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Sep 4, 2026 · CLI · 4 min read

navin-cli: Claude Code, OpenCode and Oh My Pi alternative

Free terminal AGI. Same engine as the desktop. Modes, sessions, git, your keys. Why navin-cli wins against Claude Code, OpenCode and Oh My Pi.

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Sep 4, 2026 · CLI · 1 min read

navin-cli: free terminal AGI, same brain as the desktop

Install navin-cli, switch mode, resume a session, see the git branch. Navin's free TUI on Windows, Linux, macOS.

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Aug 29, 2026 · Career · 2 min read

AI job search agent: search, prepare, apply without a bot

Navin Career searches Remotive and official ATS, opens LinkedIn without scrape, tailors the CV and tracks the pipeline. No invented jobs. You click apply.

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Aug 29, 2026 · Career · 2 min read

Job sources: Remotive, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, official LinkedIn

How Navin Career reads official APIs and boards, opens country portals, and treats LinkedIn as a tab plus a paste. Never a scrape.

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Aug 29, 2026 · Career · 2 min read

AI CV, letter and application pipeline: approval before apply

Tailor the master CV to the offer, write a note, track cards on disk. No Easy Apply bot. The desk never applies alone.

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Aug 29, 2026 · Tenders · 2 min read

AI tender agent: find, qualify and answer without inventing notices

Navin Tenders collects TED, BOAMP, UK OCDS, World Bank and CanadaBuys, scores 0-100, Go/No-Go and drafts. No invented notices. Approval before send.

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Aug 29, 2026 · Tenders · 2 min read

Official tender sources: TED, BOAMP, World Bank, UK OCDS

How Navin Tenders ingests official feeds and catalogues 70+ portals with no paid aggregator and no invented notices.

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Aug 29, 2026 · Tenders · 2 min read

AI Go/No-Go and tender response: score, dossier, approval

Score a notice 0-100, decide Go/No-Go, write letter and matrix, keep approval mode. The desk never posts alone.

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Aug 28, 2026 · Code · 4 min read

Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, Codex and Windsurf alternative: Navin Code, local

Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, Codex, Windsurf and Cline alternative: one local desk. Project map, review before you ship, up to 87% fewer wasted tokens. $0 install.

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Aug 28, 2026 · Code · 2 min read

Navin live project map: more useful than a Craft board

Craft shelves notes. Navin shows the live project: what depends on what, what breaks if you touch it, review in the same window.

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Aug 28, 2026 · Security · 2 min read

See the plan fail before you write: RiskLens versus Snyk and Semgrep

Snyk, Semgrep, Sonar, GitGuardian, Wiz: six bills to stay afraid. RiskLens reads the plan. Then review and isolation in the same window.

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Aug 28, 2026 · GTM · 2 min read

Navin replaces Apollo, HubSpot, Semrush and Apify: one desktop, not four seats

Leads, marketing, SEO, ads, scraping: Apollo, HubSpot, Semrush, Apify. Navin runs the work locally. GLM, Kimi, DeepSeek, Qwen and Grok on credits.

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Aug 28, 2026 · SEO · 2 min read

Semrush, Ahrefs and Surfer alternative: Navin writes the page

Semrush and Ahrefs sell the dataset. Surfer sells a score. Navin audits, groups topics, writes the page, then opens Code if the product is the bottleneck. $0 install.

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Aug 28, 2026 · Ads · 1 min read

Google Ads, Meta, Madgicx: Navin preps creatives, not the spend

The desks stay Google, Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok. Madgicx and AdCreative.ai stay extras. Navin writes angles, cuts, kits. Media budget stays yours.

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Aug 28, 2026 · Leads · 1 min read

Apollo, Clay and ZoomInfo alternative: leads without renting the file

Apollo, Clay, ZoomInfo, Cognism, Sales Navigator, Lemlist: six seats. Navin scrapes, scores, exports a CSV you own. Not a CRM. Compliance first.

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Aug 28, 2026 · Montage · 1 min read

Premiere, CapCut and Descript alternative: the demo is born from the product

Premiere stays a suite. CapCut ships shorts. Descript edits speech. Navin Montage assembles the demo from what you just shipped: cuts, dubbing, 9:16 and 16:9.

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Aug 10, 2026 · Notes · 3 min read

A local Notion alternative: Navin Notes, knowledge + AI at home

Block editor, databases, graph, wikilinks: the Navin Notes module matches Notion feature for feature, as local Markdown files, with an AI memory wired to your models (Ollama included) - no forced cloud.

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Aug 10, 2026 · Notes · 3 min read

Notes that execute: agent blocks and Notes → Actions in Navin

A block in the note starts a real mission: objective, sources, go. The agent writes, scrapes, ships, and puts the result back on the page. The document no longer stores. It acts.

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Aug 10, 2026 · Meetings · 4 min read

Local AI meetings: transcription and minutes with your own models

The Navin Meeting module captures, transcribes, and summarises meetings with your own STT providers and models: templates, Markdown DOCX PDF exports, ICS calendar, and a local audit trail, with no bot in the call.

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Aug 10, 2026 · Meetings · 3 min read

Transcribing a one hour meeting despite STT API limits

Duration, size, format: why transcription APIs reject long meetings, and how Navin prepares audio locally (16 kHz mono, segmentation, WAV) to transcribe a full hour without failing.

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Aug 10, 2026 · Compliance · 4 min read

GDPR and meeting minutes: local processing and an audit trail

Roles, minimisation, retention, erasure: how to document an AI meeting minutes chain with the Navin Meeting module, its explicit processors, and its exportable local log.

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Aug 9, 2026 · Montage · 3 min read

From web/mobile app to social posts: Navin Montage (demo, Veo, Lyria)

Build web and mobile in Navin, then let AI create project-linked videos and images (Nano Banana, Veo 3.1 Fast, Lyria, Qwen STT) for YouTube Shorts Reels TikTok - no auto-publish.

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Aug 9, 2026 · Montage · 2 min read

Install FFmpeg, HyperFrames and Remotion in Navin Montage

OS detection (apt, brew, winget…), Install button, user-local fallback under ~/.navin/montage/bin - no cold-start bundle.

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Aug 8, 2026 · Cost · 3 min read

Lower AI agent cost: shell output compaction in Navin

How git, test, docker and Kubernetes output inflate context - and how Navin compacts it before the model, with no external tool.

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Aug 8, 2026 · Pricing · 4 min read

Free saturated, Flash working: rate limits and budget in Navin

How Free quotas (requests / 429) differ from managed-plan budgets. How to check the active key and choose Free, BYOK or a subscription.

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Aug 8, 2026 · Cost · 3 min read

Prompt caching in Navin: amortizing an IDE agent prefix

Prompt caching versus response caching, how Navin enables it, and how it complements shell output compaction.

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Aug 5, 2026 · Product · 4 min read

Navin goes free: full AI IDE in 2 minutes, no credit card

Free plan: free Navin account + guided OpenRouter connection, 2 free AI models included, your key belongs to you. No credit card, no copy-pasting.

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Aug 5, 2026 · Plan · 2 min read

Navin Plan and Mission: /blueprint, /forge, /cruise and a native ledger

Native Magentic-style orchestration: Task Ledger, Progress Ledger, mandatory evidence, pause/resume and Build handoff - no external framework.

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Aug 5, 2026 · Security · 2 min read

Navin Git kill-switches: cut auto-branch and auto-PR machine-wide

Settings > Security > Git: two global switches that override project consent. Powerful autonomy, instant operator brake.

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Aug 5, 2026 · Memory · 2 min read

Navin Project Brain: RESUME, DECISIONS, MEMORY, SOUL and USER

Durable project memory versioned in the repo, shared by Code and studios, injected every turn - not chat history.

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Aug 5, 2026 · Tasks · 4 min read

Navin task board: plan, enrich and steer as human, agent or hybrid

How the agent manages tasks like an expert: depends_on, critical path, acceptance, evidence, ledger, human/agent/subagent assignment and autonomy.

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Aug 5, 2026 · Vision 360 · 3 min read

Navin Vision 360: project health audit, architecture, RBAC and PDF

Local health cockpit: score /100, API catalog, Mermaid, RBAC map, SQL inventory, security/perf findings and PDF export - without sending code anywhere.

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Aug 5, 2026 · Autonomy · 5 min read

Navin autonomous board: auto branches, pull requests and GitHub issues

The task board becomes a delivery pipeline: isolated branch per task, PR on done, GitHub issue sync and fixing, with consent and git guardrails.

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Aug 5, 2026 · Review · 3 min read

Navin review agent: /inspect, evidence and a numbered remediation plan

Local expert code review: eight analysis layers, real evidence, HTML report and #1 choices before any edit.

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Aug 5, 2026 · Security · 3 min read

Navin AppSec security agent: /fortify, scanners and source → sink evidence

Local AppSec audit: surface map, scanners, injection, authz, supply chain, HTML report and numbered hardening plan.

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Aug 5, 2026 · Debug · 3 min read

Navin debug agent: proven root cause, isolated branch and HTML report

Methodical debug: lock the signal, reproduce, prove, isolate on a branch, deliver a numbered fix plan before any patch.

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Aug 4, 2026 · Projects · 4 min read

Project Home: the continuity hub for long projects in Navin

One-click resume, shared board, GitHub issues, Vision 360, graph and a versioned project brain: how Navin makes a project outlive a session.

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Aug 2, 2026 · Agents · 2 min read

Navin agents: local AI team, parallel missions and @mentions

Complete guide to Navin agents: virtual teams, @mentions, model routing, multi-agent missions and local execution on your machine.

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Aug 1, 2026 · Code · 2 min read

Navin Code module: Agent, Plan, Review, Security and Debug

Agent, Plan, Review, AppSec Security and evidence-based Debug modes. The full Navin AI IDE lifecycle.

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Jul 28, 2026 · Vision 360 · 2 min read

Navin Vision 360: preview, mobile, tasks, graph and terminal

Vision 360 workbench: code, web/mobile preview, agent tasks, graph, evolutions, audit and Ops in one window.

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Jul 25, 2026 · Scraping · 2 min read

Web scraping with Navin: extraction, monitoring and /scrape

How to scrape and collect sources with Navin agents, /scrape, legal hygiene and handoff to leads or documents.

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Jul 22, 2026 · Documents · 2 min read

Navin AI documents: PowerPoint, Word, PDF and Excel

Generate decks, specs, PDFs and spreadsheets with the Documents studio, /studio and Scribe - local-first.

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Jul 20, 2026 · Product · 1 min read

Navin: far more than an AI IDE - from idea to market

Why Navin goes beyond a plain AI IDE: code, debug, scrape, leads, security, review, studios and go-to-market - local and cross-platform.

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Jul 18, 2026 · Leads · 2 min read

AI leads and B2B prospecting with Navin

Navin leads pipeline: ICP, scrape, enrichment, scoring and export - with compliance and marketing handoff.

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Jul 15, 2026 · Marketing · 2 min read

AI marketing and SEO with Navin: campaigns and content

/seo audits, content plans, campaigns and GTM loop with Vector, Leads and Documents agents in Navin.

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Jun 12, 2026 · Engineering · 1 min read

How Navin runs multiple agents without breaking your machine

Navin's local architecture: isolated agents, dedicated environments, controlled parallelism so you can ship several features without saturating CPU and RAM.

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May 18, 2026 · Research · 1 min read

Semantic indexing: giving Navin a memory of your repository

How Navin indexes your code locally (grep, LSP, embeddings) to find the right file without uploading the whole repo to the cloud.

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Apr 22, 2026 · Product · 1 min read

Navin automations: delegate the maintenance nobody wants

Schedule agents, cron and heartbeats in Navin for updates, summaries and overnight checks - the local gateway delivers without waking you.

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Mar 15, 2026 · Security · 1 min read

Why your API keys never leave your machine with Navin

BYOK, Credential Manager / Keychain / Secret Service: how Navin keeps keys local while still offering optional managed plans.

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