Grab a file off one screen with your fingers, walk it over, let go: it lands on the other machine. Encrypted the whole way — the cloud never sees it. The software runs in your browser today; palm-sized anchors ($20 for founding members) add whole-office tracking next.
THE SOFTWARE IS LIVE — FREE BETA · HARDWARE IN DEVELOPMENTTwo anchors pin the room down. Your hand does the moving. And the name is the move itself: you pinch it like it's yours. Because it is.
Two Pinch Anchors, opposite sides of the room, USB-C power, done. They become the room's fixed reference points, and its trust root. No IT department required.
Every computer gets the app. Its webcam spots the pinch on-device. The video never leaves the machine. It tags which hand grabbed what.
Grab a file with your fingers, carry it across the room, one in each hand if you want, and open your fingers over any screen. Even in another room.
Click a file on Maya's screen to pinch it. Carry it with your cursor. Click a teammate's screen to drop. Grab a second file for your other hand, then walk to Room 2 mid-carry and watch the anchors hand you off.
REAL HAND MODE: hit the orange button and use your actual hand. The webcam reads a real pinch, tells your left hand from your right, and recognises your face so if you step out of frame and come back it still knows who you are and what each hand was holding. Nothing is recorded or uploaded; the models run in your browser and the face data disappears when you close the tab. First start downloads about 8MB of models, once.
The moment you pinch, the file is sealed with AES-256-GCM using keys minted by your room's anchor pair — keys that never leave your office. The file moves machine-to-machine over your own network. Anchors coordinate; they never store or relay a single byte of your files. And if you ever want a physical kill switch: unplug an anchor and the room goes dark.
Carry the budget in your left hand and the demo video in your right. The pinch is tagged to the hand that made it, and the drop is confirmed by that same hand, so two files in flight are designed never to swap or collide. It's dual-tracked from grab to landing.
Leave Design holding two files and stroll into Finance: the next room's anchor pair picks you up automatically, like your phone gliding between cell towers. Every room you outfit extends the coverage. Designed for no re-pairing, no dropped carries, no mix-ups on the way.
One box per office, not per room. A local AI that watches the whole office through your own network, answers out loud, and physically cannot phone home.
THE THIRD DEVICE — OPTIONAL, IN DEVELOPMENTThe Brain pulls the live map from every anchor pair and the transfer log from Pinch Desk — over your LAN, the same wires everything already uses. Ask it: "Where did the Q3 deck land?" "Send the budget to Sam when he's back at his desk." It watches for weird patterns too — a 3 a.m. mass copy gets flagged before it becomes a story. Its models run on the box itself, so none of it touches the internet. Anchors are radios, not cameras: the Brain sees the map, never video. File contents stay sealed unless you hand it a file and ask. Unplug it and it's gone — the rest of PINCH keeps working without it.
The software is — open PINCH Live on two machines and move a real file right now, free, no account. The hardware (anchors and the Brain) is in development; the waitlist reserves the first batch at founding pricing. No card, no charge.
In the hardware system (in development): files are sealed with AES-256-GCM the moment you pinch, using keys minted per anchor pair that never leave your office. The free web beta available today uses WebRTC's built-in DTLS encryption directly between your two browsers.
Straight from one machine to the other — over your office LAN in the hardware system, or directly browser-to-browser in the web beta. The anchors coordinate who is where and hold the room's keys; they never store or relay your files, and nothing is ever uploaded to any cloud.
The pinch is detected by the computer's own webcam, on-device, which tags the grab as left or right hand. The drop is confirmed with the same hand, so two files carried at once never get mixed up.
The next room's anchor pair picks up tracking automatically — like your phone moving between cell towers. Your carried files stay sealed in your hands the whole way.
Nothing is held hostage. Your anchors are yours, your files are yours. Transfers pause until the plan resumes.
No — by default it sees the map and the metadata: who carried what file name, where, when. It reads a file's contents only when you explicitly hand it one and ask. Its models run on the box itself, nothing goes to the internet, and unplugging it removes it completely — anchors and transfers keep working.
Because it doesn't need eyes of its own. Every anchor pair already reports positions, and Pinch Desk already reports transfers, over your local network — so a single box can cover every room you've outfitted. One Brain, whole building.
A small UWB badge or wristband tag — planned to be included per seat in the first batch — or a UWB-equipped phone (iPhone 11+ and flagship Androids) where platforms allow it. The anchors are the fixed side of the system; the tag is the moving side. The pinch itself is handled by each computer's webcam, on-device.
First batch is small. Waitlist members lock founding pricing — $20 anchors, $3/month.
We'll email when your rooms are ready to claim. Founding pricing is locked for you.