Why I built it
I’ve worked in finance, strategy, sales, product marketing, product and engineering, and every one of those seats was knowledge work. I built Safata because I needed a capable agent to test Kimi K3 the day it came out, on real work. The agents I had were each tied to one vendor and its models.
So Safata runs on your computer, on the model you choose: frontier or open, American, Chinese or French. You make the calls. It does the work and writes down what it learns, on your disk, next to your files. Switch models and nothing is lost; the more you use it, the better it gets. That is what owning your context means.
I don’t believe agents replace knowledge workers any time soon. Too much of the work isn’t about capability: context that lives in someone’s head, judgment about what matters, accountability for being wrong, and taste. What I do believe is that a person working with an agent gets to a better result, faster, than either alone. Safata is built for that pair.
Some of that costs me. Your own keys are slower to adopt than an account and a credit card, and with no telemetry I only learn what breaks when you tell me. But a tool this close to your work has to be one you can be relaxed about, including about me. If I stopped tomorrow, everything Safata made for you is an ordinary file on your own disk, and your keys are your own.
How I use it
- Beside Claude Code. When I build an app, Safata draws its images with GPT Image and makes its music with ElevenLabs, on my own keys.
- Trying new models. When a model ships, I give it a real job instead of a benchmark.
- Listening to the market. It gathers the LinkedIn and Reddit conversations in my field and pulls out what is worth knowing.
- Sovereign work. When the work should stay with a European provider, the same agent runs on Mistral.
Safata is Catalan for tray: a place where you can put anything you want.
Victor Zhang, Barcelona · victorzhang.io · LinkedIn · The Knowledge Worker
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