Pond exists to give people back the hours they lose to busywork. Most assistants can only answer: they tell you what to write, then leave you to open the app, find the thread, type it out and press Send. Pond does the work itself, in the apps you already use, and stops for your OK before anything leaves your Mac.
Pond began as fn-key dictation: hold a key, talk, let go. Once it could hear what you wanted, the obvious next step was to do it. Today it texts in iMessage, replies in Gmail, books meetings on Google Calendar, posts in Slack, edits Sheets and works in your signed-in websites through a private, invisible copy of your browser. Nothing jumps to the front and nothing steals your focus.
Trust is the product. Messages, posts, invitations and deletions always arrive as an editable draft card with Send and Cancel, and that gate is enforced in code rather than left to a model’s judgment. Your people index, your memory of past requests and the wiki Pond keeps about how you work all stay on your Mac.
Pond is a router, not a coder. Writing, research and code go to a new Claude Code or Codex session, wherever you already do that kind of work, and Pond follows each turn from the apps’ own session files, so it can tell you the moment the work is done or needs you. Quick questions, messages, calendar and app tasks stay with Pond.
We’re a small team in San Francisco. If you care about software that respects people’s attention and their accounts, and you want to see AI assistants go right, we’d love to work with you.