OpenWork is a sovereign AI platform for knowledge workers, offering a local-first desktop app and enterprise-grade deployment options. It enables users to bring their own models, data, and infrastructure while providing centralized management of skills, MCPs, and policies. The platform supports both individual use and organizational rollouts with SSO, audit logs, and self-hosting capabilities.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Knowledge workers and enterprises face a lack of control and flexibility when using AI agents, often being locked into vendor-specific ecosystems that separate them from their data, models, and infrastructure. This limits customization, raises security concerns, and makes it difficult to enforce consistent governance across teams.
Solution
OpenWork provides a sovereign AI platform that lets users and organizations own their entire AI stack—from models to data to infrastructure. The platform is local-first by design, allowing files to stay on employee machines or within a company's perimeter, while prompts go directly to the user's chosen provider. For teams, OpenWork Cloud offers centralized management of skills, MCPs, and models, with role-based policies applied across every client. Enterprise deployments include self-hosting options, SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning, and full audit trails, ensuring compliance and operational control without vendor lock-in.
Target Audience
Primary customers are knowledge workers, AI engineers, and enterprises that need secure, customizable AI agent environments with strict data governance and the ability to self-host or privately manage their infrastructure.
Features
- Local-first desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux with no account required for individual use
- OpenWork Connect MCP gateway that lets teams add servers or skills once and deploy them to every teammate and agent instantly
- Bring-your-own-inference support for AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, OpenRouter, or models in a private VPC
- Centralized management console for deploying skills, MCPs, and models to every seat with role-based governance
- SOC 2 Type I certified with SAML SSO, SCIM seat provisioning, and full audit logs exportable to SIEM
- Open source end-to-end stack, allowing self-hosting in a company's VPC or white-labeling for customer-facing rollouts