Beam is a new Mac app that takes a window running on one Mac and puts it on another, where it behaves like a locally installed app. Why? Agents.

Serial founder Hiten Shah, who co-founded Crazy Egg and KISSmetrics, built it with Sam Asante under a company called Noats. It launched on Product Hunt on Tuesday and is aimed at the headless Mac Mini sitting in a closet running AI agents.

The pitch is great: Instead of opening Screen Sharing and steering a full remote desktop, a user picks a single window on the other machine, say a Terminal session or a browser window an agent is working in, and it opens alongside everything else on the Mac in front of them. It gets its own Dock icon and can be called using the Command+Tab switcher. Resizing the window resizes the window on the other Mac. Keyboard shortcuts work, files can be dragged across, and the app’s audio can play locally. The app itself never leaves the original machine. When one window isn’t enough, Beam can pull over a full display or the whole Mac.

Shah frames it around his own setup in his Product Hunt launch post, describing Macs running agents and local models “with work continuing even when nobody’s sitting in front of them.” Getting to one of those machines usually means Screen Sharing and a second desktop to navigate. Beam is meant to cut that down to the one window that matters.

Beam plays into the exploding ecosystem of Macs powering AI systems , so the app runs only on macOS.

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