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Local-first work
Start from the files teams already trust: PDFs, spreadsheets, reports, folders, exports, and internal records.
ABOUT CARMEN LABS
We build AI that leaves useful things behind.
Carmen Labs is a small product lab focused on making everyday work with files, folders, documents, and operational data feel less like prompt management and more like actual progress.
Our bias is simple: AI should produce artifacts people can inspect, rerun, edit, and keep. Carmen Desktop is where that belief becomes a workspace. MView is the open format underneath the living views it creates.
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Durable interfaces
Turn a one-off analysis into a view, dashboard, checklist, parser, or workflow that stays connected to the source.
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Human control
Let agents draft, classify, transform, and explain while people keep the context, approvals, and final decisions.
What the lab is for
A workshop for practical AI products, not demos.
We test ideas against messy real-world material: tax documents, business folders, operational backlogs, CSV exports, reports, and the strange edge cases that make software useful.
Artifacts over chats
Open specs over lock-in
Workflows over features
Clarity over magic
Current focus
Carmen Desktop
A desktop workspace where agents help people understand, reshape, and act on local files.
MView
An open specification for portable, mutated file views built from a manifest, parser, and React component.
If a tool cannot be inspected, it cannot be trusted.
That is the operating principle behind Carmen Labs.