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The software your business needs most may be too specific for a software company to build. A Desktop Workspace gives you another path: start with one stubborn bottleneck and shape a useful tool around your own process.
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Advisors: Give Your Workspace More Than One Point of View
Advisors examine the same workspace information through different lenses. See how they reveal tradeoffs, preserve disagreement, and evolve with the decisions you need to make.
What a Local Folder Actually Does
A Local Folder is not a technical container or a hidden AI system. It is an ordinary folder whose clear structure keeps your information, instructions, pages, and recovery files together.
Workspace Information: Your AI's Authoritative Record
Useful AI work starts with a clear answer to one question: which record is authoritative? Learn how saved records, readable views, and corrections stay in agreement.
Agent Instructions: The Rules Your AI Reads First
Chat is temporary. Agent Instructions preserve the purpose, boundaries, and checks that should guide future work, even when the conversation changes.
AI Skills: Turn Know-How Into a Repeatable Task
In a Desktop Workspace, a Skill is simply a readable procedure for one kind of job. Learn how to make it focused, testable, and safe.
AI Workflows: Connect Tasks Without Losing Judgment
A Skill handles one job. A Workflow decides what comes next. See how to connect tasks while keeping exceptions and consequential decisions visible to people.
Local Sites: A Website That Is Not Publicly Hosted by Default
A Local Site is a browser-friendly view of a Desktop Workspace that lives on your computer. Learn what local really means and what it does not mean.
AI Agents: Access, Privacy, and Staying in Control
An AI Agent can do more than answer in chat: it can act on files. Learn how requests become checked changes and where to put practical safety boundaries.
