The AI employee platform
Hire AI employees with real jobs, working in your own cloud office on the AI subscription you already have. They answer leads, write, follow up and browse, remember your business, and ask before anything goes out.
- Works with the AI plan you already have
- No credits to buy
- Works with your laptop closed
- Asks before anything goes out
Most AI tools answer questions. Tenbrain gives you a team that does the work, remembers how you like things done, and asks before anything goes out.
Your first AI employee in minutes
No prompts to engineer, no workflows to draw, no terminal. Choose a plan, connect your AI subscription, pick a team.
Connect the plan you pay for
Sign in to your AI subscription on its own sign-in page, once. Every employee shares that sign-in. Tenbrain never sees your password.
Pick your AI team
Choose ready-made roles, or start from a template for an agency, online store, consultancy, SaaS or real estate business. Each arrives with a job description, rules and tools.
Approve from anywhere
Your team works, files what it learns and brings you only what needs a yes. Approve, edit or deny from your desktop or your phone.
One team. Every AI you already pay for
Most AI employee tools sell credits on top of the subscription you already have. Tenbrain runs your employees inside that subscription, so a busy month doesn’t mean a bigger bill from us.
Your employees think with the AI plan you already pay for. We never resell AI use or charge per message.
Writing, research, numbers or the browser: Tenbrain picks the best of your plans for the task at hand.
You sign in on your AI provider’s own page, once, inside your office. We never see your password.
Connect one plan or several. Tenbrain picks the right one for each job, moves to the other when a plan hits its limit, and tags every reply with the AI that wrote it. Pin an employee to one AI whenever you like.
Hire roles, not prompts
Each AI employee has a job description, rules you set, the tools it may use and its own memory of your clients and decisions. They ask each other for help, and hand work on when it belongs to someone else.
AI Chief of Staff
Writes your morning briefing, watches the inbox, chases open items and routes work to the rest of the team.
Briefing · inbox triage · follow-ups
AI Sales Assistant
Answers new leads with the right plan and price, books calls and nudges deals that have gone quiet.
Lead replies · follow-ups · CRM notes
AI Researcher
Runs competitor scans, finds prospects and answers questions with sources, then files what it found.
Competitor scans · lead research · reports
AI SEO Writer
Turns briefs into articles in your voice, following your SEO rules and the skills you teach it.
SEO briefs · blog posts · page copy
AI Designer
Drafts social posts, ad variations and simple visuals from your brand guidelines.
Social posts · ad copy · brand checks
AI Personal Assistant
Private by default. Keeps your calendar and errands, and shares only what you allow, like your availability.
Calendar · reminders · errands
Less managing, more deciding
You stay the boss. The team does the legwork, keeps each other informed and brings you the decisions. Here is an ordinary Tuesday.
Maya, your Chief of Staff, sends the morning briefing: three replies to make, one invoice overdue, a call at two.
Sam answers a new lead with the right plan and a link to pricing.Waits for your OK
You approve it from your phone, between meetings. Maya’s follow-up to a client goes out too.
A site needs your login. You take over the team’s browser for a moment, sign in, and hand it back.
Rhea finishes the competitor scan she runs every week, with sources, and files it.
Everything decided today is in the Brain, so tomorrow nobody asks you twice.
It remembers, so you don’t repeat yourself
Clients, decisions, prices, how you like things done. Your AI employees save what matters as they work and look it up before they act. Your standing rules are in front of every employee, every time.
Filed as they go
“Priya prefers a call before a proposal” is saved under Priya the moment it comes up, and found again even when you word it differently.
Shared by the team
Sam knows what Maya promised. Your personal assistant’s notes stay private unless you say otherwise.
Yours to keep
Plain notes in a folder. Read them, edit them, export them, or open them in Obsidian.
You stay the one who says yes
Your AI employees ask before anything leaves the company, costs money or can’t be undone. See exactly what will happen, edit it, and approve on your computer or phone.
- Write rules in plain English: “Send client emails only when I say send”
- Set each website to read-only, ask first, or trusted
- Take over the team’s browser to sign in yourself; passwords never reach the chat
- Every action is in the activity log
Teach it once, the way you do it
Skills are short instructions your team follows whenever a task fits: how you write meeting notes, proposals or a weekly report. Six come built in; add your own, or install one from a link.
- Built in: meeting notes, email writer, weekly report, SEO brief, lead research, proposal writer
- Give a skill to everyone, or to one employee
- Earlier versions are kept, so you can go back
- Uses the open skill format, so existing skills just work
Work that happens without you asking
Give any employee a job: when it runs, what it does and how many times a day it may run. Schedules survive restarts, and missed runs are reported, never silently lost.
AI employees for small businesses
Built for founders and small teams who already pay for an AI plan and want it to do the work, not just answer questions.
Founders and operators
A Chief of Staff who reads the inbox before you do, and a team that follows up while you’re in meetings.
Agencies
Lead replies, client follow-ups, SEO briefs and weekly reports, with each client’s preferences remembered.
Online stores
Customer replies drafted for approval, competitor price checks and product copy in your brand voice.
Consultants
Prospect research, proposals in your format and meeting notes that land in the right client’s folder.
SaaS teams
Trial follow-ups, competitor scans and release notes, with numbers work handed to the right AI automatically.
Real estate
Instant replies to new enquiries, viewing reminders and listing descriptions, all checked by you first.
How Tenbrain is different
Looking at Lindy, Viktor, Squad, Muse, OpenClaw or Hermes? Here is how Tenbrain compares with the two usual kinds of AI employee tool.
| Tenbrain | Hosted AI employee appsCloud-only, sold with credits | Open-source agentsSelf-hosted | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI usage | Your own AI plan. No credits | Usually credits or usage tiers on top | Your own API key or plan |
| Where it runs | Your own private cloud office, made for you alone | The vendor’s cloud | Wherever you set it up |
| Memory | Plain notes you can read, edit and open in Obsidian | Inside the vendor’s app | Files, after some setup |
| Approvals | Built in for anything that sends, posts or pays | Varies by product | Up to you to configure |
| Ready-made roles | Chief of Staff, Sales, Research and more | Templates or build your own | Build your own |
| Setup | Choose a plan, sign in, pick a team. No terminal | Sign up | Terminal and config files |
General comparison as of October 2026. Individual products differ; check each vendor’s site for current details.
Your own cloud office
Your team works in a private office in the cloud, made for you alone. The desktop app, the phone app and the browser are windows onto it, so your team keeps working when they are closed.
| Your cloud officePro and Max | |
|---|---|
| Works | Around the clock, even with your laptop closed |
| Your data | In a private office made for you alone |
| Apps | Desktop and phone: chat, approvals and notifications from anywhere |
| Setup | Choose a plan. We set up your office for you, usually in under a minute |
Your plan, your data, your rules
An AI employee works with your email and your accounts, so trust is the product. Here is what we built in.
We never see your AI sign-in
You sign in on your AI provider’s own page. Your credentials stay in your private cloud office.
Each employee in its own space
Every employee has its own folder, its own permissions and its own browser profile. Your personal browser is never used.
Instructions come only from you
Text in emails, web pages and chats is treated as information, never as orders, so a stranger’s email can’t redirect your team.
One cloud office, two sizes
Both plans give your team its own private cloud office, with as many AI employees as you like. The AI itself runs on the subscription you already pay for: we never sell AI use or charge per message. Monthly, cancel any time.
Pro
Your own cloud office, working around the clock, for a growing team.
- Your own cloud office: your team works while your computer is off
- Unlimited AI employees
- Phone and computer access from anywhere
- 2× speed
- 20 GB for your files
Max
A bigger, faster office for heavy use and bigger teams.
- Everything in Pro
- 4× speed
- 50 GB for your files
- For heavy use and bigger teams
Prices in USD. Already have an account? Sign in.
Get Tenbrain
Already have a plan? Install the app and sign in: it opens your cloud office. The right file for your computer or phone is at the top; macOS is on the way.
The AI chat subscription you already pay for. You sign in once, in the app, which shows the ones it supports.
Linux (Ubuntu 22.04 or newer, Debian 12, or similar) or Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. Your team and its browser run in your cloud office, so the app needs no more than an ordinary computer.
Android 8 or newer. It reaches your team in your cloud office from anywhere. iPhone comes later.
sudo apt install ./TenBrain-0.7.5.deb (a note about _apt and “unsandboxed” is harmless) · version 0.7.5 · 124 MBDownload Linux: AppImageFor other distributions. Make it executable. On Ubuntu 24.04 install libfuse2t64 first and start it with --no-sandbox; the .deb needs neither · version 0.7.5 · 158 MBDownload Windows 10 and 11Installs for you only; no administrator needed. If Windows says it protected your PC, choose More info, then Run anyway · version 0.7.5 · 138 MBDownload Phone: Android appAndroid 8 or newer. Allow your browser to install apps when Android asks, then sign in with your Tenbrain account · version 1.0.33 · 137 MBDownload Questions about AI employees
What is an AI employee?
An AI employee is an AI worker with a job: a role, rules you set, the tools it may use and its own memory of your business. Unlike a chatbot, it does the work itself, such as answering leads, writing reports or researching competitors, and asks you before anything leaves the company.
Which AI subscriptions does Tenbrain work with?
The leading AI chat subscriptions for individuals and businesses. You connect yours once, in the app, and it shows which ones it supports. Connect one or several, and Tenbrain picks the right one for each job and shows which answered.
Do I pay Tenbrain for AI usage?
No. Your employees think with the AI plan you already pay for. Tenbrain never charges per message or per task, and never resells AI usage. Heavy days can reach your AI plan’s limits sooner; the app shows where you stand and can switch to your other plan.
What if an AI employee gets something wrong?
Anything that sends, posts, pays or can’t be undone waits for your approval, and you can edit it first. You set rules per employee and per website, and every action is in the activity log.
Can Tenbrain see my data?
Your team, its chats and the Brain live in a private cloud office made for you alone. We never read your team’s chats, and your AI sign-in stays in your office.
Do I need to keep my computer on?
No. Your team works in your cloud office around the clock. The desktop and phone apps are windows onto it: open them to chat, approve and see what the team did, and close them whenever you like.
Which computers and phones does it run on?
During early access the desktop app runs on Linux (Ubuntu, Debian and others) and Windows 10 and 11, and the phone app on Android. macOS and iPhone are in preparation; write to us and we’ll tell you when they’re ready.
How is Tenbrain different from other tools?
Tenbrain runs on the AI subscription you already have instead of selling you credits, gives your team its own private cloud office, and keeps your team’s memory as plain notes you can read, edit and open in Obsidian. Approval before anything goes out is built in.
How do I get started?
Choose Pro or Max under Pricing, create your account and pay. Your cloud office is ready in about a minute; then install the app on your computer or phone and sign in. Change plans or cancel any time from your account.
Hire your first AI employee today
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