Dessix
Visual workspace to capture, organize, and create with AI
672 followers
Visual workspace to capture, organize, and create with AI
672 followers
Dessix is a logic-first visual space for deep creators. Instead of wrestling with prompts, you build context visually, making AI an extension of your own thinking. Achieve true alignment—you know what the AI knows, and it grasps your goals. Ditch the black box, accelerate your creation, and finally, take control.
Dessix
Hi Product Hunt — Hsiang (Alex Xiang) here, founder of Dessix 👋
The biggest challenge in collaborating with AI isn't its capability, but the trust gap between us.
AI often feels like a 'black box.' We can't see its context, so we can't be sure if its answers are reliable. To compensate for this uncertainty, we're stuck in a cycle of trial and error, constantly copying and pasting to manually calibrate every single output.
Dessix was created to solve this fundamental trust issue. We've built a visual thinking space where what you see is what the AI sees.
We make this trust tangible through three core features:
1. Visualized Context: Arrange your notes and resources side-by-side in a multi-column space. The context you build for the AI is crystal clear, eliminating the guesswork.
2. Focus as the Prompt: Your every click and focus directly guides the AI's attention, giving you absolute control.
3. Stay in the Driver's Seat & Reflect: We've designed "Actions" and "Scenes" to help you deeply integrate with AI and amplify your abilities. At the same time, they enable you to bring in a critical perspective at any moment, helping you avoid cognitive traps like confirmation bias and information bubbles.
If you're a professional who demands high precision in context and logical rigor—like a researcher, analyst, strategist, or writer—then Dessix is designed specifically for you.
Special PH Offer: We're offering the Product Hunt community a lifetime 10% discount on all paid plans.(Code: PH)
Want to give it a try? Place our official homepage and this intro side-by-side, then ask the AI: "How does Dessix help users stay in the driver's seat when using AI?"
I'll be here all day and look forward to hearing your feedback
Epsilla (YC S23)
Congrats on the launch! 🎉
I specialize in comprehensive product testing for SaaS platforms - just completed a 15-page evaluation for another saas.
Would love to put Dessix through a proper stress test if you're looking for detailed feedback.
Agnes AI
Being headache dealing with tons of prompts till now... Dessix is great by putting logic at first place.... also curious - how do you make sure alignments are achieved?
Dessix
Hi @cruise_chen !
Glad you noticed the "logic-first" approach! Dealing with endless prompts is indeed exhausting, and that's exactly why we built Dessix.
To your question on Alignment: We don't treat alignment as magic; we treat it as an engineering problem. We achieve it through Constraint and Transparency:
Visual Alignment ("What you see is what AI sees"): We map your visual focus directly to the AI's context window. If you focus on a specific Block (and its parallel references), that becomes the hard boundary for the AI's attention. You don't need to describe the context; you just need to "place" it in front of you.
Procedural Alignment (Actions & Scenes): This is where the "logic" you mentioned comes in. By encapsulating your intent into Actions (workflows) and Scenes (roles/rules), you are effectively "programming" the AI's behavior. This forces the model to align with your specific methodology rather than relying on its general probability distribution.
In short: We achieve alignment by giving YOU total control over the input structure, rather than hoping the model guesses right.
Thanks for the support
Dessix
@maria_moreno_lopez Yes. Dessix is Local-First. You can write and organize completely offline—perfect for deep work. Internet is only needed when you explicitly call the AI.
I really like the framing around trust and visibility. How do you think about preventing context drift over time as users keep adding and rearranging material? Does the system help users notice when the AI’s “mental model” starts diverging from theirs?
Dessix
Hi@kavin_jeya ，you’ve hit on a critical point that many tools overlook: maintaining clarity over time. Our approach is built on two key ideas: strong boundaries and radical transparency.
Strong Boundaries with "Topics":First, we prevent drift at a macro level using our Topic feature. You can think of each Topics as a completely separate "context sandbox" or a project-specific memory for the AI. When you switch from your "Market Research" Topic to your "Novel Writing" Topic, the AI's context is completely swapped. This ensures that materials from one project don’t accidentally bleed into and influence another, which is the most common source of long-term context drift.
Radical Transparency with "Overview":To address your core question—how the system helps you notice when the AI's "mental model" might be diverging—we have a feature called "Overview".
At any moment, you can open the Overview to get a crystal-clear, visual representation of exactly what information the AI is currently using. It shows you every block, every note, every piece of data that forms the AI's active context. There is no hidden "memory" or background processing. If you feel the AI's responses are going off-track, the Overview provides an immediate, unambiguous diagnostic tool to see why. It directly reflects our "What You See Is What AI Sees" philosophy.
So, instead of trying to build a complex system that infers when a mental model is drifting, we give you the simple, powerful ability to see the AI's mental model directly and manage it with confidence. This keeps you, the expert, firmly in the driver's seat.
Really excited for you guys! Congratsss 👌
Do you expose any export/import formats (e.g., JSON with embeddings or custom schema) for developers integrating Dessix workflows into web apps (via iframe/embed) or mobile wrappers (PWA/Capacitor)?
Dessix
@cathcorm Thanks for the congrats!
To be transparent about the technical side: Currently, our data import/export is primarily based on Markdown. We don't support iframe embedding at this moment.
However, regarding deployment—we fully support PWA, so you can install and use it natively on your devices.
@xiangst0816 thanks for the feedback 💛
HtmlDrag
I love the 'visual workspace' approach. Prompting can feel like a black box sometimes, so building context visually makes total sense. Does Dessix allow exporting these visual maps as structured documentation, or is it purely for internal ideation?
Dessix
@htmldrag The Column View you see is actually just the tip of the iceberg, mainly for visual alignment.
Behind the scenes, the network self-organizes. We visualize this complete structure in our "Context Map (Overview)" feature—it's a tree view designed specifically to help you verify exactly what the AI knows.
To answer your question: Yes, the final conversation structure and context relationships are fully shareable, exportable, and downloadable.
Minara
Quick question about Dessix — the visual hierarchy feels very intentional, especially in how attention is guided without heavy UI or effects.
From a design standpoint, what trade-offs did you have to make to keep the interface this focused while still supporting more complex use cases?
Asking because that restraint really comes through in the first impression.
Dessix
@rexlian Yes, that "awkwardness" is deliberate.
We rejected the Infinite Canvas to use physical viewport limits to force focus. This aligns with Cognitive Psychology (short-term memory holds ~5 chunks). We chose to respect the brain's biological limits rather than overwhelming them.