# Archon

> A new way to work. Archon is the AI that knows your business and works for everyone in it. Each person has their own Archon, with access to their work and the knowledge their team shares. Give it a task, follow its progress and review the result. Work together in rooms and calls, bring in people and agents, keep shared knowledge in the Library and schedule recurring tasks. Keep your workspace on your Mac or host it online, with model connections you control. Agents never take a seat.

Archon is in open beta, free for everyone. Start at https://heyarchon.com/auth/sign-in?returnTo=%2F.

## How it works

- **You ask** your Archon in your own words. It selects the skills, tools and model for each task.
- **It works where you can see it**: its plan and each step, live. Change direction, take over or stop it at any point.
- **It asks before important actions**: sending, publishing, buying, deleting or widening access. An action that can't be undone is asked every time and can never be approved in advance.
- **You review the result**: Work handed to a helper or started in a room waits for the person it is for to approve it.

## People

People first, in a world full of agents. Archon puts you and your team first: you ask and steer, and Archon does the work, keeps you in the loop, and makes sure what comes out meets your standard.

## Your Archon

Choose its colour, one of five designs of light (lens, ring, braid, arc, swirl) and one of thirteen shapes of glass (orb, blob, pebble, pill, donut, gem, cube, hexagon, crystal, diamond, star, pyramid, heart), with an optional accent. Your Archon looks the same across the workspace, so your team can recognize it. Its motion shows when it is ready, working or waiting for you.

## Your workspace

- **Home**: what needs you, your work in flight, and what changed while you were away, including anything your Archon answered for you.
- **Rooms**: where your team talks, and work gets done. Rooms and direct messages with threads, reactions and calls; each room counts what you haven't read, a mention apart, and says who is typing. Ask anyone's Archon by name ("@Maya's Archon"); it answers from that person's work with only what the room may see, never their private life, and never approves in their name. Any message can start Work, and it lands back in the room.
- **Calls**: voice or video in any room or direct message, with screen sharing, raised hands and reactions. Notes are taken only when someone in the call asks, shown to everyone in it, and posted back to the room by that person's Archon when the call ends: what was decided, what is open, and each next step with the person who said they would do it, one press from Work. You can also call your own Archon and talk a task through out loud.
- **Work**: every piece of Work is for a person, with its steps and its result. Steer it, take it over and give it back, or stop it.
- **Library**: what the team knows, each entry with an owner and the date it was last confirmed. Archon checks it as it works and says what it read.
- **Connectors**: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive and Google Ads, and more than fifty services (Notion, Linear, Jira and Confluence, Airtable, Calendly, Stripe, Help Scout, Intercom, Webflow, Zapier and others), each connected for one person or shared with everyone in the workspace. Archon asks before it changes anything through them, and agents never see their credentials.
- **Routines**: recurring work such as a Monday report, a regular review or a draft to prepare, kept in the workspace with a named person responsible for reviewing its results.
- **Team**: the people in the workspace and their Archons, and the agents made for a standing job (a billing desk, a support desk), each looked after by a person. Add teammate, on Team or in the sidebar, invites a person or creates an agent; everyone sees who is here and what each one is on.

## Who it is for

- **Operations** (https://heyarchon.com/for/operations): Your Archon writes the weekly report, chases what is late and keeps how you do things written down. You review it and move on.
- **Sales** (https://heyarchon.com/for/sales): Archon looks into accounts, drafts follow-ups and keeps every deal's notes in Attio, Apollo or Close. It asks before anything goes out under your name.
- **Marketing** (https://heyarchon.com/for/marketing): Archon drafts campaigns, reports on what worked and checks each draft against the brand guide you keep in the Library. Nothing is published until you say yes.
- **Support** (https://heyarchon.com/for/support): Archon drafts replies from your help notes and past answers, brings you what needs a person, and keeps answers current in the Library. Nothing is sent until you say yes.
- **Engineering** (https://heyarchon.com/for/engineering): Bring a GitHub project into Archon. It works on its own copy, shows each step, and nothing reaches your repository until you approve.
- **Product** (https://heyarchon.com/for/product): Archon reads feedback, usage and your notes, and turns them into summaries and specs your team can act on. What ships is your call.
- **Finance** (https://heyarchon.com/for/finance): Archon chases unpaid invoices, lists what came in and sums up last month's revenue and refunds from Stripe, PayPal, Square and Mercury. It asks before anything is sent, and before anything that moves money.
- **People** (https://heyarchon.com/for/people): Archon finds interview times, drafts job posts, answers policy questions from your handbook and keeps each new person's onboarding moving.
- **Just you** (https://heyarchon.com/for/just-you): Your Archon reads your email, calendar and files, does what you ask and asks before anything you can't undo. On your Mac, your workspace stays on your Mac.
- **Founders** (https://heyarchon.com/for/founders): Archon shows you what changed across the company, drafts the investor update and the board pack, and brings you the decisions that need you.
- **Small teams** (https://heyarchon.com/for/small-teams): One place for your team to talk, call and get work done, with an Archon for each person. You pay for people. Agents never take a seat.
- **Agencies** (https://heyarchon.com/for/agencies): Archon writes client reports from the ad accounts, drafts proposals from past work and keeps each client's work in a room of its own.
- **Nonprofits** (https://heyarchon.com/for/nonprofits): Archon drafts a thank-you for every donor, writes grant reports from your records, keeps volunteer shifts straight and keeps what your team knows in one place.
- **Enterprise** (https://heyarchon.com/enterprise): an Archon for every person, under your rules: your data where you choose, your own AI providers, and an owner who decides what is allowed.
- **Every connector** (https://heyarchon.com/connectors).

## Trust

- Every piece of Work is for a person, and every Archon answers to one.
- Archon asks before an action that can't be undone, every time.
- Archon shows each person only what that person may read.
- Every step is on the record: what it read, did and changed.
- Archon's own credentials sit where no agent can read them; each workspace is its own privacy boundary.

## Where it runs

On a Mac, the workspace stays on that Mac. Online, one workspace serves a team in a browser or the Mac app, and can be opened on a Mac to work with local files. Models: an API key, a supported subscription where its provider permits use with Archon, or models running on the Mac (Ollama, LM Studio). Provider terms, limits and separate usage payments may apply. Archon picks a model for each job, never resells or marks up model usage, and sells no credits.

## Pricing

The beta is free for everyone, and paid plans are not available yet. Founding teams who want help setting up write to team@heyarchon.com.

Agents are never a seat, and model usage is never marked up. Cloud execution has its own usage limits, which will be published before paid plans begin. We will write a month before any plan starts.