# Alacrán

> Alacrán is a free desktop app for Mac and Linux. It keeps a company's facts, decisions and working notes as plain files on the owner's own computer, so AI agents start from what the company already knows, and stop for a human before money, contracts, publishing, deletion or access changes.

Every page below has a Markdown version at the same address with `.md` added. All of it in one file: https://www.alacran.app/llms-full.txt

## Start here

- [Get started | Alacrán](https://www.alacran.app/getting-started.md): A first-run walkthrough for Alacrán: install, connect your AI, describe your business, approve your first draft, and ask a question. Written for people and for AI agents.
- [How to use Alacrán](https://www.alacran.app/how-to-use.md): Start running your company with Alacrán: install locally, initialize durable context, connect your tools, and run AI agents with human review gates.
- [Docs | How Alacrán works](https://www.alacran.app/docs.md): How Alacrán gives AI agents durable company context, material-action gates, and a portable source of truth in files you own.

## Reference

- [Starter packs for AI-run businesses · Alacrán](https://www.alacran.app/templates.md): Seven ready-made setups for Alacrán. Pick the one closest to your work and a new workspace starts out knowing the shape of it: the right questions, the right jobs, the right vocabulary.
- [Connections: AI agents, Gmail, GitHub, Notion, chats · Alacrán](https://www.alacran.app/integrations.md): What Alacrán can plug into: the AI that does the work, the accounts it reads from, and the tools you can connect yourself. Every inbox and chat connection is read-only.
- [Examples of running a business with AI agents · Alacrán](https://www.alacran.app/use-cases.md): What people actually use Alacrán for: the Monday summary, the decision nobody can remember, running three businesses at once, and asking your own company a question out loud.

## Departments

- [Customers and sales pipeline with AI memory · Alacrán](https://www.alacran.app/departments/customers.md): Alacrán researches prospects against what your company sells, drafts an outreach angle for each, and keeps every lead in files you own. Nothing is sent without you.
- [Know your cash position with AI · Alacrán Finances](https://www.alacran.app/departments/finances.md): Cash on hand, monthly burn and runway in files you own. Alacrán audits your spending for savings and drafts each recommendation for you to approve. It never moves money.
- [AI-drafted Instagram posts you approve one by one · Alacrán](https://www.alacran.app/departments/content.md): Ask for posts about anything. Alacrán drafts the caption, hashtags and picture idea in your company's voice, and you approve each one. It never posts for you.
- [One read-only catch-up for WhatsApp, iMessage, Slack and email · Alacrán](https://www.alacran.app/departments/messages.md): Alacrán reads what customers and your team said across your chat apps and email and writes it down for you, on your own computer. It never replies.

## Legal

- [Privacy Policy | Alacrán](https://www.alacran.app/privacy.md): Privacy Policy for the Alacrán desktop application.
- [Terms of Service | Alacrán](https://www.alacran.app/terms.md): Terms of Service for the Alacrán desktop application.