v0.1 · closed beta · windows & macOS

One window for the work that lives everywhere.

Work Orchestra is a desktop workspace that drives your real Office apps, runs an AI agent on your actual files, and ties it all together with a wiki, notes, memory, and a growing plugin ecosystem.

The actual interface — activity bar, workspaces, live Office, and an AI agent that runs on your project. No tab switching, no copy-paste between apps.

The problem

Work is scattered. The tools aren't.

A spreadsheet here, an email thread there, twenty browser tabs, an AI chat in another window, files buried on disk. Every switch is a context rebuild.

The workspace

One layer that holds them together.

Work Orchestra unifies your tools without replacing them. Real Office, real inbox, real browser — sitting in one window, anchored to a project that survives the session.

How it's organized

Domains, views, workspaces.

Three nested layers. A domain is your top-level context — Work, Personal, Business — each anchored to its own file system. Inside a domain are views that organize related workspaces by activity.

Domain Top-level context · linked to a file system

Each domain points at its own folder — Dropbox for Work, OneDrive for Business, a local folder for Personal. All workspaces, settings, and tools inside a domain sync through that one root.

Work ~/Dropbox/Work
Personal ~/iCloud/Personal
Business ~/OneDrive/Business
Globals Dashboards Views
View Lives inside a domain · organizes activities

A view groups related workspaces and decides which component types and tools are available. Spin one up per kind of work you do.

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Workspace Lives inside a view · one per activity

A workspace is the actual project. Linked files, AI agents, memory, notes, todos, session history — all in one JSON file you can leave and resume.

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The dashboard inside a domain — globals strip on top, the active view's workspaces below. Switch domains to swap the whole context.

Why it feels different

Five things you'll notice on day one.

01
Live control of your real Office apps
Drives Excel, Word, and Outlook running on your machine. Cells update, documents redline, drafts appear in your inbox — you watch the work happen.
02
An AI agent with real context
Multi-turn Claude sessions with read and write access to your workspace files, Office apps, Gmail, Calendar, and Sheets. It works on your project — not on a pasted snippet.
03
Workspaces that follow you
Every project is a workspace — files, notes, agents, memory, session history. Stored in your Dropbox or OneDrive, so opening the app on a second machine picks up where you left off.
04
Structure that emerges
No setup wizard. Start from any folder, file, or rough task. Memory captures facts from your AI sessions, skills capture workflows you repeat. The workspace gets sharper the more you use it.
05
Built to extend
A real plugin ecosystem. Wiki, Office, mail, calendar, notes, todos, CRM, files — already in the box. Open SDK for the long tail, so the next tool you need can be the one you (or anyone) writes.
A growing ecosystem

Tools that ship today. Build any tool tomorrow.

Every tool is a self-contained plugin — disable, configure, or replace any of them. The lineup below is what's in the box right now. The plugin SDK is open, so the long tail can be anything.

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Wiki
Linked knowledge · markdown

A first-class wiki for each domain. Cross-link pages, embed components, search across everything. The reference layer your team keeps coming back to.

Excel
Live spreadsheet · COM

Drives Excel running on your machine. Cells, ranges, formulas, formatting, sheets, VBA, macros.

Word
Live documents · COM

Drives Word via COM. Generate, edit, replace, style, table, image, bookmark, PDF export.

Gmail
Inbox client · OAuth

Search, read, compose, reply with a local cache. Multi-account support. Drives Gmail via API.

Calendar
Events · OAuth

Google Calendar — list, create, update, delete events across all your calendars.

Browser
Embedded Chromium

Real browser inside the workspace. Tabs, bookmarks, dev tools — research lives next to the work.

Files
Local file browser

Navigate the filesystem with favorites, drag-drop, and quick-open into the workspace.

Notes
Markdown editor

Connect shared folders. Create and edit markdown notes with split-screen preview.

Todo
Workspace tasks

Workspace-scoped todo lists on the shared filesystem. Priorities, due dates, assignees.

Key Files
Promote what matters

Pin the final versions, deliverables, and key documents that matter for an activity.

Memory
Per-workspace .md

One markdown file per workspace, auto-captured from your AI sessions. Always loaded into the agent's context.

Skills
Workflow templates

Reusable prompt and step templates. Define a workflow once, run it on any workspace.

Skills Library
12 pre-built skills

Finance, analysis, communication, workflow, writing. Browse and install templates from the library.

Email Distribution
Campaigns · Outlook + Python

Build distribution lists, attach files, materialize a script, create or send Outlook drafts in batch.

Workspace Gmail
Gmail · scoped to a workspace

Surface Gmail messages relevant to a workspace. Filter by date, keywords, sender, or let AI find them.

Google Sheets
Sheets API · OAuth

Fetch, append, and update cells. Cached for fast reads. Public-CSV fallback when unauthenticated.

Doc Compare
Tracked changes · COM

Compare two Word documents. Produces a full tracked-changes redline you can save as docx or PDF.

Scanner
File classification · AI

Walk a directory and classify files by type and content. Quick-add results into a workspace.

CRM
Accounts · contacts · deals

Shared-folder CRM. Accounts, contacts, opportunities — one JSON file on the file server.

DocuSign
E-signature · OAuth

Send documents for signature. Envelope creation, status tracking, embedded signing.

Local AI Models
Ollama · MLX

Pull, manage, and run local models. Useful when data needs to stay on the machine.

domains, views, workspaces, agents
12 pre-built workflow skills
4 layout modes
2 platforms — Windows & macOS
SDK build any plugin you can imagine
How it works

Three steps. No setup wizard.

1

Open a workspace

Point it at a folder, a file, or a rough task. That's the setup.

2

Work in one environment

Files, AI, Office, mail, browser, and notes side by side in one window.

3

Let structure emerge

Capture patterns as Key Files, Workflows, and Memory as they repeat.

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Closed beta

Built for real work, not demos.

Free during beta. Get notified when builds are ready.