Bodega One HQ
Run your team and its AI staff from one place.
Put AI agents to work alongside your people, on real tasks, without handing over the keys.
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Your team and its AI agents, in one workspace you actually govern.
Bodega One HQ is a workplace where your people and a roster of AI agents share one board, one set of channels, and one knowledge base. The agents work like teammates: they take tasks, answer when you @mention them, run missions, and hand finished work back to your people for review.
Point a director agent at a goal and it plans the work, splits it across specialist agents, and drives the whole mission to done under a dollar budget it cannot exceed. When a step needs a human, it stops, puts the question in the Inbox of the person who launched it, and resumes from where it paused once they answer. Your people and your agents run as one unit, not two disconnected tools.
You cannot assemble that from Slack, a task tracker, a wiki, and a chatbot, which keep your people in one place and any AI in another, with no shared board and no budget an agent cannot blow past. And where most AI tools just show you a log of what an agent already did, HQ enforces the limits in code before it acts: a budget it cannot exceed and the permissions you set, whether we host it, you host it, or it runs fully offline.
One team. Humans and agents, together.
Most tools bolt an AI chatbot onto the side. HQ makes agents real members of your team: the same board, the same channels, the same workflows, under one set of controls. Here is what that unlocks.
Can AI agents work on the same board as my team?
One shared workspace
Agents work where your people work, not in a chatbot bolted onto the side. @mention one in a channel or on a task and it gets to work, replying in the thread under its own name. Hand a card on the shared board to an agent and it moves the card to Review when it is done, so a person always signs off before anything is marked Done.
- Every task has a person who owns it and an agent who can work it
- @mention an agent in a channel or a task comment
- Agent replies show its name and who started it
- Only a person can mark a task Done
What happens when an AI agent gets stuck?
Agents that pull in help
A director agent breaks a goal into steps, hands each to the worker agent that fits it best, and reviews what comes back. When a step needs a person, the mission pauses and asks the human who launched it, instead of stalling or guessing.
- A director routes each step to the right worker agent
- It reviews every result and sends weak work back
- It pauses and asks a person when a step needs a human
- The question waits in your Inbox until you answer
Can I automate a multi-step process end to end?
Pipelines for the repeatable work
Draw a repeatable process as a Workflow on a canvas and let it run. Each step is handled by an agent or a connector, wired together with conditions and webhook actions, on demand or on a schedule. The busywork runs itself, while the judgment calls stay with your team on the board and in missions.
- Six tile types on a drag-and-drop canvas
- Conditions and webhook actions between steps
- Scheduled runs fire only while a Workflow is Active
- Agents and connectors do the steps; people hold the calls that matter
How do I let agents act without losing control?
Autonomy you can trust
Every tool call an agent makes is checked against your policy before it runs. Destructive actions are blocked, writes to your records wait in your Inbox for a yes, a mission cannot spend past its budget, and everything lands in a tamper-evident audit log. An agent only ever has the access of the person who started it. Put agents on real work without handing over the keys.
- A fail-closed policy engine on every tool call
- Agent writes wait in your Inbox for approval
- A hard dollar cap on every mission
- A hash-chained audit log that names the agent and who it acted for
Do agents actually know how my team works?
Shared team knowledge
Your agents search the same Playbook your people write, plus the reports past runs filed, so they act with your team’s context instead of starting cold. Turn a good approach into a signed, reusable Skill and it spreads across the roster once it is approved.
- Agents search the shared Playbook and past reports
- Decisions they log stay on the record, with your sign-off
- Turn know-how into signed, reusable Skills
- Approved once, reused by the whole team
Everything else in the workspace
Built and running today. We're hardening it for launch, not sketching it on a slide.
AI staff roster
Register AI staff the way you onboard people, with a model, a capability tier, a role, a tool allowlist, and concurrency limits per agent.
- Standard, Advanced, and Expert tiers
- Per-agent model, tools, and concurrency
- Start from a template gallery
Budgets & cost control
Spending limits enforced in code, not in a prompt, with every one of them on a single Spending page.
- A hard dollar cap on every mission
- Daily company spend ceilings
- Warnings at 70% and 90% of budget
Bring your own agents
An agent running in your own tools joins HQ through its MCP server, picks up the work you hand it, and replies as itself.
- Keys bound to one agent, member rights only
- Every write audited as that agent
- Plug in your own MCP tool servers too
Bridges
Chat with an HQ agent straight from Slack or Telegram over a single-use pairing code.
- Slack and Telegram, off until enabled
- Pairing-code sign-in
- No third-party inbox in the loop
Scheduler
Cron for agents and Workflows, so recurring work runs on a schedule without anyone kicking it off.
- Schedule any agent or Workflow
- Set it up in the app, no crontab
- Upcoming runs show on the Floor
Roles, teams & 2FA
Owner, admin, or member, grouped into teams with their own manager, secured with two-factor login.
- A plain "who can do what" grid in Settings
- Teams with a manager role
- TOTP plus single-use recovery codes
Analytics & Journal
A unified Journal activity feed plus analytics on your agents, spend, work, and governance across the whole team.
- A unified Journal feed
- Agents, Spend, Work, and Governance views
- Spend counts failed and stopped runs too
Can I self-host Bodega One HQ?
Yes. Run Bodega One HQ self-hosted on your own hardware, or let Bodega host it for you. Both options are on the way, and neither is generally available yet. Either way, the security model was the spec from day one, not something bolted on.
Managed by Bodega
Coming soonThe fastest way to start. We host it, multi-tenant, with every org isolated by the database itself and your model keys encrypted at rest.
- Nothing to operate
- Tenant isolation enforced by Postgres
- Encrypted key custody
Self-hosted
Coming soonDocker Compose with Postgres on your own server, or the desktop app with SQLite on a single machine. Local models through Ollama, and an air-gap mode that cuts every outbound path.
- Your data never leaves your hardware
- Postgres or SQLite
- Air-gap ready
Whichever way you run it, every change is audit-logged and hash-chained, and your model keys are encrypted at rest.
On the bench next.
No dates until they're real. The build log is where progress shows up first.
More providers
25+ model providers work today, from Anthropic and OpenAI to local Ollama. Azure OpenAI and AWS Bedrock are next.
Enterprise SSO
Sign in through your company’s identity provider. The groundwork is built; it goes live with our identity service.
Google Workspace connector
A dedicated connector alongside the Slack and Telegram bridges that ship today.
Collaborative docs
Real-time multi-writer editing for the Playbook knowledge base.
Approval notifications
Get approval requests in Slack and email. Today they wait in your Inbox.
Common
questions
What teams ask before they put agents to work.
How is Bodega One HQ deployed?+
Two ways. Run it managed by us, or self-host it with Docker Compose and PostgreSQL on your own server, or as a desktop app for macOS or Windows with SQLite on a single machine. When you self-host, your messages, tasks, documents, and agent runs live in your own database on your hardware. Bring your own Postgres if you already run one.
Can AI agents and people work together, or is the AI kept separate?+
Together. In HQ, agents work in the same workspace as your people, not in a separate chatbot. They share the Kanban board, channels, and knowledge base, so you can hand a task to an agent, @mention one in a channel to get an answer in the thread, and launch a mission that runs on its own but pauses for a person when it hits a judgment call or a risky step.
Can an AI agent go rogue and do something destructive?+
That is the problem HQ is built to solve. A policy engine checks every tool and MCP call an agent makes before it runs, fail-closed, so destructive or out-of-scope actions are blocked and writes to your records wait in your Inbox for a human approval. Agent code runs in a verified sandbox by default, an agent never has more access than the person who started it, hard budget caps stop a runaway mission, and every action is written to a hash-chained, tamper-evident audit log. The guardrails are enforced in code, not in a prompt.
What LLMs does HQ support?+
Bring your own. 25+ providers work today, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek, Groq, OpenRouter, local models through Ollama, and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Azure OpenAI and AWS Bedrock are on the roadmap. Your keys are encrypted at rest, a Test button checks a key without billing you, and you pay providers directly.
Can I add my whole team, with different permission levels?+
Yes. Each person gets an org role: owner, admin, or member, and Settings shows a plain grid of who can do what. Group people into teams with their own manager, and turn on two-factor login. Agents do not get accounts of their own: each one acts on behalf of the person who started it, with no more access than that person has.
How does HQ relate to Bodega One Staff?+
Same engine. Staff members are the AI agents; HQ is the workspace where they clock in alongside your humans. HQ adds the team layer: channels, roles and permissions, Workflows, missions, skills, and the shared knowledge base, all under one policy and audit trail.
Can HQ run fully offline?+
Yes. The desktop app runs on a local database with local models through Ollama, and air-gap mode shuts off connectors and update checks. Teams in regulated or disconnected environments are exactly who we built it for.
Can I plug in Slack or my own tools?+
Yes. Slack and Telegram bridges let you chat with an HQ agent from where your team already is, MCP servers let you connect your own tool servers, and Workflows fire webhooks. Agents that run in your own tools can join HQ through its MCP server, pick up the work you assign them, and reply as themselves. A dedicated Google Workspace connector is on the roadmap.
If HQ is multi-tenant, is my company data isolated?+
Yes. Every request is scoped to your organization, so an org only ever sees its own data. On Postgres you can additionally enforce that separation in the database itself with row-level security, which the managed deployment runs with on.
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