Friday is a native desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It puts a personal AI assistant on your computer so you can ask for work in plain language and get a concrete result: an answer with sources, a written file, a generated image, a scheduled job, a transcribed recording, and more.

Unlike a website chatbot, Friday runs as an app on your machine. You bring your own AI provider keys, your settings and credentials stay local, and sensitive actions pass through explicit permission checks.

Who Friday Is For

  • People who want a personal AI assistant that lives on the desktop instead of a browser tab.
  • Professionals and power users who want the assistant to manage files, draft documents, automate recurring work, and use connected tools.
  • Privacy-minded users who prefer their own AI provider accounts and local data.
  • Tinkerers and teams who want custom skills, MCP servers, and messaging integrations.

Key Ideas

  • Chat that acts: Friday uses tools to complete work, not only describe it.
  • Bring your own AI: choose provider and model per capability.
  • Local first: settings, credentials, history, memory, and workspace data live on your device.
  • Permissioned: writing files, sending messages, and touching private data require approval.
  • Extensible: add skills and connect tools through MCP.
  • Automatable: run scheduled jobs and periodic health checks.

Request Flow

  1. You make a request in chat, typed or spoken.
  2. Friday understands the goal, constraints, and expected output.
  3. It plans and selects tools, skills, MCP servers, or subagents when needed.
  4. Sensitive actions pause for permission.
  5. Friday verifies the result and returns the answer or artifact.
  6. It remembers durable context when useful and can repeat scheduled work later.