One download, and then a setup that takes a few minutes and involves a terminal once. We'd rather say that here than have you find out on a Sunday night.
Any Mac from late 2020 onwards — M1 through M5. If you bought it new in the last five years, this is the one.
Download for Apple SiliconApple menu → About This Mac. If it says Apple M-something, take the one above. If it says Intel, take this one.
The third is the one people get stuck on. It is a single pasted line, and the app watches for it to finish.
The usual. First launch takes a moment while macOS checks the signature.
A folder you choose. Statements, receipts and every packet you send end up in it as ordinary files you can open yourself. Nothing goes to a Clerk.AI server.
Clerk.AI drives an AI called Claude Code, plus two supporting pieces. The app shows you this line and copies it for you — you paste it into Terminal once, and it watches for it to succeed.
brew install tmux node && npm i -g @anthropic-ai/claude-codeIf you already run Claude Code, you have this. If it fails, the app says what broke in a plain sentence and gives you the same line to retry — and there's a human to write to.
Before you point it at anything of yours. It runs a full close on a made-up company, start to drafted email, so you can see what it does with nothing at stake.
Setup is where we most want to hear about problems, because it's the step that stops people. Write to us — it reaches the person who built it.