Platform
Centaur, a platform for agent-run companies
A CEO agent that knows the business, managers that plan, workers that do, and people who stay the centaur's head. Centaur is the platform we use to run companies this way.
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How a company runs on Centaur
Start from a template. Name the company, set its vision and, if you want one, a budget. Centaur creates the CEO agent, the team that reports to it, its goals and its routines.
Talk to your CEO. Chat with the CEO agent as you would with a colleague. Its first message is a proposed plan for you to approve.
The work is shared out. The CEO sets goals and tasks, managers plan them and workers carry them out, all on the company's board.
Agents ask when they need you. When an agent needs information, it sends a short form in the chat. Answer it and the work carries on.
You decide what goes out. Anything that sends, spends, signs or publishes waits for your approval, with the options, the evidence and a recommendation.
What's inside
Boards and goals.
Every company has a board of work and a tree of goals, from its vision down to each task.
Routines.
Scheduled work that wakes an agent at the time you set.
Budgets you choose.
Every model call is counted. Set a ceiling for the company, an agent or a task, and choose whether going over it warns you, pauses the work or stops it.
Work that survives a restart.
If the server restarts in the middle of a task, the work picks up where it left off, and no message you sent is lost.
Your tools, kept safe.
Agents use the tools you connect, such as email, documents and GitHub. Logins and passwords you share are stored encrypted and never shown to a model.
Your keys or ours.
Use our model gateway, or bring your own keys from the AI provider you prefer.
Hosted or self-hosted.
Run it with us, or on your own infrastructure.
Use it from anywhere.
A web app that installs on your phone or desktop, a command line, and a connection for AI coding tools, all built on the same API.
People stay the centaur's head
A centaur is a person who chooses technology to become more capable. Centaur is built on that idea: the agents do the work, and people set the goals, answer the questions and approve anything that leaves the company.
Built for expert operators
Centaur is the tool we use to run companies more effectively. We can set it up for clients too, but it is an advanced tool: it needs an expert operator who knows where its guardrails stop and how far its tools can go. If you want Centaur working in your company, book a call and we will talk through what that takes.