# Tesseract launches on Product Hunt: one sentence in, finished work out

> Tesseract, the free AI agent that finishes the job, launches on Product Hunt on November 14 and on Uneed on November 19. Here is what it does and how to start.

By Liviu Maftuleac · published 2026-11-06 · Announcements, Getting started
Source: https://tesseract.dev/blog/tesseract-launches-on-product-hunt/

Tesseract launches on Product Hunt on Saturday, November 14, and on Uneed on Thursday, November 19. It is a free
desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux with an AI agent that does the work instead of describing it. You say what
you need in one sentence, and you get back the finished thing: the website, the slide deck, the video, the logo,
the research spreadsheet. Free AI coding agents come with it, and no API key is needed.

[Watch the 40-second film](https://youtu.be/Etcyw65HxV4), or [download Tesseract free](https://tesseract.dev/)
and try it while you read.

## What does Tesseract do?

Tesseract turns a plain request into finished work on your own computer. Ask "build a website for my bakery, with
the menu and a pre-order page" and it writes the pages, shows them in a live preview and saves them in your folder.
Ask "turn these notes into a pitch deck" and you get slides that open in PowerPoint as real, editable text boxes and
native charts, not pictures of slides.

Thirty guided makers on the Home screen cover the common jobs. A few of them:

| Ask for | What you get |
|---|---|
| A website | Pages with a live preview, built from one of 250+ templates and 14 design themes |
| A presentation | A deck that exports to editable PowerPoint and PDF |
| A video | Scenes with voice, music and captions, plus a full editor to trim and reframe |
| A logo or brand kit | A palette, lockups, a favicon and social images from one colour |
| A font | A typeface from a description, or from your own handwriting |
| Deep research | A sourced report or a spreadsheet you can sort and share |

The others include spreadsheets, PDFs, diagrams, drawings, motion graphics, audio, wireframes, invoices, newsletters,
comics and forms. Anything outside the makers you simply ask for in the chat.

## How does it work?

Every bigger job follows the same three steps.

1. **It plans first.** Tesseract researches and shows a plan you can edit: keep a step, change it, drop it or add
   one. Nothing runs until you approve.
2. **It does the work.** It uses the tools a person would — files, the browser, the screen and keyboard — and every
   file it touches lands in a diff you can review and undo.
3. **It keeps going when you step away.** Leave it working overnight. It notes every decision it made, and any step
   that could remove or send something waits for your yes. In the morning you read the list.

## Which AI does it use?

The one you already have. Tesseract runs the agents developers trust — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode,
Antigravity CLI, Cursor Agent, Kimi Code, Qwen Code, Grok Build, MiniMax Code, CodeBuddy, Hermes, OpenClaw and
NanoClaw — one per conversation, signed in with your own account. With a Claude or ChatGPT plan, Tesseract costs
nothing on top and never meters it.

No plan? There is a free allowance that refills, and prepaid credit from $10 for the premium models. There is no
subscription.

## What else comes in the box?

- **Every computer you own, as one.** Remote desktop between your machines, each machine's files as a folder in
  Finder or Explorer, one clipboard across all of them, and agents that keep running on another computer after you
  close the laptop.
- **Your own browser.** The Tesseract Companion extension for Chrome lets the agent work in the browser where you are
  already signed in, and fills your passwords from an encrypted vault.
- **Your team.** Atrium, the built-in team chat, with channels, threads and an AI teammate that can post its results
  for everyone.
- **The web.** The same app runs at app.tesseract.dev when you are away from your own computer.

## Where can you find us this launch week?

- **[Product Hunt](https://www.producthunt.com/products/tesseract-6), Saturday, November 14** — the launch goes live at 12:01 am Pacific. Come tell us what you would hand
  Tesseract first; every comment gets an answer from the team.
- **[Uneed](https://www.uneed.best/tool/tesseract), Thursday, November 19** — a smaller launch community that cares about well-made tools.
- **Everywhere else** — Tesseract is listed on AI Agents List and G2, with more launches and directories through
  December.

## How do you start?

[Download Tesseract](https://tesseract.dev/) for Mac, Windows or Linux. Open it, pick the agent
you already use (or start on the free allowance), and give it one sentence. The first finished result is a few
minutes away.