Decide where your reporting goes before you paste it anywhere.

Written for journalists organizing permitted reporting notes.

Create a project with only the material the task permits, then choose a local model that stays on your Mac or a named hosted provider. Saved keys sit in the Mac's Keychain, and writes wait for your approval.

The route is explicit: local when the notes must stay home, a named provider when they may travel, and a project that holds only what you put in it.

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Free for one person on your Mac, no card. Your model provider bills you directly.

Same work, different week

Now

A general chat account is not a source protection policy, and a reporter pasting notes into it has already made the decision without noticing.

With Bandicot

The route is explicit: local when the notes must stay home, a named provider when they may travel, and a project that holds only what you put in it.

What you get, and what it asks of you

What you get: A reporting project with a deliberate route for prompts.
Why it holds: You choose a local model or a named hosted provider per project, and saved provider keys move into the Mac's Keychain.
How soon: Create a project with only the material the task permits.
What you stop doing: No assuming that a general chat account is a source protection policy.

What it takes to begin

No assuming that a general chat account is a source protection policy.

A Mac
Bandicot is a Mac app. The work happens in your folders, on your machine.
A folder
Keep files, context, plans and decisions with the project instead of losing them in a disposable chat.
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A model
A local model, an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, or a hosted provider you sign in to. The provider bills you directly.

Free

For one person on your Mac. Every plan has every capability.

In our own words

Hosted providers and local models, in the same project.

You choose a local model or a named hosted provider per project, and saved provider keys move into the Mac's Keychain.

What it does for this job

Free Bandicot core
The free plan has every capability for one profile. Bring a provider key, a local model, or both; a provider's own bill stays yours.
A trusted harness around the model
Bandicot gives every agent a project, tools, a session that survives restarts, approvals, and a clear place to stop.
Projects that hold the work
Keep files, context, plans, and decisions with the project instead of losing them in a disposable chat.
Durable work sessions
Close the window, restart, or pick up from another of your Macs without turning the work into a brand-new conversation.

The Reporting Desk

Every line below is already in the plan. Nothing here is an extra you pay for.

A project that holds only the material you addincluded
A local model from the one-click catalog, or a provider you nameincluded
Reading outside the project asks first and names the folderincluded
A version of every draft editincluded
Voice heard offline on this Macincluded

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Free for one person on your Mac, no card. Your model provider bills you directly.

No contract. Cancel any time from your account and keep the plan until the end of the period you paid for.

Questions before you start

Does a local model make my reporting anonymous?

No. Local inference describes where model work runs, not a source anonymity guarantee. Review tools, files and your wider security practices.

Where do my prompts go?

A local model runs on your Mac. A hosted provider receives the prompts you send it and bills you directly. Choose the route the work permits.

Can an agent change files without asking?

Writes, commands and spend outside your permissions file wait for approval. The model cannot grant itself permission.