Your chief of staff.
It learns who you are.
A quiet presence that knows your people, your work, and the way you sound. The first draft is already there. The follow-up is already remembered. The morning starts with a read on the day, not a list.
Source on GitHubOrion sees everything you've connected.
Three modes. One toggle.
You decide what Orion brings into the room. For every question, without leaving the place you're typing.
Across everyone and everything you've connected
Aanya — Pushing Thursday to Tuesday same time, if that still works. Plan lands by Friday either way — actually gives me a cleaner read for our call.
Only what lives inside the space you're in
Aanya — Can we move Thursday to Tuesday same time? Plan still arrives by Friday.
Only what's in this chat. Nothing remembered after.
Who's Aanya, and what was Thursday for? A few details and I can write something: · Her email address · The new time you'd like · The tone you'd land
The mode stays where you set it. Pick off the record for a thought you'd rather keep to yourself — nothing learned, nothing remembered.
Orion remembers.
Like a person, not a database. Four ways your assistant builds a picture of you over time — and every memory is yours to see, edit, or quietly forget.
People & their context
Who's in your world
Moments
What happened, when
Patterns
How you tend to work
The current moment
What's open this minute
When you ask for a draft, all four show up at once. Orion knows who the message is for, what you last said, how you usually sign off, and what is on your screen right now.
What it feels like, on a Tuesday.
Five small moments across a day. Less of it eaten by staying on top of things, more of it spent on the work that actually matters.
Morning. Here's how today looks.
Quiet start — two meetings worth being awake for. Aanya at 10 (the plan is the open loop) and Daniel at 2. The reply to Theo has been sitting since Friday — worth closing today.
- 10:00 · Aanya — she'll ask about timing
- The plan you promised Aanya — due Friday.
Third time you're meeting. She moves fast.
- Moving quickly
- Timing (flagged twice)
- A quarterly cadence
- Plan by Friday
- Scope agreed
- Launch on Jun 1
She's flagged timing twice. Open there, not with the deliverable. You usually do this anyway — it lands better.
What I keep coming back to.
A piece you've been circling for weeks — the through-line between two things you half-wrote down on Saturday. Tightened to your usual length. Closed the way you usually close.
[continues for 700 more words · drawn from your notes May 11 · 18 · Sat]
“Save this — what Aanya said about how she pictures the rollout.”
Three things still open from today:
- Aanya: The plan — due Friday— draft now?
- Daniel: Send the kickoff doc — due no date set
- Theo: Reply to Friday's note — due overdue
After three months, the open loops thin out. The first draft is always there. Nothing important falls.
Some things should happen on a schedule.
Hand something to Orion and it stays handed over. Runs quietly. Surfaces only when there's something worth surfacing.
The morning brief
Every day · 7amOrion looks at the day before you do, and starts with a read — not a list.
End-of-day review
Every day · 6pmWhat's still open, what's overdue, what you might want to carry into tomorrow.
Weekly pulse
Mondays · 9amA wider lens on the week — the people, the projects, what's quietly shifted.
Watch something for me
When it changesA project, a person, an open thread — Orion keeps an eye on it and tells you when something moves.
Any routine you set runs on the cloud once you turn on Always-On — so the morning brief lands at 7am whether your laptop's open or not.
The day,
with less edges.
The first draft is already there. The follow-up is already remembered. The reply you've been avoiding has a starting point waiting. The morning starts with someone who's already glanced at your day.
“After a month, the drafts stopped feeling generic. It writes the way I write — finishing thoughts I'd half-started in my notes.”
“The morning brief is the only one I read. It actually knows what's open.”
“I stopped losing things. The reply I owed, the idea I jotted at midnight, the promise I made on Wednesday — all there when I needed them.”
Illustrative composites · drawn from early conversations
Your digital life, in one chief of staff.
Every place Orion can reach, it can reach both ways — reading what's there, writing back when you ask. Each connection adds to what it knows. Each one is yours to revoke any time.
Gmail
- · Threads
- · Contacts
- · Commitments made in replies
- · Drafts
- · Sends with approval
- · Threaded replies
Google Calendar
- · Schedule
- · Recurring meetings
- · Attendee history
- · Create events
- · Reschedule
- · Add prep notes
Notion
- · Notes
- · Project docs
- · Ideas DB
- · New pages
- · Captured ideas
- · Updated entries
- · Posts
- · Engagement
- · Network
- · Drafts in your voice
- · Comments
- · Scheduled posts
Twitter / X
- · Tweets
- · Engagement
- · Followers
- · Posts
- · Threads from long-form drafts
Substack
- · Past newsletters
- · Stats
- · Subscribers
- · New newsletters
- · Repurposed long-form
Medium
- · Articles
- · Performance
- · Followers
- · New articles
- · Cross-posted from drafts
Slack
- · Team context
- · Mentions
- · DMs you flag
- · Replies
- · Status updates
- · Standup summaries
More places coming. If a service knows how to be connected, Orion will eventually know how to connect.
Honest tiers. No markup on AI.
The desktop app is free. Forever. Pay only when our cloud does work you can't do on your laptop — syncing, scheduled briefs, things that wait while you sleep. You bring your own AI keys; we never charge for what your provider already does.
Orion
The full desktop assistant.
- A memory that learns who you are
- You choose what it sees, every time
- Use your own model keys (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or local)
- Connects to Gmail, Calendar, Notion, LinkedIn…
- As many spaces and conversations as you want
- Fully open source
Orion Sync
Across every device you have.
- Everything in Orion
- Encrypted sync across your devices
- Every draft and document, versioned
- Shared spaces with partners or assistants
- Faster context as you switch between machines
Orion Always-On
Works when your laptop doesn't.
- Everything in Orion Sync
- Your morning brief, on time. Every time.
- Routines that run while you're away from your desk
- Briefings on the web and on your phone
- Approve from anywhere
For Teams
One assistant for the whole team.
- Everything in Always-On
- A shared memory across the team
- SSO, SCIM, audit log
- SOC 2 (in progress)
- Dual commercial license available
How Orion is different.
The category is busy. Two things you won't find anywhere else: the ability to choose what your assistant sees, and a memory that carries who you are. Everything else is table stakes.
| Feature |  OpenOri | Manus cloud agent | Lindy workflows | OpenLoaf OSS desktop | ChatGPT Agent managed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ●You choose what your assistant sees | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| ●A memory that learns who you are | ✓ | Limited | Limited | — | Limited |
| Connects to the places you already work | ✓ | Partial | ✓ | — | Paid |
| Writes the way you write | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| Remembers what you owe, and to whom | ✓ | — | Partial | — | — |
| A morning brief, on schedule | ✓ | Partial | ✓ | — | — |
| Works while you're away | Paid | ✓ | ✓ | — | Paid |
| A real desktop app | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Also on the web and your phone | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Open source, fully | ✓ | — | — | ✓ | — |
| Use your own model keys | ✓ | — | — | ✓ | — |
| Everything exports as plain files | ✓ | — | Partial | ✓ | Partial |
Every product on this list is good at what it does. Orion's place is the combination: an assistant that knows you and lets you decide what it sees.
Comparison accurate as of May 2026 · we'll update as the field moves.
We earn it the honest way.
A chief of staff sees a lot. The only way to deserve that access is to be radically transparent about what we do — and what we never will.
Open source
Every line of the desktop app, on GitHub. Read it, audit it, fork it. We ship in the open. AGPL-3.0, no asterisk.
github.com/openori-org →Bring your own keys
Plug in your Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or local model keys. We never charge for what your provider already does — you pay them, not us.
On the record
Every email Orion drafted, every event it added, every commitment it updated — written down and reversible. You see exactly what your assistant did.
Yours to take
Your memory, your spaces, your drafts — exportable as plain files. No locked-in format. Leave Orion and keep everything.
Ready in 30 seconds.
Download the app, drop in a model key (or run one locally), and start connecting the places you already work. The web and your phone catch up once you turn on Sync.