ctrlside: run more agents, watch none of them

You hired agents. You became their babysitter.

migrationtestsbillingemails

✳ Running the migration

still working…

Checked 0 times

Is it done yet?

12:02You're at lunch

Claude wants to run a commandpnpm test

DenyAllow

Waiting on you · 0 min

claude, acme-web

✳ Running the checkout tests…

Bash command

pnpm test --filter checkout

Do you want to proceed?

❯ 1. Yes

2. Yes, and don't ask again for pnpm test

3. No, and tell Claude what to do differently

Waiting for you · 0m

12:0012:3013:00

You

Agent

WorkingLunchWaiting on you

Agent idle · 0 min

12:06

Saturday 18 October

CLAUDEnow

Needs your permission

Claude wants to run pnpm test in acme-web.

SLACK1h ago

#support

Priya: any update on Safari?

Unanswered · 0 min

It was waiting on me the whole time.

＋New session

Search sessions

Refactor billing

Not this one.

Which chat was that?

Q4 plan

Claude

DB migrationCheckout testsPricing pageDocs cleanupFix flaky e2e

Can I run the migration on staging?

zsh, acme-api

$ claude
✳ Allow pnpm db:migrate? (y/n) y

Slack

# general# support 4# eng 12

Sam are we still on for 3pm?

Dan anyone seen the deploy logs?

DB migration
Needs your answer

App switches: 0

Wait, where was I?

Your agents are fast. Waiting for you is what's slow.

The research agrees

Attention is the new bottleneck.

80%

of the time in Claude sessions, agents sit waiting on a person.

The Anthropic Institute, How employment is changing at Anthropic, October 2026

Fortune · Oct 19, 2026

An army of Claudes, with every one asking for my attention

Anthropic calls human attention the bottleneck in the botsitting world to come.

Read on Fortune ↗

Fast Company · Apr 20, 2026

Human attention is the bottleneck to AI in the workplace

Our ability to manage attention becomes the real bottleneck.

Read on Fast Company ↗

Harvard Business Review · Feb 12, 2026

To Thrive in the AI Era, Companies Need Agent Managers

Companies are discovering they need a new kind of leader to manage them.

Read on HBR ↗

Get your attention back. One central place for all your agents.

Now your screen is the context. Your voice is the prompt.

Your screen

+

⌃control

Your voice

=

ctrlside's composer with the screenshot attached and your words written out

A briefed agent

No screenshots. No pasting. No explaining.
Just hold one key.

ctrlside shows you what needs you. Nothing else.

Show it. Say it. Done.

Double-tap Control in any app to launch any agent. Hold the second tap and your screen and your words go with it.

The ctrlside composer while you hold Control: a screenshot of Slack attached, and what you said typed out

Try it. Hold, then let go.

Nothing waits on you.

Questions come to you. One click, it's moving again.

Safari login bug, needs you: wants to push the session cookie fix. Deny or Allow.

Waiting on you · 0:00

Every agent at a glance.

See what each one did. Answer right there.

Safari login bug done, with a recap and Claude asking: Want me to tell Priya? Below it, DB migration done.

Quiet until it matters.

Fold them into one pill. Get back to focus.

The stack: DB migration, Checkout tests, Pricing page redesign

Three shortcuts. From any app.

⌃⌃Launch any agentfrom anywhere

⌃⌃holdShow your screenand say it

⌃↩Approvefrom any app

Same person. Same Mac. Four times the agents.

4×more agents a day
2 before, 9 with ctrlside

3×more prompts a day
55 before, 165 with ctrlside

93smedian wait for a yes
answered from ctrlside

12replies sent
without opening Claude

From the maker's own Claude Code logs. Sep 25 to Oct 11 without ctrlside, Oct 13 to 20 with it.

ctrlside is just the bridge. We store nothing.

Your work goes from your Mac straight to the AI you already use. ctrlside passes it along and never keeps a copy.

Your Macyour screen, your voice

ctrlsidepasses it on, keeps nothing

Claude or Codexthe agents you already use

Nothing storedNo account, no cloud.
Nothing you send ever reaches us.

Your screen, only when you askOnly while you hold Control.
Never in the background.

Your voice, through Apple dictationTranscribed by Apple, on your Mac
when your language allows.

Run more agents. Watch none of them.