Announcing o11's backing from Y Combinator.
The CIO Guide to Native AI: Why The Browser is Not The Future of Office
For the last decade, the mandate for every CIO was “Cloud First.” We moved our storage to OneDrive, our email to Outlook Web, and our collab to Slack. But as we enter the era of Generative AI, a new reality has emerged: Professional work still happens on the Desktop.
The most advanced financial modeling, legal drafting, and slide engineering take place in the native desktop versions of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. This creates a “Productivity Gap” for browser-based AI tools.
The Problem with “Browser Silo” AI
When an AI tool lives only in a browser tab, it requires the user to constantly “Context Switch.”
- Open the Browser.
- Type a prompt.
- Get the result.
- Download/Copy the result.
- Alt-Tab to the desktop app.
- Paste and reformat.
This “Context Tax” eats up to 30% of an employee’s daily productivity.
The o11 Solution: Native Integration
o11 is built as a native COM add-in. By living inside the desktop application, o11 eliminates the “Context Tax.”
- Direct Object Access: o11 doesn’t “copy-paste” text; it talks to the application’s underlying code to create native slide objects, tables, and charts.
- Enterprise Security: By operating within the desktop application, o11 respects all local machine security protocols and corporate firewalls.
- Latency-Free Workflow: There is no “uploading” files to a third-party web app. The data and the AI meet where the work is already happening.
Why CIOs are switching to o11
The “Digital Transformation” isn’t finished until the AI is as native as the “Save” button. o11 is that final step.
