What Is AI Partner?
Not a chatbot. A partner.
Most AI tools are glorified search bars: you ask, they answer, the conversation ends and nothing persists.
AI Partner is different. Give it a goal — "research our top five competitors and produce a slide deck" — and it decomposes that goal into steps, runs them autonomously (web search, data synthesis, PowerPoint generation), monitors its own progress, corrects its mistakes, and delivers a file. You don't babysit it.
Go further: give it access to your email, Slack, Telegram, and calendar. It reads your incoming messages, drafts replies in your writing style, and sends them only after you approve via a single Telegram button-tap. It joins meetings you can't attend, listens and speaks as you, and hands you a transcript and action items when it's done.
And it doesn't wait to be asked. A background loop runs on your schedule — morning market briefings, competitor news checks, weekly summaries — and pushes results to your preferred channel without any prompt from you.
Clone, add one API key, type a goal. Under 10 minutes.
Six annotated walkthroughs of real tasks from start to finish.
The ReAct loop, authority gating, and memory system explained simply.
Email, Slack, Telegram, phone — acting as you with your approval gate.
The difference at a glance
| Chatbot / LLM wrapper | AI Partner | |
|---|---|---|
| Input | Prompt → response | Goal → multi-step execution plan |
| Loop | Single turn | ReAct loop: reason → act → assess → replan |
| Tools | Optional function calls | 160+ tools, 41 MCP servers, Docker sandbox |
| Memory | Context window only | Episodic + biographic + counterparty + vector + RAG |
| Output | Text | Files, reports, sent messages, scheduled jobs |
| Recovery | None | Self-correction, stuck detection, HITL escalation |
| Autonomy | Waits for prompts | Proactive heartbeat — acts without being asked |
| Human proxy | None | Joins meetings, replies to email/Slack/Telegram in your voice, takes phone calls |
| External agents | None | Agent Mesh — discover, delegate, classify, and audit untrusted internet agents |
The key distinction: every other tool resets when the conversation ends. AI Partner accumulates context across weeks, holds goals across quarters, attends meetings you aren't in, and reports outcomes against criteria you defined — without being asked each time.
Two editions: V1 and V2
AI Partner comes in two editions. The Quick Start sets up V1; V2 is invite-only (available now). Pages documenting V2-only features carry a V2 only note at the top.
| V1 — works for you | V2 — works as you | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | The open-source, self-hosted agent (single user) | The hosted, invite-only edition — acts on your behalf, multi-user & governed |
| Access | Free — clone & run | Invite-only, available now (this hosted site is V2) |
| Core (in both) | Goal execution (ReAct, multi-agent, self-correction, typed success criteria), memory & RAG, document generation, messaging delivery (Telegram/Discord/Slack), skills, scheduling, triggers/webhooks, integrations, voice | Everything in V1, plus ↓ |
| Acts as you | — | Human proxy across email, meetings & phone in your voice; live meeting attendance; computer use / host control; knowledge mindmaps; CodeAct |
| Multi-user & governance | Single-user login | Multi-user login & invites, admin console, per-user usage & cost, encrypted credential vault, skill governance, Agent API (A2A) & Agent Mesh, service verticals |
V2 is a superset of V1: everything V1 does, V2 does too. The difference is that V2 also acts as you (email, meetings, phone) and adds the multi-user, governed layer. If you're reading this on the hosted site, you're on a V2 deployment.
Not sure what's available on your instance? Just ask the agent — "what can you do?" or "can you act as a company brain?" — and it answers from its own current capabilities. See Ask the agent about itself.
What it can do
Decomposes any goal into steps and runs them: research, code, file generation, messaging, scheduling — up to 40 iterations until the goal is verifiably done.
Navigates to a Teams, Zoom, or Google Meet URL, listens, responds in your cloned voice, sends you a transcript and action items.
Reads inbound email, Slack DMs, and Telegram messages. Drafts replies in your writing style. Waits for your approval before sending.
Runs a background loop on your schedule — morning briefings, market data, goal progress checks — and pushes results to your channel.
Four-tier browser automation: fast DOM extraction → vision-based navigation → containerized desktop → full host control.
Auto-saves successful scripts as reusable skills. Next time the same goal arrives, it runs the saved solution directly — no LLM generation needed.
GitHub, Notion, Jira, Gmail, Slack, Stripe, HubSpot, AWS S3, Twitter, and 33 more. Add a key to .env and those tools are immediately available.
Five-layer memory: event timeline, semantic facts, cross-channel contact graph, vector search, and document RAG. Context persists across weeks.
Spawn up to 5 sub-agents for complex tasks — research in parallel, coordinate results, deliver a single unified output.
Agent Mesh: discover any A2A-compatible agent on the internet, delegate tasks with cryptographically scoped authority, classify behavior in real time, and maintain an immutable audit trail — with canary tripwires and automatic HOSTILE escalation.
Who uses it
The problem: You're double-booked. Every missed meeting, dropped follow-up, or late competitive check has a direct cost.
What changes with AI Partner:
- Can't attend both calls? Partner joins the second one, drives toward the goal you defined in
GOALS.md, sends you an outcome summary. - Follow-ups dying in someone's head? Action items are extracted from every meeting and reviewed via Telegram before anything is sent.
- No time for competitive research? Heartbeat runs every morning, delivers signals to your phone before your first call.
- Goals scattered across Notion and your head?
GOALS.mdis the single source — every meeting and proactive task aligns to it automatically.
Setup: 20 minutes. Fill in USER.md, write GOALS.md, set HEARTBEAT.md.
Quick architecture overview
AI Partner is a Node.js + Express backend with a React frontend, connected via Socket.IO for real-time streaming. The core is a ReAct loop executor that reasons, calls tools via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and assesses progress against defined success criteria. Every action that touches your real accounts routes through the AuthorityPolicy — which either executes automatically, asks for your approval via Telegram, or refuses. A 5-layer memory system persists context across weeks. A heartbeat service runs goals on a cron schedule autonomously. Everything runs in Docker — a single docker compose up starts the full stack.