>> Curious what you mean by proactive? Could you share a bit more?

> Happily, current AI is interacted with in a reactive loop. I open the Claude app, CLI, whatever, say my prompt, get an output.

"Current AI" is not limited to LLM offerings. There are many AI algorithms which can assist in what you specify thusly:

> I personally wanted an AI that was able to reach out to me about my life before I had to reach out to it.

Consider a forward chaining inference engine ("expert system") provided with relevant asynchronous percepts from the deployed environment to reason about. This could serve as an initiator of a "proactive AI".