Your computer, from your phone.
Nexus Desktop already works inside your computer: your files, your apps, your terminal. Remote is the part where you are not at the computer. Give the laptop at home a job from a phone at a restaurant, and come back to finished work.
Update the Meridian proposal with the new prices, make a PDF, and write a short cover note.
- Opened your proposal
- Updated the prices
- Asked your OK before making the PDF, and you said yes
- Saved the PDF next to it
- Wrote the cover note
Your files never left your laptop. Done over dinner.
Set it up once. After that, your phone is all you need.
Your computer has to be the one doing the work, because that is where your files and apps live. So it gets a two-minute setup, one time. Then you never touch it again.
Put Nexus on the computer you want to reach
This is the computer that does the job. Install Nexus Desktop on it and leave it signed in. It stays quiet in the background until you ask for something.
Connect it to your account
Sign in on the computer with the same account you use here, and it appears in your device list. Prefer not to sign in there? Type a single-use code instead, valid for ten minutes.
Open this page and give it a job
Sign in here from any phone or laptop, pick the computer, and describe the job. No app on the phone. You will get asked before anything risky happens.
Nexus Desktop is in private testing right now, so setup is by invitation while we finish it.
Four steps, and you are in three of them.
The point is not that the agent is unattended. The point is that you stay in charge of it from wherever you happen to be standing.
Nothing listens for a knock at the door.
A computer behind a home router cannot be called, and Nexus does not try. Both ends dial out to the same channel and talk over it, sealed with a key only the two of them hold. No inbound port, no tunnel you have to run, nothing to configure on the router.
Only computers you connect
A computer shows up when you sign in to Nexus Desktop on it with this account. Without that, a single-use code typed into the app, valid for ten minutes. A shared chat link opens that one chat, read-only until you let the person in.
Revoking is immediate
Remove a device and it stops working on its next request. You do not have to be near the computer to cut it off.
Refusals happen at the machine
Permissions are checked on the computer on every request. A web page that hid a button would prove nothing.
The jobs that need that machine.
A browser tab cannot open your licensed software, your local files or your terminal. These are the jobs that were stuck until you got home.
The thing you forgot to export
A proposal that needs the new rate card, a PDF for a client who is waiting, a deck that has to go out before the flight lands.
Work that needs the licensed software
The design tool, the accounting package, the plugin with the seat tied to that machine. A browser tab cannot open those and your laptop can.
The long job you start and walk away from
Rename the exports, reconcile the receipts, turn the quarter into something the board can read. Hand it over and go to dinner.
Answering a question about your own machine
Is it still on, did the render finish, where did the receipts end up. Ask from anywhere instead of remembering to check.
The things people ask first.
How does the browser reach a computer behind a home router?
It does not call it. A machine behind a router cannot be called. Both ends dial out to the same channel and talk over it, and every frame is sealed with a key only those two hold. Nothing listens for inbound connections and no port is opened on your network.
Who can reach my machine?
You, from any browser signed in to the account this computer is connected to. Nexus Desktop connects itself when you are signed in to the same account, or you can pair it with a single-use code that expires in ten minutes. You can also share a single chat by link, the way you would share any chat. Whoever opens it signs in with their own account and can read that one chat, and follow it live, but cannot change anything until you let them jump in. They never see your other chats, cannot start new work on your computer or open Office, and the link stops working the moment you stop sharing.
Does my work leave my computer?
Your files stay on the machine and are opened there. The model reasoning about the job runs at a model provider, the same as any AI tool, so the instructions and the context you give it go there. The distinction that matters is that the documents are not uploaded to us and no cloud copy is made.
What stops it doing something I did not want?
Approvals are enforced on the machine, not in the browser. Hiding a button in a web page would be theatre. The desktop checks the permission on every single request, so a refusal happens at the computer even if the request looked legitimate on the way in.
What if the computer is asleep or offline?
The job waits. The device list shows you which machines are awake before you send anything, so you are never guessing.
What do I need to install?
Nexus Desktop on the computer you want to reach. Nothing on the phone or tablet you reach it from, because that side is just the website.