What opencompany is, and why it has six AI employees

What is opencompany?#

opencompany is an open-source, self-hosted AI system that runs the operational functions of a small business. Instead of one chatbot that answers the prompt in front of it, it provides six role-specialised AI employees: a developer, a designer, an accountant, a salesperson, a marketer and a tax preparer. Each one owns its function end to end and reports the work it produced.

It is built and maintained by Zeenie AI. The source is public on GitHub under the MIT licence, and the Free plan is the whole product running on your own machine, with no seats to count and no usage limit.

Why six AI employees instead of one assistant?#

Because a business is not one job. A general assistant is good at answering the question you asked today and bad at owning an outcome nobody asked about: the invoice that is due, the lead that went quiet, the dependency that needs upgrading. Giving each function an owner with its own context, tools and definition of done is what turns a clever model into something that runs a company.

The six roles map to what a small company has to do every week:

• Developer — ships code and gets pull requests merged.
• Designer — produces the brand kit, pages and assets the other roles need.
• Accountant — keeps the books and closes them on time.
• Sales — works leads to a won deal.
• Marketer — plans and runs campaigns.
• Tax preparer — prepares and files returns.

Six is deliberate. Fewer, and roles blur back into a single assistant that needs a human to hold the plan. More, and you are back to managing an org chart. These six cover the functions a small business cannot skip.

How does a token budget turn into finished work?#

You set a token budget. Work is dispatched to the AI employee that owns that function, which completes it and returns finished output rather than a suggestion. Each run reports what it cost in tokens and what it produced, so spend is a dial you control rather than a surprise at the end of the month, and the loop from budget to result is auditable.

It is model-agnostic: bring your own provider keys, including access to more than 200 models through OpenRouter, or point it at models you host yourself with Ollama or LM Studio.

How is it different from Zapier, n8n or an agent runtime?#

Workflow tools such as Zapier, Make and n8n execute exactly the sequence of triggers and actions you drew. opencompany assigns an outcome to a role instead. You do not draw the workflow; the employee responsible for that function decides how to complete it and reports back.

Agent runtimes and coordination layers such as OpenClaw, Hermes Agent and Paperclip give you a capable agent, or a way to supervise several. opencompany ships the organisation itself: fixed business roles, a token budget going in, and revenue tracking coming out, as one self-hosted system.

Where does my data live, and what does it cost?#

On the Free plan, on your own infrastructure. Your documents, customer records and books stay on machines you control, and there is no vendor-side copy of any of it. You pay your model provider for the tokens you use and nothing to us.

If you would rather not run it yourself, the Pro and Max plans are hosted by opencompany. They are billed monthly in USD on usage, never per seat, so adding your whole team costs nothing extra. Details are on the pricing page.

Where should I start?#

The documentation takes you from install to a first working employee in a few minutes. The source is on GitHub, and questions go to Discord.