Your ICP, your deal notes, your customer letters — stored in someone else's cluster, under their retention policy.
Airport, hotel, train. Every reconnect rips you out of your flow state.
Chrome eating 8GB just to show a chat box. No ⌘-tab. No real keyboard shortcuts. No dock icon.
SOC 2, data residency, private networks — "all in the cloud" is a non-starter for big GTM teams.
Signed, notarized, auto-updating. Feels like a native app because it is one — not an Electron tab.
Every file the agents read and write lives in a folder on your machine. Cancel us, keep your data.
Tool calls, file reads, git ops run on-device. The cloud only sees what you explicitly route through it.
Browse Context, read chat history, queue drafts offline. The moment wifi returns, queued runs dispatch.
⌘K command palette, ⌘↵ send, ⌘[ history, ⌘\ sidebar. Built for people who live in their keyboard.
App launches in <1s. No spinner, no auth dance, no loading bar — just your workspace where you left it.
Context and runs live in `~/Library/Application Support/BlackMagic`. Back it up, sync it, ship it between machines.
70 MB of RAM idle. No hungry service worker. No breathless tab reloading when you switch windows.
Chat history and Context are local. Model calls need network. Everything else — read, search, edit — works on a plane.
Runs native on both Apple Silicon and Intel. Menu bar status, notification center support, system share sheet.
MSI-based installer, auto-update via Squirrel, Start Menu integration, system tray for quick access.
`blackmagic` on your path — pipe stdin into an agent, tail logs, script your GTM ops from a terminal.
Jamf and Intune deploy packages. Managed config via plist / registry so IT can pre-seed workspaces.
API keys stored in the OS keychain — never in plaintext, never in the cloud unless you ask.
Switch between client workspaces (consultants) or business units (in-house) with a keyboard shortcut.
Yes — the dashboard at app.blackmagic.engineering works in any modern browser. But the desktop app is where the real ergonomics live: offline Context, local tool calls, OS-level shortcuts, and keychain-backed secrets.
~80 MB signed DMG on macOS, ~90 MB MSI on Windows. Auto-update delivers patches in the background.
No. Session is persisted in the OS keychain. Launch the app and you are in.
Point the `context_path` at a synced folder (Dropbox, iCloud Drive, git repo) and it travels with you. Cloud-side optional sync is on the roadmap.
