OpenCompany
Self-improving AI employees, running on your own computer.
OpenCompany is an open-source operating system for AI employees. It gives employees browsers, apps, tools, integrations, and access to your computer to complete work. Hire them to build and ship software, grow your business, answer customers, run operations, or research a topic.
Describe a job in plain words and connect the tools it needs. Each employee has a workspace, a routine, skills, and memory. A lead coordinates specialist AI agents to carry out the job, review their work, and bring you the result. You choose their access and ground rules, watch them work, and coach them as they gain experience and new abilities.
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What could you hire an employee to do?
Hire employees for roles like these, then adapt their instructions and tools to your work.
| Employee | Example job |
|---|
| Builder | Build software, write and run code, work on pull requests, and use deployment tools. |
| Grower | Research the market, create content, publish to connected channels, and manage community conversations. |
| Chief of Staff | Manage email, calendars, documents, and tasks, and bring you a daily briefing. |
| Front Desk | Answer customer questions, help with booking requests, and bring you cases that need your attention. |
| Researcher | Browse the web, read documents, investigate a topic, and organize the findings. |
| Treasurer | Track payment events and help manage payment operations through connected services. |
These are roles you can configure. Home also offers four starter jobs: Receptionist, Inbox assistant, Social media helper, and Daily briefer. Pick one or describe your own. What an employee can do depends on the apps, tools, AI model, and instructions you give it.
Get started
Download and install the desktop app from the latest release:
The app downloads its supporting software on first launch, then opens Home.
- Connect an AI model. Follow the prompt in Home or open Settings > Connectors. Use an AI provider account or connect a model running on your computer.
- Describe the job. For example: “Read my new emails, draft short replies in my style, and ask me before sending.”
- Review the setup. Check the employee's instructions, apps, routine, and ground rules. Ask for changes and connect any required apps.
- Hire. OpenCompany creates the employee and its team. Work starts once the required connections are ready; its page tells you if something is missing.
- Work together. Chat with the employee, follow its progress, review drafts, and open its Workspace to see reports and files.
You can hire and manage employees from Home without writing code. Dev mode opens the visual editor for people who want to customize how a team is put together.
The builds are not signed with an Apple or Microsoft developer certificate yet, so your computer asks before the first launch. On a Mac, try to open the app, then choose Open Anyway in System Settings > Privacy & Security. On Windows, choose More info > Run anyway. If a Mac says the app is damaged (version 0.3.1 and earlier) or offers only Move to Trash, drag OpenCompany to Applications and run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/OpenCompany.app in Terminal. That skips the Mac's download check for that copy, so only do it with an installer from the releases page.
How an employee works
Jobs can arrive through Home chat, email (Gmail, Outlook, or IMAP), WhatsApp, Telegram, or Discord, or start on a schedule. Dev mode also supports webhook inputs.
An employee takes a job through the steps needed to complete it: browsing websites, using connected apps, working with files, running code, and coordinating specialists. Its lead assigns work and reviews submissions. You can see progress, results, and requests for help on the employee's page.
You set the ground rules. New hires ask before sending by default. Supported send actions appear as drafts for approval; browser use is restricted to reading while Ask first is on. You can review app-access requests, change access, and stop or resume the employee from Home. Keep the app running and your computer awake for background work.
You can watch and help. The Workspace shows work on a canvas, in a browser, or on an Android screen. Take over the browser to sign in or help, then hand control back. The optional Android workspace currently runs on Windows x64; see the mobile guide.
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