Manual uploads create friction
Uploading files one by one works for small tests, but it becomes repetitive when a project folder changes over time.
Desktop sync explained
Protaimé Desktop connects local folders to project-aware AI work.
Protaimé Desktop is the Windows companion app for Protaimé. It links a local folder on your computer to a Protaimé project so files can become part of the same workspace used for AI context, extracted text, sources, audit trails, and reviewed model workflows.
Windows Desktop App
Local Folder Sync
Project Workspace
The problem
Project files often live outside the AI workspace.
Many real projects start on a local machine: source files, notes, drafts, PDFs, images, reports, and working folders. Without a sync layer, the user has to manually upload files, paste context, or rebuild the project state inside each AI tool.
Chats lose project structure
A normal AI chat may see a file or excerpt, but it does not automatically preserve the project's folder structure, future edits, extracted text, or audit trail.
Folders are where work already happens
Protaimé Desktop is built around the practical reality that many users already organize serious work in local folders.
Workflow
How Protaimé Desktop fits into the project workflow.
The desktop app is not a separate AI assistant. It is the bridge between a local working folder and the project-aware Protaimé workspace.
1
Install and connect
Install Protaimé Desktop, start the local agent, and authorize the device through your Protaimé account.
2
Select a project and folder
Choose the Protaimé project you want to work with, then link a local folder on your computer to that project.
3
Synchronize files
Sync additions and changes from the local folder into the project workspace so the server can store, extract, index, and organize the files.
4
Use files as AI context
Once synced, project files can participate in Protaimé workflows: extracted text, selected context, model roles, sources, audits, and future revisions.
Use cases
Local folder sync is useful when the project keeps changing.
Protaimé Desktop is most useful for users who already have working folders and want those files available in the same project workspace used for AI tasks.
Code and technical projects
Sync source files, notes, examples, README files, specifications, and implementation material into a project-aware AI workspace.
Document-heavy work
Keep PDFs, drafts, reports, OCR-backed files, screenshots, notes, and extracted text connected to the same project.
Writing and planning folders
Use a local folder for drafts and planning material while Protaimé keeps the synced project available for AI review and context selection.
Why this is different from uploading files
Sync makes the local folder part of the project lifecycle.
A one-time upload can be enough for a static document. A synced folder is better when the files are part of an active project and may need to be updated, inspected, extracted, reviewed, or restored over time.
Repeatable synchronization
Start, pause, resume, and run synchronization instead of treating every file update as a new manual upload task.
Inspectable context layer
Synced files can be extracted, enhanced, chunked, inspected, and selected as context before they are used in an AI response.
Revision-aware project history
As the revision system matures, file changes can become part of the project's recoverable history instead of disappearing into a folder overwrite.
Security and control
The desktop app uses an explicit account authorization flow.
Protaimé Desktop is designed as an account-connected companion app. The user authorizes the device, chooses the project, selects the folder, and controls synchronization from the desktop interface.
Device authorization
The desktop app connects to the user's Protaimé account through an explicit device approval step rather than silently attaching a computer to the account.
User-selected folders
The user chooses which local folder to link. The app should not be treated as permission to scan unrelated folders.
Sync controls
The desktop interface provides controls for connecting, starting, stopping, synchronizing, pausing, resuming, and managing the linked folder workflow.
How it helps AI work
The value appears after the files reach the project workspace.
Syncing files is not the final goal. The goal is to make real project material available to AI workflows without losing context, inspection, sources, or review discipline.
Extract and inspect
Text-like files, PDFs, images, OCR output, and enhanced text can be inspected before being trusted as AI context.
Use model roles
Once files are in the project, tasks can use Direct, Fast, or Full execution and route important work through configured model roles.
Preserve the trail
Sources, attached context, model steps, usage details, and audit records remain available when the final answer needs inspection.
Summary
Protaimé Desktop brings local work into the AI project workspace.
The desktop app does not replace the web workbench. It extends it. Local folders remain useful on the user's computer, while Protaimé turns synced files into organized project material for AI tasks, extraction, review, sources, audits, and revision-aware history.
Local folder bridge
Link a local folder to a Protaimé project instead of manually uploading files each time the project changes.
Project-aware sync
Synced files become part of the same project workspace used for context selection, extraction, source records, and reviewed model workflows.
Controlled workflow
The user authorizes the device, chooses the folder, controls sync, and can inspect project material before relying on AI output.
Connect local folders to serious AI work
Use Protaimé Desktop with a project-aware AI workbench.
Create an account, open the Account page, download Protaimé Desktop, and link a local folder to a project when you are ready to synchronize files.