开发者开源AI高管系统Open Executive

Open Executive

An AI system that acts as your company's virtual executive team — a senior advisor with Harvard MBA-level knowledge, customized for your specific business.

Demo

A walkthrough of Open Executive in action — watch on YouTube.

What It Does

Developed by sentelabs.ai Open Executive provides a single coherent executive voice backed by eight specialist AI agents:

• Chief Strategy Officer — competitive analysis, M&A, market positioning, OKRs
• Chief Financial Officer — financial modeling, fundraising, unit economics, cash flow
• Chief HR/People Officer — hiring, compensation, performance, culture
• General Counsel — contracts, IP, employment law basics, compliance
• Chief Operating Officer — process design, vendor management, operational scaling
• Chief Marketing Officer — GTM strategy, brand, communications, PR
• Chief Product Officer — roadmap, prioritization, product strategy
• Board Communications Director — board decks, investor relations, governance

All responses come from one consistent executive voice. The internal agent architecture is never exposed to the user. Beyond Q&A, the system maintains episodic memory of past decisions and initiatives across sessions, and a built-in scheduler can proactively surface follow-ups and time-sensitive actions.

Architecture

Knowledge — Two retrieval layers per specialist call: (1) built-in MBA-level Markdown (knowledge/builtin/, git-tracked) seeded into ChromaDB at startup, and (2) your uploaded company documents chunked and stored in a separate company_docs collection. RAG context is injected into the user turn, never the cached system prompt.

Episodic memory — After every response, a background claude-haiku-4-5 pass extracts key decisions, initiatives, and advice into SQLite. The next session opens with a <past_decisions> block so the Executive remembers what it recommended last month.

Scheduler — A built-in job runner claims due actions via UPDATE … RETURNING to prevent double-firing. The API must run as a single instance; do not horizontally scale it without gating the scheduler first.

Prompt caching — The system prompt is structured so the Executive persona, company profile, and knowledge index are cached separately (up to 85% cache hit rate after the first few turns). No dynamic content ever goes in a cached block.

See docs/architecture.md for the full design.

Tech Stack

Repo Layout

Quick Start

Open http://localhost:3000 to start chatting with your executive. The API runs on port 8000 and the UI on 3000.

First run: requires Python 3.11+ and Node 22+. The initial uv sync pulls heavy ML dependencies (ChromaDB + sentence-transformers/PyTorch), and the first boot downloads a small embedding model (~90 MB) to build the local vector index — so the first make dev takes a few minutes before the app is ready. Subsequent starts are fast.

For contributors not using make:

Run the Discord Bot

• Create a Discord application at https://discord.com/developers/applications
• Enable the Message Content privileged intent (Bot → Privileged Gateway Intents)
• Invite the bot with bot + applications.commands scopes
• Set env vars in .env: DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN, DISCORD_APP_ID, DISCORD_GUILD_IDS
• Run the API normally — the bot starts as part of the FastAPI lifespan when DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN is set:

The bot is embedded in the API process (alongside the email poller, scheduler, and resumer) so it shares the same SQLite database and ChromaDB vector store under /data in production. Skip the token to disable.

For iterating on bot-only code without restarting the API, make discord runs the bot as a standalone process against the same local DB.

Users can DM the bot, @mention it in a channel (replies in a thread), or use /ask and /today slash commands. Slash commands sync to DISCORD_GUILD_IDS instantly on startup; leave blank for global registration (up to 1-hour propagation delay).

Deploying to production

Just set the secrets on the existing API app — no new Fly app required:

Discord user access is managed via the /people UI — add a Person row with discord_user_id set.

The machine restarts and the bot starts on the next lifespan boot. To disable in prod: flyctl secrets unset -a openexec-api-dev DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN.

Onboarding Your Company

The first time you visit the app, you'll be guided through a wizard to set up your company profile:

• Company basics (name, industry, stage, team size)
• Business model and revenue
• Competitive landscape
• Strategic priorities
• Culture and values
• Optional: financial position, document upload

After onboarding, the Executive will reference your specific company context in every response.

Interfaces

Document Upload