GotoAI Releases Kari, a Desktop AI Agent Tied to Existing Claude and ChatGPT Subscriptions
Kari targets the gap GotoAI names in its own release notes: employees who already pay for Claude or ChatGPT personally still need a separate API contract to use AI on the files in front of them.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
GotoAI released Kari on September 21, 2026, a desktop AI agent app for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It signs in with a user's existing Anthropic Claude Pro or Max plan or OpenAI ChatGPT subscription, so no API key or usage-based billing contract is needed. It works on local PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files and operates a browser for legacy web systems without a Web API or MCP. Personal and under-100-person organization use is free; larger organizations get a trial of up to 60 days.
Kari runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux and signs the user in to Claude Pro or Max plans and ChatGPT subscriptions through each company's own authentication screen. GotoAI states that it does not receive, store, or relay authentication information or tokens, and that because it runs Anthropic's Claude Code agent unmodified, usage bills to the user's own plan rather than through GotoAI.
The company lists three barriers it built against: employees with personal subscriptions still needing a separate API contract for business tools, data sitting in local folders or legacy web systems without a Web API or MCP, and AI tools that either stay inside a browser tab or run remotely away from the user's open file.
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