About Knight Rise & Olib AI
Knight Rise is built by Olib AI to deliver master-level chess analysis and review directly on your phone. No tracking, no accounts, and no cloud latency.
Olib AI · San Francisco, CA
1. Who We Are
Olib AI is an independent software studio based in San Francisco, California. We design and build native mobile software powered by private, on-device intelligence. In close collaboration with the StealthOS open-source projects, we developed Knight Rise to give chess players a high-performance training and analysis companion that never requires a server connection to do its job.
2. The Philosophy of On-Device Chess
Most modern chess applications send your moves, positions, and prep to distant cloud clusters. This introduces network lag, server queues, and privacy exposure. Knight Rise takes the opposite approach: compiling a 2300-ELO Rust engine, vision recognition models, and a comprehensive Game Review engine directly into the native application binary. Your analysis runs instantly, anywhere, fully offline.
3. Fair Play and Open Multiplayer
Chess is meant to be shared. Knight Rise lets you challenge friends through messenger links (cross-platform between iPhone and Android), via local Wi-Fi peer-to-peer connections, through Apple Game Center, or by linking your lichess account. To protect fair play, engine evaluation is automatically disabled during live online games.
4. Absolute Privacy Pledge
We believe that personal study should remain confidential. Knight Rise does not require an account, does not collect telemetry, and includes zero advertising or third-party marketing SDKs. The only network requests made by the app are those you explicitly start yourself, such as importing a game from a link or playing a friend online.
5. Contact and Team
We are headquartered in San Francisco, California. Whether you have a feature suggestion, a bug report, or want to discuss collaboration, our team is always accessible at support@olib.ai. We read and answer every email personally.