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Your team's docs, answered. Kept on your Mac.

Kept reads your handbooks, runbooks and policies and answers your team's questions with the exact passage each answer came from. It runs on a Mac you own, and your documents never leave it.[1]

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Apple silicon · 16 GB memory · macOS 14 or later · No card for the trial

Question

What does Kept send to kept.computer?

Your licence key and a random ID for this copy of Kept, about once a month. Nothing about your documents. If you turn on update checks, it also asks for the latest version, with no system profile.

Example · 2 sources

  1. 1Privacy policykept.computer/privacy · What we receive, and whenThe request contains only these two — no name, no device details, nothing about your documents.Open at this passage
Try it. The sources are Kept's own published pages, quoted word for word; each link opens the real passage. The answers are written to show how Kept cites. No AI runs on this page.

[ works with ]

Ask from

  • Claude CodeMCP
  • CursorMCP
  • Any MCP clientMCP
  • ScriptsHTTP API
  • Your officebrowser

Read from

  • Git checkoutssync
  • Notionexport
  • Confluenceexport
  • Markdown, HTMLfiles
  • PDF, Word, scansfiles

Three connections. None of them carry your documents.

This is every connection Kept makes, with exactly what it sends. Your documents, questions and answers aren't in any of them.[1]

Check it yourself

Run this in Terminal while Kept answers a question. Apart from the connections listed here, every one it shows is to 127.0.0.1, this Mac (or to your office network, if you've turned on access from other computers).

lsof -nP -i -a -p $(pgrep -x Kept)
  1. Once, at setup The AI model download The model's files come down to your Mac. Nothing about you or your documents goes up.
  2. About once a month Licence check[2] The whole request: 
    POST https://kept.computer/api/license
{"key": "KEPT-…", "install": "8C1F…"}
  3. Only if you allow it Update check[3] Asks for the latest version. No system profile. 
    GET https://kept.computer/appcast.xml
  4. Never Your documents, questions and answers They stay on the Mac. Delete a document and Kept erases its copy, its text and its search index straight away; past answers that quoted it stay in your history until you delete them.

Your AI tools can ask Kept too.

Claude Code, Cursor and your own scripts can look things up in your docs over MCP or HTTP. Read-only, this Mac only, one revocable key per tool.[4]

A tool that runs on a cloud AI sends what Kept returns to that AI's servers. Use a local model to keep everything on the Mac.

Read the MCP and API docs

# Get a key in Settings → Sharing
$ claude mcp add --transport http kept \
    http://127.0.0.1:47822/mcp \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer kept_…"

# Kept's tools, now in Claude Code:
#   ask           answers, with sources
#   search        matching passages
#   list_sources  what Kept has read
// .cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kept": {
      "url": "http://127.0.0.1:47822/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer kept_…" }
    }
  }
}
$ curl http://127.0.0.1:47822/v1/ask \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer kept_…" \
    -d '{"question": "Who approves a migration?"}'

# Example reply
{
  "kind": "grounded",
  "answer": "The on-call lead approves it [1].",
  "citations": [{
    "number": 1,
    "source": "migrations.md",
    "category": "Runbooks",
    "quote": "Migrations need the on-call lead's approval."
  }]
}
The key, the address and the tools are real; the docs in the reply are an example.

One price per office.

Free for 14 days, no card. Then one subscription covers the Mac that runs Kept and the colleagues who ask through it.[6]

What do I need?

A Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or newer), at least 16 GB of memory and macOS 14 or later, plus about 10 GB of free space. Setup installs the free AI engine and downloads the model, once.

What happens when the trial ends?

Your documents, categories and past answers stay. Asking new questions pauses until you subscribe.

Does Kept need the internet?

Only for the model download at setup, the monthly licence check and, if you allow it, update checks. If you're offline at renewal time, Kept keeps working for another week.

What can Kept read?

PDF (scanned ones too), Word (.docx), RTF, plain text, Markdown, HTML, Notion and Confluence exports, and photos of documents. It can also keep a folder or a Git checkout in sync.

Does Kept work with Claude Code and Cursor?

Yes. Kept is an MCP server on your Mac, so Claude Code, Cursor and any MCP client can ask it questions, and scripts can use its HTTP API. Access is read-only, with one key per tool. See the docs.

Can the rest of my team use it?

Yes. Turn on network access in Kept's settings and colleagues on your office network can ask through the Mac that runs Kept, from their browser. One subscription covers them.

Can I cancel or switch plans?

Any time, from your account. Kept keeps working to the end of the month or year you paid for.[5]

$49 USD / month

or $490 USD / year, two months free

  • One Mac running Kept
  • Colleagues ask from their own computers
  • MCP and HTTP for your tools
  • Unlimited documents and questions
  • All updates included

Or start the free trial. Payment by Stripe.

Try it on your own runbooks.

14 days, no card. Kept is made by Alexander Wondwossen; questions and bug reports go to hello@kept.computer.

Download the 14-day trial

Sources for this page

  1. 1Privacy policy · The short versionYour documents, the questions you ask and Kept's answers stay on your Mac. We never receive them, and we couldn't read them if we wanted to.Open at this passage
  2. 2Privacy policy · What we receive, and whenThe request contains only these two — no name, no device details, nothing about your documents.Open at this passage
  3. 3Privacy policy · What we receive, and whenNo system profile is sent. You can turn this off any time in Settings → Privacy & data.Open at this passage
  4. 4MCP and API docsIt's read-only: nothing can add, change or delete documents this way.Open at this passage
  5. 5Terms of use · 4. Cancelling and refundsKept keeps working until the end of the month or year you've paid for.Open at this passage
  6. 6Terms of use · 3. Subscription and billingOne subscription covers one Mac running Kept for one business. Colleagues on your network may ask questions through that Mac.Open at this passage