Four days at Microsoft Ignite and one theme kept coming up in every booth, lounge, stage: most work still hides in messages. We heard it from partners, users, and teams who spend their days inside Outlook, Gmail, and Teams. Belt Desktop exists to pull that work into the open, and then help you move it, fast. 

At Microsoft Ignite 2025, Belt will announce Belt Desktop, a privacy-first hybrid-AI productivity app that keeps sensitive work local. The solution will be powered by Foundry Local and designed for AMD Ryzen™ AI PCs and compatible NPUs, enabling fast, on-device LLM inference with cloud support for collaboration and scale. Support for additional silicon vendors is coming soon.

What to do instead. Aim for Inbox Better

What I learnt at The Alternative Legal Leaders Forum in September 2025

It starts innocently enough. A client request. A quick “can you just…” A forwarded brief. A rescheduled call. And then another. And another. 

What happens when deep work hides behind meetings, and why it's time to let tasks into the calendar party.