ohwow 0.2.0 → 0.4.3

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- **Your AI team that runs on your laptop. Agents that learn, message customers, browse the web, and control your desktop. Costs $0.**
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+ **The open source human+AI operating system.** Your computer learns how you work, assembles a team of AI agents around you, and runs your business alongside you. Not for you. With you.
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+ **Local. Free. Yours.**
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  <p align="center">
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  <img src="docs/demo.gif" alt="ohwow demo" width="800">
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- ohwow is an open source AI business operating system. A team of AI agents that live on your laptop, handle your CRM, message your customers on WhatsApp, automate your workflows, browse the web, and now control your desktop. All running locally. All free. No cloud required.
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- ## Quick Start
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  ```bash
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  npm install ohwow -g
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  ohwow
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- A setup wizard walks you through connecting to [Ollama](https://ollama.com), picking a model, and selecting agents for your business type. Running in under 5 minutes.
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+ Running in under 5 minutes. A setup wizard connects to [Ollama](https://ollama.com), picks a model, and builds an AI team for your business type.
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- <p align="center">
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- <img src="docs/onboarding.gif" alt="ohwow onboarding" width="800">
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+ ## Introducing Vibe Working
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+ Vibe coding changed how we build software. You describe what you want, AI writes the code.
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+ **Vibe working is the same leap, but for everything else.** Describe what your business needs. AI agents handle the sales, support, research, content, operations. You stay in the flow of the work that actually matters to you.
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+ This isn't automation. Automation is rigid. You build a workflow, it runs the same way forever, it breaks when anything changes. Vibe working is fluid. Your agents learn your patterns, adapt to your business stage, understand when to act and when to ask. They get better every day. They develop real expertise from practice, not from prompts.
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+ Under the hood, ohwow is built on a seven-layer cognitive architecture. Not seven microservices. Seven layers of how intelligence actually works: perception, reasoning, memory, embodiment, purpose, identity, and collaboration.
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+ Your agents don't just execute tasks. They perceive your intent and anticipate what you might need next. They challenge their own plans before acting, catching bad ideas before they cost you time. They predict which tools are likely to fail based on past experience, and route around problems before they happen. They track trust the way humans actually do: one failure weighs more than five successes. They detect your energy cycles, know when you're overloaded, and hold complex decisions until you're sharp enough to make them. They understand that a business at $1K/month needs fundamentally different work than one at $100K.
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+ And they have bodies. Not just chat interfaces. ohwow agents can see your screen, control your desktop, click through apps, fill out forms, export files from Figma, pull reports from dashboards. They send WhatsApp messages from your real number, not an API. They browse the web with a real browser, not a scraper. The architecture is ready for physical bodies too: Arduino sensors, ESP32 controllers, temperature monitors, hardware feedback loops with sub-10ms reflexes. A digital brain that can reach into the physical world.
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+ Your devices become one organism. ohwow discovers every machine on your network automatically, no configuration. Your MacBook, your Mac Mini, your home server. They share discoveries: when one device learns that a tool fails in a specific way, every device knows. Work routes to the best machine for the job. If one goes offline, another picks up seamlessly.
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+ This isn't a prompt chain. It's a system that reasons about work the way a great collaborator would, with hands that can actually do things in the world.
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+ The difference:
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+ | Setup | Build complex workflows | Say what you need |
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+ | Adaptability | Breaks when context changes | Learns and adjusts |
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+ | Intelligence | If/then rules | Practical wisdom about your business |
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+ | Trust | All or nothing | Earned incrementally, per domain |
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+ | Human awareness | None | Knows your energy, rhythm, capacity |
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+ | Ownership | Cloud vendor controls your data | Runs on your machine |
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+ ## Why this matters now
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+ Three things converged to make this possible:
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+ 1. **Local models got good enough.** Ollama runs capable models on a laptop. No API costs. No data leaving your machine. ohwow routes simple tasks to local models and complex ones to cloud APIs, only when you allow it.
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+ 2. **AI agents can actually do things now.** Not just chat. Browse the web. Control your desktop. Send WhatsApp messages from your real number. Read emails. Update your CRM. 150+ tools, orchestrated by a single brain that understands context.
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+ 3. **The missing piece was collaboration, not capability.** Every AI platform asks "how do we make AI do more?" ohwow asks "how do we make humans and AI work together naturally?" That means understanding your energy cycles, respecting your boundaries, earning trust gradually, and knowing when to act vs. when to wait.
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+ ## A day of vibe working
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- ## Talk to it like a person
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+ **7:45 AM** — You open your laptop. ohwow noticed you always start around this time. Your morning briefing is ready: 3 tasks completed overnight. 1 needs your eye. 2 leads replied to yesterday's outreach. Your Sales Agent's follow-up is queued for 9am.
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- The orchestrator is a conversational assistant with 150+ tools. Open the Chat tab and speak naturally:
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+ **8:00 AM** You say: "What should I focus on today?" ohwow knows you're in growth stage 2 (Attract). It responds: "You're over-indexing on content this week. Your stage needs more outreach. 3 warm leads haven't been contacted. Want me to draft follow-ups?"
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+ **8:15 AM** — You approve the follow-ups. The Sales Agent sends personalized WhatsApp messages to each lead, referencing their specific context from your CRM. No templates. Each message reads like you wrote it.
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+ **10:30 AM** — You're deep in product work. A customer emails with a support question. ohwow routes it to the Support Agent, which drafts a response. Because your cognitive load is high (3 open approvals, deep work mode), it batches the notification instead of interrupting. You'll see it at your next natural break.
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+ **2:00 PM** — ohwow notices your energy dips after lunch (it learned this from 30 days of watching your activity patterns). It holds the complex research report, knowing you'll evaluate it better in the morning. Instead, it surfaces a simple approval that takes 10 seconds.
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+ **4:00 PM** — A lead responds positively on WhatsApp. The Sales Agent wants to send a pricing proposal. It could auto-send (it earned that trust after 47 successful tasks with 94% approval), but the amount is above the auto-approve threshold. You get a one-line notification: "Ready to send pricing to Acme Corp. $4,500/mo. Approve?"
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+ **6:15 PM** — You close your laptop. ohwow stops all non-critical notifications. Your agents keep working: the Content Writer drafts tomorrow's blog post, the Researcher compiles a competitive analysis. Results will be waiting tomorrow morning.
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+ **End of day**: 12 tasks completed across 4 agents. 3 leads contacted. 1 support ticket resolved. 1 blog draft ready. You spent 20 minutes on approvals. The rest was your work.
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+ That's vibe working. You set the direction. Your AI team handles the rest.
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+ ## How it actually works
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+ ### Talk to it like a person
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+ The orchestrator understands natural language with 150+ tools behind it:
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- | "Run the content writer on this week's blog post" | Dispatches a task to that agent immediately |
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- | "What failed today?" | Lists recent failed tasks with details |
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- | "Schedule outreach every weekday at 9am" | Creates a cron schedule for the agent |
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- | "Send a WhatsApp to the team: launching Friday" | Sends the message through your connected WhatsApp |
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- | "Open Figma and export the hero banner as PNG" | Takes over your desktop, opens the app, clicks through menus, saves the file |
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- | "Plan out researching 5 new leads this week" | Creates a multi-step plan with agent assignments, waits for your approval |
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- | "Show me the business pulse" | Returns task stats, contact pipeline, costs, and streaks |
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- | "Create a project for the website redesign" | Creates a project with a Kanban board |
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+ | "Follow up with everyone who opened my last email" | Finds contacts with email opens, drafts personalized follow-ups, sends via WhatsApp or email |
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+ | "Research our top 5 competitors and create a comparison" | Launches the Research Agent with deep web search, compiles findings into a structured report |
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+ | "Schedule outreach every weekday at 9am" | Creates a recurring schedule. The agent picks leads from your CRM, personalizes messages, and sends them on time |
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+ | "Open Figma and export the hero banner as PNG" | Takes over your desktop, opens the app, navigates to the file, exports it, saves to your folder |
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+ | "How's the business doing?" | Shows your eudaimonia score (workspace flourishing), task stats, lead pipeline, agent efficiency, and growth stage guidance |
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+ | "Create a project for the website redesign" | Creates a Kanban board, suggests task breakdown, assigns agents to each phase |
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+ | "Send a WhatsApp to the team: launching Friday" | Sends through your connected WhatsApp. No API needed. Uses your actual WhatsApp number |
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+ | "What should I focus on this week?" | Analyzes your growth stage, current work balance, goal velocity, and team capacity. Gives specific, actionable recommendations |
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+ ### Your agents learn and improve
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+ ohwow agents aren't stateless. They remember what worked and what didn't:
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+ - After the Content Writer produces 50 blog posts, it knows your brand voice, preferred structure, and which topics get approved immediately vs revised
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+ - After the Sales Agent sends 200 outreach messages, it knows which opening lines get responses and which get ignored
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+ - After the Researcher completes 30 deep dives, it knows which sources you trust and how detailed you want the analysis
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+ This isn't "fine-tuning." It's persistent memory, skill synthesis, and pattern mining that builds real expertise over time. Each agent develops its own character: some become meticulous researchers, others become fast-moving closers.
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+ | **Launch** | $0-$1K | Selling. Not building more features. Not researching competitors. Getting first customers |
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+ | **Attract** | $1K-$10K | Lead flow. Content that brings people in. One channel, mastered |
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+ | **Systemize** | $10K-$25K | Automating what works. SOPs. Reducing founder dependency |
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+ | **Focus** | $25K-$50K | Cutting the bottom 20%. Serving ideal customers. Unit economics |
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+ | **Expand** | $50K-$100K | Second product or market. Validated before scaled |
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+ | **Structure** | $250K-$500K | Delegation. The founder stops doing execution work |
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+ When you ask "what should I focus on?", the answer comes from practical wisdom about your specific stage, not generic advice.
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+ ### It respects that you're human
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+ Most productivity tools treat you like a machine that processes tasks. ohwow doesn't.
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+ - **It learns your rhythm.** Morning person? Complex approvals arrive at 9am. Afternoon slump? Only quick tasks surface after 2pm.
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+ - **It detects overload.** When you have too many open decisions, it stops adding work and starts batching, prioritizing, and filtering.
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+ - **It respects boundaries.** If you always stop responding at 6pm, ohwow stops notifying. No setting required. It learns by watching.
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+ - **It suggests rest.** After a week of sprinting, it shifts work toward reflective tasks and away from high-pressure action items.
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+ ## Real scenarios
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+ ### For a solo e-commerce founder
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+ You sell handmade candles on Shopify. You spend 3 hours a day on customer emails, social media, and supplier follow-ups.
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+ With ohwow: the Support Agent handles customer questions via WhatsApp (you approve the first few, then trust builds and it handles most autonomously). The Content Writer creates daily Instagram captions and weekly blog posts about your craft. The Sales Agent follows up with wholesale leads from your last trade show. You focus on making candles.
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+ ### For a SaaS founder with a small team
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+ With ohwow: agents handle lead outreach, support ticket triage, competitive research, and content creation. The system knows you're at stage 2 (Attract) and pushes outreach over feature building. When a lead responds on WhatsApp, the Sales Agent drafts a response referencing their specific use case from your CRM. Your team reviews agent output in the dashboard. Trust builds per domain: the Content Writer runs autonomously, the Sales Agent still needs approval for pricing discussions.
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+ With ohwow: each client gets dedicated agents. The Researcher pulls analytics. The Content Writer drafts social posts in each client's brand voice. The Reporter compiles weekly performance reports. Agents learn each client's preferences separately. Desktop automation exports graphics from Canva, screenshots from analytics dashboards. Multi-device mesh lets your office Mac Mini run overnight while you review results on your MacBook in the morning.
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+ You handle sensitive customer data and can't use cloud AI platforms.
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+ With ohwow: everything runs locally with Ollama. No data leaves your machine. No API calls to external LLMs if you don't want them. Local SQLite database. Local model inference. WhatsApp messages stay on your device. You get full AI automation with zero cloud dependency.
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- | AI Agents | 48 pre-built agents across 6 business types, persistent memory, RAG retrieval |
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- | Desktop Control | Full macOS desktop automation: mouse, keyboard, screen capture. Your agents operate any app on your computer. (macOS only) |
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- | Messaging | WhatsApp + Telegram built in, auto-routing to agents |
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- | Browser | Local Chromium automation (navigate, click, fill, screenshot, extract) |
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- | Voice | Local STT/TTS (Whisper, Piper) with cloud fallbacks |
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- | CRM | Contacts, pipeline, events, analytics, all stored locally |
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- | Scheduling | Cron schedules + proactive nudge engine every 30 minutes |
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- | Workflows | DAG-based multi-agent execution graphs with conditions |
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- | Multidevice | Zero-config mDNS mesh, automatic task routing across machines |
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- | MCP | External tool integration via Model Context Protocol |
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- | A2A | Google Agent-to-Agent protocol over JSON-RPC 2.0 |
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- | Sandbox | Isolated JavaScript execution (no fs/net/process access) |
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+ | **AI Agents** | 48 pre-built agents across 6 business types. Persistent memory. Tool mastery. Real expertise over time |
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+ | **Orchestrator** | 150+ tools. Natural language interface. Growth-stage-aware recommendations |
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+ | **Desktop Control** | Full macOS automation: mouse, keyboard, screen capture. Your agents operate any app on your computer |
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+ | **Messaging** | WhatsApp + Telegram built in. Uses your real number. Auto-routing to the right agent |
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+ | **Browser** | Local Chromium automation: navigate, click, fill forms, screenshot, extract data |
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+ | **CRM** | Contacts, pipeline, events, analytics. All stored locally. Agents use it to personalize outreach |
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+ | **Scheduling** | Cron schedules + smart timing based on opportunity detection |
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+ | **Workflows** | Multi-step automation graphs. Parallel execution. Conditions and branching |
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+ | **Multi-device** | Zero-config mesh across your machines. Tasks route to the best device. Self-healing if one goes down |
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+ | **Physical I/O** | Connect Arduino, ESP32, sensors, actuators. Your office becomes smart |
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+ | **MCP** | External tool integration via Model Context Protocol |
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  ## Why ohwow?
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- | AI agents with persistent memory | No | Yes (LangChain nodes) | No | Partial | **Yes, agents learn over time** |
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- | Cost to start | $20+/mo | Free (self-host) | $10+/mo | Free | **$0 with Ollama** |
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- | Pre-built business agents | No | No | No | No | **48 agents, 6 biz types** |
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- | Multi-device mesh | No | No | No | No | **Zero-config** |
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- | Browser automation | No | Partial | No | Yes | **Built in (Chromium)** |
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- | Workflow DAGs | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | **Yes, with conditions + parallel** |
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- > Comparison as of March 2026. We love what OpenClaw, n8n, and others are building. ohwow focuses on a different problem: a complete AI business runtime, not just a single agent or workflow tool.
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+ | Runs on your machine | No | Self-host option | No | **Yes, always** |
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+ | Desktop control | No | No | No | **Yes, with safety guards** |
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+ | AI agents with real memory | No | Partial | No | **Yes, agents build expertise** |
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+ | Cost to start | $20+/mo | Free (self-host) | $10+/mo | **$0 with Ollama** |
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+ | Pre-built business agents | No | No | No | **48 agents, 6 business types** |
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+ | Multi-device mesh | No | No | No | **Zero-config** |
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+ | Knows your growth stage | No | No | No | **Yes, adapts priorities** |
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+ | Respects your energy/stress | No | No | No | **Yes, bio-aware** |
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+ All local features work without cloud. See [pricing](https://ohwow.fun/pricing) for plans starting at $29/mo.
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+ ## Under the Hood
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+ For those who want to understand the architecture: ohwow is built on a seven-layer philosophical cognitive architecture. Each layer addresses a distinct dimension of intelligence, grounded in philosophy from Aristotle to modern cognitive science.
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+ ```
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+ Layer 7: BIOS — Respects human biology (energy, stress, boundaries)
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+ Layer 6: Symbiosis — Models human-AI collaboration (trust, handoffs, mutual learning)
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+ Layer 5: Soul — Tracks identity for agents and humans (values, blind spots, growth)
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+ Persona — Real-time behavioral profiling (circadian, load, communication style)
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+ Layer 4: Mesh — Distributed consciousness across devices (propagation, shared body, self-healing)
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+ Layer 3: Work — Purpose-driven execution (growth stage wisdom, work classification, flourishing)
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+ Layer 2: Body — Physical + digital embodiment (organs, nervous systems, affordances, PID controllers)
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+ Layer 1: Brain — Cognitive cycle: perceive → deliberate → act (prediction, reflection, dialectic)
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+ Layer 0: Runtime — Orchestrator, engine, 150+ tools, DB, API, scheduling, messaging
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+ 115+ modules. 28,000+ lines. Every philosophical concept is load-bearing architecture: remove any one and the system degrades measurably. See [ARCHITECTURE.md](./ARCHITECTURE.md) for the full technical breakdown.
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