Open beta · AI for founders, freelancers and consultants
An AI assistant that already knows your work.
Atelos is an AI assistant for your Mac, built on Claude. Point it at one folder and it keeps that folder organized. When you chat with it, it notes the decisions you mention. Ask for a client update or a weekly review and it writes it from what you decided, with the file each point came from.
Your files stay on your Mac. What goes to Claude?
Free with your own AI key. No key yet? We'll set it up with you.
draft this week's update for Northwind
Northwind update, week of Jun 4
- Launch holds at Oct 14, as agreed on 12 March.
- Homepage copy is with Mira for review.
- Open: final pricing page, due Friday.
launch-date.mdnorthwind-meeting-jun-2.md
It arrives from everywhere.
Atelos files it into a structure that is already there.
Atelos
Your studio folder, filed
Filed. Every answer points back to the file.
Your files stay on this machine
Now watch Atelos do it
A Monday morning, in the real app.
8:02 AM
You open the app.
One click. No browser tab. No prompt to write. Your files are on your Mac, already filed.
Pick up where you left off
Continue: Atelos Project Phase One Status Overview
Saturday · 3 turns
4 inbox items waiting to triage
File them into your project, or archive what you don't need.
6 tasks need attention (6 overdue)
Team: Launch page copy review · Jordan: Test 2 lighter…
8:02 AM
You open the app.
One click. No browser tab. No prompt to write. Your files are on your Mac, already filed.
Client data
Is this safe for client data?
Here is exactly what stays on your Mac and what leaves it when you ask a question.
STAYS ON YOUR MAC
Always
- Your client folders and files
- Everything Atelos files and writes down
- Your conversations with it
GOES TO THE AI
Only when you ask, and only to Claude on your own AI account.
- Your question
- The files needed to answer it
Atelos, the company, never sees your work.
How it compares
We tested Atelos against Claude.
Same AI model, same files. We ran a few weeks of client work through Atelos and through Claude working directly in the same folder, then asked 30 questions about it. The first time, Claude won. We found out why, fixed it, and tested again on new questions. Two things stood out.
IN A PLANNING CONVERSATION
The pilot's start date came up once. It never went into a document.
ASKED LATER
What date does the pilot begin?
5of 5
When a decision changes, Atelos gives you the new one.
Five decisions changed over the project. Atelos answered every one with the current decision. Claude working in the same folder got two of them wrong.
2×
Atelos reads less than half as much to answer.
Per question, Claude working in the same folder read more than twice as much. With a hand-built set of rules, seven times as much. On your own AI key, reading is what you pay for.
Open beta
Join the beta. Point it at a folder.
Free to download, on your own AI key: expect about $5 to $30 a month in AI use. What you tell us in the beta shapes what we build next.
Every Mac · Version 0.1.6
Who's building it
Two founders, building it with the people who use it.
Daniel Foreman
Co-founder and CEO
Product leader for over ten years. He built the first version of Atelos for his own consulting practice, to keep each client's documents and decisions in one place he could work from.
LinkedIn →Dmitri Knapp
Co-founder
Product design and AI systems leader for over ten years, from Kroger's personal finance platform to federal programs. He designs how Atelos works.
LinkedIn →Questions