Belt to Debut Privacy-First Belt Desktop at Microsoft Ignite – Demoed Live With AMD

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At Microsoft Ignite 2025, Belt will announce Belt Desktop, a privacy-first hybrid-AI productivity app that keeps sensitive work local. The solution will be powered by Foundry Local and designed for AMD Ryzen™ AI PCs and compatible NPUs, enabling fast, on-device LLM inference with cloud support for collaboration and scale. Support for additional silicon vendors is coming soon.

Belt is an AI productivity app for email, calendar, contacts, and projects. Belt builds a knowledge graph from those sources then applies hybrid AI to triage email, manage workload, and get visibility across projects and deliverables.

With Belt, teams can:

• Surface requests, follow-ups, and deadlines; convert messages to tasks or meetings in one click; auto-file threads to the right project.
• See true capacity across tasks, meetings, and deadlines; auto-schedule next steps; plan with workload indicators.
• One view by project with owners, status, and timelines;
• Ask AI directly on the live thread/file/project without uploading or downloading to extract key points and propose next steps.

Inboxes contain an organization’s most sensitive information like contracts, attachments, and private communications. Belt Desktop allows teams to run AI locally on compatible NPUs to triage and analyze contracts and other sensitive email attachments, keeping data on the desktop for privacy and efficiency.

“Most work hides in messages. Belt Desktop brings hybrid AI to where that work lives, locally, so teams move faster without sacrificing privacy,” said Keith Lipman, Co-founder and CEO of Belt.

“AMD is committed to empowering developers and businesses with AI that’s fast, efficient, and secure. Belt Desktop on AMD Ryzen™ AI PCs shows how hybrid AI can deliver real productivity gains while keeping sensitive data local. Together with Microsoft and Belt, we’re enabling a new era of privacy-first AI experiences for modern work.” — said Josh Hort, Sr. Director, Head of ISV Enablement at AMD.

Where to see Belt at Ignite

• Microsoft Ignite Session (BRK199) on Foundry Local
• Live with AMD at the AMD booth, showing Belt on AMD-powered systems.

Availability

Belt Desktop for Windows (Beta) with Foundry Local: Coming Soon – Join the waitlist: Here

Belt Cloud: Available now – Try for free

About Belt

Belt is an AI productivity app that connects email, calendar, contacts, and projects. With hybrid AI (local and cloud), Belt helps organizations triage messages, manage workload with a unified view of capacity, gain project-level visibility, and use AI on their work securely.

Microsoft, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Ignite are trademarks of Microsoft. AMD and Ryzen are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

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