Curiosity comes with a bill
Every question meters tokens, seats, or compute - so leaders limit questions instead of encouraging them.
the unit economics of curiosity
The AI analyst that lives on your Mac - fast, flat-cost, private.
Install turbolapper and run follow-ups as often as you want. The AI runs the analysis on your Mac - so your data stays put, questions stay flat-cost, and you leave with answers you can take into the room. Raw files to a prepared story. Every claim shows its work.
Built by veterans from
Apple
Google
Confluent
BigCommerce
Choose your edition
turbolapper AFM
For macOS 27 with Apple Intelligence. Uses the Apple Foundation Model already on your Mac, so the download is 66.2 MB. Personal from $0.99/mo.
turbolapper Medium
For macOS 26 or later, no Apple Intelligence needed. The AI model ships inside the app (3.15 GB), fully local and private. Personal from $1.99/mo.
AI made questions cheap to attempt - and expensive to actually run.
Three habits the cloud-plus-metered-AI era trained into your team - and every one of them raises the cost of curiosity.
Your data has to leave to get answers
With the AI on your Mac, the most sensitive questions stay with the work - analysis runs where the data already lives.
Follow-ups wait on tickets
Follow-up questions land in the same session. The second and third question - where the real insight lives - happen in the same session.
Example cost shape for discussion - not a vendor price quote.
Two advantages built in
The field is strong on discovery and scale - and even stronger here.
Private by architecture
With the AI on your Mac, exploration stays where the data already lives - so sensitive questions get asked on-device.
Curiosity at flat cost
Ask more questions at the same flat monthly price. One ask or a hundred, the price stays the same.
Who turbolapper is for
If you have hit the limit of Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets, turbolapper is built for that work. It processes millions of rows, and public demos go to hundreds of millions of rows, so you drop in a file, turbolapper builds the questions, and you leave with the answers and the charts for the room.
CFO / finance & risk
Owns the cloud bill and the risk register. Flat cost + data that stays in-house.
“Ten times the questions, and my dataset stays on my Mac.”
Analyst & curious operator
Outgrew the sheet. Needs millions of rows, an answer now, and a deck , not another ticket.
“The file stays on my Mac - and it’s no one’s business but mine.”
CTO / security & IT
Owns what is allowed on the machine. On-device processing keeps exploration inside the walls for sensitive work.
“They can explore all they want, and nothing sensitive leaves the device.”
Researchers
Secure reproducibility with flat-cost local follow-ups.
Sensitive & proprietary data
When exploration should stay on hardware you control.
Corporations & boutiques
IP stays put; exploration stops ballooning warehouse bills.
Define · prep · analyze · deliver
The loop is simple. Trust is won in prep and on-device analysis. See Technology for architecture and benchmarks.
Questions people ask about private AI analytics and turbolapper
Who is turbolapper for?
Anyone staring at a big CSV or JSON and wondering what to do with it. A full export of the team's Jira issues, sales data, or whatever just landed. turbolapper is for that work. The app, the AI, and the infrastructure all sit on your Mac and never send the data anywhere, so the file never goes to Claude or ChatGPT. A CFO and a CISO get an easier yes: no token budget, and no review of whether a vendor treats the file safely, because the data never leaves the Mac.
Is turbolapper an app I download, or cloud software?
turbolapper is a native macOS app. You install it and work with data on your machine. Two editions: turbolapper AFM for macOS 27 with Apple Intelligence, and turbolapper Medium for macOS 26 or later. Compare editions. Get the app on the Mac App Store. Requirements
What is Local Analytics?
Local Analytics means AI analysis where heavy data work runs on hardware you control. turbolapper is the Mac app that turns raw data files into a slide deck with AI that runs on-device. Details: Technology.
Where does my data live?
On your Mac. Both editions run the AI on-device, so your dataset stays with the work. Privacy
What model powers turbolapper?
It depends on the edition. turbolapper AFM uses the Apple Foundation Model through Apple Intelligence. turbolapper Medium ships with its own AI model inside the app, so nothing else to download. How it works
How does pricing work? Is there a per-query or token meter?
Flat monthly plans: Starter free (100 MB on AFM, 20 MB on Medium), Personal, Business-Commercial, and Pro by capacity and prep depth. Commercial use is included from Business-Commercial up. Enterprise is custom. No AI usage fees in either edition. Pricing
Is turbolapper a Snowflake replacement?
Keep your warehouse for heavy centralized scale. Use turbolapper for private, flat-cost exploration and follow-ups on your Mac. Economics
Can I analyze large CSVs or millions of rows on a Mac?
Yes. Public demos include 200M+ NYC open taxi trips on a Mac (M2 / 32 GB), multi-year retail prep, and multi-series federal work. See Technology, plus the federal data, NYC taxi, and retail prep write-ups.
Do you have an Enterprise plan?
Yes - Enterprise starts at $500/month with capacity 10 TB+, for multi-seat Local Analytics across the organization (commercial use included). Contact us / Schedule a demo, or get the app and note Enterprise interest. Full tier list on Pricing.
Where can I see demos and Team Data Crunch videos?
Read the write-ups on Technology (federal data, retail prep, NYC taxi). Watch the full session archive on Community. Get it on the Mac App Store.
Get turbolapper. Raw data to a deck - flat-cost and private.
On macOS 27 with Apple Intelligence, get turbolapper AFM. On macOS 26, get turbolapper Medium. Then get the app. Pricing, technology, and community are ready when you want more detail.