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We Built a Desktop AI Coworker So You Don't Need a Claude Subscription

DEV Community·Arjun Nayak·22 days ago
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Our team was spending $700/month on AI. Claude subscriptions, GPT-4 API calls, experiments that ran up bills before we noticed. Now we spend $10-20/month for the whole team. We didn't stop using AI. We stopped overpaying for it. And we built a desktop app that lets anyone — not just developers — run AI agents on their own computer, with their own files, using whatever model they want. Local, open-source, cheap API, or premium — pick when the task demands it. This is Zosma Cowork. The Problem With AI Right Now If you're non-technical and you want AI to actually do work — process invoices, generate reports, analyze spreadsheets — you have bad options: Web chatbots (ChatGPT, Claude) — They can't touch your files. You copy-paste, they guess. $20/month each, and you still do the actual work. Coding agents (Claude Code, Codex) — Powerful but terminal-only. You need to know command line, install things, configure API keys. Not for most people. SaaS AI tools — $50-200/month per tool, each for one specific task.…

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