Alstead.
Invite-only alpha / for people working with agentsHire the agents.
Keep the keys.
Alstead is a personal desk for your work, your tools and the AI agents you hire. Each agent gets a name, a job and only the tools you tick. When an agent reaches past those permissions, it waits for you. Your memory stays readable, editable and reversible, and every operation records who did it.
- Agents
- Hire, pause, rotate, retire
- Permissions
- 14 scopes · refused unless ticked
- Needs you
- Blocked calls wait · Deny
- Memory
- Add, edit, search, forget, restore
- Ledger
- Append-only · metadata only
- Models
- Your own key, sealed
Verified by an independent audit of the deployed alpha. Work runs with your own OpenAI key are built and tested but not yet live-verified.
WHO IT’S FOR
Useful help, without handing over the house.
Most agent tools sell power. Alstead is about keeping control: your desk, your keys, your memory, your approvals and your ledger. Agents do the work inside limits you can read and change.
Permissions you can see. Decisions you make.
Anything you didn't grant is refused, and the request comes to you with the exact action and the permission it's missing. Payments, publishing and cards can't be approved at all in this release.
HOW IT WORKS
Hire. Decide.
See who did what.
The full walkthrough runs live in your browser on alstead.asv-labs.com. Every step there is a working simulation of the real product.
- HIRE
Hire an agent with explicit permissions.
Name it, give it a job and tick the tools it may use. It gets a key of its own, shown once. You can pause it, rotate its key or retire it at any time.
- DECIDE
Blocked calls wait in Needs you.
When an agent reaches past its permissions, the call is refused and the request waits for you. Allow that one action or deny it.
- REMEMBER
A memory you can take back.
Facts, people and documents your agents can use. Forget hides an item from search and from agents, and the record of who wrote it stays.
- ACCOUNT FOR
Every operation has a name on it.
Operations are written to a log that is only ever added to. It records who did what and how it turned out, never message bodies, memory text or keys.
THE DESK, LIVE
Sit at the desk
before you sign in.
The Alstead site opens on a working recreation of the desk: change the scenery, hire an agent, watch a blocked call wait for you, forget a memory and restore it. Nothing leaves your browser.
Landscape photographs are from the Alstead collection, taken by its maker. The site's demos are labeled simulations. They follow the shipped product's screens and wording, and they send nothing.
FREE, PERSONAL AND PRO / PLANNED
Free while in alpha.
Nothing is on sale yet.
These are the planned allowances, shown before anyone pays. Purchases and limit enforcement are off. Your model provider bills you separately.
Free
$0What you get today in the invite-only alpha.
- Inboxes
- 1
- Emails sent
- 50 / month
- App actions
- 250 / month
- Memory searches
- 500 / month
Personal
$19/ month, plannedMore inboxes, actions and memory for a working desk.
- Inboxes
- 3
- Emails sent
- 1,000 / month
- App actions
- 3,000 / month
- Memory searches
- 5,000 / month
Pro
$49/ month, plannedAdds a code sandbox and cloud computer time, once they're verified.
- Inboxes
- 10
- Emails sent
- 3,000 / month
- App actions
- 10,000 / month
- Sandbox / computer
- 10 h / 5 h a month
WHERE ALSTEAD STANDS
Early days.
Clearly marked.
Alstead is a web alpha, open by invitation. You sign in with a code sent to your email. If your address isn't invited yet, email us and you'll get one reply when a seat opens.
- Status
- Invite-only web alpha · free while in alpha
- Works today
- Agents and permissions, Needs you, memory, the ledger, your desk
- Needs your key
- Model use · Work runs with OpenAI Chat Completions
- Not in this alpha
- Messaging on your behalf, computer use, spending, native apps
- Pricing
- Personal $19 and Pro $49 / month planned · nothing is charged today