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
- Multi-provider chat with vision and Visual Mode (Mermaid diagrams, Recharts plots) — Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google models, side by side.
- Mission Control — a Kanban board for long-running agentic tasks with a live event log, cost metrics, and retry.
- Bridges — Telegram today, WhatsApp next. Talk to your bee from where your team already chats.
- open-bee daemon — Apache-2.0 CLI you run on your hardware. Linked workspaces dispatch to your daemon; 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