Questions
Short answers. Each one says what Roubot's code does today, and what it does not do yet.
What is Roubot?
Roubot is a desktop app. You describe a task in the chat, it turns it into a step-by-step flow, and you can see and change that flow in a visual editor before running it.
At the end of the day, every organisation knows what was done, when, how, where, why and who authorised it.
What does "with governance" mean?
Governance means that everything Roubot does can be seen, explained, audited and stopped.
Every step of a flow is recorded in a log on your computer: what it did and to what, by which route, how long it took, how it ended, the cause if it failed, the retries and who authorised it.
The outcome is decided by a check, not by what the action reports: a sent email is looked up in Sent; a file or a sheet is opened again. If the check says it did not happen, the step fails.
Which programs does it work with?
The steps work with what an office already uses: email, folders and files, Word and PDF, Excel and CSV, web pages, desktop programs and databases.
For each job it uses the most solid route available: the official API, the application's own API, the accessibility tree, the web page or the files. Looking at the screen and moving the mouse is the last resort.
Where is my data stored?
Your data is stored in a PostgreSQL database on your computer. If you do not have one, Roubot starts its own, with the data in your user folder.
Only the definition of your automations goes to the Roubot cloud, and only when you sync. Run history, conversations, files and settings are not uploaded.
What leaves my computer?
To answer you, what you type in the chat is sent to a cloud AI provider (OpenRouter or Groq). Images and what is on screen, when they need to be looked at, are sent too (OpenRouter by default).
Internet searches go to whichever search engine is configured.
Activating the licence sends your email, the licence key and a fingerprint of the machine: a hash, not the machine details.
The app asks the Roubot servers for the usage policy at start-up and from time to time, without sending any of your data.
Does it work without internet?
No: today Roubot needs the internet for the chat, for building flows from a request and for looking at images, because it uses cloud AI models. What a flow does with your files happens on your computer.
Can it send an email without asking me?
A flow prepared by the chat is born switched off: it does not run on its own until you switch it on.
Today the approval step is added when the request asks for it ("have someone review it before uploading").
Every action already has a risk level (low, medium, high or critical), but it does not block anything yet: making high and critical actions ask for confirmation is on the way.
Approval by type of action: anything that leaves the machine or cannot be undone will always ask until the automation is autonomous; payments and deleting other people's data, always.
What happens if there is no way to tell whether something happened?
A check has three possible answers: it happened, it did not happen, or there is no way to tell. "No way to tell" never counts as done.
Every email goes out with its own seal so it can be found later in Sent. If there is no way to tell whether it went out, it is not retried blindly: the person has to be asked, so it is never sent twice.
When does an automation run on its own?
To become autonomous, an automation needs 20 checked runs in a row; 60 if any step leaves the machine or cannot be undone.
Twenty out of twenty does not prove it never fails: it shows, with 95% confidence, that it fails at most 1 time in 7. Sixty in a row show at most 1 in 20.
Can I test a flow without it doing anything?
A flow can be rehearsed with no side effects: reads happen for real and the steps that would leave the machine are simulated, recording what they would have done.
Does it watch me while I work?
By default, Roubot notes which window is in front and counts your keystrokes and clicks, to see where time goes. It does not store what you type or what is inside the window.
What if the chat says it did something it did not do?
If the chat claims to have done something without running any action, Roubot does not let the sentence through: it answers that it is not done.
Which systems and languages does it support?
Today Roubot installs on macOS, on Apple Silicon or Intel. The Windows and Linux builds are set up but not yet properly tested.
The app is available in Spanish and English.
What is the automation library?
A library of automations by business area: uploaded and downloaded from Roubot, each with a public card, and the content can only be opened by a Roubot installation.
Anything downloaded from the library will start as a draft with its scorecard at zero in your organisation: it only moves up with tests or a person's signature, never because the model says so.
How much does it cost?
Credits measure AI usage: one credit is 0.0005 US dollars of what the model costs.
Payments are not open yet: to get started, write to us.
See it working on your own work
Tell us about a task that repeats in your organisation and we will show you how it would look as a flow, with its log.
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