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The governed home for the documents humans and AI agents co-author.

Agents draft and suggest under their own names. People review the changes and sign off on one exact version. Every save is kept and can be restored — all on plain .md files that stay yours, wherever they live.

npm i -g draftmesh && draftmesh setup

Requires Node 20 or newer. Then run draftmesh open to open DraftMesh in your browser. No account needed.

Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other local assistants through the bundled skill, plus hosted assistants through the DraftMesh MCP connector.

Install freeSee how it worksRead the docs →
The DraftMesh app with a pricing document open. In the comments panel, a comment from Raj Mehta marked H for human sits above one from an AI agent called Aria marked AI, both anchored to quoted text in the document. The document header carries Read, Suggest and Edit modes and the comment count.
A person and an agent commenting on the same document. The badges say which is which, and only the person can approve.

Who is in the workspace

You, your reviewers, and your agents — on one file.

Everyone gets exactly the actions their job needs, and no more — a reviewer never has to learn an editor, and no agent can approve anything: sign-off is always a person's.

Five columns describing who shares a DraftMesh document. The author drafts in plain markdown and accepts or rejects suggestions. The reviewer highlights a sentence and types. The approver approves a specific version, often from the phone queue. The guest opens one shared document on a scoped link. Local AI agents use the DraftMesh CLI and skill to read, comment and propose; hosted agents use the cloud connector on synced workspaces. They can never approve, restore or share.
Everyone works on the same plain file, and every mark made on it carries a name.

On the free local app it's you and your agents on your own machine. Guest review links and phone review come with Individual; named teammates with verified identity come with Team.

Follow a document end to endWhat agents can and can't do

Why DraftMesh

Every other tool makes you trade something away.

Teams writing in markdown keep hitting the same four walls. DraftMesh removes all four.

01

Your work disappears quietly

Sync conflicts overwrite paragraphs with no warning. Manual backups pile up because nobody trusts the tool. DraftMesh keeps every version and never overwrites without telling you — when two edits collide, both survive.

02

You can't review what you're reading

Commenting means reading raw markdown source instead of the page, so reviewers give up and retreat to Google Docs. DraftMesh lets you highlight rendered text and comment on it — and those comments stay anchored when the prose around them changes.

03

Your agents step on each other

Two agents working in one folder can't see each other's changes, so one quietly overwrites the other's work. DraftMesh gives them one coordinated source of truth with per-agent attribution.

04

Nobody can say who approved what

Approval happens in a chat thread while the document keeps changing underneath it. DraftMesh records who signed off on exactly which version, and shows when the text has moved on since.

Your files, your folder

The file on your disk is the source of truth.

Not a row in our database. Not an export you have to remember to run. The actual markdown file, in a folder you picked, that any editor on earth can open.

  • Plain files, always

    Markdown is the heart of it, alongside HTML pages and the JSON behind them. Open any of them in Vim, Obsidian, VS Code, a browser, or cat.

  • Comments travel with the document

    Annotations live as invisible markers inside the markdown — send someone the file and the review context goes with it.

  • Offline-first, not offline-tolerant

    The local app has no network dependency at all. Airplane, air gap, dead Wi-Fi: identical behaviour.

  • Leave whenever you want

    There is no export step, because there is nothing to export from.

pricing-strategy.mdSaved

Q3 Pricing Strategy

We propose moving the entry tier to a usage-based model, with a free allowance that covers roughly 80% of solo users.

Raj · SME

Where does 80% come from? Link the analysis so finance can verify.

Conversion is driven by the second seat, not by usage limits — the moment a teammate joins, the account boundary matters.

Aria · Agent

Cross-checked against 14 comparable products. Suggested edit attached.

Where you fit

Start solo. Grow into a team.

DraftMesh is free forever for one person on one machine. When your documents need to leave it — synced to your own devices, or shared with a team — everything you've built comes with you.

Free forever

For solo builders

You run your own agent fleet on your own machine. You need honest attribution between you and your agents, history you can roll back, a memory your agents add to and you curate, and zero setup.

See the free local app →

Paid tiers

For teams

You're pulling cross-functional reviewers and outside stakeholders into a document. You need verified identity, sharing, and a clear record of who changed or signed off on what.

See team collaboration →

Working solo but need outside reviewers? The Individual tier adds sync across your devices plus guest review and sign-off links.

Security & enterprise

Built for documents you can't afford to leak.

Content that never leaves your machine can't be breached in ours. The Team tier adds an append-only audit trail and single sign-on through your own identity provider — without giving that up.

Local by default

The free app never transmits document content. A planned, optional weekly ping sends only the DraftMesh version and operating system, with no account or device identifier. It is off by default; current npm dev and latest builds have no ping target and cannot send it.

Encrypted in transit and at rest

When you do sync on a paid tier, content is encrypted in transit and at rest in storage.

Single sign-on

The Team tier includes SAML and OIDC through the identity provider your organization already runs — no SSO surcharge. Hosted human actions use verified accounts; edits synced from a local device retain self-asserted attribution.

Append-only audit log

On the Team tier, changes, shares, guest sessions and refused requests are recorded and attributed. Reads form an incomplete trail: only direct hosted agent reads of Memory documents are sampled at 10%. The database refuses changes to existing audit rows.
Read the security overviewEnterprise & integrations →

What isn't built yet is written down too — see the security posture FAQ and the audit log guide for today's limits, stated plainly.

Questions people ask before downloading

Is DraftMesh really free?

Yes. The local app is free forever — no account, no credit card, no trial clock. You only pay when your documents leave your machine, starting with a 14-day free trial: the Individual tier syncs your own documents across your own devices, and the Team tier adds collaboration with other people.

Where are my documents stored?

In a folder you choose, as ordinary files — .md for prose, plus .html and .json if you use them. DraftMesh reads and writes the same plain markdown any other editor can open. No document content is uploaded in the free local app, and there is no proprietary database holding your work hostage.

What happens to my documents if I stop using DraftMesh?

Nothing. Your files were already plain markdown, HTML, and JSON in a normal folder on your disk. Uninstalling leaves every document — and every comment, which lives inside the file — exactly where it was.

How is this different from Notion, Confluence, or Google Docs?

Those tools store your content in their database and give you an export button. DraftMesh treats the file on your disk as the source of truth, so your documents stay portable and readable by your own tools and AI agents. It also works fully offline.

Do I need to be technical to use DraftMesh?

Not to review. Reviewers see a document and the comments on it. History is a list of saved versions, and restore is one click. Installing the free app today takes one terminal command and Node 20 or newer. A one-click desktop app is on the way.

Does DraftMesh only handle markdown?

Markdown (.md) supports comments, suggested edits and approvals. HTML (.html) supports comments and approvals, but no suggested edits. JSON (.json), CSS (.css) and JavaScript (.js) can be edited in Source and keep history and sync without review annotations. Office files (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx) are previewed without editing or review; Google references (.gdoc, .gsheet, .gslides) point to documents opened in Google. Office files and Google references also keep history and sync.

Can AI agents use DraftMesh?

Yes. Agents co-author alongside people under their own names. They read, comment and propose changes in the same documents, every action is credited to the specific agent, and a person decides what goes in and signs off.

See supported file typesfor the full editing, preview and review matrix.

Good work. Woven together.

The local app is free forever — no account, no upload, no card. Your markdown never leaves your machine.

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