](https://dexscreener.com/base/0xb52ef8b589e986cc04e3e1dbb88b4be5e790c292)).
- Jan is a Local-First app
- Business model is not as straightforward as Cloud AI
- Local-first approach makes product improvement loop harder, due to privacy