Raycast

In the last post we stood up an Intune MCP server on macOS and wired it into Claude Desktop. That covers the deep, conversational use cases — the kind where you're genuinely reasoning through a problem and want an LLM to hold the thread. But a lot of fleet work isn't that. It's the same five questions fifteen times a day: is this Mac compliant, what's its OS version, when did it last check in . Opening a chat window, waiting for the assistant to spin up, typing a full senten

If you've spent any time in the Mac power user community, you've almost certainly encountered strong opinions about application launchers. For years, Alfred held the crown as the go-to Spotlight replacement for users who wanted more from their Mac. Then Raycast arrived, free and aggressively feature-rich, and the conversation got a lot more interesting. For IT managers evaluating productivity tooling for a Mac fleet, the question isn't really which one is "better" — it's whic

Managing a fleet of Macs means constantly balancing two competing priorities: keeping your environment secure and standardized while giving users the tools they need to actually get work done. Raycast sits at an interesting intersection of both — and if it's not on your radar yet, it should be. This post breaks down what Raycast is, what it offers out of the box, where AI fits in, and what IT managers specifically need to consider before rolling it out at scale. What Is Rayca