Agents in every roomYour own, always on, part of the conversation
End-to-end encryptedSealed before it ever leaves your hand
EU-sovereign by defaultIndependent infrastructure, rooted in Europe
Your own hardwareBare metal to first message in minutes
Mr. Butler is secure chat for your team, your customers and your AI agents, running on independent, EU-sovereign infrastructure. Every word is end-to-end encrypted and your data rests in Europe by default. The app is free, so you can start talking to your agents the moment it lands on your phone. And we're working hard to put a chat server of your own within easy reach, from as little as €10 a month.
The doors open in10 December 2026 · 00:00 CET
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your agent
Already on it. You'll find it right here when it's ready.
Example Mr. Butler conversations. A private agent greets you in the morning with your day. A coding agent takes a failing test, works on it in your workspace and reports back. A support agent answers a customer and brings in a colleague. A team asks its agent for a reminder and a summary. Every message is end-to-end encrypted.
Independent European chat infrastructure
Made for
Whoever you are, a room is waiting for you.
From a single curious mind to a whole enterprise, Mr. Butler meets you exactly where you are. Pick your place at the table and see what's in store.
A butler of your own, on call day and night.
A private agent that never sleeps, ready for reminders, scheduled jobs and the questions that strike at midnight.
Every conversation end-to-end encrypted, with your data resting in Europe by default.
Your model, your key. Choose the mind behind your agent and bring your own key for it.
One free app for every Matrix server you call home, ours and anyone else's.
How you get in
Download the free app and start talking to your agents straight away.
An open platform with the door left wide open.
Chat runs on Matrix, the open standard, so anything you build can step into the same encrypted rooms with any Matrix SDK.
Remote workspaces for your coding agents. Claude Code and its peers run in isolated sandboxes, signed in with your own subscription or an API key.
Mr. Butler APIs on top of Matrix, with versioned agent events, put agents, credentials and members within reach of your own code.
How you get in
Open your first room on the shared service in moments and start building right away.
Sovereign chat for your whole team, without running a single server.
Customer chat with agents on call. Give your customers a private line, and decide exactly when your agents join the conversation.
Build your product around it and let Mr. Butler carry the secure messaging while you carry the vision.
European from the very first message, on independent infrastructure you never have to babysit.
How you get in
Your team is chatting within a few clicks, with a dedicated installation waiting for the day you outgrow it.
Your hardware. Your chat. Your rules.
A dedicated installation in our cloud, in yours, or on your very own hardware.
Bring your own hardware and own the chat infrastructure outright. Any bare-metal server with NVMe storage will do, with every server, backup and key inside your walls.
Your agents live beside your chat, on machines you control, and our APIs wire them into the systems you already run.
How you get in
Bring a bare-metal server with NVMe storage, run the installer, and you're live in minutes.
Secure chat
Sealed on your device. Opened only on theirs.
Every message is encrypted before it leaves your hand, and it stays that way across the network and on the server. Encryption isn't a switch you have to remember. The whole product is shaped around it.
sealed
Your device
Sealed the moment you hit send.
still sealed
The network
Anyone listening in hears only noise.
still sealed
The server
Its database and backups hold nothing but ciphertext.
opened
Their devices
Opened only where the people and agents in the room are.
Who's in on the conversation
The people in the room, on their own devices.
The agents you invite. An agent has to read a message to answer it.
Your organization's admins. Your organization holds the keys to its own conversations, and every member is told so at sign-in.
Who's left outside
The network your words travel across.
The server's database and backups. They only ever hold sealed messages.
Every other organization on the service. Your agents and data are walled off from theirs.
Rooted in Europe, independent by design.
On the shared service, everything your organization stores lives on independent European infrastructure. Bring your own hardware and it stays exactly where you put it. Your agents speak to the model provider you choose, so where those requests travel is always your call.
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How we compare
Encryption is where most messengers stop. It's where Mr. Butler begins.
Every secure messenger promises privacy. Others let you bolt a bot on from the outside. Mr. Butler builds your own always-on agents right into encrypted rooms, on an open standard, with Europe as home.
Mr. Butler compared with Threema, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram
Feature
Mr. Butler
Threema
WhatsApp
Signal
Telegram
Your own AI agents, built into encrypted roomsBuilt in
YesAlways on, isolated, with the model you choose
PartlyBots you build and host on a paid gateway5
PartlyBusiness bots only, general AI assistants barred6
NoUnofficial tools only
PartlyBots, outside end-to-end encryption2
End-to-end encrypted by default, groups included
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
NoOptional, one-to-one only1
Built on an open standard
YesMatrix
NoOpen code, its own network
No
NoOpen code, its own network
NoIts own protocol
One app for many servers
Yes
No
No
No
No
Runs on your own hardware
Yes
YesOnPrem edition
No
No
No
Made for organizations
Yes
YesThreema Work
PartlyBusiness is for customer contact3
No
No
Home jurisdiction
EU
Switzerland
USA4Meta
USA4
UAE
How it's paid for
SubscriptionsThe app is free
App sales and licences
Meta, advertising
Donations
Founder, subscriptions, advertising
Telegram encrypts end to end only in optional secret chats between two people. They are off by default and not available in groups.
Telegram bots receive messages through Telegram's servers, outside end-to-end encryption.
WhatsApp Business is designed for talking to customers, not for a team's own conversations.
The US CLOUD Act lets US authorities demand data held by US providers, even when it is stored outside the US.
Threema Gateway is a separate, paid API. Businesses build and host their own bots on it, and it offers an end-to-end encrypted mode.
Since 15 January 2026, WhatsApp's business terms bar general-purpose AI assistants. Business bots for a defined service, such as support or bookings, are still allowed.
Based on public information as of November 2026. The Mr. Butler column describes the platform as it opens to early access. Product names belong to their owners.
How it works
Chat with agents. Chat with people. Leave the safety and stability to us.
The app is made for conversation and nothing else. Encryption, isolation and upkeep are looked after quietly behind the scenes, and agents, keys and members are arranged in a separate web portal. All that's left in the room is the conversation.
Where you are
The Mr. Butler app
A free mobile app that connects to every Matrix server you belong to, with your team and your agents in the very same rooms.
encrypted chat
Inside your organization
Your agents
Each one lives in its own isolated space and never clocks off, ready for reminders, scheduled jobs and every question in between.
your API key
Your choice
Your AI provider
Bring the key to whichever provider you trust, and choose the mind behind your agents.
Separately · in your browser or by API
The web portal
Create agents, add credentials and welcome new members, or do every bit of it from your own code through our APIs. Chat never happens here.
What you can build
One secure foundation. Endless things to build on it.
Chat infrastructure with agents built in and room for the coding harnesses you already love. Here are a few of the places companies can take it.
For your customers
Customer chat with agents on call
Give every customer a private, encrypted line to your business. Configure when your agents greet, answer and assist, from the portal or straight from your own systems through our APIs, and know your team can step into the room at any moment.
For developers
Remote workspaces for coding agents
Hand every developer an isolated workspace in moments, with Claude Code and other coding agents ready to go. Sign in with an existing subscription or an API key, then direct the work from a chat on your phone.
subscription sign-inAPI keyisolated sandbox
For your product
Secure messaging, built right in
Weave encrypted conversation into anything you make, from a booking app to an internal tool. No outside messaging service sits in the middle, and your users' words never leave infrastructure that answers to you.
Chat for everyone
€10a month is what we're aiming for
A chat server of your own, within reach
We're still shaping our plans, and we're shaping them around you. The goal is a private, end-to-end encrypted chat server rooted in Europe, from as little as €10 a month.
A whole fleet, never a fortune. Bring every colleague and every agent along without the bill climbing into hundreds of euros a month. We aim to please.
The app itself is free, and you'll see every number long before anyone asks you to pay.
For enterprises · bring your own hardware
Sovereignty you can walk up to and touch.
Roll in a bare-metal server with NVMe storage, run the installer, and minutes later Mr. Butler is humming away under your own roof. The chat server, the agents, the encryption keys and the backups all live there, and every piece of the infrastructure behind your conversations belongs to you.
Every server, backup and key stays inside your installation.
The agents are yours as well. They work on your machines, right beside your chat.
Your people keep the Mr. Butler app they love, connected to a home of your own.
Your hardwareyour data centre · your rules
Chat serverYour rooms and history
Your agentsEach in its own space
Encryption keysHeld inside, by you
BackupsEncrypted, on site
running on machines you control · up in minutes
From bare metal to first message
minutes, not months
1Bring
A bare-metal server
Any machine with NVMe storage, in your rack or your data centre.
2Install
Run the installer
The chat server, your agents, the keys and the backups settle in.
3Talk
Say hello
Your people open the free app, connect and send the first message.
Shared service
Step right in
For individuals, builders and startups. A walled-off organization of your own on independent European infrastructure, a few clicks away.
We run it for you
Dedicated installation
Your own, in the cloud
An installation reserved for your company alone, in our cloud or in yours.
Only your company inside
Bring your own hardware
Your own, on your machines
Bring a bare-metal server with NVMe storage and install it yourself in minutes. The chat infrastructure is entirely yours.
You own the infrastructure
For builders
Build something of your own on top.
Mr. Butler is an app you'll love using and a platform you'll love building on. Chat runs on Matrix, the open standard for secure messaging, so your own creations can step into the very same encrypted rooms. And on top of Matrix, our APIs open up everything agentic, so your code can bring agents to life, steer them and follow every move they make.
The Mr. Butler app
Ready and waiting for your team.
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Your organization
Encrypted rooms and agents
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Your app
A client, an internal tool or a workflow only you could have dreamed up. Matrix carries the chat and our APIs carry everything agentic.
Mr. Butler APIs · on top of Matrix
Agents at your command
Everything the web portal can do, plus the agentic features Matrix alone was never built for, within reach of your own software.
Agentic APIs on top of Matrix
Create, configure and steer agents, their credentials and your members from your own code, through the same APIs the portal uses.
Open agent events on Matrix
A published, versioned description of what agents say in a room, from activity to approvals to transcripts, readable by any Matrix SDK.
Workspaces for coding agents
Isolated sandboxes for Claude Code and its peers, ready in moments and signed in with your own subscription or an API key.
Where we are
The foundation first. Then the doors swing open.
We're finishing the platform before anyone moves in, so the very first people through the door start on solid ground.
1Now
Laying the foundation
Independent European infrastructure, with security and isolation built into every layer.
2Next
Mr. Butler moves in
The app settles into its new home, focused entirely on conversation.
310 December 2026
Early access
The first guests arrive. A small group, so we can listen closely.
4Then
Open sign-up
Everyone is welcome, and your own corner is a few clicks away.
Save your seat for 10 December.
Drop us a line and tell us what you'd do with Mr. Butler, whether that's a private agent of your own, a product built on top or a home on your own hardware. We'll write back before the doors open. There's no sign-up form, so your address goes nowhere else.