OPOS is an AI-native operating system for your company — a plain GitHub repo where your mission, your departments, your roles, and your work all live as readable files, run by AI agents.
Why now: AI agents have made the org chart software. The work a department used to do can now be described, delegated, and executed by an agent. OPOS is the bet that the next great company is one founder, a git repo, and an organization that runs itself.
A company is really just a set of decisions, roles, and repeatable work. OPOS encodes all of it as markdown in a single repository: who you are, what you're building, how the work gets done. There's no platform to log into and no runtime to operate — your company is the repo. You lead in plain language; an AI organization turns your intent into execution.
Because it's all files in git, your company is auditable, forkable, versioned, and entirely yours. Nothing is locked inside someone else's SaaS.
For most of history, ambition was capped by headcount. To do more, you hired more — and hiring is slow, expensive, and hard to undo. OPOS removes that ceiling. When the org chart is software, a single person can hold the leverage of an entire company: a strategy function, a finance function, an engineering function, all staffed by agents that draft, analyze, and execute while you decide what matters.
This is what the "one-person company" actually looks like in practice — not a founder doing everything, but a founder directing everything.
You open your repo and talk to your company in ordinary language:
You: Let's ship the new pricing page this week.
OPOS: Spinning that up — opening a tracked task, drafting the plan, pulling in engineering. I'll check in before anything ships.
You: Should we expand into the EU next quarter?
OPOS: That's a strategic call — let me run it past the relevant leads, weigh the tradeoffs, and bring you a recommendation to approve or reject.
You state the goal. The organization decomposes it, does the work, and comes back when it needs your judgment.
- Your company is markdown, not a platform. No runtime, no lock-in. Open the repo, read everything, own everything.
- An organization that grows itself. The org chart isn't hardcoded. As needs emerge, OPOS can design new roles, new departments, and new processes — so it keeps pace with your company instead of going stale.
- AI-first by principle. New capabilities default to AI. Humans are brought in deliberately — where lived experience, legal accountability, or physical presence genuinely require a person.
- Autonomy with a human in the loop. Routine work can run on its own schedule, but the decisions that count — shipping, spending, going public, hiring — always come back to you.
- Everything in git. Every decision, every change, every piece of work is tracked, reviewable, and reversible.
This isn't an agent framework for engineers to wire together pipelines. It's an operating system for running a company — built for founders, not just builders.
OPOS is early and moving fast. Today it gives a single founder a credible, self-organizing company in a repo; the trajectory is a platform that covers ever more of what a real organization does — more of the company describable in files, more of the work the organization can carry on its own. The surface area keeps growing. This README stays deliberately high-level because the capabilities won't stop expanding.
OPOS is distributed as a template you scaffold in one command, then bring to life in conversation:
copier copy gh:Koroqe/OPOS my-company-os -d COMPANY_NAME="My Company"Open the new repo in your editor, start a Claude Code session, and talk to your company — it'll walk you through setting up your mission, departments, and first goals.
- Founder's guide — the full, hands-on walkthrough of running your OPOS company ships inside every scaffold as its
README.md(source:README.md.jinja). - Known limitations & roadmap —
RISKS.mdlays out, honestly, what's solid today and what's still ahead.
Built on Claude Code. Early-stage and evolving — feedback and forks welcome.