Download BrickNote
The application installs on your computer and works on the project folder exactly as it stands. Free during the beta.
The first signed build is on its way.
BrickNote is ready; what is missing is the signature that lets macOS install it without a fight. Rather than hand you a file your Mac will refuse, we are waiting. Write to us and you will hear on the day.
Let me knowWhat you need
Three things, and the second is the one nobody is honest about.
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A computer, yours
The project folder stays where it is — BrickNote reads it in place, it does not move it and keeps no copy elsewhere. macOS on Apple Silicon as well as Intel; the minimum system version is stated with the download.
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A key from a model provider
Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral — or Ollama on your own machine, in which case the documents do not leave it. BrickNote supplies no model and bills no usage: you keep your contract, your invoice and your choice of provider. The excerpts a question needs go to the provider you choose — that is the only place they go. It is also the one step that takes a little setting up, and we would rather say so before the download than after.
Without a key the application still opens your folder, indexes it and prepares the first version of the worksheets. It is the writing that waits for a model.
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Your Microsoft 365 mailbox, if you want it
Optional. Connected, it files the project's messages into its folder and lets follow-ups and reports leave from your own address — on your click, never on a timer.
What does the AI Act ask of me?
Almost nothing. The EU AI Act keeps its heavy obligations for so-called high-risk systems — hiring, credit, the safety of a structure. BrickNote is not one of them: it reads your project's documents, it proposes, and nothing moves without your click. Your firm has no conformity assessment to produce, no declaration to file and no register to keep on that account.
Two things stay yours, and both predate AI. Knowing what the tool does and does not do — what follows is for that, and it is the one obligation the Act does place on you. And your obligations towards the personal data in your projects, which BrickNote does not change: it stays on your computer, apart from what you send yourself to the model provider you chose.
What the model gets wrong
We bench the application before showing it to anyone. Here is what that gives, including where it does us no favours.
- 1 in 3
Site vocabulary escapes the transcription
On our bench, the most common transcription provider recognised about one trade term in three — lot names, drawing references, abbreviations. Re-read the proper nouns and the references before issuing: that is where it matters, not in the grammar.
- 2 in 130
Citations that did not hold
Of roughly one hundred and thirty citations the model wrote, two resolved to no document in the folder: the application removed them, and likewise removes a quoted passage it cannot find in the document. Mind what that does not guarantee — it is the citation that is checked, not the sentence carrying it. A statement whose source was rejected stays in the text, without its reference. Re-read it.
- 15 of 16
And what does work
Of sixteen questions put to the demonstration folder, fifteen came back with a sourced answer, at a median of thirty-one seconds. The sixteenth was about a budget the deterministic draft already covered without a model.
No proposal reaches the register and no message leaves without your validation. That is the tool's principle, and it is also why the report stays yours: it carries your signature, not ours.
What the beta promises, and what it does not
- Free, without commitment, and with no payment method requested.
- No account to create: no email, no password with us.
- No BrickNote server: your documents, your index and your reports stay on your computer. What leaves it, and nothing else: the excerpts sent to the model provider you choose; a meeting’s audio if you ask for its transcription; messages collected and sent if you connect Microsoft 365, or handed to your mail client otherwise; the update check; and usage measurement if you turn it on — it is off by default.
- Provided as is. Keep your current working method running alongside: a defect in the application must not put a report at risk.
- No guaranteed support. We read the feedback, without promising a response time.
- BrickNote is intended to become paid software. The end of the beta will be announced at least two months in advance, and an installed version does not stop working as a result.
Before you open a real project
The application opens on a demonstration project: you can try everything without touching a real folder. The tutorials cover it in a few minutes each.