Always-on desktop layer · for your agents

The UI
for AI.

Your AI has been stuck in a chat box. ARLI gives it a canvas — a warm, always-on layer of your desktop where agents render real interfaces: briefs, dashboards, timelines, controls. Spawned the moment they're useful. Gone when they're not.

built for Claude, Codex & any MCP client
The idea

Chat was a brilliant demo. But a single scrolling column is a terrible interface for everything your AI actually does. It deserves a place to show up.

How it works

Your agents get a surface, not another tab.

ARLI runs quietly in the background. When an agent has something worth showing, it draws it — natively, just in time, then clears it away.

connect

Agents plug in over MCP

Claude, Codex, or any MCP client connects to ARLI's tools — spawn_window, write_thought, and more. No SDK to learn.

render

They spawn just-in-time UI

A morning brief. A live dashboard. A timeline, a player, a control surface. Real interfaces — composed for the moment, not crammed into a chat bubble.

dismiss

The window clears itself

Each window lives exactly as long as it's relevant, then dismisses. Your desktop stays calm. The layer is always on; the clutter never is.

Why it's different

A desktop that thinks alongside you.

Just-in-time windows

UI that appears the instant it's useful and tidies itself when it's done. No dashboards to maintain, no tabs to hunt for.

Works with your agents

One shared canvas for every model you run — Claude, Codex, GPT, your own. They render side by side, and you stay in one place.

Warm by design

No cold, corporate dashboards. Paper, ember and soft light — a native macOS feel that's calm to keep open all day.

Ambient awareness

Thoughts, briefs, and quiet status — your AI's reasoning made visible on the edges of your day, never demanding a reply.

See it

A handful of the windows ARLI can draw.

Anything an agent can imagine, it can render — these are just a few.

daily brief
on deck
Ship helloarli landingdeploy to Vercel today
Investor call · 3:0045 min · prep needed
Scope billing moduleno pressure

2 tasks carried from yesterday
Morning brief — your day, assembled overnight.
today
9:00Design sync30 min · Meet
11:30Lunchblocked
3:00Investor callZoom · prep
5:30Gympersonal
Timeline — calendar, pulled from wherever it lives.
now playing
Re: StacksBon Iver
Control surface — a real player, not a text reply.
Early access

Give your AI a place to show up.

ARLI is in private beta on macOS. Leave your email and we'll bring you in.

no spam · macOS · built on MCP