Open source AI Employees: eight scheduled business-role kits with 60 routines that run on your own machine through an AI agent like Claude Code.
zeenie-ai/OpenCompany
Open-source desktop app and self-hosted platform for running AI employees on your own computer, with browsers, apps, tools and memory.
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What is it?
OpenCompany is an open-source system for running AI employees locally. You describe a job in plain language, connect the apps it needs, and the employee works through browsers, connected services, files, terminal and code tools. Each employee has a workspace, a routine, skills and optional memory, and a lead agent coordinates specialist agents, reviews their output and reports back.
New employees ask before sending messages or taking other actions by default, and browser use is limited to reading while Ask first is on. Jobs can arrive through the Home chat, email (Gmail, Outlook or IMAP), WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, a schedule, or webhooks in developer mode. You can watch progress, take over the browser to sign in, and stop or resume work at any time.
The desktop app stores employee data and encrypted credentials on your computer and supports cloud model providers as well as local models through Ollama or LM Studio. It can also be installed from the command line or run with Docker, and the source is built with Bun and Python.
Key features
- 01Hire AI employees from a plain-language job description, with roles such as builder, researcher and chief of staff.
- 02Lead agent delegates tasks to specialist agents and reviews their submissions.
- 03Browser access with a live view you can watch and take over.
- 04Connectors for Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, GitHub, Stripe, Telegram and more.
- 05Ask-first default that requires approval before supported send actions.
- 06Runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, or self-hosted with Docker.
Use cases
- Triaging an inbox and drafting replies for your approval.
- Preparing a daily briefing from email, calendar and documents.
- Researching a topic on the web and organizing findings into files.
- Answering customer questions through connected messaging channels.
Quick start
- 1
Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/zeenie-ai/OpenCompany.git - 2
Install dependencies (requires Bun 1.4+ and Python 3.12)
bun install - 3
Build the application
bun run build - 4
Start the app in development mode
bun run dev
Things to know
- The desktop installers are not code-signed yet, so your operating system may block them.
- You need an AI provider account or a local model, and a local model uses your computer's hardware.
- Employees only run while the app is open and your computer is awake.
- The optional Android workspace currently runs only on Windows x64.
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- What is OpenCompany?
- Open-source desktop app and self-hosted platform for running AI employees on your own computer, with browsers, apps, tools and memory. OpenCompany is an open-source system for running AI employees locally. You describe a job in plain language, connect the apps it needs, and the employee works through browsers, connected services, files, terminal and code tools. Each employee has a workspace, a routine, skills and optional memory, and a lead agent coordinates specialist agents, reviews their output and reports back.
- Is OpenCompany free to use? What license does it have?
- OpenCompany is open source under the MIT license. Check the license terms before using it in commercial products.
- Is OpenCompany still maintained?
- Actively maintained. The last commit to OpenCompany was on Nov 5, 2026.
- What can I use OpenCompany for?
- Triaging an inbox and drafting replies for your approval. Preparing a daily briefing from email, calendar and documents. Researching a topic on the web and organizing findings into files. Answering customer questions through connected messaging channels.
- How do I install OpenCompany?
- Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/zeenie-ai/OpenCompany.git Install dependencies (requires Bun 1.4+ and Python 3.12): bun install Build the application: bun run build Start the app in development mode: bun run dev
- Where can I get OpenCompany?
- The source code and installation instructions are on GitHub: https://github.com/zeenie-ai/OpenCompany
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