Garden Desk V1: private document review on your computer
Review invoices, contracts, and case files with AI that runs entirely on your computer. Free, open source, and offline.
Garden Desk reviews your documents with AI that runs entirely on your computer. Version 1 is out for macOS and Windows.
Who it's for
- An accountant reconciles a client's bank statements against the sales ledger and finds every open invoice. Client finances never leave the office.
- A lawyer builds a dated chronology of a matter from letters, emails, and logs, with conflicting dates flagged. Privileged files stay privileged.
- A contract manager compares an amendment with the original agreement and lists every change and obligation. Commercial terms stay confidential.
- An office manager checks staff expense claims against the company policy. Employee data stays in-house.
Why you can trust it
- Open source. Anyone can read the code and check what it does.
- Local. No cloud, no tracking. Your documents never leave your computer.
- No network. The assistant works inside a virtual machine with no internet connection. It can read your folder, but it can't change your originals or send anything out.
What's new
- 1.1: Four focused specialists: Financial review, Matter chronology, Contract obligations, and Document comparison. Each gets your request word for word and answers you directly. Plus six reliability fixes and a cleaner design.
- 1.2: Deleting conversations works, the sidebar has Show more and Show less, and Copy sits beside the response metrics.