What CompanyOS means in practice

A CompanyOS that runs the work, and the open-source one to pick

The open-source CompanyOS

A CompanyOS runs a company's work, and the work should land as a change a person approves in a repo the company owns. Kortix is the open-source CompanyOS that answers that test, with a review gate on what reaches main.

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Self-host is free · Session work reaches main through a change request · One isolated sandbox per session

Kortix workspace: kortix.yaml — `kortix.yaml` declares the machine image, connectors and triggers, and secret names and grants. Secret values never appear in the repo.

The field behind the word, compared

Of the products under the name, these four differ on where the work and the memory end up.

Kortix

Open source: Yes. Read it, fork it, audit it.
What it is: An open-source CompanyOS that holds the agents, their skills, memory and connectors.
Runs agents: Yes. Agents work on real cloud computers.
Where the memory lives: In the repo the company owns.
You self-host: Yes. Self-host is free.
Price: Free is $0 with 500 credits a month; tiers start at $50.

CompanyOS, companyos.cc

Open source: Not published.
What it is: Shared facts, procedures and templates inside your Claude, ChatGPT or Codex account.
Runs agents: No. It supplies context to the AI account each person uses.
Where the memory lives: In the Claude, ChatGPT or Codex account each person uses.
You self-host: No. It runs inside the AI account you already pay for.
Price: Free in beta, then €29 per seat a month, excluding VAT.

Aqtos BOSS*

Open source: Not published.
What it is: A SaaS linking work, people, money, office and tech.
Runs agents: Yes, through MCP, using the connected account's role.
Where the memory lives: In the Aqtos SaaS, beside work, people and money.
You self-host: No. Aqtos runs it for you.
Price: SaaS. DATA in beta; BCG and Aqtos AI in alpha.

CompanyOS, company-os.ai

Open source: Yes. Open source, free in the download.
What it is: A free template for running a company AI-natively.
Runs agents: No. It runs on your machine; no agent sessions for the team.
Where the memory lives: In one Office you and your agents fill in.
You self-host: No. It runs on your machine; nothing is hosted.
Price: Free. A .zip template you download.

Rival terms read on their own pages, 1 November 2026. * Aqtos expands BOSS as Business Operating System as a Service. Aqtos BOSS ships DATA in beta and BCG and Aqtos AI in alpha.

Three jobs people bring to a CompanyOS

Each one ends in a file a person can read.

What comes back

Real work
Runs the job on its own machine
An agent works the task through to the end and hands back the finished document, ready to send.
globex/q3-close.md
- Lines reconciled1,842
- Variances explained3
- Board deck12 slides
One deliverable, three checks
Company memory
Keeps what the company knows in files
Decisions, definitions and procedures sit in the repo, where an agent and a new hire read the same answer.
company/
File Holds Owner
decisions/2026-10-pricing.md Why list pricing changed Finance
glossary.md What a churned account means Sales
procedures/refunds.md Who approves a refund Support
- decisions/2026-10-pricing.md
  Holds: Why list pricing changed
  Owner: Finance
- glossary.md
  Holds: What a churned account means
  Owner: Sales
- procedures/refunds.md
  Holds: Who approves a refund
  Owner: Support
Three files, one repo
Approvals
A person merges what reaches main
The agent opens a change request and a person reads the change before merging it; Read the docs lists the commands.
terminal
Command What it does
kortix cr ls open change requests
kortix cr diff 1 the unified diff
kortix cr merge 1 merge into the base branch
- kortix cr ls
  What it does: open change requests
- kortix cr diff 1
  What it does: the unified diff
- kortix cr merge 1
  What it does: merge into the base branch
Merge is default-deny for agents.

File	Holds	Owner
decisions/2026-10-pricing.md	Why list pricing changed	Finance
glossary.md	What a churned account means	Sales
procedures/refunds.md	Who approves a refund	Support

Command	What it does
kortix cr ls	open change requests
kortix cr diff 1	the unified diff
kortix cr merge 1	merge into the base branch

What open source gets a buyer

You can read every line before you run it, and you choose where it runs.

Open source. Read it, fork it, audit it.
Run it on Kortix Cloud, in your VPC, or on your own on-prem network. Self-host is free.
Kortix on GitHub
The six parts

Questions buyers ask

The short version, with links where the longer answer lives.

Is a CompanyOS just a Notion or markdown template?

No. A template is a document an AI reads, while a CompanyOS runs the agents and holds the memory they work from. What one must contain counts six parts, four of them files a person can read.

Does a CompanyOS replace our project management tool?

Not by default. It runs the work and keeps the decisions on file, so a tracker can still plan the quarter. The difference is that the deliverable itself lands in the repo, as a diff or a document a person can read. What a CompanyOS is draws that line.

Can we keep the company's memory if we change model providers?

Yes. The memory sits in the repo your company owns, so a different provider only changes which model reads it. The comparison shows where each rival keeps it.

What does it cost to run a CompanyOS?

Free is $0 with 500 credits per month, every feature and 1 project, on your own provider keys or ChatGPT subscription. The paid plan is credits from $50 a month, at 100 credits per dollar.

Start with one job and one repo.

Run it on the free tier, or on your own network, and read every line first.