Why we started
Most AI products today are one of two things: a closed SaaS that takes your data and trains on it, or a thin wrapper around a single model provider with no operational substance. Both leave money and trust on the table.
We wanted something different — a hosted experience that's pleasant out of the box, paired with an open-source runtime that snaps onto your own hardware the moment privacy or latency matters. So we built both, and made them talk to each other over a documented contract.
How we work
- Open core. The agent runtime, plugin system, and tool reference implementations are Apache-2.0. The hosted product is source-available — you can read every line that handles your data.
- Privacy by architecture. Workspace isolation at the query level. Sensitive fields encrypted at rest. Local-first daemon for users who want zero cloud exposure. We treat your data like we'd want ours treated.
- Honest pricing. No surprise overage charges. Plans have hard per-model caps; over-cap requests fail with a clear message instead of silently consuming budget.
- Public roadmap. What we're building, what we shipped, where we're slipping. See the roadmap and the changelog.
The product
- Prompt Studio — author, test, and version prompts with fillable variables. Start from a curated template library.
- Agents — compose prompts into single- or multi-step agents on the best model (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini) and reasoning depth per step.
- Public API — call any published agent from your own systems with an API key:
POST /api/v1/agents/:id/run. - n8n + open-bee daemon — two-way n8n automation, and an Apache-2.0 daemon you run on your hardware so code and files never leave your machine.
The team
A small distributed team across Indonesia and Singapore. We prototype quickly, write more comments than code reviewers usually like, and ship a release every two weeks. We're hiring — see careers.
Get in touch
- General: hello@openbee.ai
- Press / partnerships: press@openbee.ai
- Security disclosures: security@openbee.ai
- On the bird app: @openbeeai
- Source: github.com/openbee/openbee