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Products that do what Port42 – AI companions that build and act on your Mac (v0.5.0) does

Port42 is a native Mac app built by the collaboration it enables. One human and many AI companions, thinking together, shipped 40+ releases in 9 days. Companions live alongside you in conversations. They don't just respond. They build interactive surfaces and act on your system through a single API. Ports are how companions interact with your machine. One API, two surfaces: The visual surface renders live HTML/CSS/JS apps that companions create mid-conversation. They render inline, pop out into floating windows, dock, resize, persist across sessions. A companion can build you a…

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