Guides

How Axiom actually works.

No marketing here. These are the guides we'd want to read before trusting an app with our files, our browser, and our desktop. Pick a task and see how it's done.

Everyday work

The jobs that keep coming back.

Things you'll do daily. Choosing an assistant without falling for benchmark charts, keeping AI work organized by project instead of 40 browser tabs, and finding files fast.

Guide · 8 min readHow to choose an AI assistant for your Mac.Benchmarks don't tell you which one is good at your actual workflow. Here's how to test one in 20 minutes with a real task.Guide · 7 min readOrganize AI work around projects, not browser tabs.Chats pile up fast. This is the system we use: one workspace per project, chats for exploring, notes for decisions.Guide · 8 min readHow to find more files on a Mac without making search slower.Why typing 'Q3 proposal final' still returns junk, and what a search engine has to do to fix it.

How it works

The parts you should not have to watch.

Under the hood. What happens between your request and the result, including the parts that should stay invisible.

Guide · 9 min readHow an AI assistant can safely control Mac apps.Clicking a button blind is how agents break things. Axiom asks macOS for the button's name first and only falls back to coordinates when there's no other way.Guide · 7 min readAttachment analysis should be capable and invisible.Drop a photo in chat and ask what it shows. You shouldn't see Preview steal focus while it works. Here's how that stays quiet.Guide · 9 min readWhy an AI agent needs its own browser workspace.Your agent should never share a browser with your banking tab. Every task gets its own profile, its own cookies, and its own kill switch.

Security and data

Know exactly where your data goes.

What stays on your Mac, what leaves it, and what it means when something goes public. Written plainly, because vague privacy claims are worthless.

Guide · Security · 10 min readHow Axiom protects the boundary between a request and your Mac.Axiom works across sensitive parts of a Mac. The product must explain which capability is acting, what data it needs, where that data goes, and how the user can reverse the choice.Guide · 6 min readWhat “local-first AI” should actually mean.It doesn't mean 'never touches the internet.' It means your workspace still works on a plane. Four boundaries, explained.