Pre-launch · closed alpha starts October 2026

The office work, done for you. You say yes.

BOS is a Mac app that gives an owner-run small business a team of AI assistants for office work. They answer new leads, book appointments, send and chase invoices, reply to reviews and run a small online shop. Every email, invoice, refund or price change waits for the owner to approve it.

It's for businesses of one to about ten people where the owner is also the office: trades and home services, salons and studios, makers and small shops.

Runs on a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 26 (Tahoe)

Approval card · ExampleNo. 1042

Reminder to Harbor Point HOA

"Hi Dana, a reminder that invoice INV-1042 for the spring backflow test is 14 days past due. Here's the link to pay."

Drafted by
Bookkeeper
Because
The invoice is overdue
Waiting for
The owner's yes

Example. Names made up.

Who it's for

Owners who are also the office

A plumber, a hairdresser or a candle maker is usually also the receptionist, the bookkeeper and the marketer. That work happens at night, and some of it never happens: leads go cold and invoices go unpaid.

The problem

Admin takes hours a week away from paid work, and the owner can't afford office staff.

What BOS does

A team of AI assistants does that admin from the tools the owner already uses, and hands back finished work.

What stays with the owner

Every decision that reaches a customer or moves money. Nothing is sent, charged or refunded without the owner's approval.

What it does

Each feature, and whether it works yet

We mark every feature with where it stands, so nothing here reads as live when it isn't.

In the alpha built and tested, ships to the first testers During the alpha built, switches on as each provider approves BOS Planned not built yet

Ask in plain words

The owner types a request ("Who owes me money?", "Fill Thursday afternoon") and the Chief of Staff splits it into tasks for the right teammates.

In the alpha

Approval before anything goes out

Emails, texts, invoices, refunds and price changes arrive as approval cards. The owner can let a routine kind of task run on its own; price changes always ask.

In the alpha

Invoices that get paid

Invoices go out with a Stripe payment link, and overdue ones get a drafted reminder for the owner to approve.

In the alpha

Customers, bookings and numbers

Customer records, a booking page that writes into the BOS calendar, and plain answers about what was billed, taken and is still owed.

In the alpha

A small online shop

Product and landing pages in 40 looks, with card payments through Stripe. Words that make a claim about the business are checked before they go live.

In the alpha

Email, calendar and accounting connections

Gmail and Google Calendar, Microsoft 365, QuickBooks, Square and Slack, each with a normal sign-in. This is what lets BOS answer leads and sort the inbox.

During the alpha

Approve by text message

Say yes to an approval card by replying to a text, away from the Mac.

During the alpha

Always on, without the Mac

A hosted version that keeps working when the owner's Mac is closed.

Planned
Where Claude fits

Claude does the thinking and the writing

Every BOS teammate is Claude with a job description and a short list of BOS tools it may use. BOS keeps the records, runs the tools and holds back anything external until the owner approves it.

What goes in

The owner's request in plain words, plus only the business records that task needs:

  • customers, invoices and appointments kept on the Mac
  • messages from accounts the owner connected
  • the teammate's role and allowed tools
What Claude does

The Chief of Staff (Claude) breaks the request into tasks and hands each to a teammate (also Claude, with a narrower role). The teammate looks things up through BOS's tools, then writes the result:

  • a reply to a lead or a review
  • an invoice reminder
  • shop page words, a summary or a plan
What the owner gets

Finished work, not suggestions to copy and paste:

  • answers and reports straight away
  • an approval card for anything that would reach a customer or move money
  • a record of every step the team took
Owner asks
"Who owes me money?"
Goes in
The request, the open invoices and their due dates, and the Bookkeeper's role.
Claude does
Lists the three overdue invoices and drafts a polite reminder for each.
Comes back
A short summary, plus three approval cards. Each reminder is sent only if the owner approves it.

Which models. Owners can connect their own Claude plan; then every teammate runs on Claude Haiku, Sonnet and Opus through Anthropic's Claude Agent SDK. Owners who pay with BOS's prepaid credits use BOS's own AI service instead: Claude Sonnet and Opus do the main work, and small, simple jobs may go to lower-cost models from other providers. Short yes-or-no checks, such as "is this sentence a price claim?", use a small separate decision model. No model ever sees the owner's passwords.

The team

Eight teammates, one owner

Each teammate has one job and only the tools that job needs. A teammate can't send or charge anything on its own.

Runs point

Chief of Staff

Takes the owner's requests and hands out the work.

Details

Office Manager

Keeps follow-ups and loose ends from slipping.

Money

Bookkeeper

Keeps the books and chases what's owed.

Customers

Front Desk

Answers leads and keeps the calendar.

Word of mouth

Marketing

Drafts posts and replies to reviews.

Numbers

Analyst

Turns the business's numbers into answers.

Prices

Merchandiser

Helps the owner decide what to offer and how prices read, when asked.

Tools

Builder

Builds a new tool when the team needs one it doesn't have.

Where we are

Pre-launch, with a working product

BOS is not on sale yet. Here is what exists today, what happens next and what comes after.

Today

  • The Mac app and its small online service (for shop pages, booking pages and email delivery) are built.
  • About 26,000 automated tests run against them.
  • Running on our own Macs while we build it.

Next: closed alpha

  • Starting October 2026 with a small group of owner-run businesses, by invitation.
  • A signed Mac download, and connections switching on as providers approve.
  • Testers send feedback from inside the app.

After that

  • A wider beta and paid plans.
  • A hosted version that keeps working while the Mac is off.

Traction: none yet. BOS has no customers and no revenue. The first numbers will come from the alpha.

The owner stays in charge

  • Nothing goes out without approval. Emails, texts, invoices, refunds and price changes each wait for the owner. Price changes always ask, even for a task the owner lets run on its own.
  • The business lives on the owner's Mac. Customers, invoices and files are stored on the Mac, and the team works in a locked-down space on it. The AI model receives only what a task needs.
  • Passwords stay in the Mac's keychain. Neither the teammates nor any AI model ever sees them.
  • Pay as you go. Use BOS's AI with prepaid credits, or connect your own Claude plan.
What BOS is not

Clear limits

BOS does routine office work for a business. Some things are outside that, on purpose.

For businesses, run by adults

BOS is sold to business owners. It isn't made for, or marketed to, anyone under 18.

Not professional advice

BOS doesn't give legal, tax, medical or investment advice. It keeps records, drafts messages and prepares paperwork for the owner.

Money moves only on approval

Invoices, payments and refunds go through Stripe, and each one waits for the owner's yes. BOS doesn't lend, trade or hold money.

Not a medical or legal record system

BOS isn't built to store patient health records or to run legal casework.

Questions

Fair questions

If yours isn't here, email hello@withbos.com.

Do I need to be good with computers?

No. You talk to BOS the way you'd talk to a new hire. Connecting your email or payments is a normal sign-in, like logging into a website.

Will it send things without asking me?

No, not unless you decide a kind of task may run on its own. Anything that reaches a customer or moves money waits for your approval, and you can see every step the team took.

What does it need?

A Mac with Apple silicon running macOS 26 (Tahoe). The email, calendar and payment services you already use connect with a sign-in as they switch on during the alpha.

What does "alpha" mean here?

You'd be one of the first people using it. Things will break and change quickly. When something is wrong or missing, type @developer in any chat in the app and the note goes straight to the BOS developers.

Can I buy it?

Not yet. The alpha is free and by invitation. Pricing comes with the wider beta.

Closed alpha · by invitation

Get your evenings back

We're inviting a small group of owner-run businesses for the alpha. Tell us what your business does and what you'd hand BOS first.

hello@withbos.com
Email us

Include what your business does, how many people work in it, and which Mac you use.