Show HN: Genosyn – Automate running of companies with AI
Genosyn is an open-source, self-hosted platform for putting AI employees to work inside your company. Each AI employee gets a defined role, skills, schedule, and scoped access, while sensitive actions pause for human approval. It bundles chat, tasks, revenue, email, finance, and code tools into one shared workspace.
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Put people and AI on the same operating system.
Give AI Employees real roles, shared company context, scheduled work, and clear human guardrails — all in one workspace you control.
Install GenosynSee how it worksGitHub(opens in a new tab)
MIT licensed
Self-hosted
Any AI model
Human approvals
Northstar Labs · Live workspaceWork moving now
A Genosyn workspace showing pending approvals, scheduled Routines, and the AI Employees on duty at an example company.
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Company
Home
Workspace
AI Employees
Routines
Tasks
Revenue
On duty
MFMira
ABAlex
SSSam
Good morning, Nawaz
Here's what needs your attention at Northstar Labs.
All systems healthy
3Pending approvals
18Routines today
5Waiting for review
7AI Employees
AI activity
View all Runs
MFMira reconciled 42 paymentsFinance · 2m agoComplete
ABAlex prepared the launch digestMarketing · 8m agoReview
SSSam opened a reliability fixCode · 14m agoRunning
Needs your attention
3 items
Approve campaign budgetAlex · Paid Marketing
Review checkout patchSam · Code Repositories
Classify one paymentMira · Finance
Work keeps moving. Sensitive changes wait for you.
Human control stays visible3 changes waiting for review
How Genosyn works
Give the role. Keep the oversight.
AI Employees work inside the same system as your team. They have a constitution, repeatable playbooks, a schedule, and only the access you grant.
Meet AI Employees
01
Give the context
Connect the company knowledge, data, conversations, and repos the role actually needs.
Explicit Grants keep the working set scoped.
02
Define the work
Write the Soul, attach Skills, and schedule Routines—or ask for work in chat.
Every role has a clear operating brief.
03
Keep control
Let routine work move automatically while sensitive actions pause for a Member.
Approvals are part of the workflow, not an afterthought.
04
See the record
Read the Run, inspect the output, and follow the handoff into the shared workspace.
Work stays visible and auditable.
The employee model
More than a prompt. A complete operating role.
Every AI Employee is assembled from plain, editable building blocks stored with your company data. Change the role without rebuilding the system around it.
ReadablePortableDatabase-backedAuditable
Soul
Who they are
A readable constitution for judgment, voice, priorities, and boundaries.
Be exact with financial data
Surface uncertainty
Never invent a number
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 with a clear brief, chosen AI Model, and 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
The shared workspace
The tools to run the company, already connected.
AI Employees do not live in a separate automation layer. They work in the same products, on the same records, with the same review queues as everyone else.
Shared by design
One operating context.
Stop copying context between chatbots and business systems. Genosyn gives every role a governed way to read, write, and hand off work.
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
See every product
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.
Code Repositories
Point at any git URL — GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, self-hosted — and grant chosen AI employees a live checkout with read or read-and-push rights.
AI EmployeesBasesNotesResourcesPipelinesExplorePaid MarketingCustomers
Self-hosted from day one
Your company. Your infrastructure. Your keys.
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.
Read the install guideView the source
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 needs it.
Your data stays yours
Company records, Souls, Skills, Routines, Run logs, and encrypted credentials stay under your control.
Operate it with confidence
The Genosyn CLI handles upgrades, health checks, backups, logs, and recovery.
Put your first AI Employee to work.
Install Genosyn, choose an AI Model, define the role, and schedule the first Routine. The rest of the company can grow from there.
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