Floatboat

Most AI assistants wait for you to open a tab and type. Floatboat inverts that contract: it reads your calendar, fires an agent before each block, executes the configured Combo Skill, and delivers finished output — briefs, decks, follow-up emails, PR drafts — by the time the event starts or ends. The vendor describes this as a ‘calendar-first agent runtime,’ where each event carries its own persistent workspace with files, run history, model selection, and permission scopes. Supported calendars include Google Calendar, Notion Calendar, Lark, Outlook, iCloud, and any ICS feed.

The differentiating layer is FloatIM — a local group chat where every participant is an AI agent running on your machine. Agents self-organize into roles, hand work to each other, and return finished artifacts rather than paragraphs of text. This runs on the IACT and Selfware open protocols, meaning any compliant agent can join the channel. Local-first execution means you decide what syncs and what stays on-device — a meaningful distinction for teams with sensitive documents who cannot route data through a SaaS API.

Floatboat targets solopreneurs, small studios, and calendar-heavy professionals who want agents running work while they’re heads-down, not another subscription they have to prompt. The Combo Store offers pre-built agent recipes installable in one click and editable from there. Auto Mode routes each step of a Combo to the cheapest adequate model, falling back automatically when a provider is rate-limited — the vendor states a run never dies mid-way. The documented integration surface covers 3,500+ tools including Notion, Slack, GitHub, Linear, Google Drive, Gmail, Figma, local Word/PDF/PPT files, and any MCP server.

The tool ships as a desktop download for Mac (including Intel) and Windows; no self-hosted deployment option or public API is documented. Chinese frontier models — DeepSeek, MiniMax, GLM, Kimi — are built in and accessible without a Chinese phone number, VPN, or local account setup, which the vendor explicitly calls out as a solved friction point for global users.