Stardock Releases Alpha 1 of Clairvoyance, a New AI Management Application

Clairvoyance Alpha 1 is Here

Clairvoyance gives you persistent AI staff that live on your machine, learn your projects, and work like employees

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Today we released Alpha 1 of our new AI Management application, Clairvoyance. This is probably the most important new product Stardock has made in over a decade and we believe it will change the world. Active Object Desktop members can access the alpha today and get a first look at how the future of work and play is likely to go.

Clairvoyance is designed to make it easy for people to make use of AI, such as those from Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. It is the first of its kind in that it treats the "CLIs" that the AI providers make as platforms in the same way that DirectX and OpenGL are platforms that other software can then make use of.  

Once installed, Clairvoyance gives users an AI "staff" and they choose what areas of their computer the staff are allowed to work in called Workspaces. The staff interact with the locally installed AI CLIs via a new technology called Agent Communication Protocol (ACP). This means not only can the AI staff work securely on your local PC with your local data and apps, but it also means they can be interacted with remotely via the web.  

The key ingredient is that because the AI staff "live" on the user's local PC, they get smarter and learn more about the workspaces they are assigned to over time. Instead of transient "chats", users have persistent staff members who can help write code, make presentations, create data visualization exhibits, review contracts, find local files, fix PC problems, create daily reports, give a morning email report, and anything else that a user might expect an employee to do for them.

"Once you're up and running, your AI staff can be interacted with as if they were humans, doing whatever work you want them to do," said Brad Wardell, lead developer of Clairvoyance. "I will often have several staff working on things ranging from code reviews, looking for memory leaks, getting me sentiment reports, creating pitch decks, sifting through my email, and even changing my desktop wallpaper in the morning and evening."

Moreover, thanks to its ACP technology, users can interact with their staff from anywhere. While Clairvoyance staff live in the user's PC or Mac, users can securely communicate with them from their phone or another PC.

"I will frequently find myself in a meeting and get a report on a bug and during the meeting, pull out my iPhone and assign the staff assigned to that project to go diagnose and propose a fix," said Wardell. "I don't have to tell it what files to look at or explain anything about the project because those staff members are permanently part of that workspace and already know the project and are experts on how it works."

Another benefit to Clairvoyance's approach is security. Clairvoyance isn't using APIs to talk to cloud AI services. Instead, it communicates through the ACP to the CLIs from Microsoft, Google, etc. who have already hardened their services.

"This is an application that is designed to allow everyone from individuals to entire enterprises to deploy AI in a way that makes it both easy to use and effective," said Wardell.

If you want to learn more about the app, you can check out the website, join the conversation in our forums or the active chats in our Discord.