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The open-source CompanyOS
An AI chief of staff is the agent that owns your recurring operating work: the weekly report, the standup, the meeting follow-ups, the investor update. Kortix is the open-source CompanyOS: your agents, their skills, your company memory, and every connector in one git repo you own, with the agents working on real cloud computers.
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kortix.yaml
default_agent: kortixproject: name: arcadia description: Arcadia runs engineering, marketing and sales on Kortix.connectors: - slug: github3,000+ apps in a click, plus MCP, OpenAPI, Postman, GraphQL and raw HTTP.
Each one is a real agent on Kortix, and each hands back a finished artifact.
Weekly report
A Monday cron queries the metrics from our Postgres database, writes the weekly report with commentary on what moved and why, and posts it to Slack. Access to the database is read-only.
Standup
It reads each team member's recent Linear issues and GitHub activity, builds a short per-person summary, checks who has nothing recorded, and posts the standup to a Slack channel.
Meeting notes
When a call ends, it spawns its own isolated session — a cloud sandbox — with scoped access to what note-taking needs: the event, the transcript, and Linear. It writes structured notes, pulls out the action items, and files each one as a ticket assigned to the person who owns it.
Investor update
It pulls the core metrics — MRR, growth, burn, runway, active accounts — compares them to last month and to plan, and drafts the update in our usual format as a document. A founder edits it and sends it.
Inbox triage
It reads the email, applies a label, and then either drafts a reply in Gmail or files a task in Linear. Anything customer-facing waits for a person before it sends.
In my opinion Kortix fits best when the cadence has to run on infrastructure you own, and I work on Kortix’s marketing, so weigh that accordingly.
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An AI chief of staff is an agent that owns a company’s recurring operating work: the weekly report, the standup, the meeting follow-ups and the investor update. It runs that cadence on a schedule, so the work happens whether or not anyone opens an app.
Yes. Kortix is the open-source CompanyOS, and the chief of staff is a set of agents you run on it. How to build one starts with the five jobs you already do every week.
It depends on the tool. alfred_ starts at $29.99 a month billed annually, Vybe is free with $10 in credits a month, and Kortix is free at $0 with 500 credits per month. The tool comparison lists what each plan covers.
No. It takes the recurring work off the desk: the report, the standup, the follow-ups. Judgment, relationships and decisions stay with a person, and on Kortix a person approves what reaches main.
An assistant answers when you ask. A chief of staff owns a cadence: it starts the weekly report on Monday, chases the follow-ups, and drafts the investor update before anyone remembers. The definition covers the job in full.
Start free, connect your tools, and put the first job on a schedule this week.
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