Dotient

Dotient is a local-first desktop app that organizes, searches and explores a personal media archive using AI embeddings, running entirely on the user's own machine. It is aimed at photographers, designers, creative teams and agencies who need to find visual files among thousands of unsorted images.

A user drops files into Dotient, and a quantized vision and text model embeds them locally to create searchable profiles, with files never leaving the device. After a few minutes of indexing, the user can search the archive by describing what a file looks like in natural language rather than by filename.

Signal Tuning lets a user train custom classifiers from positive and negative examples to reshape search results around their own visual vocabulary, and the Graph view auto-clusters the whole archive by similarity in a node graph. Cubbies group related files into annotated moodboard-style collections, and Dotient extracts and indexes images embedded inside PDF files so a specific figure or diagram can be found directly.

Dotient is sold as a one-time Standard license for $10 with one AI model, offline operation and 3 seats per license key, plus an optional Plus add-on at $4 a month for higher-accuracy models, new models released monthly, and .psd file support. A Lifetime license at $40 bundles everything, including all future updates, in a single one-time purchase.

Use cases

• Finding a specific tornado photo type across thousands of unsorted storm-chasing images
• Auto-clustering hundreds of wildlife photos by species after a shoot
• Finding a specific diagram inside a 200-page PDF without browsing
• Locating approved client logo assets across years of agency projects