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rowboat

Desktop AI coworker (YC S24) that indexes email, meetings and Slack into a living backlinked knowledge graph, then acts on it — email client, browser, meeting notes, background agents, code mode.

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The thesis is memory that compounds vs retrieval that starts cold: everything you touch gets indexed into an Obsidian-style backlinked graph stored as plain local Markdown — inspectable, editable, yours — and the work surfaces (email client that drafts replies with full context, isolated browser, local meeting transcriber, event/schedule-triggered background agents) all read from it. Code mode drives Claude Code or Codex with that context. BYO model including Ollama. Use it if you want one desktop app to BE the AI layer over your work life. When NOT: it's maximalist by nature — email + browser + meetings + code in one young app means breadth outruns polish in places, and Google-service setup is a manual OAuth dance. Data stays local; that part they got exactly right.

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Rowboat

A desktop AI coworker with a memory of your work and built-in surfaces to act on it.

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Rowboat indexes your work into a living knowledge graph and uses that to get work done on your machine. It includes work surfaces for collaborating with AI: email client, notes, browser, code mode, meeting note taker, and workspaces for different projects.

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Rowboat Apps to Code demo

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Overview

Brain

Rowboat indexes email, meetings, slack and assistant conversations into a living Obsidian-style backlinked knowledge graph. 		Brain graph screenshot

Email

The built-in email client sorts emails into important and everything else. Rowboat automatically drafts responses for important email using all the work context. 		Email screenshot

Background agents

You can set up background agents that run on events like new email or on schedule like every day at 8am. They can connect to tools, search the web, use the browser and write code using Claude Code or Codex. 		Background agents screenshot

Built-in Browser

Rowboat includes a browser that lets you and assistant collaborate on web tasks. Because its isolated from your main browser, you can log in only to the accounts that want the assistant to access. 		Browser screenshot

Meeting Notes

A local meeting note-taker that taps into mic & speaker, produces live transcript and summarizes the meeting in a markdown file and updates the knowledge graph.

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