Alden is under active development. This is a conceptual walkthrough of what to expect today; some details will change as the product matures.
Sign up with your name and email and you're in straight away — there is no waitlist. Alden is under active development, so expect new capabilities to keep arriving after you're set up.
Alden is a native desktop app for macOS. Setup is deliberately light.
Install it, sign in once, and it lives in your menu bar from then on.
The first real choice is how you interact in any given moment. Both share the same memory, so nothing is lost moving between them.
A floating, always-on voice presence. Say the wake word and Alden is listening, replying in real-time speech-to-speech.
A text view of the same conversation: sidebar, chat, files, and project history in one place.
Before Alden takes any consequential action, it checks your rules across three categories, Sign-ins, Browsing, and Actions. Each is set independently to Always, Ask Every Time, or Never.
From here it works like any assistant: ask it to do something, and it either does it or checks with you first, depending on the rules you set.