Home and life
Keep plans, routines, and important details in one place.
Organize home projects, schedules, documents, checklists, and decisions. Give your AI Agent the same current context whenever you want help planning or making a change.
Local-first workspaces for life and business
Build a workspace around the way you think and work.
Create a custom, local-first workspace on your computer where you and your AI Agent work from the same context. Use it for a personal project, a business process, or anything in between. Guided questions define the information, workflows, pages, and safeguards to build around. Publishing is optional.
Your first workspace creation is included with every new account. It stays in a folder on your computer, and an optional ten-page site on an 8bitsites.com address is also included free.
Building the downloaded prompt requires a compatible desktop AI Agent.
Northstar Workspace · On this computer
Northstar Project
One place for the whole project
Current focus
Prepare the spring launch
Progress
72%
What is moving
Launch plan
Ready for review
Content outline
3 updates
Open questions
2 to resolve
AI
Shared AI context
Reads this workspace
✓ Goal and current plan
✓ Decisions already made
✓ Files and next actions
“Update the plan with today's decisions.”
The local workspace structure can organize records, notes, repeatable processes, review pages, and shared AI context. Publishing is optional.
What people build
Build the tool you actually need.
Organize a personal project, create a system for a hobby, solve a repeated business problem, or connect several workflows. You and your AI Agent work from the same local workspace and shared context each time.
Research and creative work
Turn scattered ideas into a project you can keep building.
Bring sources, notes, drafts, decisions, and finished pages together. Ask your AI Agent to research, organize, compare, write, and revise without starting over in every chat.
Collections and hobbies
Create a useful system for the things you care about.
Catalog items, photos, notes, wish lists, locations, or maintenance details. Shape the views and workflows around the way you actually enjoy the hobby.
Client and project work
Keep client delivery consistent from kickoff to handoff.
Organize client details, scope, decisions, deliverables, approvals, and follow-ups. Give your AI Agent the current context and repeatable process behind every engagement.
Equipment and inventory
Know what is available, assigned, or due for service.
Track items, checkouts, returns, stock, and maintenance notes. Review each item’s status, flag service due, and keep important details easy to find.
Your own system
Give yourself and your AI Agent one source of truth.
Bring priorities, decisions, processes, and key reference information into one organized folder. Ask your AI Agent to work from current context instead of rebuilding it in every chat.
Your AI Agent
Build your workspace by having a conversation.
For the best experience, use the Claude or ChatGPT desktop app. You and your AI Agent work together in the same local workspace on your computer, using the same context. Ask for what you need, and your Agent handles the structure, pages, content, and updates.
Ask for what you need
Don't like something? Ask your Agent to change it. Need more substance? Ask it to research the topic and build complete pages, process guides, or reference material.
Required to build
You need an AI Agent.
Workspace creation will not work without one. You may need a paid AI subscription, depending on the service you use and how often you work with your Agent.
What a workspace can include
Four connected parts keep your information and work understandable.
The Local Folder
Keeps your information, AI instructions, review pages, and backups together under your control.
Skills & Workflows
Records how recurring tasks, reviews, and handoffs should be completed.
The Local Site
Turns workspace information into pages you can review privately or prepare to publish.
The AI Agent
RequiredReads the workspace folder and makes requested updates through plain-language chat.
Optional publishing
Keep the workspace local. Publish pages only when you want to.
Your workspace works on your computer without being published. When you want to share selected information, tell your AI Agent "Publish Site." Keep pages private for chosen viewers or make them public for anyone.
Just say
"Publish Site"
No command line, deployment dashboard, or manual file upload for routine updates.
Private website
Share with selected people.
Keep project notes, guides, plans, and reference pages private. Eligible plans let you invite specific viewers without making the site public.
Public website
Publish for anyone.
Share a personal project, useful resources, services, FAQs, announcements, or other pages with anyone who has the web address.
Go from an idea or need to a clear build plan in three steps.
Step 1
Describe what you want to manage
Explain the idea, the information involved, who will use the result, and what you want to organize, decide, review, or share.
Step 2
Get a tailored build prompt
The Wizard turns your answers into a customized Markdown prompt with the workspace structure, instructions, safeguards, and first useful result clearly defined.
Step 3
Build and refine with your AI
Give the prompt to a compatible desktop AI Agent and tell it to build. The workspace stays in a folder on your computer, ready to use, review, and improve as your needs change.
For business users
Need a ready-made business workspace?
Groundwork is a proven Desktop Workspace for keeping business context, priorities, decisions, and operations organized. It includes tested Skills and Workflows so your AI Agent can work from a stronger source of truth immediately.