# Croton

> Croton is an AI workspace that turns transcripts, spreadsheets, repos, and rough asks into finished work: agents pick the right plugin, work in a per-chat sandbox, and ship real files — meeting minutes, dashboards, sprint plans, status reports, polished emails, slides, code, diagrams — that you can open, share, and reuse.

## Overview

Croton is a chat-based AI workspace. You drop in a transcript, a spreadsheet, or describe what you need; Croton's agents pick the plugin, work in a sandbox, and hand back a file you can open right away — minutes with owners, a dashboard, a sprint plan, a status report, or a polished email.

Typical jobs: turn a meeting transcript into minutes and a follow-up email; analyze a CSV and build an interactive dashboard; research a company before a call; break a goal into a prioritized task plan; draft OKRs or a sprint plan; produce a weekly status report from GitHub, Gmail, and Drive on a Friday schedule.

Available on web (https://app.croton.dev) and as a Chrome extension. Free to start; plans from $8/month.

## Bring your own model

Croton does not lock you into one provider. Route every thread to the model that fits and switch mid-conversation:

- OpenAI (GPT — fast generalist)
- Anthropic (Claude — careful writing)
- Google (Gemini — long context)
- xAI (Grok — real-time)
- DeepSeek (reasoning on a budget)
- Moonshot (Kimi — deep research)
- Z.ai (GLM — open weights)
- Alibaba (Qwen — multilingual)

One subscription covers every provider. Your data stays yours.

## Plugins that pick themselves

Ask a question and Croton routes it to the right skill before you finish the sentence. No prompt-engineering degree required.

- Auto-selected per message — or pinned by you
- Sandboxed with scoped file access
- Up to three plugins per message — or call one by name with /name

Bundled plugins: spreadsheet-analyst, meeting-minutes, meeting-prep, email-polish, status-report, task-planner, sprint-planner, okr-drafter, retro-facilitator.

Example threads:

- A user uploads a meeting transcript and asks to "turn this transcript into minutes with owners, then draft the follow-up email". Croton uses meeting-minutes and email-polish, works for under a minute, and returns a .docx with decisions and owned action items plus a ready-to-send email.
- A user uploads `monthly_sales_report_final.xlsx` and asks to "analyze this report and create a graphical dashboard for it". Croton uses spreadsheet-analyst and returns `monthly_sales_dashboard.html` — an interactive dashboard with revenue vs. target by month, revenue by region, product breakdowns, and rep performance.
- A user asks "prep me for the call with Acme tomorrow". meeting-prep researches the company and returns a one-page brief with talking points.

## Every answer ships as an artifact

Not a wall of text you screenshot. Real files, ready to open, share, and reuse:

- HTML dashboards — interactive charts from any data file
- Documents — reports, memos, and docs that cite their sources
- Spreadsheets — formulas written, cleaned, and explained
- Slides — decks built from your numbers, not vibes
- Code — runnable snippets and full apps in the canvas
- Diagrams — Mermaid flows rendered as you describe them

## Browser extension

Croton Browser Control is a Chrome extension that lets the agents in your thread read pages, fill forms, and grab data from the web — with you watching every step.

Install: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/aoaabiljhamblojehhooahgbgdmlfngi

## Workflows

Pin the good threads to a schedule. Croton reruns them on a cron, picks up where it left off after a restart, and logs every step.

- Schedule anything: cron, a form, or one big button
- Stops instead of guessing: unconfirmed external actions pause for review
- Full run logs: every step, every token, on the record

## Pricing

Every plan includes a monthly usage allowance; there is no overage billing.

- Free: Auto model only, trial usage included
- Starter, $8/month: all models, full sandbox and files
- Pro, $15/month: all models, larger usage allowance
- Power, $29/month: all models, largest usage allowance, priority queue
- Team, $20 per AI member/month: usage pooled across the workspace, free viewer seats, two-seat minimum

Top-ups from $10 to $500; unused top-ups carry over. Cancel any time from your profile.

## Links

- App: https://app.croton.dev
- Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/aoaabiljhamblojehhooahgbgdmlfngi
- Landing page: https://croton.dev/