A better workday with AI.
That is what GEIST is for. GEIST is the daily workspace for the AI era: you hand work to an AI agent and walk away, and GEIST is the surface that work comes back to.
It is a Pet on your desk that shows what your agents are doing — whichever agent you use. Free, on macOS, running on your own machine.
Our mission
To bridge technology and human lifestyle through micro-fashion, delivering seamless AI experiences in everyday life.
That last part is not only about work. The workday is the door people come in through; the whole of a day is what we are aiming at.
Our vision
To create a world where intelligence and humanity coexist in seamless, beautiful harmony.
And where what gets built is good enough to be worth looking at. Beautiful is a requirement here, not a finish applied at the end.
What we believe
We would rather be someone’s favourite than everyone’s default.
A brand that is everybody’s second choice is nobody’s. So the rule we hold ourselves to is this: if a choice would win more people by making GEIST more like everything else, we do not make it.
Four things we want to change
GEIST does not fix all four today. They are why we started, and they are what we measure a decision against.
Built for geeks, not for people
The first agent tools were command lines with a manual. You fed them context, pasted output between windows, and managed every sub-task by hand. That is a workbench, not a workday.
Everything looks the same now
Every tool ships the same sleek grey interface. Nothing on your screen is yours. A machine you use for eight hours a day should look like it belongs to somebody.
Work, life, and everything else in one window
Work, side projects, research and the rest all pile into a single profile — messy bookmarks, the wrong account, and no line between the hours you are working and the hours you are not.
Nothing was built to fit together
Hardware from one company, software from another, drivers from a third. The pieces were never designed to meet, and you are the one holding them together.
Who we build for
We build for people who hand work to an agent and then have to go and look. That is a behaviour, not a job title — it shows up in design engineers first, then in anyone running several things at once, then in people who are not engineers at all.
What we believe has no borders. The people we serve first are AI-native builders in Southeast Asia, because that is who we are and who we can serve best today.
The catalog is the community’s, not ours.
Members make the Pets and publish them. There is no score attached, no streak to keep, and nothing that decays if you leave for a month. Ask for one in the Discord and somebody usually makes it.
Browse the catalog →Pets
Choose your Pet.
Edit pack
4 in packTap who joins. One pet is drawn per agent.
- ✓The Overconfident Geist
- ✓Robo Geist
- ✓Tiger Geist
- Mochi Geist
- ✓Chick Geist
Get more pets
Discover community pets or create your own at heygeist.com/pets.
- @samithiwat สวัสดีครับทุกคน! 🛠️ ฝากลองเล่น Geist แพลตฟอร์มคอมมูนิตี้ตัวใหม่กันด้วยนะครับ? เรามีสัตว์เลี้ยง AI คอยวิ่งเล่นบนจอตาม AI Agent ของทุกคนเลย มาจอยกันครับ กดฟอลแล้วลิงก์สัตว์เลี้ยงกันได้ที่นี่เลย!
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- @samithiwat 👋✨ Hello, world! This is the very first post on **Geist**. 🚀 We're just getting started, and we can't wait to share what's coming. Stay curious, stick around, and let's build something awesome together. 💫
The short answers
What problem does GEIST solve?
When you hand work to an AI coding agent, you lose the thread. The agent is thinking, or waiting on your answer, or it failed four minutes ago and you have not noticed. The only way to find out is to go and look.
GEIST puts that state where you already are — on your desktop, as a small animated pet that reacts. Running, waiting, reviewing, failed, idle. You glance, and you know.
How does it work?
GEIST is a tiny macOS menu-bar app. From its menu you click Install for each agent you use — Codex, Cursor, Claude Code, Claude Cowork — and it adds a small local hook that posts activity to a loopback address on your own Mac. Your code and prompts never leave the machine.
It sits idle until an agent is active, so it costs you effectively nothing to leave running.
What is a Pet?
A Pet is the character that does the reacting — a small sprite with a state for each thing an agent can be doing. You can set one default, give each agent its own, or adopt one somebody else made.
Pets are the thing this community is built around. Members hatch new ones and publish them to the catalog, where anyone can adopt them by link. Browse the catalog →
Who makes it?
GEIST is built by a very small team, largely by AI agents working to written engineering standards that live in the open beside the code. Every decision that shaped the product is recorded as an architectural decision record, and every interface is verified in a real browser before it ships.
That is not a gimmick — it is the same bet the product makes. Agents do more of the work than people expect, and the interesting problem is seeing what they are doing.
What does it cost?
Nothing. GEIST is free, runs locally on macOS (Apple Silicon), and needs no account to use the app itself. An account only matters if you want to publish a Pet or join the community.