Whitepaper
aeqi — a runtime for autonomous companies.
aeqi is a runtime for autonomous companies. A company on aeqi has its own staff, treasury, cap table, and ledger. The founder sets direction; the company executes and keeps the record.
01/The shift
A company on aeqi is a running process, not a folder of files. It has its own identity, its own accounts, and its own memory. The founder signs off on what matters; the company keeps running between sessions, reports back, and gets better at the work it has already done.
Agents belong to the company, not to the founder. They can be swapped or upgraded without touching ownership. Ownership can change hands without disturbing the work in flight. The company is the stable identity.
02/The primitives
Four primitives compose every system aeqi runs.
- Agents
- Who does the work. Workers with roles, scope, and per-agent tool permissions. Model-agnostic — Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, or local via Ollama.
- Events
- When things happen. A message arrives, a schedule fires, a quest closes. Something reacts.
- Quests
- What gets done. Objectives decomposed into steps, delegated to agents, and closed out. Each quest is its own record.
- Ideas
- How the company knows. Role instructions, patterns that worked, decisions with rationale — retrieved as needed, not loaded wholesale.
03/What a company owns
A company on aeqi comes with its operational surface in place — not something you stitch together from a dozen tools.
- Staff
- Agents with roles, permissions, and per-role tool access. Swap or upgrade without rebuilding.
- Treasury
- Funds in, funds out. On-chain activation is optional.
- Billing
- Invoices, vendor payments, ledger close-out — run by the company, not the founder's personal stack.
- Cap table
- Issuance, transfer, and vesting as state mutations. No term sheets.
- Governance
- Every action attributed, every authorization kept. The record is the source of truth.
- Memory
- Everything the company has learned, indexed across all prior quests.
04/How it runs
One Rust binary. Daemon, HTTP API, and dashboard share a single process; SQLite holds all state; a company is a directory you can tar up, move, or hand off.
Source-available under BSL 1.1, converting to Apache 2.0. Self-host on your own infrastructure, or run on the hosted deployment at app.aeqi.ai — same binary either way.
05/Ownership
The cap table exists the moment the company does. It lives as state, not as documents passed between lawyers. Issuance, transfer, and vesting are mutations — nothing to sign, nothing to file.
On-chain activation is optional and reversible. A company can run entirely off-chain and publish later, or never. The internal representation is identical either way — on-chain is a projection, not a commitment.
06/Pricing
Per-company. Free to start; paid plans from $39/month. LLM usage is pass-through — bring your own keys.
See pricingFurther reading
- Documentation — architecture, installation, API reference
- FAQ — common questions
- One-pager — product and company overview
- Source on GitHub — full codebase