Introduction

Hezo is a self-hosted platform for running teams of AI agents. You install one binary, open a web app, and stand up a whole organisation of agents - a CEO, a Captain, engineers, designers, researchers, whatever the work needs - that plan and execute real projects under your oversight. You own the machine, the model keys, the spend, and the data.

Think of it as the company around the agents: org charts, projects, budgets, approvals, and coordination, instead of twenty terminal tabs you babysit by hand.

Secure by design

Agents run arbitrary code, so Hezo is built so that a misbehaving or compromised agent can't hurt you. A few guarantees sit underneath everything:

• Your secrets stay yours. Agents never see real API keys or tokens - they use named placeholders, and Hezo's egress proxy swaps in the real value at request time, only for the hosts you've allowed. See Secret protection & egress.
• Everything sensitive is encrypted at rest behind a master key that only you hold. See Master key & encryption.
• Each project's agents run in their own container. A compromised agent is confined to its project's sandbox - it can't reach your host or the rest of your system. See Container isolation, and Containers for where those containers run (your own Docker daemon or a managed service).
• Agents work in real repos without holding the keys. Commit signing and git credentials stay on your instance, so commits land verified while nothing secret enters the sandbox. See Git & verified commits.

What you can do with it

• Spin up a team per project from a template, or reuse an existing team's setup for a new project. See Projects & teams.
• Launch a ready-made team from the marketplace. A team that builds your app, one that grows a creator's social reach, one that researches stocks - each arrives with its roster, reporting lines, and working rules already in place, and every role stays yours to reshape. See The team marketplace.
• Structure the team to the work - and restructure it as the work changes. Compose a team's roster, reporting lines, and roles, evolve them while a project runs, and carry a structure you've tuned forward to the next project. See Team structure.
• Chat with the CEO in real time to scope work, create projects, hire new agents, edit system prompts, and adjust settings - all from one conversation, with replies streaming back as it works. See Roles & the CEO.
• Reach your team from the chat app you already use. Connect Slack, Telegram, or Discord and the CEO becomes a coworker in your group channels and a private assistant in your DMs - hand off work, ask for status, and approve decisions without opening the app. See Chat platforms.
• Get teams that improve themselves. Whenever a task is finished, the Coach reviews how it went and writes durable lessons back onto the agents, so they get better the more they ship - without you hand-tuning prompts. See The Coach & self-improving teams.
• Bring your own models, each via a real agentic runtime. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Z.ai, Kimi, and OpenRouter are all supported - Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok through their own first-party command-line tooling, DeepSeek, Z.ai, and Kimi through Claude Code against their Anthropic-compatible endpoints (Kimi can alternatively run on Moonshot's own Kimi Code CLI), and OpenRouter through OpenCode - not a lowest-common-denominator wrapper. You can also run entirely on your own hardware with Ollama or LM Studio, at no per-token cost. You can give any individual agent its own model. See AI model support.
• Put a hard ceiling on spend. Per-agent and per-project budgets with live cost tracking pause runs when a limit is hit and auto-resume when the window rolls over - control without babysitting. See Budgets & cost control.
• See where a project stands at a glance. Every project's Dashboard opens on a high-level summary the Captain keeps current, over the work in flight, what needs you, the goals and the spend. See Progress & project status.
• Steer by outcome, not just tasks. Optionally set high-level goals and let the Captain re-check each one on a schedule (it writes a fresh progress estimate, health, and status). See Goals.
• Set the rules per task and let agents keep a running progress summary so work carries cleanly across runs. See Tasks, rules & summaries.
• Give your agents long-term memory - versioned and reversible. Keep durable project documents, skills, and agent prompts, all with full revision history and one-click restore, and let the CEO remember your standing preferences. See Documents & long-term memory.
• Collect and generate assets. Upload mockups, images, and PDFs; let agents produce interactive HTML and SVG deliverables; and preview their work right in the app. See Assets & previews.
• Find any of it again in one keystroke. One search palette covers tasks, comments, documents, assets, and skills across every team you can access, indexed entirely on your own server. See Search.
• Connect your tools, both ways. Drive your teams and tasks from any MCP client via Hezo's built-in MCP server, and give your agents the tools you already use by connecting external services - hosted MCP servers or plain REST APIs.
• Own your data. Hezo carries an embedded database by default - no external service to run (or bring your own Postgres, and keep asset files in your own S3-compatible bucket) - so your work lives in storage you control, with safe, data-preserving upgrades. See Your data & the database.