Grape
Local first storage for consultants

Work with no wifi and no worry.

Grape keeps an engagement folder in a database on your own machine, so the week synthesis is due a dead connection changes nothing about what you can open.
Writing, reading, organising, drawing and recording all work offline
You pick where the database file sits
Export any note, or the whole library, as Markdown, HTML or PDF
Run the AI locally through Ollama or LM Studio if you prefer

No account to start

Download, open, write. Accounts only matter for the paid plans.

Your choice of AI provider

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Ollama and more.

Export whenever you want

Markdown, HTML or PDF, one note at a time or the whole library.

You pick where the file sits

Point the database at any folder on your machine, and move it later.

The plane, the tunnel, the cabin

Writing, search, drawing and recording all work with no connection.

Local models if you want them

Run the AI through Ollama or LM Studio and nothing leaves the machine.
Results

Three things that stop being a problem

Feature lists are easy to write and hard to care about. This is what changes for consultants.

Interviews become findings the same day

Record, transcribe, then ask what came up across the whole engagement folder.

Switch clients without losing the thread

One folder per engagement and search that works across all of them when you need a precedent.

Reuse what you learned last time

Ask your archive how you handled a similar problem two years ago.
In practice

What that looks like for consultants

A few moments in a normal week where the app earns its place.

Discovery week

Record every interview into the client folder and let search find the patterns.

Synthesis

Ask for the themes, check the quotes, and draft the findings in the same note.

Between engagements

Search old work for the framework you built and adapt it.
FAQ

Questions Before You Install It

The rest of them live in the help center.

Not for rewriting your notes.

Client interviews, site visits, findings and drafts in one library, so the deliverable comes out of the work you already did instead of a blank page.