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Built for people who think in documents

Knowledge workers, writers, and researchers accumulate an enormous amount of local text: folders of meeting notes, exported research papers, half-finished drafts, and daily journals. The useful work hiding in those files — the summary, the action items, the synthesis — usually never gets done because it is tedious. FlowRunner exists to do that tedious work for you, locally, on demand.

Instead of pasting sensitive notes into a cloud assistant and hoping for the best, you point an on-device AI workflow at a folder and let it run. The model reads your files, does the task you described in plain English, and writes the result back to your disk. Your thinking stays private because it never leaves your machine.

A weekly review that writes itself

Picture a folder where you drop a short note every day. At the end of the week, a single FlowRunner workflow reads all seven notes, pulls out what you accomplished, flags open threads, and produces a tidy Markdown summary you can paste into your planning doc. You set it up once; from then on a weekly review is one click instead of an hour of scrolling.

Because the Read Files step understands glob patterns and the Template step can format output exactly how you like it, the report comes out consistent every time — same structure, same tone, no manual cleanup.

Research synthesis without the copy-paste

Researchers often have a folder of PDFs and Markdown clippings on a single topic. FlowRunner can read the whole set, extract the key claims, and draft a synthesis that cites which source each point came from. A Transform step can deduplicate overlapping ideas before the AI Step writes the summary, so you get signal instead of repetition.

This is the kind of work that is genuinely valuable but rarely worth doing by hand. Automating it locally means you can run it on unpublished or sensitive material without worrying about where it ends up.

A writing assistant that respects your drafts

Writers can build a workflow that takes a rough draft and produces a cleaned-up version, a punchier headline, and a short social blurb — all in one run, all on-device. Your unpublished writing stays on your Mac, which matters when the words are your livelihood.

And because you can choose your model, you can run a small fast model for quick passes and switch to a larger one when you want the most polished result.

Process your personal knowledge base

If you keep a personal knowledge base — Obsidian-style Markdown, exported highlights, or plain text notes — FlowRunner can maintain it for you: generating summaries of long notes, tagging entries by theme, or rolling daily notes up into weekly and monthly digests. It works alongside your existing files rather than locking them into another app.

Everything above runs free on the no-cost tier for a single workflow, and the one-time $9.99 Pro unlock lets you keep several of these automations active at once. Explore the full feature set or check the FAQ to see how it fits your setup.

Private AI automation, free to start.

FlowRunner is a one-time $9.99 Pro unlock on the Mac App Store, with a free tier that runs entirely on your Mac. No account, no subscription, no data leaving your device.