Alden is built to feel like an AI presence: something that listens, reasons, and acts on your behalf, inside the boundaries you set.
Most assistants either can't do much beyond talk, or can do too much without asking first. Alden is built around the idea that real usefulness and real trust aren't in tension. An assistant that can actually operate your computer and browser only earns that responsibility by asking before it uses it. Every action Alden takes routes through a Governance Engine before it executes: capability, then governance, then either execution or a question back to you.
Alden shows up in two forms: the Orb, a floating, always-on presence you talk to, and the Workspace, a text-based view of the same conversation and memory. Neither is a lesser version of the other; they're two ways into the same assistant, sharing the same underlying memory system.
Alden is under active development. It's available as a native desktop app for macOS and Windows. Its capabilities are built as modular skills that we're adding to over time, and it's architected, from routing between AI providers to how it separates and governs memory, to keep expanding without a rewrite.