Origami Folio

About

ORIGAMI FOLIO — the document, refolded for the AI era.

PowerPoint hands you a binary .pptx, a cloud account, and slides an AI can barely read. Origami hands you one self-contained .origami.html file: the recipient double-clicks it and it opens and plays in any browser.

No app, no account, no network and any AI can read and rewrite it cleanly. 

You build and edit it right here, in the Origami Studio.

The crane is the whole idea. Fold a flat sheet the right way and it becomes a crane; Origami works the same way. 

Every slide, chart, document and report is a single fold — and folded together, the creases line up into one finished, self-contained file.

— WHAT IT IS —

Origami Studio is a Chrome extension for making .origami.html documents — decks, reports and dashboards that live as a single HTML file. That one file carries everything it needs: your content in plain template tags, the look as ordinary CSS, the viewer and editor as a small script, and the fonts embedded right in. Nothing is fetched from anywhere.

Double-click the file and it just opens. Email it like a PDF. Whoever receives it can read it, present it, print it — or unlock it and edit it — with nothing installed. No project folder. No zip of XML. No cloud doc that rots when a subscription lapses.

— WHY IT'S DIFFERENT —

ONE FILE, NOT A FOLDER. A whole deck is a single .origami.html. There is no separate assets directory, no export step to forget, no link that breaks. The file is the document.

LIVE BLOCKS, NOT PICTURES OF DATA. A chart, a roadmap, a tracker, a flow diagram — each carries its numbers as a small block of inert JSON. The viewer reads it and draws the SVG when the fold opens. Edit the numbers and it redraws. There is no spreadsheet to round-trip, and the same fold renders identically on your screen, in an email, and on a decade-old browser.

OPENS ANYWHERE, FOREVER. Built on the one runtime that is already on every machine — the browser. No plugin, no installer for the reader, no version treadmill. A file you make today keeps opening years from now, offline.

— WHAT YOU CAN BUILD —

Every fold is a panel that stands on its own — bounded, self-contained, written and restyled without touching anything around it. The fold kinds that ship:

• SLIDES — covers, bullets and full-bleed scenes that fill the view.
• STATS — big-number cards for the figures that matter.
• CHARTS — live bar, line and area charts drawn from inert data, not pasted images.
• GANTT / ROADMAP — a real timeline with lanes, milestones and filters.
• TRACKERS — sortable, filterable tables with status, owners and progress.
• FLOW DIAGRAMS — boxes-and-arrows process maps.
• NODE GRAPHS / MIND-MAPS — connected idea graphs.
• DOCUMENTS — long-form A4 reports, for when a deck isn't the right shape.

All of it lives in one file. All of it stays editable — by you, or by an AI.

— BUILT FOR THE AI ERA —

Most "AI in your slides" pastes a wall of context at a model and hopes. Origami does the opposite. Hand a single fold to an AI and a small, bounded envelope is what travels: just that one fold, the rules for its kind, and exactly how to reply.

Paste it into any chat model, ask for the change you want, and it returns one template. Origami checks the reply before it touches your document — the fold's id and kind can't drift, and broken structure is rejected — then snaps the edit back into place. One undo reverses it.

Because the work is bounded to a single fold, an AI rewrites that one fold without resending the whole file. A two-hundred-fold document is as cheap to change as a one-line note. For tool-using assistants there is also an MCP server, so an AI client can read and edit decks on disk directly. This is not a demo that works once: the editing path is checked by the very same guards the app uses, across prose, charts, roadmaps and long-form documents.

— PRIVATE BY DEFAULT (ZERO-NETWORK) —

Origami makes zero network requests. No CDN, no account, no telemetry, no upload, no expiry. The fonts are embedded; the marks are inline SVG; nothing phones home. Your document is yours, and it stays on your machine unless you choose otherwise.

And because HTML is powerful — which is the point, and the risk — a file you did not author opens SAFE. A deck from someone else that contains anything active opens locked and sandboxed: scripts don't run, remote URLs and embeds don't load, and you see a padlock. Read it, present it, print it — nothing executes and nothing connects. Trust the sender? One click unlocks it, for that file, on your say-so. It's exactly how your office suite handles macros, made visible.

Motion that everyone should see — an animated logo, a diagram that breathes — is written as declarative SVG, which can't execute anything. So it always plays, locked or not, and never trips the padlock. That is why you can carry an animated document around safely, and why an unlock is a deliberate choice rather than a reflex.

— LIVE WHEN YOU WANT IT —

By default a document is a quiet, offline file. When you want more reach, Origami meets you there without changing the file:

• GO LIVE — serve a deck from your own machine, and embeds that were polite link-cards offline (a video, a dashboard) flip to real, playing iframes. Same file, just a live address.

• PUBLISH READ-ONLY — hand someone a copy that opens straight into reading mode, with the edit affordances removed.

• EXPORT WHEN YOU MUST — for the world that still asks for the old formats.

— WHO IT'S FOR —

• Anyone tired of "this .pptx won't open" and adverts for copilot every 5 minutes.
• People who present, report and share far more than they recalculate — founders, consultants, PMs, teachers, researchers, teams.
• Anyone who wants an AI to genuinely help with a document instead of mangling it.
• Privacy-minded people who want a file that never phones home and keeps working offline, forever.

— GETTING STARTED —

1. Install the extension and open the Studio.
2. Start a new document, or open an existing .origami.html to edit it.
3. Build with folds — slides, charts, a Gantt, a tracker, a long-form report.
4. Hand any fold to a model and snap the result back in.
5. Save. You now have one self-contained file. Double-click it anywhere and it plays — offline, forever.


One sheet. Many folds. The creases line up into one finished piece of work. That's the idea, and that's the name. Start folding.



— WHAT'S SHIPPED, AND WHAT'S NEXT (HONESTLY) —

The ambition is large: be to the office what Blender is to video — a different substrate for the documents that run a workplace, not a thinner PowerPoint. We would rather under-claim than invent a timeline, so here is the honest state:

• SHIPPED — the deck. Blocks, themes, a live Gantt and tracker, present mode and print, and export to PowerPoint (.pptx).
• NEXT — Word. Long-form reports and briefs with heading hierarchy, contents, footnotes and clean print page-flow; the document exports to Word as real, editable text.
• LATER — Excel, honestly. Tables you can sort, filter and sum: a living, readable snapshot — NOT a live formula or calculation engine. The calculator part stays Excel's, on purpose.

Origami is strongest where documents are read and presented more than they're recalculated. We are not pretending a deck is a spreadsheet. Roadmaps move; this is the direction and the order of the bets, not a dated promise. And the decks you already have heal up to each new renderer the next time you save them.