Opta Apps put one intelligence in your hands: the Opta Agent. Deep competency underneath, a simple surface on top, and a brain that can run entirely on your own Apple hardware.
The name is not a metaphor. Three layers sit on top of each other, and each one earns the next. Read it from the bottom.
The Opta Agent thinks with whatever model you point it at. Frontier cloud models work out of the box. Opta Local is the app that makes the local path native: models resident on your own Apple silicon, nothing leaving your machine, no meter running.
What you actually work with. Memory, tools, verification and guardrails wrapped around the model, so the intelligence acts, checks its own work, and remembers. The brain is swappable; the agent is the constant.
Opta OS for everyday work. Opta Terminal for the deep end. Surfaces will change as the work changes; the stack underneath them holds still. One identity, one memory, every surface.
Three apps carry the stack: the engine underneath, a face for everyday work, and a terminal for the deep end. One agent, one memory, across all of them.
The engine
The brain of the stack, installable on any Mac. Opta Local serves models natively on Apple silicon and gives the agent a control plane to drive. It is the engine an agent runs on, not another chat window.
Get notifiedThe face
The desktop command center. Opta OS is where the agent becomes usable for everyone: set it up, talk to it, watch it work, and govern what it is allowed to do, all in plain language. No terminal required.
The deep end
A keyboard-native terminal for coders and operators. The same agent and the same memory at text speed: sessions in your shell, automation on tap, nothing between you and the work.
The letters beside the O in the scene above are not decoration. Inside the Opta Agent, two internal faculties pair every weakness with a complementary strength.
No way of thinking can audit itself. Amelio is a second, different way of thinking that critiques, supervises, and catches the mistakes a working mind cannot see from inside.
It is why you can hand the Opta Agent a long task and trust what comes back.
No model contains the current world. Before acting, the Opta Agent assesses what it actually knows, researches what it does not, and works from evidence instead of memory.
It is why you can trust what it tells you.
The measure of the apps is not what they contain. It is how little stands between you and the work.
Every surface drives fully from the keyboard. You reach for the mouse because you want to, never because you have to. Speed is a design decision, not a power-user reward.
Theme, layout, behaviour: the apps bend to how you work, not the reverse.
Run the brain locally with Opta Local and your machine does the thinking. Nothing leaves it unless you choose to send it.
We run this stack every day to build everything we make, including these apps and this site. Rough edges get found by us first, because we live here.
Opta Local launches free in August. One email when it ships. Nothing else, ever.
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