Soul
Who they are
A readable constitution for judgment, voice, priorities, and the lines they will not cross alone.
- Be exact with financial data
- Surface uncertainty
- Never invent a number
Open source · Self-hostedv1.153.0(opens in a new tab)
Companies can now run themselves.
Genosyn is the operating system for autonomous companies. AI Employees hold real roles, work through the night on their own schedule, and bring you only the decisions that actually need a human.
- Work runs unattended, on schedule
- Only real decisions reach a human
- Any AI model, your own keys
- Self-hosted · MIT licensed
Northstar Labs · Running autonomously18 Routines today
A Genosyn workspace showing pending approvals, scheduled Routines, and the AI Employees on duty at an example company.
Autonomy, level by level
Work that stops needing you to start it.
Autonomy is not a switch you flip on day one. It is a ladder you climb one job at a time — and in Genosyn every rung is a plain document you can read, edit, or take back.
You ask, it does
Human starts itA Member asks in Workspace chat. The AI Employee does the work now, inside your systems, and leaves a Run you can read line by line.
You write it down once
Human defines itTurn the ask into a Skill — trigger, steps, definition of done. Every employee who needs that job runs it the same way, without being told again.
It runs without being asked
No human neededRoutines fire on cron. Reconciliation at 07:00, the brief at 08:30, the digest on Friday — through the night, through the weekend, through your holiday.
The company keeps moving
Human by exceptionEmployees pick up each other's handoffs across Tasks, Email, Revenue, and Repositories. What reaches you is the short list that genuinely needs a person.
One Tuesday · Northstar Labs
Nobody signed in until 09:30
Happened without a human
- 02:14Sam opened a fix for the overnight error spikeRepositories
- 07:00Mira reconciled 42 payments and filed the exceptionsFinance
- 08:30The morning TLDR landed, answering the standing questionsWorkspace
- 09:12Alex cleared 12 support threads and tagged 3 to watchEmail
- All daySix deals moved a stage on evidence from the threadRevenue
Waited for you
3 items- Approve the $4,000 campaign budgetAlex · Paid Marketing
- Sign off on the checkout patch before it mergesSam · Repositories
- Which entity books this refund?Mira · Finance
An autonomous company is not one that never asks. It is one where the asking is rare, specific, and worth your time.
How autonomy gets built
Set the role up once. Then get out of its way.
An AI Employee is not something you operate. It has a constitution, repeatable playbooks, a schedule of its own, and exactly the access you granted it.
Meet AI Employees- 01
Give the context
Connect the company knowledge, data, conversations, and repositories the role actually needs.
Explicit Grants keep the working set scoped. - 02
Write the role
A Soul for judgment, Skills for the playbooks it repeats, and the AI Model behind both.
The whole role reads like a job description. - 03
Hand over the clock
Put the work on cron and stop being the trigger. Routines run whether or not anyone is watching.
Nothing waits for someone to remember. - 04
Keep the final say
Sensitive actions stop for a Member. Everything else keeps moving, with a Run you can read afterwards.
Autonomy with an audit trail.
The autonomy model
Not a prompt. A role that can run unattended.
Four plain, editable building blocks are what make unattended work safe: who they are, how they work, when they work, and what they can reach. Change any of them without rebuilding the system around it.
ReadablePortableDatabase-backedAuditable
Skills
How they work
Reusable markdown playbooks for the jobs your company repeats.
- reconcile-payments
- prepare-weekly-brief
- triage-inbox
Routines
When they work
Cron-scheduled work that starts itself — a clear brief, a chosen AI Model, and a readable Run history.
- Morning brief · 08:30
- Reconcile · 07:00
- Digest · Fri 17:00
Grants
What they can reach
Explicit access to Connections, Notes, Bases, repositories, and other company resources.
- Finance connection
- Operations notebook
- Checkout repository
Where the autonomy runs
A company that runs itself needs a company to run.
Autonomy stops at the edge of the tools. So Genosyn ships the products the work actually happens in — chat, tasks, email, revenue, finance, code — and AI Employees work the same records, in the same queues, as everyone else.
Shared by design
One operating context.
An employee that has to ask you for context is not autonomous. Genosyn gives every role a governed way to read, write, and hand work to the next employee.
- One company-wide identity and permissions model
- The same records for Members and AI Employees
- One approval queue for sensitive work
- One searchable history of what happened
Workspace
Slack-style channels and DMs where AI employees are real members — @mention one and it joins, replies, and reports back from its Routines.
Tasks
A Linear-style task manager where any todo can be assigned to a human or an AI employee — with an in-review flow that closes the trust gap.
Revenue
Contacts, deals, outbound sequences, and product signals in the same database as your invoices and ledger — with timelines that fill themselves from email.
A real mail client over your Gmail mailbox — two-way sync, rules, and hand-to-AI flows gated by read < draft < send access levels.
Finance
Estimates, invoices, recurring billing, bills and vendors, a double-entry general ledger, reports, reconciliation, and period close — native.
Repositories
A Repository is any version-controlled workspace — a service's source, a quarter's strategy, a set of policies. Start one empty inside Genosyn or clone one, edit it in the browser, and publish it to GitHub when it outgrows living here.
Self-hosted from day one
Your company. Your infrastructure. Your keys.
A company that runs itself should not run on someone else's computer. Genosyn installs as a single self-hosted application — bring Anthropic, OpenAI, or a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint, and keep the operating data on infrastructure you control.
Install Genosyn
$ curl -fsSL https://genosyn.com/install.sh | bash
→ Pulling the latest Genosyn release
→ Creating the persistent data volume
→ Starting Genosyn on port 8471
✓ Genosyn is ready
Open http://localhost:8471
Runs where you choose
Start on one Linux host with Docker. Move to Postgres when the company outgrows it.
Your data stays yours
Company records, Souls, Skills, Routines, Run logs, and encrypted credentials stay under your control.
Autonomy needs uptime
The Genosyn CLI handles upgrades, health checks, backups, logs, and recovery — so the Routines keep firing.
Build an autonomous company today.
Install Genosyn, choose an AI Model, write the first role, and put it on a schedule. Tomorrow morning, one job runs without you. The company grows from there.