Quickstart

You've got Bond.
Now meet your team.

A short guide to setting up, meeting your first teammates, and finding your way around.

Installing Bond

  1. Download Bond from our website.
  2. Open the Bond.dmg from your Downloads folder.
  3. Drag the Bond icon into your Applications folder.

When you double-click the .dmg, this window opens. Drag the Bond icon onto Applications.

  1. Download Bond from our website.
  2. Open Bond.exe from your Downloads folder.
  3. The Bond installer should run.
System Requirements
  • Beta macOS 12 or later (Apple silicon or Intel)
  • Beta Windows 10 or later (x64 or ARM)

You'll need one API key from a supported provider — Anthropic, OpenAI, Perplexity, or Gemini — When you first open Bond.

No invite needed — you’re in.

Bond is free. No account, no credit card, no waitlist. Once it’s installed and you’ve added an API key from a provider you use — Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, or Perplexity — you’re running.

Your first 14 days include full Pro, every feature unlocked. After that Bond stays free on the Free tier (3 teammates, 50 memory items, 2 workspaces) — nothing is deleted, and you can upgrade anytime.

Ready for Pro?

Upgrade inside the app, or manage your plan at license.ai-bond.dev — your Pro license activates under Settings → License.

Manage plan →

Getting ready

When you open Bond for the first time, you'll be walked through setup. By the end you'll have your workspace, your first teammates, and a short welcome from Yoram waiting in your Review Queue. Open it to watch.

Bond onboarding — Step 3 of 6: Add an AI provider
Setup walks you through providers, project context, and your starting team.

Talk to your first teammate

Click any teammate on the Home screen or in the left nav to open a chat. They already know your project context (goals, constraints, who's on the team) So you can talk to them like you would a real specialist.

Bond chat — talking with Maya, an Onboarding & UX Strategist teammate
Each teammate keeps their own conversation history and memory of you.

A few things to try first:

  • Ask them to draft something in their area (a 1-pager, a research brief, a checklist).
  • Ask them what they think is missing from the project context.
  • Ask them what they'd want from the other teammates.

Anything important they learn becomes a candidate for shared memory the next time you run a sync.

Explore the app

Bond has six core surfaces. Click any card for a full explanation and walkthrough video.

Ask Bond

Your command layer. Ask anything about your project. Bond answers, cites sources, routes you.

1:30 walkthrough
Chat

One-on-one conversations with each teammate.

1:12 walkthrough
Memory

Your project's shared brain. Goals, decisions, facts, glossary.

1:20 walkthrough
Sync

How teammates share progress, and where you approve what becomes shared memory.

2:30 walkthrough
Library

Pin documents so teammates can reference them.

0:58 walkthrough
Meetings

Bring two or more teammates into the same room.

1:30 walkthrough
MCP setup

Connect Claude Desktop, Cursor, Claude Code, Linear, GitHub, and other MCP-compatible tools.

Setup guide

Things to know

Local-first
Everything lives on your machine. Nothing in the cloud.
Watch your costs
Shown per teammate and per sync. Keep an eye on them.
First sync is slow
30–60 seconds the first time. That's normal.

Next steps

Once you've found your way around, a few places to go from here.

Tell us
Share feedback
Message Yoram on WhatsApp or email hello@ai-bond.dev. We read everything.
Read
How Bond memory works
The deeper explainer: review queue, provenance, what changes over time, and what stays local.
Read
Why Bond exists
The story behind the workspace, BYOK, no inference markup, and the LaGuardAI trust posture.

Help

Stuck? Email support@ai-bond.dev.

Found a bug? Message Yoram on WhatsApp or email hello@ai-bond.dev. We read everything.

Discord and bug tracker coming soon. Bond is built by a small team.