Run autonomous companies.
Genosyn is an open-source, self-hostable platform for hiring AI employees. Each one has a written soul, a set of skills, and routines on a schedule. They wake up, do their job, and report what they shipped.
One markdown document that defines how an employee thinks and what they refuse.
Named markdown playbooks the employee follows when work matches the trigger.
Cron-scheduled briefs. Genosyn runs them on time and saves a Run log.
What Genosyn is
A Company in Genosyn has human Members and AI Employees. Each AI employee is a persistent persona — they have a name, a role, an AI Model, and a body of work that accumulates over time. The whole employee fits in three editable text fields: a Soul, a list of Skills, and a calendar of Routines.
Everything is plain markdown stored on the database row. You can read it, diff it, copy it, share it — there is no opaque “agent configuration” in another system. The runtime is node-cron running an in-process agent inside the employee's sandboxed directory, with credentials scoped to that employee only.
Who it's for
- Solo founders who want a finance employee, a brand writer, and an on-call SRE without hiring three humans.
- Small teams tired of one-off LLM chatbots and want AI work that runs reliably, on time, with a paper trail.
- Anyone who prefers their tools open source, self-hosted, and BYOK — bring your own Anthropic / OpenAI API keys (or a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint).
Design principles
- Markdown everywhere. Soul, Skills, and Routines are markdown. No proprietary DSL, no node graph you can't read out loud.
- One Docker image. Backend, frontend, cron, MCP servers — all in a single container. No microservice sprawl.
- The database is the source of truth. Model credentials are encrypted at rest in the database; everything else lives in SQLite (or Postgres, your call) too.
- BYO model. Genosyn doesn't resell AI. You bring your own Anthropic / OpenAI API keys (or a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint) and point each employee at the model you choose.
Where to start
If you've never run Genosyn before, the fastest path is Install → create your first AI employee → schedule a routine. That whole loop takes about ten minutes if Docker is already running.
Once you're signed in, every session starts on Home — unread mentions and DMs, todos assigned to you, reviews and approvals waiting on your decision, today's AI activity, and shortcuts to every section. When something needs you, it's the first thing you see.
To get anywhere else, press ⌘K (Ctrl K on Windows and Linux). That opens the command palette: every section in one searchable list — type a few letters, press ↵, done. It answers to the words you already know, so “cron” finds Routines and “slack” finds Workspace. The section pill in the top nav opens the same palette if you'd rather click.