DAVE AI Office Download
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Run a whole office of AI agents
on your own computer.

They plan, research, build, check and review your work — passing it desk to desk while you watch. Free, local-first, and powered by the API key or CLI agent you already have.

Windows today · macOS and Linux next · no account, no sign-in, no telemetry

Local-first nothing leaves your machine Your keys 5 providers, 12 CLI agents Watchable every step and token on the record Honest it fails rather than invents
WALKTHROUGH drop my vid.mp4 beside index.html
Six AI specialists. One connected office. Watch them work, coordinate tasks, and get things done in real time.
6specialists on day one
10desks to hire into
0servers of ours involved
₹0on a free API key
12CLI agents supported

The floor, live

One sentence in. A finished file out.

The same relay your office runs — research, build, QA, review, your own coded checks, a revision, then the notes worth keeping.

example · one task · effort: deep step 0/7 tokens 0 verdicts 0

A worked example, in the shape the app records: agent, step, verdict, tokens.

Audit a real job

Step through a job, one desk at a time.

A worked example of one job, step by step. Walk it forward, or switch the checks off and see what would have reached you.

“Build a booking page for my restaurant.”
1 / 7 Kartik Research Analyst

Read up on what a booking page needs.

no verdict — this step produces findings
this step3,712tokens
so far3,712tokens
checks run0on this job
findings, not a page
With the checks on: the page shipped on the second attempt, after your own Python role caught a missing footer that both the AI reviewers had passed.

What you get

An office, not a chat box.

Everything marked FREE works today, on your machine. The rest is being built in the open.

Free
See the work

Every handoff, on screen

Agents walk to each other to pass work over. The relay records the same journey in numbers: verdicts, revisions and tokens per step.

Free
Checked before you see it

QA and a reviewer argue first

Work is validated point by point, scored out of ten, and sent back for a revision when it falls short — automatically.

Free
Real output

Files you can open

Pages, scripts, documents and PowerPoint decks land in the folder you choose. Reports save as Markdown or a printable HTML page, with the generated code inside.

Free
Make it yours

Roles you describe or program

Invent a role in plain English, or hand it Python. Your code runs in its own process, so a mistake in it can never stop a job.

Free
It remembers

Memory and lessons

A knowledge keeper files what still matters in a month. A learning lab turns finished jobs into rules the office follows next time.

Free
You steer

Pause, own, cap, cancel

Pause between steps and continue later. Choose who does a job, how hard to try, and cap what each agent may spend.

Free
New

PowerPoint, actually written

Ask for a presentation and a real .pptx lands in your folder — not an essay about one, and not a script you have to run yourself. QA then opens the file and counts the slides, so a deck that is short or empty fails before it reaches you.

Pro · coming
Always on

A cloud office, 24/7

Hand a job to your cloud office and it keeps going with your computer switched off. Results and the full report are waiting when you come back.

Pro · coming
From anywhere

Your office on your phone

Send a job from the bus and read the result over chai — without opening a laptop.

Teams · coming
Together

Offices that talk

Each person keeps their own office and their own keys; the offices pass work between themselves. Nothing pooled in the middle.

Bring your own brain

Twelve CLI agents. Five kinds of key.

DAVE does not sell you tokens. It drives the agent you already pay for, or a model running on your own machine — and every desk can use a different one.

Claude Code
Codex
Gemini CLI
Copilot
Cursor
Antigravity
OpenCode
Crush
Grok
Kimi Code
Qwen
Pi

Or paste a key: Google Gemini · OpenAI · Anthropic · Ollama (free, on your PC) · any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. New model names appear as soon as your provider lists them.

Brains

Three ways to give your office a brain.

One key for the whole floor, a different brain per role, or a different one on every desk — mix them however you like, and change your mind any time.

the simple way

One key, everyone

Paste a single API key and the whole office uses it. Most people start here and never move — a free Gemini key runs all six agents.

Kartikoffice key
Jainishoffice key
Priyaoffice key
the thrifty way

One brain per role

Give each department its own model: a strong one for building, a cheap fast one for QA and memory. The bill drops without the quality doing the same.

Engineeringgemini-pro
QAgemini-flash
Memorylocal ollama
the power way

Every desk its own

Any agent can have its own provider, model, CLI agent or even its own key — your Claude Code subscription on the builder, a free key everywhere else.

Jainishclaude code
Kartikgemini + web
Devyour python
the rule is simple: the desk wins over the role, the role wins over the office — so one change never breaks the rest
Backups, in your order Name two or three spare models. If yours is busy or out of quota, DAVE waits, retries, then moves down your list — and tells you which limit it hit.
A budget per agent Cap what any desk may spend. Hit the cap and that agent stops and says so, instead of quietly running up your bill.

Why people use it

Four things you will not find together anywhere else.

Plenty of tools run AI agents. These four are what make this one worth installing.

01 · you can audit it

Watch it work, line by line

Who did what, what they passed on, what verdict came back, and what each step cost in tokens. Most tools hand you a wall of text and ask for trust. This one shows its working, and you can pause it mid-job.

02 · it learns your work

The Learning Lab, after every job

When a task ends, one agent pulls out what worked and what failed and writes it down as a rule. Those lessons are fed into similar tasks later — and a lesson that leads to three failures is retired on its own. The office you use next month is not the one you installed.

03 · your rules, in code

Roles you can program

Twelve lines of Python, and your rule checks every build for ever — free, and with no tokens spent. It runs in its own process, so a mistake in your code is reported and skipped instead of stopping the job.

04 · it will not invent

An honest "no" beats a confident guess

No key, no answer. A file cut off halfway fails instead of arriving broken. An image it cannot read is called unreadable, not described. Every one of these is covered by a test that runs before each release.

in one line: an office that shows its working, learns your work, obeys your rules — and never bluffs

The plus points — and the limits

What it does well — and what it deliberately doesn't.

Most pages show you half the picture. Here is all of it, so you can tell in a minute whether DAVE fits how you work.

Where DAVE is strong

the reasons people install it and keep it

  • You watch the work happen. Who did what, what they passed on, what it cost — no black box, no "trust me".
  • Work is checked before you see it. QA validates point by point, a reviewer scores it, and weak work goes back for a revision automatically.
  • It would rather fail than invent. No key, no answer. A half-written file is never handed over as finished.
  • You choose the brains. One key for all, one per role, or one per desk — including the CLI agent you already pay for.
  • Your rules, enforced forever. Write a role in English or in Python and it checks every build from then on.
  • It learns your work. Notes and lessons from finished jobs change how the next ones are done.
  • Costs stay visible. Tokens per step, per agent, per task, plus a spending cap on any desk.
  • Nothing leaves your computer. No account, no telemetry; uninstalling is deleting one folder.
  • Real files out. Pages, scripts, documents and PowerPoint decks you can open, plus a printable report of how they were made.

What it does not do — and why

every one of these is a choice or a date, not a surprise

  • It runs while your PC is on. That is what keeps your work on your own machine. Want it round the clock? The Pro cloud office is being built for exactly that.
  • Windows first, properly tested. One platform done well beats three done badly. macOS and Linux run from source today, and get installers next.
  • It says "I can't read images" instead of guessing. A wrong description of your photo is worse than an honest no.
  • It reads text, code, CSV and PDFs. Word and Excel are on the list; until then it tells you plainly, rather than half-reading them.
  • Agents search, they do not roam. The researcher searches when you allow it. Nothing clicks around the internet on your behalf.
  • Ten desks, three jobs at once. Sized for one person's real work, so your laptop stays usable while the office runs.
  • You bring your own key. We sell no tokens, so we never mark them up — you pay your provider directly, at their price.
  • The model you pick decides the quality. DAVE shows you exactly what each one produced and what it cost, so you can choose well.
  • English interface for now. Every word is a plain string, so translations are welcome.

The first two are what Pro and the next builds are for. The rest are deliberate.

in one line: a careful office for one person's real work — not a magic button, and it never pretends to be one

Private by design

Your work never passes through us.

Not a promise on a page — it is how the thing is built. There is no account, and today no server of ours sits in the path at all.

WhatWhere it lives todayDoes it reach us?
Your tasks, files and resultsYour disk, in the app's data folderNo
Your API keysEncrypted vault on your machineNo
Prompts and answersStraight from your PC to the provider you choseNo
Agent memory and lessonsPlain files you can read or deleteNo
Crash reports or analyticsNot collectedNo

The coming cloud office is opt-in and separate: you decide which job goes there, and the Classic office keeps working exactly as it does now. Read the privacy page →

Plans

Free today. Paid only for things that cost us money.

The office itself is free, for as long as it exists. No credit card, no trial clock, no feature held hostage.

Start here
Classic
Free · forever
available now · Windows · ~5 min to set up

Everything you have seen on this page, running on your own machine today.

  • The whole office, up to 10 agents
  • Roles you write in English or Python
  • 12 CLI agents and 5 kinds of key
  • Memory, lessons, reports, exports
  • No account, no telemetry, no limits
Download free

Uses the AI key you already have. Read the 5-minute guide →

Most wanted
Pro
Coming soon
early supporters get launch pricing

For people whose work should not stop when their laptop does.

  • Cloud office, 24/7. Jobs keep running with your PC switched off
  • Your office on your phone. Send work, read results, anywhere
  • Wake up to finished work and a full report
  • Inbox and calendar, kept on your own machine
  • Everything in Classic, always included
Join the early list

No payment now. You will be told before anything costs money.

Teams
Coming soon
set up with you, one team at a time

For a small team that wants each person's office to hand work to the next.

  • Everything in Pro, per person
  • Offices that hand work to each other
  • Work passes between offices, never through ours
  • Shared playbooks and roles
  • Keys stay with each person, never pooled
Start a conversation

Tell us the shape of your team; we size it with you.

no account needed no telemetry uninstall = delete one folder your keys, your bill, your data

You always pay your model provider directly — nothing on a free key or a local model. Every task shows exactly what it used.

Questions

Asked and answered.

Does my work ever leave my computer?

Only to the model provider you chose, and straight from your machine. We run no server in that path, and there is no account to sign into.

What does it cost to run?

The office is free. You pay whatever your provider charges — ₹0 on a free Gemini key or a local Ollama model, a few rupees a task on a paid one. Every task shows its tokens.

Do I need to know how to code?

No. Everything is buttons and plain English. Programming a role is optional, for people who want exact rules instead of judgement.

What happens if I close the lid mid-task?

The job stops where it is, and the office says so when you come back — it does not pretend the work finished. The agents live on your machine, which is the price of nothing leaving it.

What if an agent gets something wrong?

QA, the reviewer and your own roles check the work and send it back before you see it. You can pause a job in flight, or retry a failed one.

Windows only?

Windows is tested and released. The code is cross-platform and runs on macOS and Linux from source; packaged builds for both are next.

Open your office tonight.

Six specialists are already at their desks, waiting for a job. Setting up takes about five minutes, and the first task costs nothing on a free key.

Pro and Teams news first on Instagram and YouTube.

Contributors

Built by people who wanted a better workday.

Every fix, idea, bug report and translation is welcome — and credited here.

The people

D
Dhruvil Davecreator · maintainer

Ways to help, from easiest up

House rules

Desktop app

Download

One installer. It uses the API key or CLI agent you already have, and shows you the floor while it works.

v1.0.1
Early access
Windows x64 90 MB macOS Coming Soon >_Linux · x86_64 Coming Soon

Only the installer that exists is offered. macOS and Linux run from source today; packaged builds for both are next, and will appear on this page the day they are real.

What it needs

  1. Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. About 90 MB of disk once installed.
  2. One brain: a free Google Gemini key, any OpenAI-compatible key, Ollama on your own PC, or a CLI agent you already pay for.
  3. Nothing else. There is no account, and there will not be one.

First run

  1. Open the app. Setup asks for a key and a folder for the agents' work.
  2. Give DAVE a task. Watch it cross the floor, or open the console for the detail.
  3. Open what it made from the output tab. Save the report as Markdown or HTML.

Want it written out? The 5-minute guide walks through setup and the first task.

1.0.1 06/10/26 Latest

New

PowerPoint files, actually written. Ask for a presentation and a real .pptx lands in your folder — not an essay about one, and not a script you have to run yourself. QA opens the file afterwards and counts the slides, so a deck that is short or empty fails before it reaches you.

Fixed

  • The progress ring on the map now moves. It read a figure the office never set, so it sat at zero while the agent cards showed the real number.
  • The Delete button on a task card no longer sits outside the card.
  • The office now defaults to a Gemini model Google lists as long-lived, so a withdrawn model cannot break a new user's first task.
1.0.0 2 October 2026

First release

The office, in one window. Six specialists at their desks on a live 2D floor, walking work to each other, with the console and task queue beside them.

Bring your own brain. Five kinds of key and twelve CLI agents. One key for the whole office, one per role, or a different one on every desk.

Work is checked before you see it. QA validates point by point, a reviewer scores it, and weak work goes back for a revision on its own.

Roles you describe or program. Write one in plain English, or hand it Python. Your code runs in its own process, so a mistake in it can never stop a job.

Memory and lessons. A knowledge keeper files what still matters in a month. A learning lab turns finished jobs into rules the office follows next time.

Reports that leave the app. Save any task as Markdown or HTML into your workspace, with the generated code included.

Known limits

  • Windows only for now. macOS and Linux run from source.
  • It runs while your PC is on. The cloud office is a Pro feature, still being built.
  • It reads text, code, CSV and PDF. Word and Excel are on the list; until then it says so plainly instead of half-reading them.
  • It writes PowerPoint. Word, Excel and PDF are not written yet — it says so and delivers a script that makes them instead.

Legal

Terms of use

Last updated: 02/10/26 · plain-English summary, then the terms.

In short: the app is free and provided as-is, it runs on your computer, you are responsible for what you ask it to do and for your own API keys and costs, and you may not pass our work off as yours.

1. What DAVE AI Office is

DAVE AI Office ("the app") is software you install and run on your own device. It sends your requests to AI providers you choose, using credentials you supply. We do not host the app, process your work, or act as your AI provider.

2. Your responsibilities

3. No warranty

The app is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind. We do not promise it will be error-free, always available, or fit for a particular purpose.

4. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for lost work, lost profit, provider charges, or any indirect damages arising from use of the app.

5. Paid features

Pro and Teams are not yet on sale. When they are, purchase terms, refunds and billing will be set out here before any payment is taken.

6. Changes

These terms may change as the app grows. The date above shows the current version.

7. Contact

Questions about these terms: daveaioffice@gmail.com.

Legal

Privacy

Last updated: 02/10/26

In short: we collect nothing. The app runs on your computer, has no account, and sends no analytics. Your data goes only to the AI provider you choose.

What the app stores, and where

DataWhereWho can see it
Tasks, results, filesYour device, in the data folderYou
API keysEncrypted vault on your deviceYou
Agent memory and lessonsPlain files on your deviceYou
LogsYour deviceYou

What we receive

Nothing. There is no account, no sign-in, no telemetry and no crash reporting. We cannot see your tasks, files or keys, because they never reach us.

Third parties you choose

When a task runs, your prompt goes from your device to the provider you configured (for example Google Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic, or a local model, in which case it goes nowhere). Their privacy policy governs what happens next.

Website

This site is a set of static pages. Downloads are served by the hosting provider, which keeps its own basic server logs. Links to Instagram, YouTube and GitHub are ordinary links; those sites have their own policies.

Planned Pro features

Pro will add two things that need a service of ours: a relay so your phone can reach your office, and an optional cloud office that runs jobs while your computer is off. The cloud office is opt-in per job, and what it needs to run that job is sent to it deliberately by you. The relay is designed to carry messages only, and licence checks are designed to see a licence key, a feature name and a timestamp — never your work. Exact details will be published here before anything is released, and the free Classic office will keep working entirely offline.

Deleting everything

Delete the app's data folder. That is the whole of it. There is no server-side copy to request.

Contact

Privacy questions: daveaioffice@gmail.com.

Legal

Licence & ownership

Last updated: 02/10/26

Who owns DAVE AI Office

DAVE AI Office was created and is maintained by Dhruvil Dave ("the author"). Copyright in the source code, the name, the logo, the artwork and this site belongs to the author, except for the third-party parts listed below.

Artwork

The office artwork, the DAVE logo, the wordmark and the icons were made for this project by the author, with AI assistance, and are not taken from any tileset, asset pack or stock library. The characters are not images at all: they are drawn by code, shape by shape, while the app runs — the project contains no sprite sheet. Anyone can re-check the artwork claim by running tools/verify_artwork.py, which measures the image itself: 280,990 colours, 19.3% of neighbouring pixels identical, and 1.9% / 0.0% / 0.0% repeated tiles at 16, 32 and 48 pixels. Tileset art measures the opposite way on every one of those.

How you may use the app

Source licence

The current release is licensed under the terms in the LICENSE file that ships with it. If and when the source is opened, the artwork, the characters, the logo, the wordmark and the names "DAVE" and "DAVE AI Office" stay with the author and are not covered by that open licence.

Third-party parts

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