● Local-first · BYOK · macOS

Press Ctrl. Your AI workspace appears.

The local AI workbench for the one-person company. It runs on your machine, with your own keys — kept in your OS keychain, where we can't even see them.

↧ Download for macOS ● Free · macOS 13+ · signed & notarized
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Why CTRL

Not yet another local AI client.

Three things make it different — and none of them is "we host a model for you".

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Ambient, not an app you open

One global hotkey, one morphing conversation — no tab-soup. Capabilities live in an open registry (MCP / CLI / Skills), so the surface stays simple while the ecosystem scales.

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Bring your own everything

Your keys, your models, your brain. No account, no markup, no default model spend. Keys live in your OS keychain — we literally can't read them.

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Plain-text all the way down

Notes, tools, skills, memory — all markdown you can open in vim in 100 years. There's no "export", because nothing was ever imported.

How it works

One keystroke to a finished thing.

No wizard, no setup tour. Summon it, ask once, keep what comes out.

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Press Ctrl

Summon an ephemeral workspace from anywhere — over any app you're in.

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Ask once

One assistant reads your intent and routes it to the right tool — shown, never hidden.

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Watch it morph

The surface becomes the output: a doc, a table, an editable page, code.

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Keep it

Copy, export as a file, or save into a local vault you fully own.

Build once, share the recipe.

Package a tool as a plain-text definition and publish it to the commons — one-click install what others share. Only definitions travel; your data and keys never leave your machine. CTRL sells the substrate, the commons stays free.

ShareA tool = a git-diffable manifest. No data, no keys.
Be sharedInstall someone's definition; it runs on your own data.
Own itUninstall CTRL and every file stays on your disk.

Your company. Your keys. Your machine.

Download CTRL and press Ctrl — your AI workspace is one keystroke away.

↧ Download for macOS