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Field notes on building, running, and governing AI agents that do real work — from the team building the Kortix command center.

Field notes

What ChatGPT Work's control page admits, and what an open-source stack must prove

Every ChatGPT Work control rests on a sentence OpenAI wrote. All ten are quoted with their URLs, beside what open-source Kortix answers and concedes.

The Kortix Team·October 21, 2026·7 min read

Field notes

ChatGPT Work keeps the controls; the open-source alternative keeps the record

ChatGPT Work gives admins real controls. Who changed an agent's access is the open question. Open-source Kortix keeps that record in a git repo you own.

The Kortix Team·October 21, 2026·7 min read

Comparisons

Cloudflare OS is open source. The account is the decision.

Cloudflare OS is open source and every workspace runs as a Worker in a Cloudflare account, so ask whose account your operating layer lives in.

The Kortix Team·October 21, 2026·6 min read

Comparisons

OpenAI dots alternative: the open-source answer keeps the rules, not the clone

OpenAI dots run on OpenAI's model and cloud, while open-source Kortix keeps the agent's rules, grants and review in a repo your team owns.

The Kortix Team·October 21, 2026·7 min read

Field notes

Self-hosted open-source AI agents: four checks decide the install

Self-hosting open-source AI agents comes down to four operational checks: where sessions run, who can sign up, what you back up, and the monthly bill.

The Kortix Team·October 21, 2026·6 min read

Field notes

ChatGPT Business pricing: a published seat, a bill open source can price

ChatGPT Business prices seats and leaves the credit rate unpublished; open-source Kortix bills agent compute per second, so a month is known in advance.

The Kortix Team·October 20, 2026·6 min read

Comparisons

Perplexity Personal Computer is a purchase; Kortix is an open-source repo

Perplexity Personal Computer comes four ways, each keeping the setup and work record in its app. Open-source Kortix keeps both in a git repo the company owns.

The Kortix Team·October 20, 2026·6 min read

Field notes

Microsoft Copilot pricing: the credit meter, and the open-source alternative

Microsoft Copilot costs $30 a seat, but the Copilot Studio credit meter decides an agent team's bill; this is that arithmetic, and the open-source alternative.

The Kortix Team·October 19, 2026·6 min read

Comparisons

Open-source Kortix keeps the agent in your repo; Copilot Studio keeps it in Microsoft's tenant

Copilot Studio defines, versions and runs agents inside Microsoft's tenant; open-source Kortix keeps the agent in a git repo your team owns.

The Kortix Team·October 18, 2026·8 min read

Comparisons

Open-source Claude Cowork alternatives, compared for a team

Compare four open-source Claude Cowork alternatives for teams: what each system owns, where it runs, and who reviews the work.

The Kortix Team·October 18, 2026·8 min read

Field notes

Self-hosted Claude Cowork does not exist. Here is the open-source answer

Anthropic runs Claude Cowork on its own servers; see what an open-source self-hosted alternative must carry, and the commands that stand one up.

The Kortix Team·October 18, 2026·6 min read

Comparisons

Kortix vs Activepieces: open source for the work a flow cannot hold

Activepieces runs the flows you draw. Kortix is open source and built for the work a fixed flow cannot capture.

The Kortix Team·October 15, 2026·6 min read

Comparisons

Kortix vs AgenticSeek: open source that outlives one laptop

Kortix is the open-source AI Operating System a team reviews, while AgenticSeek runs a private agent on one laptop.

The Kortix Team·October 15, 2026·6 min read

Comparisons

Zapier replays the flow you drew. Open-source Kortix gives an agent the goal.

Zapier runs the fixed workflows you build, task by task; open-source Kortix runs the work you cannot draw, in a repo you own.

The Kortix Team·October 15, 2026·5 min read

Comparisons

Open-source Perplexica alternatives: the answer engine or the system that runs the work

Perplexica ships as Vane, one answer engine among several open-source options. See how each compares with open-source Kortix, and when to pick which.

The Kortix Team·October 15, 2026·6 min read

Comparisons

Kortix vs Vellum: the second colleague needs an open-source repo

Vellum is a personal assistant one person shapes, its cloud closing 2 November 2026; Kortix is the open-source AI Operating System a team owns in a repo.

The Kortix Team·October 14, 2026·6 min read

Comparisons

Kortix vs CrewAI: the framework is free, the runtime is open source

CrewAI gives you a free Python framework for agent teams, while open-source Kortix ships the runtime around it: grants, sandboxes, and review.

The Kortix Team·October 13, 2026·7 min read

Comparisons

Dify draws one app on a canvas. Open-source Kortix keeps the agents in a repo your team reviews

Open-source Kortix runs a company''s agents, memory and connector rules as files in a repo it owns; Dify builds LLM apps on a canvas.

The Kortix Team·October 13, 2026·6 min read

Comparisons

Kortix vs Flowise: a low-code LLM builder or an open-source platform your team owns

Flowise was archived in 2026; open-source Kortix is where a team's agents, memory and connectors live in one git repo it owns.

The Kortix Team·October 13, 2026·6 min read

Comparisons

Kortix vs LangGraph: open-source agents need a system you own

Kortix is the open-source system a company owns end to end; LangGraph is the low-level framework for stateful agents in code.

The Kortix Team·October 13, 2026·6 min read

Comparisons

Kortix vs LibreChat: multi-model chat, or an open-source system a team owns

LibreChat is a self-hosted multi-provider chat UI, while open-source Kortix gives a team one repo it owns with shared memory and reviewed changes.

The Kortix Team·October 13, 2026·5 min read

Comparisons

Kortix vs Manus: keep the open-source system when the task ends

Manus is a hosted AI agent you cannot self-host; Kortix is the open-source system your team runs and owns.

The Kortix Team·October 13, 2026·5 min read

Comparisons

Kortix vs NanoClaw: a personal agent or an open-source system a company owns

NanoClaw runs a personal AI agent in a Docker container; Kortix is the open-source system a company owns and reviews.

The Kortix Team·October 13, 2026·5 min read

Comparisons

Kortix vs Nimbalyst: a coding workspace, or the open-source AI Operating System

Nimbalyst is a visual coding workspace; Kortix is the open-source AI Operating System that keeps a company's agents and connector grants in one reviewed repo.

The Kortix Team·October 13, 2026·5 min read

Comparisons

Kortix vs Onyx: open-source search, or the open-source system that runs the work?

Onyx is open-source, self-hostable enterprise search; Kortix is open source and runs governed agents that do the work search only surfaces.

The Kortix Team·October 13, 2026·5 min read

Comparisons

Kortix vs Paperclip: an open-source company system or a control plane for your agents?

Paperclip coordinates the agents you run; Kortix is the open-source system that runs them too, each session on its own cloud computer.

The Kortix Team·October 13, 2026·7 min read

Comparisons

Kortix vs Perplexity Computer: rent a hosted worker, or own the open-source system?

Perplexity Computer is a closed, hosted digital worker; Kortix is open source, self-hosted or managed, with the whole system in one repo you own.

The Kortix Team·October 13, 2026·4 min read

Comparisons

Open-source Lindy alternative: what keeps running when the credits stop

Lindy bills every active seat and stops when the credits run out. Kortix is open source, and the agent''s files and review gate stay in your repo

The Kortix Team·October 13, 2026·6 min read

Comparisons

Open-source Manus alternatives: what your team still owns in year two

Manus is a hosted agent you cannot self-host. The open-source alternatives differ in what your team owns, from Kortix to OpenHands, Hermes and n8n.

The Kortix Team·October 12, 2026·7 min read

Comparisons

Kortix vs Hermes: one operator approves a skill write, a team needs a change request

Hermes stages its own skill writes for your approval and keeps a ledger of them. Open-source Kortix puts that review in a repo a colleague can approve.

The Kortix Team·October 11, 2026·7 min read

Comparisons

Kortix vs AnythingLLM: document chat, or an open-source system a team owns?

AnythingLLM is a local-first app for chatting with your documents; Kortix is the open-source system a team owns, with shared memory and reviewed agent work.

The Kortix Team·October 8, 2026·4 min read

Comparisons

Kortix vs n8n: open source, and the unit of work you are paying for

n8n prices a run of a flow you can draw; open-source Kortix prices a session on its own machine, so the unit of work decides the bill.

The Kortix Team·October 8, 2026·7 min read

Comparisons

Kortix vs Gumloop: a read-only export or an open-source repo you can run

Gumloop offers a read-only export of an agent, while Kortix, the open-source AI Operating System, keeps that definition in a repo you can run.

The Kortix Team·October 5, 2026·5 min read

Comparisons

The open-source ChatGPT Work alternative that lives in your repo

ChatGPT Work ships with every ChatGPT plan; Kortix is the open-source alternative whose agents, grants and memory sit in a git repo your company owns.

The Kortix Team·October 5, 2026·6 min read

Comparisons

Kortix vs OpenClaw: what a review gate should cover

OpenClaw reviews a repository change; Kortix, the open-source AI Operating System, reviews the repo that defines the company, with merges gated by grant.

The Kortix Team·October 4, 2026·6 min read

Comparisons

Kortix vs OpenHands: replace the open-source harness, keep the open-source record

OpenHands is a strong open-source coding harness; Kortix is the open-source AI Operating System that keeps the record of who let an agent do what.

The Kortix Team·October 4, 2026·6 min read

Comparisons

Kortix vs Open WebUI: chat answers, or open-source work that lands

Open WebUI is a self-hosted chat interface for your models; Kortix is the open-source system you own, review and self-host.

The Kortix Team·October 2, 2026·4 min read

Comparisons

NVIDIA NemoClaw: the open-source AI agent platform, explained

NVIDIA NemoClaw is the open-source reference stack for running agents safely on NVIDIA hardware; Kortix is the open-source layer for the whole agent workforce.

The Kortix Team·September 27, 2026·5 min read

Comparisons

The open-source Microsoft Copilot alternative depends on which Copilot you mean

Copilot is several products, so the open-source replacement is a search layer for answers and an agent system that lands work in a repo you own.

The Kortix Team·September 27, 2026·8 min read

Comparisons

Open-source Perplexity Computer alternatives: what each one runs on

Perplexity open-sourced its sandbox, but the Computer agent stays closed; these open-source alternatives differ in what each one runs on.

The Kortix Team·September 27, 2026·7 min read

Comparisons

Kortix vs OpenWork: open source, and the record a team reviews

OpenWork suits one person at one machine, while open-source Kortix keeps an agent's work as a diff a teammate approves and merges.

The Kortix Team·September 26, 2026·5 min read

Product

Getting started with open-source Kortix: from install to a first session

Install the Kortix CLI, scaffold a project, and ship your first open-source agent session in three commands, then review its change request.

The Kortix Team·September 25, 2026·5 min read

Product

Is Kortix free? Open source, free to self-host, metered in the cloud

Kortix is open source and free to self-host; on Kortix Cloud, credits from $50 a month pay for the agent computer by the second.

The Kortix Team·September 25, 2026·5 min read

Comparisons

Own the setup, review the work: open-source Kortix, Eigent and Kuse

Compare open-source Kortix, Eigent and Kuse on self-hosting, model choice, shared context, human review and price to see which your team should self-host.

The Kortix Team·September 23, 2026·6 min read

Comparisons

Six self-hosted AI workspaces, five open source, held to a team's three tests

Five open-source self-hosted AI workspaces and one fair-code option, judged on memory you can back up, a machine per session and a review gate.

The Kortix Team·September 20, 2026·7 min read

Comparisons

The review gate is what separates open-source AI agent platforms

Five open-source AI agent platforms compared on who can stop an agent before production, and the settings that turn a review gate on.

The Kortix Team·September 16, 2026·6 min read

Field notes

GPT-6 Astra for agent teams: what you can delegate and what you still verify

GPT-6 Astra lets agent teams delegate more work, but verification lands on you. Kortix is open source and built to run that work.

The Kortix Team·September 13, 2026·5 min read

Field notes

What the OpenAI Agents API changes for teams on an open-source platform

The OpenAI Agents API is in public beta, and it changes who runs the harness. What teams gain, what stays the same, and where open-source Kortix fits.

The Kortix Team·September 12, 2026·5 min read

Field notes

How to build reliable AI agent workflows with open-source Kortix

Map AI agent workflow failure modes to concrete controls, with a reference implementation on open-source Kortix.

The Kortix Team·September 11, 2026·6 min read

Product

Welcome to the Kortix blog: how we build and run an open-source agent system

The Kortix blog introduces the open-source system it covers and shares how teams build, run and review production AI agents.

The Kortix Team·September 11, 2026·2 min read

Strategy

Good businesses don’t need moats (and why that’s fine)

The startup world is obsessed with moats. Every pitch deck has a slide. Every investor asks. But most great businesses do not have a true moat, and they are still great businesses.

Marko Kraemer·August 2, 2026·6 min read

Comparisons

Kortix vs QM: both open source, one organizes work around rooms, the other around branches

QM and Kortix both give teams persistent agents, isolated computers, Slack and web access, and self-hosting. The decisive difference is deeper: QM organizes work around people and rooms; Kortix organizes it around git-backed projects and reviewable sessions.

Marko Kraemer·August 2, 2026·6 min read

Architecture

Static software is dead: the shift from code to feedback loops

The way we build software is fundamentally changing. Static software no longer creates a defensible advantage. The shift is to dynamic software that improves through feedback loops.

Marko Kraemer·August 2, 2026·7 min read

Market

Every AI product is the same: the convergence nobody is talking about

Open any agent platform — they are architecturally identical. The marginal differences are not defensible. The only thing that diverges is the learning loop.

Marko Kraemer·August 2, 2026·5 min read

Vision

A frontier without an ecosystem is not stable

The first phase of globalization hollowed out industrial economies. The AI era cannot repeat that. The priority has to be building a frontier ecosystem, not just a frontier model.

Marko Kraemer·August 2, 2026·7 min read

Vision

The only moat that matters: why your AI platform needs a learning loop, not a better model

Every AI product is converging on the same architecture. The only defensible advantage is a data flywheel — a learning loop where every interaction makes your system better. Here is what that means, and why Kortix is built for it.

Marko Kraemer·August 2, 2026·10 min read

Architecture

The test of sovereignty: can you swap the model without losing what you built?

The most important question for any company adopting AI: can you switch out the model without losing the institutional expertise you have built? A sovereignty checklist for evaluating your AI platform.

Marko Kraemer·August 2, 2026·7 min read

Vision

Your company needs two kinds of capital: human and token

Satya Nadella’s frontier-ecosystem framework reveals the most important strategic idea in AI: every company must build human capital and token capital, and they compound together.

Marko Kraemer·August 2, 2026·8 min read

Comparisons

Kortix vs Poetic: both turn workflows into code — the difference is who owns the code

Poetic compiles your procedures into a purpose-built language it runs for you. Kortix keeps the workflow as ordinary code in a repo you own, and gates the boundary where it touches the world. A technical comparison of two answers to the same problem.

Marko Kraemer·July 31, 2026·9 min read

Product

Open source is what makes an AI Operating System yours

Kortix is open source: one git repo for the agents, skills, memory and connector config, self-hosted or managed, on any model.

Marko Kraemer·July 31, 2026·6 min read

Architecture

AGI-ready architecture: what it really means, and how Kortix is built for it

AGI-ready doesn't mean an architecture that produces AGI. It means one that absorbs a 100× capability jump without losing state or granting uncontrolled access. How Kortix is built for it.

Marko Kraemer·July 17, 2026·9 min read

Comparisons

Kortix vs Glean: search or an agent platform that runs work?

Glean finds work across your company; the open-source Kortix runs it, with agents, skills and policy as files in a repo you own.

The Kortix Team·July 13, 2026·4 min read

Security

Open-source agent tool access starts at the credential boundary

How to give AI agents production tool access without raw API keys: scoped connectors, approval policies, server-side credentials, and reviewed work.

The Kortix Team·July 7, 2026·6 min read

Enterprise

Consultancies need one repo for their clients’ agents

Why consultancies need one git repo for their clients’ agents, memory, connectors, policy, and auditable work.

The Kortix Team·June 29, 2026·6 min read

Comparisons

Kortix vs Claude Cowork: Cowork went everywhere, stayed closed

Cowork became part of Claude in September 2026; Kortix stays open source, self-hostable, and built to run a company's agent work.

Marko Kraemer·June 29, 2026·6 min read

Comparisons

Personal AI agents vs a company OS: Kortix, OpenClaw, and Hermes

OpenClaw and Hermes are brilliant open-source personal agents — and we genuinely recommend them for individuals. But a personal "Jarvis" and a governed company platform are different things. Here is exactly where the line is.

The Kortix Team·June 28, 2026·4 min read

Comparisons

Beyond the chat box: why ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok aren't an AI workforce

Chat assistants answer; a workforce does the work. Why input-output tools — however brilliant — aren’t the same as a fleet of agents that run your company, own the data, and run on any model.

The Kortix Team·June 27, 2026·4 min read

Product

Introducing Kortix, the open source operating system for AI agents

Kortix is open source: a workforce of AI agents that do real work across your tools, defined as files in a git repo.

Marko Kraemer·June 6, 2026·5 min read

Blog

What ChatGPT Work's control page admits, and what an open-source stack must prove

ChatGPT Work keeps the controls; the open-source alternative keeps the record

Cloudflare OS is open source. The account is the decision.

OpenAI dots alternative: the open-source answer keeps the rules, not the clone

Self-hosted open-source AI agents: four checks decide the install

ChatGPT Business pricing: a published seat, a bill open source can price

Perplexity Personal Computer is a purchase; Kortix is an open-source repo

Microsoft Copilot pricing: the credit meter, and the open-source alternative

Open-source Kortix keeps the agent in your repo; Copilot Studio keeps it in Microsoft's tenant

Open-source Claude Cowork alternatives, compared for a team

Self-hosted Claude Cowork does not exist. Here is the open-source answer

Kortix vs Activepieces: open source for the work a flow cannot hold

Kortix vs AgenticSeek: open source that outlives one laptop

Zapier replays the flow you drew. Open-source Kortix gives an agent the goal.

Open-source Perplexica alternatives: the answer engine or the system that runs the work

Kortix vs Vellum: the second colleague needs an open-source repo

Kortix vs CrewAI: the framework is free, the runtime is open source

Dify draws one app on a canvas. Open-source Kortix keeps the agents in a repo your team reviews

Kortix vs Flowise: a low-code LLM builder or an open-source platform your team owns

Kortix vs LangGraph: open-source agents need a system you own

Kortix vs LibreChat: multi-model chat, or an open-source system a team owns

Kortix vs Manus: keep the open-source system when the task ends

Kortix vs NanoClaw: a personal agent or an open-source system a company owns

Kortix vs Nimbalyst: a coding workspace, or the open-source AI Operating System

Kortix vs Onyx: open-source search, or the open-source system that runs the work?

Kortix vs Paperclip: an open-source company system or a control plane for your agents?

Kortix vs Perplexity Computer: rent a hosted worker, or own the open-source system?

Open-source Lindy alternative: what keeps running when the credits stop

Open-source Manus alternatives: what your team still owns in year two

Kortix vs Hermes: one operator approves a skill write, a team needs a change request

Kortix vs AnythingLLM: document chat, or an open-source system a team owns?

Kortix vs n8n: open source, and the unit of work you are paying for

Kortix vs Gumloop: a read-only export or an open-source repo you can run

The open-source ChatGPT Work alternative that lives in your repo

Kortix vs OpenClaw: what a review gate should cover

Kortix vs OpenHands: replace the open-source harness, keep the open-source record

Kortix vs Open WebUI: chat answers, or open-source work that lands

NVIDIA NemoClaw: the open-source AI agent platform, explained

The open-source Microsoft Copilot alternative depends on which Copilot you mean

Open-source Perplexity Computer alternatives: what each one runs on

Kortix vs OpenWork: open source, and the record a team reviews

Getting started with open-source Kortix: from install to a first session

Is Kortix free? Open source, free to self-host, metered in the cloud

Own the setup, review the work: open-source Kortix, Eigent and Kuse

Six self-hosted AI workspaces, five open source, held to a team's three tests

The review gate is what separates open-source AI agent platforms

GPT-6 Astra for agent teams: what you can delegate and what you still verify

What the OpenAI Agents API changes for teams on an open-source platform

How to build reliable AI agent workflows with open-source Kortix

Welcome to the Kortix blog: how we build and run an open-source agent system

Good businesses don’t need moats (and why that’s fine)

Kortix vs QM: both open source, one organizes work around rooms, the other around branches

Static software is dead: the shift from code to feedback loops

Every AI product is the same: the convergence nobody is talking about

A frontier without an ecosystem is not stable

The only moat that matters: why your AI platform needs a learning loop, not a better model

The test of sovereignty: can you swap the model without losing what you built?

Your company needs two kinds of capital: human and token

Kortix vs Poetic: both turn workflows into code — the difference is who owns the code

Open source is what makes an AI Operating System yours

AGI-ready architecture: what it really means, and how Kortix is built for it

Kortix vs Glean: search or an agent platform that runs work?

Open-source agent tool access starts at the credential boundary

Consultancies need one repo for their clients’ agents

Kortix vs Claude Cowork: Cowork went everywhere, stayed closed

Personal AI agents vs a company OS: Kortix, OpenClaw, and Hermes

Beyond the chat box: why ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok aren't an AI workforce

Introducing Kortix, the open source operating system for AI agents

Run your whole company from one repo you own.