What is Shepherd?

Shepherd is shared memory for deeply technical teams. It connects research, hardware, firmware, software, operations, and the tools around them into one traceable record, then helps people and agents act with the same context. Nothing is sent until you approve it.

Shepherd runs as a macOS app with a web dashboard. Teams sign in, connect their tools, and Shepherd starts building memory in the background — no tagging or manual organization required.

Shepherd works in three steps: it ingests every connected tool into one unified memory, it lets you and your agents search and build on that memory, and it proposes concrete actions — draft replies, filed bugs, linked work — that a person approves before anything is sent.

Because Shepherd runs quietly in the background, every message, call, and commit becomes memory your team and its AI agents can use. You can ask it anything about your company, and it can reach out first when something needs attention.

Shepherd connects Slack, Messages (iMessage), Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Docs, Notion, GitHub, Linear, Stripe, Granola meeting notes, and coding agents including Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Everything lands in one memory, so a question can be answered across sources instead of inside one silo.

An AI chief of staff is software that tracks everything happening across a company's communication and work tools, maintains the shared context a human chief of staff would hold, and moves work forward — drafting responses, filing issues, and connecting related threads — while leaving final approval with a person.

It differs from a chatbot, which only answers questions, and from enterprise search, which only finds documents. An AI chief of staff acts on what it knows.

Shepherd is built for teams whose work crosses technical domains. Research labs, robotics companies, aerospace teams, hardware startups, and other organizations spanning science, hardware, firmware, software, and operations use it to keep decisions connected from first evidence through implementation.

Shepherd processes only the sources you or your organization authorize, and proposed actions require human approval before anything is sent. Access to customer data inside Shepherd is gated and audited. The Privacy Policy at askshepherd.ai/privacy describes exactly what is collected, how it is used, and how to delete it.

Download the Shepherd macOS app from askshepherd.ai, sign in, and connect your tools — setup takes minutes. Shepherd is backed by Y Combinator. For questions, contact [email protected].