The agent console for business operations

Turn the way your team works into working software.

Name: Proto
Author: ERP•AI

Describe the process in plain language. Proto’s agents build and run apps, workflows, reports, and connected-system actions, while you review the work and approve what matters.

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Proto shows a vendor onboarding task, completed ERP•AI changes, a review agent, a validated specification, and a preview-before-publish next step — Real product capture Vendor onboarding, ready to review Nothing released

Local-first desktop runtime

Cloud or compatible local models

Approval for sensitive actions

Skills and plugins you can inspect

The gap

Answers are easy.
Operational work is not.

A suggestion is not an app. A chat transcript is not a workflow. And an agent that acts without a clear decision point leaves you guessing what changed.

Proto puts the agent, the work, and the consequence in one console. You can follow the plan, inspect the output, and keep a durable session record.

Operating trace

One request. A visible chain of work.

From request to reviewed result.

01
Describe the job

Ask in ordinary business language, or start from a department agent or skill.
02
Follow the plan

Proto finds the right actions, asks focused questions, and shows progress as it works.
03
Approve the consequence

Sensitive actions can pause with a plain-language explanation and reversibility status.
04
Keep the result

Resume the session, inspect the record, reuse the skill, or continue from the new artifact.

Flagship workflow

A process becomes something your team can use.

Describe the process. Review the software it becomes.

Ask Proto to build a vendor onboarding flow with document checks, risk review, finance approval, and a payment-setup handoff. The conversation can become tables, typed fields, a review queue, a tested workflow, and an app preview.

“Show me the app preview before I publish it.”

Proto makes release restraint visible. A preview is evidence, not a hidden go-live step.

Feature branch

Created before mutation

Data model

Tables and typed fields

Review path

Queue and finance handoff

Verification

Validated before preview

The Proto application window showing the completed vendor onboarding task and preview-before-publish prompt

Control and audit

Capability with restraint.

The agent proposes.
You decide what runs.

Proto distinguishes planning from mutation. Sensitive actions can pause for review, dangerous patterns are forced into stricter handling, and the session keeps a recoverable record of approvals, changes, and errors.

PlanRead-only posture

Use plan mode to keep write actions out of the agent’s available action set.

ApprovalDecision required

Sensitive work can pause with a plain-language explanation of what will change.

RecordAfter completion

Review the locally recorded session for approvals, mutations, and failures.

Proto does not promise universal automatic undo. It shows whether an action is undoable before approval when that information is available.

Four product jobs

Build. Operate.
Control. Improve.

Build

Create ERP•AI-backed apps, workflows, pages, reports, documents, slides, visuals, and sites.

Operate

Work through native ERP•AI actions, plugins, files, browser sessions, and supported desktop apps.

Control

Review plans, answer questions, approve sensitive actions, and inspect the session record.

Improve

Install readable skills, preserve context and memory, resume sessions, and delegate focused work.

Connected work

Not a logo wall. A complete path through the work.

Work across the systems the process depends on.

Proto discovers the available action, works inside the visible surface, and brings the result back into one reviewable task.

Proto One operating layer

01ERP•AIApps, records, workflows
02PluginsEmail, calendar, CRM, finance
03Local filesContext, data, artifacts
04BrowserVisible sessions and downloads
05DesktopSupported local applications

SKILL.mdReadable process knowledge

name: vendor-onboarding
whenToUse: new vendor intake

1. Collect required documents
2. Check risk and ownership
3. Prepare finance review
4. Request approval before setup

Source visibleActions governed

Reusable capability

Process knowledge should not disappear into a prompt.

Teach the process once. Reuse the capability.

Proto can install and use readable skills, preserve task context, resume the same session, and delegate focused work to agents without hiding the process from the operator.

Department entry points

Built around the work departments actually do.

Start with a process your team already owns. Proto turns the request, systems, decision point, and output into one operating trace.

Finance &
Operations

Investigate invoice exceptions, update records after approval, and produce a review pack.

Exception triage
Approval flow
Review artifact

Procurement

Move vendor intake through document checks, risk review, finance approval, and setup.

Vendor intake
Risk review
Finance handoff

People & HR

Coordinate onboarding, access and tasks, policy answers, and document workflows.

Employee onboarding
Access tasks
Policy flow

Sales &
Support

Research account context, update the CRM, draft responses, and escalate with evidence.

Account research
Response draft
Evidence handoff

Local-first boundary

Keep the operating layer yours.

Local by default. Connected by choice.

Workspace state, session history, context, and local memory live on your machine by default. Selected models and configured services receive the data required to perform the work you ask for.

Your machine

ProtoDesktop runtime

Workspace
Sessions
Context
Memory

Configured exchange

Your choices

Model providerSelected per task

Plugins and servicesOnly when configured

Compatible local modelOptional local inference

FAQ

Questions before you put an agent to work.

Proto is an alpha desktop product. These answers describe the current release, not future roadmap concepts.

What is Proto?

Proto is the desktop agent console built by ERP•AI. It lets people describe work in plain language, follow the agent’s progress, approve sensitive actions, and keep a durable session record.

Does Proto work without ERP•AI?

Yes. Proto works as a general agent runtime, with deeper native capabilities when connected to ERP•AI apps, records, workflows, and teams.

What does local-first mean?

The desktop runtime, workspace state, sessions, context, and local memory live on your machine by default. Model requests, configured plugins, and optional connected features exchange the data needed to perform their work.

Does every action require approval?

No. Sensitive actions can require approval. Read-only and policy-allowed actions may proceed automatically, while dangerous patterns receive stricter handling.

Can every action be undone?

No. Proto shows whether an action is undoable before approval when that information is available, but it does not promise universal automatic undo across external systems.

Which models can I use?

You can choose from supported cloud models or connect a compatible local model server. Capabilities and action support can vary by provider and model.

Which platforms are available?

The current alpha release provides packaged downloads for macOS Apple Silicon, Windows x64, and Linux x64.

Is Proto open source?

Proto 0.2.74 · Alpha

Download Proto for desktop.

Bring your own supported model provider, or connect a compatible local model server. Your workspace and session history stay on your machine by default.

Proto desktop app showing a business operations session and workspace — Local-first runtime Review before sensitive actions macOS · Windows · Linux

Choose your platform

Released 24 August 2026

macOSApple Silicon · DMG Windowsx64 · Installer Linuxx64 · AppImage

APIs and on-disk formats may change during alpha. View release notes

Turn the way your team works into working software.

Answers are easy.Operational work is not.