Project 07 - macOS utility
A local-first desktop assistant that keeps the details you retype constantly - address, education, work history, references - and fills them into forms on demand. No account, no sync, nothing leaving the machine.
Nobody types their own address wrong once. They type it wrong on the fortieth form.
Applications, onboarding packets, portals, internal tools, admin tasks - modern work is full of forms that ask for the same fifteen facts. Browser autofill covers the easy half and gives up on anything structured: employment dates, supervisor names, reference phone numbers, program titles.
CoPilot is deliberately a utility, not a platform. It holds a small set of reusable field packs and puts them where you point it. That's the whole product surface, and keeping it that small is what makes it worth opening.
Field packs
Group related values into named packs - Personal, Education, Work History, References - so you pick a pack rather than hunting for individual fields.
Pattern detection
Reads the labels around the focused input to guess which value belongs there, and shows the guess before committing to it.
Fill with confirmation
Nothing is entered without an explicit action. The tool never silently types into a form you're in the middle of.
Local-only was the first constraint, not a feature
This app holds exactly the data you'd least want in someone else's database. Deciding up front that nothing leaves the machine removed accounts, sync conflicts, a privacy policy, and the entire question of who is liable if it leaks.
Confirmation beats cleverness
A wrong autofill costs more than a missing one - you have to notice it first. Showing the proposed value and requiring a keystroke is slower per field and faster per form.
Resisting scope
Every obvious next feature - templates, document generation, an assistant that writes cover letters - turns a utility into an app you have to learn. I kept saying no, and it stayed useful.