What a Hand does
A person you can hire in ten seconds and fire in one
Every Hand has a name, a face, a model, a computer, and a job. You build the staff you need — a chief of staff who runs the roster, a specialist per project, someone who only watches the inbox — and each one keeps its own memory of its own work.
Doing, not suggesting
They work on a real computer
Give a Hand an isolated Linux desktop in the cloud, a local VM, or — after an explicit opt-in — this machine. You can watch the screen while it works and take over at any point. It browses, runs commands, edits files, and fills things in.
With your accounts, not its own
Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Notion, Linear and hundreds more connect once, per company. A Hand in one company can never reach another company's accounts, and you can pull a grant back without touching anything else.
The record
A board that is current because the staff keeps it
Deals move through lead, qualified, proposal, won or lost. Contacts, tasks, activity and documents sit beside them. You can read one project or the whole company, drag a card yourself, or watch one move because a Hand moved it — every change appears live on any screen that's open.
Judgment
They ask before the irreversible thing
A shell command, a spend, a send, an ambiguous call — each one arrives as a card: allow, deny, or answer the question in a sentence. Business decisions land on the board next to the deal they concern, so approving one is part of your morning rather than an interruption.
They remember, and it compounds
Long threads fold into summaries instead of falling off the end of a context window. Work becomes a searchable company knowledge base with its sources kept and stale facts retired. Walk in on Monday and the chief of staff has the briefing ready.
Off-hours
The night shift
Routines run on a schedule. Webhooks wake a Hand when something outside changes. Turn autonomy up and one will bring you a drafted next step with its reasoning attached rather than waiting to be asked. All of it is opt-in, and every run leaves a receipt.
And they talk
Play any reply aloud, or call one and have the conversation — it hears you, narrates what it's doing while it works, and asks for approvals out loud. Give each Hand its own voice and a room full of them stops sounding like one person.
For the technically minded
Open parts, all the way down
Your own models
Runs on the Claude, Codex and Grok CLIs already signed in on your machine. Any ACP or OpenAI-compatible endpoint plugs in through config.
MCP both ways
Hands use MCP tools you add, and Hands itself exposes the ledger over MCP — drive your companies from Claude Desktop or Cursor, scoped the same way.
Plain SQLite
The ledger is a file you can open, query and back up yourself. Export is CSV, Markdown and transcripts, on demand.
Apache-2.0, built on the OpenMausBot agent harness.