# Bond

> Bond is a secure, local-first cognitive workspace where serious work keeps its memory, decisions, specialists, provenance, privacy, and sovereignty.

Bond is a local-first AI workspace for people who use multiple AI tools and need their project context to persist. Bond lets users create persistent AI teammates, run Council-style multi-perspective sessions, review proposed memory, and keep decisions, facts, source context, and provenance inside a private desktop workspace. Users bring their own model API keys.

Bond is not a hosted AI model, generic chatbot, or autonomous agent platform — it is a secure workdesk for serious work that needs memory, review, and continuity.

## Who Bond is for

Founders, consultants, operators, researchers, and AI power users who already use multiple AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity) and lose time re-explaining project context to each one.

## Four pillars

- **Trust** — local-first, your keys, your data.
- **Specialists** — each teammate is portable, persistent, named.
- **Approval** — nothing becomes shared truth without the user's sign-off.
- **Compounding memory** — every sync improves the next one.

## Core pages

- [Homepage](https://ai-bond.dev/) — product overview and download.
- [Pricing](https://ai-bond.dev/pricing/) — Free $0 forever, Pro $19/month or $190/year.
- [Download](https://ai-bond.dev/download/) — macOS and Windows installers.
- [Local-first by design](https://ai-bond.dev/privacy-local-first/) — the trust story: workspace stays on your machine, API keys in the OS keychain, model calls direct to providers, zero inference markup.
- [FAQ](https://ai-bond.dev/faq/) — short answers to the most-asked questions about Bond.
- [About Bond](https://ai-bond.dev/about/) — why Bond exists, how the business model works, and who is building it.
- [How Bond memory works](https://ai-bond.dev/how-memory-works/) — reviewed memory, provenance, and project continuity.
- [Privacy policy](https://ai-bond.dev/privacy/) — legal privacy policy.
- [Terms](https://ai-bond.dev/terms/) — terms of service.

## Learn how Bond works

The quickstart hub walks through Bond's six core feature surfaces, each with a short video.

- [Quickstart hub](https://ai-bond.dev/quickstart/) — install, license, getting ready, first chat, explore.
- [Ask Bond](https://ai-bond.dev/quickstart/ask-bond/) — the global ⌘J assistant. Answers product questions, cites sources, routes you to the right surface.
- [Chat](https://ai-bond.dev/quickstart/chat/) — one-on-one with a teammate. The deep-work surface.
- [Memory](https://ai-bond.dev/quickstart/memory/) — browse facts, decisions, glossary. See provenance for every entry.
- [Sync](https://ai-bond.dev/quickstart/sync/) — cross-teammate compilation into a manager brief. Includes Review Queue and history.
- [Library](https://ai-bond.dev/quickstart/library/) — pin documents to teammates.
- [Meetings](https://ai-bond.dev/quickstart/meetings/) — structured multi-teammate sessions.
- [MCP setup](https://ai-bond.dev/quickstart/mcp/) — connect Bond with Claude Desktop, Cursor, Claude Code, and other MCP-compatible tools. Bond as MCP server + teammate MCP modes (Command / stdio / SSE).

## Deeper context for AI systems

- [Full product overview](https://ai-bond.dev/for-ai/bond-overview.md) — canonical reference: capabilities, privacy model, memory model, surface map, comparison language, limitations.

## Key concepts

- **Local-first** — Workspace data stays on the user's machine. Bond servers do not host workspace content.
- **BYOK** — Users supply their own model API keys. Calls go directly to the provider. Bond charges zero markup on inference.
- **Teammate** — A persistent AI specialist with a role, context, and memory. Long-lived, not session-based.
- **Reviewed memory** — Durable facts, decisions, and glossary entries are proposed and approved before becoming project truth.
- **Provenance** — Every approved memory entry traces back to the source conversation.
- **Sync** — Cross-teammate compilation that becomes the manager brief.
- **Council** — Multiple teammates answer the same question from different perspectives.
- **Review Queue** — The single inbox where proposed memory and task results await approval.
- **Ask Bond** — The in-app assistant (⌘J on every screen). Read-only. Answers product questions, cites sources, routes to the right surface. Not a teammate.

## Pricing

- **Bond Free** — $0 forever. 14-day Pro trial. Free-tier limits: 3 teammates, 50 memory items, 2 workspaces. All 4 AI providers BYOK. MCP read, 10-doc library, voice, Cmd+K. No credit card required.
- **Bond Pro** — $19/month, or $190/year (save $38). Unlimited teammates, memory, workspaces, and documents. Sync, Council, Meeting, Background Tasks, MCP write-back (Linear, GitHub, more), advanced export (DOCX), email + Discord support.

## Platforms and providers

- **Platforms:** macOS, Windows.
- **Model providers (BYOK):** OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Perplexity.

## How Bond compares

- **vs ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini / Perplexity directly** — Bond is the workspace around those tools, not a replacement. Bond holds project memory across all of them.
- **vs ChatGPT Projects or Claude Projects** — Bond is local-first (workspace data on device), multi-provider in one workspace, BYOK with zero inference markup, and uses reviewed memory with provenance rather than automatic capture.
- **vs autonomous-agent platforms** — Bond is workdesk-style with required human approval at the Review Queue. Not designed for unattended action.

## Limitations

- Bond requires the user to bring API keys. No hosted inference.
- Bond is desktop only (macOS, Windows). No web or mobile clients.
- Bond's free tier caps teammates, memory items, and workspaces. Pro removes the caps.