The argument in one line.
Clicky removes the learning-curve overhead that consumes most computer time by letting you direct an AI agent to navigate, click, and execute tasks across your entire desktop while you work on something else.
Read if. Skip if.
READ IF YOU ARE…
- A Mac user who does repetitive computer tasks — video editing in Descript, organizing files, online shopping, filling out spreadsheets — and wants an AI agent to handle them in the background.
- A non-technical person who finds tools like Claude Code too complex and wants an AI that can navigate apps and click around the computer without any setup or prompting overhead.
- A solo creator or freelancer who wants to run multiple computer tasks in parallel without context-switching — let Clicky handle one thing while you do another.
- A developer or tinkerer curious about OpenClicky who wants to self-host a computer-use agent with their own API keys and custom-trained behavior for a specific industry.
SKIP IF…
- You are on Windows or Linux — Clicky is Mac-only and the tutorial does not cover any alternatives for other operating systems.
- You need reliable automation for high-stakes work; the video shows several tasks that are hit-or-miss (Google Workspace integration acknowledged as not fully fleshed out) and the tool is early-stage.
The full version, fast.
Clicky is a Mac menu-bar agent that watches your screen, clicks for you, and runs tasks in parallel while you keep working, collapsing the learning-curve overhead that eats most computer time. You stay the director: hold command-option, speak or type a goal, and Clicky handles the navigation, app-switching, and execution across tools like Claude, Descript, Amazon, Google Drive, and your local files. Setup is a one-time pass through microphone, accessibility, and screen-recording permissions, after which agents stack in a sidebar so you can dispatch several jobs at once. Practical wins include editing video false starts, scraping receipts into a dashboard, filling carts, and scaffolding small apps. For full control, OpenClicky lets you self-host with your own keys or local models.
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00:00 – 01:06
01 · Cold open + promise stack
Title hook restated, four bait moves, three-level agenda. Firehose + Office Space memes anchor the overwhelm framing.
01:06 – 02:22
02 · Why this matters
Old-way vs new-way wedge. Cloud Code has depth and overhead; for everyday computer tasks the learning barrier itself is the bottleneck. Clicky makes you the director.
02:22 – 04:18
03 · Set up Clicky
clicky.so download, drag-to-Applications, mic permission, accessibility grant (drag the icon in + fingerprint), screen recording permission. Mac-only, lives in menu bar.
04:18 – 05:58
04 · Use case: control Claude
Hold command+option to activate. Asks Clicky where connectors and skills live in the Claude app; Clicky narrates + auto-navigates via cursor takeover.
05:58 – 09:18
05 · Use case: video editing in Descript
Drops an ad-read MP4 from desktop into Descript and asks Clicky to remove false starts, double-takes, pauses. Underlord assistant executes; final cut comes back cleaned.
09:18 – 09:52
06 · Parallel agents
Multiple Clicky tasks pinned to the side rail; he can dispatch and dismiss them like a queue.
09:52 – 11:00
07 · Competitor research PDF
Asks Clicky to research competitors for his BookedinAI site and produce a PDF. Comes back with a voice-AI competitor list.
11:00 – 12:25
08 · Background computer use
Opens Amazon, asks for a steak recipe, has Clicky add the ingredients to his cart while he does other work. Red ping when done.
12:25 – 15:09
09 · Local files → expense dashboard
Receipts on desktop → Clicky organizes into folder, scrapes amounts, spins up a live dashboard app in the browser. Also pushes data to a Google Sheets master file via Google Workspace connector.
15:09 – 16:06
10 · Build an app live
"Build me a meeting recorder that transcribes and saves locally." Clicky scaffolds a working web app on screen — start recording, save, transcribe.
16:06 – 16:28
11 · Track activity across screens
"What do you know about me?" Clicky narrates which Heptabase doc is open on which monitor, that Spotify deep-focus is playing, that he was chatting with Fariza. "This person is exposing my whole life."
16:28 – 17:12
12 · OpenClicky + CTA
GitHub repo OpenClicky lets you bring your own API keys or local model and customize for any industry. Pure next-video CTA at the end.
Lines worth screenshotting.
- Clicky is a Mac menu-bar agent that sees your screen, clicks around your computer, and runs tasks in the background while you work on something else.
- Most computer time is spent figuring out how to do things, not actually doing them — Clicky removes the learning-curve overhead that precedes every new tool.
- Holding command + option activates Clicky from anywhere on your screen — no app switching, no chat interface to open.
- Clicky can navigate Claude's interface, click buttons, and guide you through unfamiliar settings by responding to plain English questions about what you see on screen.
- Descript video editing via Clicky means you describe the cuts you want in natural language and Clicky executes them in the editor without you touching the timeline.
- For tasks like organizing receipts into a spending dashboard, Clicky handles the locate-open-extract-visualize pipeline that would otherwise require four separate tool interactions.
- OpenClicky (the open-source version) lets you self-host and customize Clicky's behavior without being locked into the commercial product's capabilities.
- The barrier that stops most people from applying AI is not the concepts — it is the setup overhead before the tool can do anything useful, which Clicky eliminates.
- Clicky's screen awareness means it can see dynamic page states that APIs cannot reach — rendered content, modal dialogs, real-time UI updates.
- For everyday computer tasks (editing videos, filling forms, shopping, organizing files), a screen-aware agent eliminates the need to understand MCP, connectors, or skill architecture.
- The role shift Clicky creates is from operator to director — you set the goal and the constraint, the agent does the navigation.
- Clicky is Mac-only at time of release — Windows users need an alternative screen-aware agent to replicate this workflow.
Steal the three-level demo ladder.
Tutorial format for any agent product
Every JoeFlow / Mod Producer launch video should have a Setup, Use Cases, Build-Your-Own ladder — and the use cases should be obnoxiously specific.
- Open with proof-not-promise: show the tool already doing the work in a screen-recording while the title hook plays. Don't talk about it first.
- Make the agenda visible at ~0:43. Three levels with numbered cards. It sets retention anchors for the whole video.
- Use the Old-Way / New-Way wedge before the demos. Six-step parody chain of 'how you'd normally do this' is universally relatable.
- Pick weirdly specific use cases (steak recipe → Amazon cart, receipts → live dashboard). Specificity reads as real workflow, not staged.
- Be honest when something's undercooked — the 14:30 'this feature is hit or miss' moment is a credibility move, not a flaw.
- End on a next-video bridge, not a product pitch. Earn the next click; the description carries the paid asks.
- Build a JoeFlow tutorial using this exact spine: 'Setup (download + Mic + signing in), Use Cases (morning batch, dictation, asset library), Build Your Own (custom Routines).' Same shape, your product.
Terms worth knowing.
- Clicky (clicky.so)
- A Mac menu-bar AI agent that can see your screen and autonomously click, type, and navigate applications on your behalf — acting as a background computer operator while you direct it with natural language goals.
- Computer use (AI)
- An AI capability that allows a model to perceive a computer screen visually and interact with it — moving the cursor, clicking buttons, typing text — as a human user would, enabling full desktop automation.
- OpenClicky
- The open-source, self-hostable version of Clicky that allows developers to run their own customized computer-use agent locally, rather than using the hosted clicky.so service.
- Menu-bar agent
- A macOS application that runs persistently from the menu bar (the thin strip at the top of the screen) and can be triggered at any time, without needing a dedicated full-screen window.
- MCP (Model Context Protocol)
- An open standard that allows AI models to connect to external tools, APIs, and data sources through a plugin-like interface, extending their capabilities beyond text generation.
- Screen permissions (macOS)
- System-level security settings on macOS that must be granted explicitly before an app is allowed to capture or interact with the screen — required for any AI computer-use tool.
- Learning-curve overhead
- The time spent figuring out how to use a tool before being able to do the actual work it enables — identified here as the primary source of wasted computer time that AI computer-use agents eliminate.
- Descript
- A video and podcast editing application that lets users edit media by editing the transcript text, cutting words from the document to remove the corresponding audio and video.
Things they pointed at.
Lines you could clip.
00:08
“I've actually been using this every day for about a week now, and honestly, I can't go back to using my computer the old way.”
01:32
“Most of our time really goes — not actually doing stuff, just figuring out how to do stuff.”
01:48
“Clicky makes your role the director. You bring it priorities, goals, what's important, and Clicky becomes a smart buddy that goes and does the work for you.”
02:11
“The hardest part has always been the barrier to entry. The moment I show people Clicky, their lives get instantly easier because for the first time that learning barrier actually disappears.”
16:18
“Hey, this person's exposing my whole life.”
Word for word.
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metaphor
00:00This new tool called Clicky just changed how we use computers forever. So Clicky is basically a companion that lives on your screen. It sees everything you see, can click on stuff, and run tasks for you in the background while you're working on something else.
00:11I've actually been using this every day for about about a week now, and, honestly, I can't go back to using my computer the old way. Like, I don't even open up Cloud Code for so many things I used to do before, which is exactly why I wanted to make this video. Because, honestly, with so many new AI tools coming out every single week, it's pretty overwhelming, where it feels like if you're not keeping up with it every day, you feel like you're falling behind.
00:30And this is the first tool I've actually used that helps ease all of that for normal people. So if you're one of the early ones watching this, you can grab it and abuse it while it's free before everyone else catches on. So in this video, I'm gonna be breaking down how to use Clicky in three levels.
00:42First, we're gonna get set up. I'll walk you through downloading it and all the little permission screens that kind of tripped me up the first time so you don't have to deal with any of that. Then we're gonna be going over a couple different use cases that I use it for every day.
00:53And in level three, I'm gonna share a little secret on how to basically build your own version of Clicky that you can customize. And even if you've never used an AI tool like this or have zero technical background, you'll be able to follow along because all we're doing is really just talking to our computer. Okay.
01:08So before we get into anything, let me give you a little bit of context on why this actually matters. Like, if I asked you to go edit a video or make a landing page or even just find receipts on your computer and make a graph of how much you spent this month, what would you do? You'd probably first open up YouTube, watch a tutorial, download an app, mess around with it for an hour or so, get frustrated, and only then start doing the thing you wanted in the first place.
01:31And that's where most of our time really goes. Not actually doing stuff, just figuring out how to do stuff. And that's what I'm loving about Clicky.
01:38It makes your role the director. You can bring it priorities, goals, what's important, and that goes and does the work for you. And, look, I love Cloud Code.
01:48It's an insane piece of software, but Cloud Code has depth, and the AI hype cycle does not stop. You gotta understand stuff like connectors, MCP, skills, all this technical overhead, and it's great for a lot of things. But for the everyday stuff most of us actually do on our computers, you don't need any of that.
02:03Like, in the community that I run where I help everyday people actually apply AI, the hardest part has always been the barrier to entry. But the moment I show people Clicky, their lives get instantly easier because for the first time, that learning barrier actually disappears. And that to me is the biggest shift in how we've used computers in a long time.
02:20So let me show you how to set that up. Alright. So to get it set up, click I'm gonna go to clicky.so.
02:29And clicky.so, you'll see there's this thing following around with me. Right?
02:33Okay. Then we wanna make sure we download it. So I'm downloading it for my Mac.
02:38Just entering your email and then hit download. Great. So let me open this and then drag it to your applications.
02:48By the way, this only works on Mac. Okay. So I just got done copying and then I just searched clicky and now I will open it.
02:56And then you'll see this thing pop up and clicky kind of lives in your Mac's menu bar. Alright? And you can see right here in this little thing right here.
03:05That's where we would click if wanna you get into settings. So right now, let's just sign in with Google. So right here, if you're curious.
03:14Great. So first, it asks you for the permissions. It's actually really easy to go through, so let's go through it.
03:19It you wanted to give it microphone access, and then you wanna hit allow. You wanna grant it accessibility so it can go through your computer and control whatever you need to. So right now, if you see this, it just says, I'm clicky.
03:32Drag me into the list above. So what you wanna do is you wanna drag it like that, and then you use your fingerprint.
03:40Great. And then right here, it's right now, you see it's on. Alright?
03:45Now we wanna let make sure it can record our screen. So let's open our system settings and then do the same thing.
03:53And then let's quit and reopen. Awesome. So next, we just hit allow, and then let's go to meet Clicky.
04:00And then you can see it right here. So once you have this blue buddy following you on your cursor, you should have Clicky. And to activate it, all you need to do is just hold command and option.
04:10So let's just start something simple. Let's try some small things, and then we'll slowly build up to the cooler use cases.
04:16Alright? So I have Claude open right now. And what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna simply say, hey.
04:21How do I access my connectors? Hey, Clicky. How do I access my connectors in this app?
04:28I've been hearing about it.
04:31Click your name, Samin, at the bottom left, then go to settings, and you'll find connectors in the sidebar.
04:38Okay. And then you see it's right here. So I'm gonna hit connectors, and you can see all your connectors here, and then browse connectors.
04:45Now let's say I wanna understand what these are. Hey, Clicky.
04:49What is a connector?
04:51A connector links Claude to outside apps like Gmail, Drive, or Notion so it can read and act on your stuff there.
04:59So can you tell me what a skill is and, uh, how that relates with connectors?
05:04Skills are reusable instructions you give Claude to do a specific task well, like a custom workflow or playbook. Connectors hook Claude up to apps for data.
05:14Skills tell it how to use that data.
05:18Okay. Thanks. Can you show me where my skills are?
05:20Just click around for me, please.
05:23Got it. I'll navigate you to your skills.
05:28Okay. So if you see, it just hit, did it on its own.
05:32It hits skills for me. Let's say I didn't know where it was. It can basically control your computer and be a buddy next to you.
05:38Right? And you can see all these skills. Skills directory now where installed skills are listed and managed.
05:43Awesome. So this is just a quick little overview of what I wanted to show that it could do where it can guide you around. It can click things around you, and all you have to do is talk with it.
05:53Right? So with that being said, now let's actually get on and do something kind of cool. Okay.
06:00So this is a common use case that I like doing. So let's say I was just filming an ad. Right?
06:05And in that ad, there's a lot of double takes and pauses and all that stuff that I need to edit and cut out. So I'll show you an example. Like, this is something I had.
06:15Most of you You can see I did that little pause. You were probably using maybe what most of you were probably maybe using 10% of what Clon can actually do, but the other 90% is where the So you could see, like, I can do those double takes.
06:30I do the retakes, all these things. I want those to be gone and all those to be edited out. Right?
06:35So what I can do is I can just be like, hey, Clicky. In my desktop, I have a file, add, read, test one.
06:44I want you to just take that, put it into Descript, and then figure out how we can use that to clean up the file such that I my double takes aren't there. It's cut. I don't have those pauses, etcetera.
06:54Alright? Clean that up. Show me in Descript the output final version.
06:58Send it to Descript, clean up the double takes and pauses,
07:01and show you the final version.
07:03Great. So now you can see this agent will be working and reasoning through everything while I can be back in my Claude doing whatever I need to.
07:14Great. And you see this process takes a lot of different steps. Right?
07:18First, it has to get the file from my computer, put it into Descript, and then it needs to figure out Descript. It needs to know where these cuts needs to be placed.
07:26It needs to know which settings to use. And you can see right here, it's it's already doing some stuff. Uh, what settings do you use to actually cut the things in the right places and then present it to me when it's done?
07:37So it's a very big task that happens on the side. I'll just keep letting it do its thing. Okay.
07:43So this is kinda cool. Uh, you could see in here, it uses its, um, cursor. This is in the background that can act as I'm doing this stuff.
07:51And it says remove the false starts, and you can see I could even if I'm, like, switching back and forth between my windows, it's still good. It's opening up the project. It typed in what it needs to do, and it's just actioning it on the side.
08:02So I don't wanna interrupt it, but if you can see right here, you could see the false starts like most of you and then the paragraph one, and all those retakes are gonna be taken care of now. Descript version is ready. It removed the false start, the retakes, and tightened the pauses into a 20 threes cut.
08:19Okay. Cool. So now let's look at the original.
08:28Most of you are probably using maybe what? Most of you are probably maybe using 10% of what Clot.
08:35Okay. So, yeah, this is the start itself. It's very evident.
08:38Most of you are probably maybe using 10% of what Clot can actually do, but the other 90% is You can see. That's really cool. Nobody knows how to So it did all that.
08:48Now I think it did something at the end as well. Skills, connectors, agenda See, cut out the pauses and all these things. So it just made it really easy for me that now I can have a clip.
08:58I can be like, hey. Go cut this up, and it'll do it for me on its own. And this is the type of stuff I want you to understand and get in the habit of where you can just understand that, hey.
09:08My AI can just be using my computer next to me and getting things done, like editing my videos. Like, right now, let's see it doing something else other crazy.
09:20So one thing I wanna show you just so you are familiar with the platform, this is one thing that always follows you around. But whenever you want Clicky to do something, on the side here, these agents will remain.
09:32Okay? So you could see I've been telling it to do some stuff. And right now, if I'm done with it, I would just cross it out.
09:37Like, here, done. Okay? And you can have multiple.
09:41So I normally just have multiple running at a time. Okay? And let me get into how I'm actually using multiple.
09:48I'll show you that. So this is my website.
09:53And then let's see. Hey, Clicky. Can you for my website that's up right now, Booked in AI, uh, can you look up what competitors I have and then make a PDF so I can look through them?
10:11On it, I'll research your competitors and build that PDF.
10:15And you can see I just have these things running on parallel as I would just do anything else. And that's what I like about this.
10:24It has that effect of parallelization. So it's telling me this research competitor PDF is done.
10:32So let me get it to open it. Okay. You could see it says opening the PDF now.
10:37Great. So this is pretty cool. Um, you could see it did some research into my application.
10:44It knows it's about Voice AI, so it found these competitors, which is, I guess, pretty accurate.
10:53I like how it's doing it. Um, So that's just one little thing. Now let's make it do some other fun stuff.
11:03Hey, Clicky. Can you open up Amazon?
11:06Got it. Opening Amazon in your browser now.
11:09Okay. So now let's try something where I'm just gonna be making it add stuff to my browser in my Amazon cart and while I'm working on something else. Right?
11:18So it just opened up Amazon. Let's say I wanna make a new dish. Hey, Clicky.
11:25I wanna make a new, I don't know, steak recipe. Can you go look up online what a good steak recipe is and then add all of those in my Amazon cart?
11:39On it, I'll find a great steak recipe and add the ingredients to your cart.
11:43Okay. Great. So right now, what I'm gonna do is now that's happening on the background, I can be doing anything else that I want while that's happening.
11:51Alright? And it's gonna give me a little red ping when this is done. Okay.
11:57I forgot to record this, but it just told me it's done with Amazon stuff. And if I go back let me go look at my cart, and we can see, uh, it has the stake, some Danos, all these things, and a bunch of my bags for my wife.
12:11But That was probably there from before, but that's pretty funny. Yeah.
12:16So now on the background, Clicky just added a bunch of steak and a month whatnot into my cart, and that's cool.
12:27One thing I really like about Clicky is the fact that it can actually control the files in your desktop. So I could just hold control option, be like, hey, Clicky. Uh, in my desktop, I have a bunch of receipts for travel, breakfast, all that.
12:42Can you organize that into a folder? And then I want you to spin up a dashboard so I can visualize how much I spent.
12:52On it. Organizing those receipts and building your dashboard now.
12:55And then I can just go off and do whatever else I need to. Notice notice how it already made a folder with loose expense screenshots and made an expense dashboard for the notes, receipts, all these things, and it's building the app as I see it.
13:15Okay. So it just popped this out on my screen. Let's go look at it.
13:21So see the receipts? It says breakfast, lunch, dinner, travel, all of these. You see it has all the pictures of these things.
13:29It it was a hard task because, actually, you know, I didn't even give it very easy things to do.
13:37I gave it literally pictures. So what it had to do, it had to find the pictures, it had to scrape all that data, put it somewhere, organize it, make like a database, and then this dashboard.
13:49And all of this stuff is being done on the side after I just gave it this proper command. It just went ahead and figured it out. I thought that was a really cool use case and I like doing this here and there when I just need to visualize some quick data, you know.
14:01And if I wanted it to, let's say, take these spreadsheets and then update a master Google spreadsheet or something like that, hey, Clicky.
14:09Can you go ahead? And in my Google Drive, you will see expense reports mock and then update that spreadsheet for me with these expenses, please.
14:19Okay. So now I was gonna go off and do that. And then when this is done, I'll show you because this will probably take a while.
14:24Okay. Your receipts are sorted into a new expense dashboard folder and the spending dashboard is running in your browser preview.
14:31Okay. So right here, you see I put in a bunch of others and then it can just do all of the stuff. And the reason it can do that is right here.
14:41This one is a bit hit or miss. I don't think this feature is fully fleshed out yet, but here, if I expand the clicky settings on the top and then I hit this settings button, you could see it can actually connect to your Google Workspace.
14:56And when it connects to your Google Workspace, it can use your Google Sheets, your slides, all your Google Drive, all these stuff, and then interact with that. So if you wanted to send an email, you could say the same thing, and it'll do all these little admin tasks as well.
15:09Alright? Okay. Let me see if I can build an app with Clicky.
15:16Hey, Clicky. Can you build an application so that you are recording my meetings? And then after you record my meetings, uh, hopefully, it's saved to my computer.
15:29And, uh, what I want you to do is make sure you transcribe it as well and save it somewhere. Cool.
15:34That's another use case. Got it. I'll build a meeting recorder with transcription for you.
15:39Oh, you see this is now it's building my meeting vault. This is kind of cool. So now I'm assuming if I hit the start recording, it'll record.
15:48Allow this time. Hello. Hello.
15:51Hello. What are you up to? Okay.
15:53So it's a very simple app. I think, uh, if you wanna download your recordings and lets you download these files.
16:00Alright. That's pretty cool. Hello.
16:02Hello. Hello. Okay.
16:03So that is the meeting. Hey, Clicky. Hey, Clicky.
16:06What do you know about me so You're working across three screens. You're into meta ads and have someone named Ryan you're giving access to. You've been chatting with Fariza.
16:15And right now, you've got a Heptabase doc open about Clicky video planning on one screen and Spotify's deep focus playlist with your calendar on another. Looks like a productive setup. Hey.
16:25This person's exposing my whole life. Okay. And
16:31lastly, I wanted to show you this repository that I found and it's called OpenClicky. It's really cool. And what you can do with OpenClicky is you can take this, you can set it up with your own API keys or whatever you need to, and then customize this app to whatever industry that you would need.
16:48And you can technically use any model that you want. If you have a local model that you have running in your computer, you can get clicky to use this as well, and that kind of unlocks a crazy amount of wild possibilities.
17:01Right? So if you wanna learn more about that and how you can actually use open source technology, check out this video where I kind of dive into one of the best open source projects ever.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
Samin opens by restating the title verbatim while a screen recording shows Clicky already editing a Descript timeline behind him — proof beats promise. Then he stacks four bait moves in 60 seconds: a personal time-stake ("a week, can''t go back"), a FOMO line ("grab it while it''s free"), an explicit three-level agenda, and an inclusivity guarantee for the zero-technical crowd.
Named ideas worth stealing.
00:47list
Three-Level Tutorial Structure
- Setup
- Use cases
- Build your own / customize
Classic explainer ladder: get them past install pain, then payoff demos, then advanced/open-source unlock for the power users.
Steal forAny JoeFlow, Mod Producer, or ModBoard tutorial — beats the usual 'features list' format because the levels themselves are bait.
01:48concept
Director Frame
Reframes AI tool use from operator-of-software to director-of-outcomes. 'You bring it priorities, goals, what's important — and it goes and does the work.'
Steal forPitch line for any agent product. Works for JoeFlow's morning-batch launcher: 'be the director of your morning, not the operator.'
01:08model
Old-Way / New-Way Wedge
- Open YouTube
- Watch a tutorial
- Download an app
- Mess around for an hour
- Get frustrated
- Finally start
Six-step parody of how you actually try to do a new task on a computer. Lands the thesis that 'figuring out how to do stuff' eats the day.
Steal forPre-pitch wedge for any 'just do the thing' tool. Read the chain out loud, it's instantly relatable.
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
17:07next-video
“If you wanna learn more about that and how you can actually use open source technology, check out this video where I kind of dive into one of the best open source projects ever.”
Soft. No product pitch in-video — all paid CTAs (Skool community, free bootcamp) are in the description only. Smart for a product-demo video: trust first, monetize on the next click.
MENTIONED ON CAMERA
FROM THE DESCRIPTION
PRIMARY CTAWhere the creator wants you to go next.
Visual structure at a glance.
