Egoist Machines Launches AI Passport to Share Personal Context Across AI Apps

Egoist Machines launched AI Passport on October 7, 2026, offering a free service and app designed to carry personal preferences between AI assistants. Its launch announcement describes a user-controlled review step: information from connected apps enters an inbox, where users decide what can travel to another app rather than automatically sharing everything.

Information arrives before permission to share

Users can create a passport at ego.ist or download the app from Apple’s App Store. They then connect the assistants and other services they want to use. Egoist says it has connectors for 800 apps, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Notion and Gmail.

The company’s example starts with a trip. A user asks a connected app for help with an itinerary, and those details automatically sync to the passport’s inbox. An app can also contribute a newly noted preference, such as a writing style. The passport is meant to hold that context for possible reuse elsewhere.

Review comes after collection but before onward sharing. Users can approve an item for other apps, leave it only in the original app, or choose deletion. Egoist presents health information as an example of sensitive material someone might want to delete rather than distribute.

We strongly believe that your context should sit with you, and apps should come ask.

Erin McGurk, Egoist Machines co-founder

An app’s request takes a different route

The reverse path begins when a connected app asks the passport for information—for example, a person’s travel preferences. Users can set defaults for accepting requests. Egoist says sensitive details such as dates of birth are never released without explicit permission, distinguishing those requests from information covered by a default.

Egoist describes each app’s access as limited to what it needs, for a stated purpose and time. The intended benefit is personalization without repeatedly introducing yourself to different assistants: preferences and goals can move with permission, rather than requiring a fresh explanation in every app.

Developers interested in joining the ecosystem can request information at ego.ist/developers. These descriptions of access and permission controls come from the company’s press release, distributed through GlobeNewswire. They are product claims, not findings from an independent test of how the connectors or deletion controls work.

Beta traction has a measurement gap

The public launch follows a beta and waitlist introduced earlier in the summer. Egoist reports 41% week-over-week growth and more than 10 business-to-business-to-consumer pilots, each with over one million users. The release does not specify what the growth percentage measures or how many people in those pilots actively used AI Passport.