Our mission

Most books you read,
you forget.

ilmVault exists to change that. Not with tricks or gimmicks — with the right questions, at the right time, every time you read.

The Problem

Reading and retaining are two different skills.

You finish a book. You feel informed. Six months later, someone asks what you learned from it — and you can't name a single concrete idea.

It's not a memory problem. It's a process problem. Passive reading — eyes moving across pages, no friction, no questioning — produces almost no durable learning. The knowledge never makes it past short-term memory.

~5%
of what you passively read is retained after 72 hours
40+
books per year read by the average non-fiction reader
18 months
before most readers can no longer summarise a book they've read
0
of those books typically results in a change in behaviour or habit
Our approach

Three layers. One reading practice.

ilmVault builds active reading habits through a system that works at the point of reading, immediately after, and over time.

01

Active reading

Highlight passages, add inline notes, tag themes. The act of marking forces you to decide what matters — which is itself a learning exercise. Five highlight colours, structured tagging, and export to any format.

02

AI coaching

Five lenses (Understand, Analyse, Reflect, Challenge, Apply) turn any passage into a dialogue with a knowledgeable coach. It doesn't summarise — it questions. Pushes you to articulate what you actually think.

03

Reinforcement

Recall cards, tag reminders, revisit passages, and cross-book connections keep knowledge active long after you finish a book. Spaced repetition schedules what you need to review and when.

What we believe

What we stand for.

These aren't marketing values. They shape every decision we make about the product — what to build, what to skip, and what to refuse.

Your books are yours

Files you upload are stored securely and are never used to train AI models. Your reading data is not sold. You can export everything and delete your account at any time.

AI as coach, not replacement

The AI doesn't read for you or summarise away the work. It asks questions that make you think harder. The goal is to deepen your understanding, not to substitute for it.

Built for the act of reading

We don't want ilmVault to feel like a productivity system you need to manage. It should feel like having a great reader in the room with you — present when useful, invisible when not.

Read with purpose,
starting today.

Free forever. No credit card. Just better reading.

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