The problem
Every founder I know has the same complaint about AI tools: they're stateless. You explain your business to ChatGPT, close the tab, and tomorrow you start over. There's no "coworker" — just a very smart amnesiac.
I wanted to fix that. Not with a wrapper around ChatGPT, but with a proper application: persistent memory, task management, multi-channel, autopilot, and — critically — zero vendor lock-in on the AI provider.
So I built Coworker — an open-source AI coworker for founders that you can self-host in one command.
The architecture decision that drove everything else
