A space to make things happen
Your local date
The clock shows your local time.
Alstead is one calm desk for your work and the AI agents that help with it. Give each agent a job, see what it did, and get asked before it goes further than you allowed. What your agents remember about you stays yours to read, change or take back.
The scratchpad
The idea that's not quite a task yet. A small space to put it down.
Surroundings
Background dimming
Color theme (this page)
In Alstead these choices follow you across your desk. Here they last until you leave the page.
Kept in this browser tab only. Nothing is sent.
25:00
A 25-minute session. Streams stay quiet until it ends.
Agents
Every agent has a name, a job and a key of its own. It can only use the tools you tick. You can pause it, rotate its key or retire it at any time, and a retired agent stays retired.
Agents
Give each teammate a purpose, choose its model, and control the tools it can use.
Your team
| Name | Role | Key | Tools | Status | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marlow | Research: reads the pages you grant | bzl_7QxK | healthmemory | live |
Needs you
The call is refused and a request lands in Needs you with the exact action, the resource, and the permission it was missing. Allow adds that one missing permission to the agent’s key, or deny it. Payments, publishing and card use can't be approved at all in this release.
Quill's job: “Save that the vendor call moved to Friday.” Quill wasn't given memory.
Turn on JavaScript to try this. The request below is what you'd see.
Quill tried to save a note and was refused: no memory access.
Anything an agent isn't allowed to do waits here for you.
Payments and publishing always need your approval, and in this release they can't be approved at all.
1 open
Quill's key doesn't include memory. Allow adds memory to Quill's key from now on, then Quill can try again.
Allowing adds exactly one permission to Quill's key. Quill then tries again, and Alstead checks its permissions again.
Nothing is waiting. The ledger below recorded your decision.
Memory
Facts about you, your company, your voice, the people you work with and your documents. Agents that have memory access can use it. When you forget something, it disappears from search, from your agents and from your profile's version history, while the record that it was there stays.
What your workspace remembers.
Profile history · About you
Restoring saves a new version. History is kept.
Ledger
Alstead writes each operation to a log that is only ever added to: who did it, what it was, and how it turned out. The database itself rejects any attempt to change or delete a row, including from Alstead's own code. It records details about the operation, never the content of messages, memories or keys. The rows below come from what you just did above.
| When | Who | What happened | Result | Detail | Explain |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:02 | you | Hired an agent | Done | key bzl_7QxK | |
| 09:04 | you | Saved a memory | Done | section: Voice | |
| 09:06 | Marlow (bzl_7QxK) | Saved a memory | Done | section: Company |
Only new rows are ever added. Rows store permitted details only: the key prefix and a status code, never message bodies, memory text, keys or secrets.
Models · Work
Alstead doesn't sell model time. You register your own provider key: it's encrypted, shown only by its prefix, and never returned. You choose which agent uses it. Work runs with a budget that expires, and each run produces a receipt you can accept, revise or retry.
Work runs are built and tested, but not yet verified with a live provider.
Register a provider
Give your agent a task
Task (read-only): “Read the three vendor quote pages I granted and list price, term and cancellation clause.”
reserved $0.18 · actual $0.041
event evt_8e22c0f71a9d · evidence sha256 9c1e…a47b
Connections
The status labels are the ones the product itself uses. A catalog entry doesn't mean an agent can already use that service, so where something is set up but not yet proven end to end, we say so beside it.
| Connection | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAI API | Your key, sealed. Used by Work runs. | Setup available · not yet tested live |
| Anthropic, xAI, Gemini, OpenAI-compatible | Your key, sealed. Also used by Work runs. | Setup available · not yet tested live |
| Local | A model on your own machine | Not available yet · refused by Work runs |
| MCP (inbound) | External MCP clients call Alstead with an agent's key. Permissions are checked on every call. | Setup available |
| MCP (outbound servers) | Register a remote MCP server. Every remote tool call waits for your approval. | Coming soon · built, not open in this alpha |
| Telegram | Link a chat so its messages wake one permitted agent | Not available yet · not for tester workspaces in this alpha |
| Email inbox | A workspace inbox. Drafts are sent only after you approve them. | Coming soon · built, not open in this alpha |
| GitHub | Choose a work or personal account. Repository actions need permissions. | Setup available · repository actions not yet proven |
| App catalog | Browse apps and their sign-in options. Browsing only for now. | Setup available · browse only |
| SMS · iMessage · WhatsApp · Discord · Slack messaging | Agents messaging on your behalf | Coming soon |
| ChatGPT / Codex, Claude, Grok subscriptions | Sign in with a consumer subscription instead of an API key | Coming soon |
Workshop · live in Alstead
Workshop is the part of Alstead that opens the Alstead Workshop app running on your own computer. Save a computer's name and address to your account, then pair each browser or phone with it. Pairing codes stay on your device, and the work runs on your computer.
The Alstead Workshop app for Mac is going to a few testers first. It isn't publicly available yet.
Alstead Connect, for reaching your computer from anywhere, is built but not available yet. No alpha plan includes hosted sandboxes or cloud computers.
Plans
These are the planned allowances, shown before anyone pays. Purchases and limit enforcement are off. Every plan includes multiple agents, permissions, approvals and your own model keys. Your model provider bills you separately.
$0 · while in alpha
Planned allowances for the free plan. Email and app actions aren't available in the alpha yet, and nothing is metered.
$25 / month · planned
More inboxes, actions and memory. Planned founding rate: $9/month for your first 3 months, or 6 months with a founder token, then $25/month. First subscriptions only.
Hosted sandboxes and cloud computers aren't part of the alpha. Allowances are as planned on 19 October 2026. Usage resets on the 1st of each month at 00:00 UTC, with no rollover. Other numbers in the walkthrough are labeled examples.
Which planned plan covers you?
Today: Free (alpha), $0. Nothing is on sale and limits aren't enforced. When paid plans open, these numbers fit Free.
Early days, clearly marked. Every line here is something we checked, with a date or a reason. The Alstead Log records each release as it went out, the faults we found in our own work included.
Invited? Sign in. Not yet? Email us for an invite. You'll get one reply when a seat opens.
No card. No trial clock. Free while in alpha.
