I Built a Chrome Extension That Puts My Own AI in Every Tab

You're reading a long article, or watching a video, or halfway through writing an email, and you want AI help. So you open a new tab. You paste the URL, or the transcript, or the paragraph you're stuck on. You wait. You copy the reply back. By the time you're done, you've forgotten what you were originally trying to do. That little context switch, repeated forty times a day, is the thing that quietly kills a workday.

The thing I kept coming back to is that I didn't want a generic AI assistant sitting in a new tab. I wanted my AI. My key, my model, my agents, the memory I've been building for months. And I wanted it on whatever page I already had open, not a tab away.

So I built Keak Browser Bridge. It's a Chrome extension, but calling it that undersells it a bit. What it actually is is a side panel that slides in next to whatever page you're on. You can ask it to summarize what you're reading, write a reply to the email you're staring at, spin the page into a tweet, generate a PDF from a thread, or take actions on your behalf. It runs on your own Gemini or Claude or GPT-4 key. There's no subscription in the middle, no Keak servers pretending to add value between you and the model you're already paying for. If the Keak desktop app is open, the extension talks straight to it and inherits everything, your memory, your agents, your styles. If the desktop app isn't running, it calls the AI API directly with your key. Either way, it's yours.

The first time it really clicked for me was on a Wednesday afternoon. I was reading a long essay about pricing, the kind of thing I usually save for later and never come back to. I opened the panel, asked for a summary and three action steps I could actually take that week. Ten seconds. Then, in the same conversation, still on the same page, I asked it to turn the summary into a tweet thread in my voice. Another ten seconds. I copied the thread, tabbed to X, posted it. Total time from finishing the article to publishing was under a minute, and I never left the page I was reading. Two months ago that same sequence would have been four tabs, three copy-pastes and one lost train of thought.

The thing I didn't expect is how quickly it changes what you're willing to do. When getting AI help costs you a context switch, you ration it. You save it for the big questions. When it's one click away on the page you're already on, you start asking about everything. The paragraph you don't understand. The email you don't want to write. The article you'd otherwise skim and forget. The unlock isn't a feature. It's the absence of friction, and friction is what was keeping most of us from actually using the tools we already pay for.

It's on the Chrome Web Store now. Search Keak Browser Bridge. It's free. Bring your own key.

The best AI is the one you don't have to go find.