HiveBase is a company context system plus a pre-wired AI work layer. It reads from your existing tools, maintains typed company context, and powers AI Squads, Tasks, Supervisor, FYI, and MCP access for the AI apps your team already uses.

How does HiveBase keep every AI app aligned?

HiveBase exposes one hosted MCP endpoint and shared read kernel. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT, and the HiveBase app can read the same typed context, trust envelope, provenance, and decisions.

What are HiveBase AI Squads?

AI Squads are pre-wired specialist departments for Strategy, Product, PM, Narrative, Accounts, and Engineering. They activate from real signals, share one company context, and cascade work between each other.

Does HiveBase replace my existing tools?

No. HiveBase reads from and writes back to the tools where work already happens, including Slack, Gmail, meetings, Linear, GitHub, Notion, Asana, ClickUp, and more. Your team does not need to migrate.

How much does HiveBase cost?

HiveBase offers a free plan with 1,000 starter credits. Pro is $18/active user/month, or $15/active user/month annually, with pooled credits for higher-leverage AI work.

What does the Supervisor do?

The Supervisor watches agent checkpoints. It can answer low-risk questions, approve safe continuations, review PRs, and escalate high-impact decisions into Needs You when human judgment is required.

HiveBase

COMPARE

OpenClaw and Hermes hand you the parts. HiveBase is the company, already built.

OpenClaw (agent runtime) and Hermes (self-hosted agent framework) are powerful, flexible building blocks — you host, wire, configure, and maintain the company around them. HiveBase is the vertically-integrated alternative: pre-wired squads, one shared Brain, deep integrations, and governed autonomy — running on day one, and still yours to steer.

See the Task System

DIY VS. MANAGED

Assemble the stack yourself, or start with it already running.

With a DIY stack you host the runtime, connect models, write the prompts, and wire every integration before anything ships. HiveBase comes assembled — the same jobs are already done.

DIY · OpenClaw / Hermes

Stand up an agent runtime

Host the runtime

Connect models

Write system prompts

Keep it alive

Hours + ops

HIVEBASE

Stand up an agent runtime

Running ✓

Already running

JOBDIY STACKHIVEBASE

Stand up an agent runtimeHours + opsAlready running

Wire one integration1–3 hrs eachPre-wired

Set agent policyHoursOpinionated defaults

Get a Strategy departmentDaysDay one

Daily company brief4+ hrs0 setup

Illustrative setup estimates based on what a self-hosted agent stack typically requires.

A READY-MADE TEAM

Not an empty org chart you staff. A team already wired to one Brain.

Six specialized departments come pre-wired and share one company Brain — no roles to design, no prompts to write, no memory to bolt on. Toggle to see the difference.

See the squads

EMPTY

no memory

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configure

An empty org chart. Every role is a slot you design, prompt, budget, and connect to memory yourself.

NO SHARED MEMORY

Each agent keeps its own

configure

VERTICALLY INTEGRATED

DIY makes you the systems integrator. HiveBase is integrated top to bottom.

Every layer of an AI company — runtime, context, integrations, squads — is something you build and maintain yourself with a DIY stack. HiveBase ships the whole stack as one system.

DIY · OpenClaw / HermesHiveBase

Runtime

Context

Integrations

Squads

Pick a runtime, host it, connect models, keep it alive.

Context lives in prompts, sessions, tickets, or whatever memory you bolt on.

Wire each tool, decide what counts as signal, and maintain the glue.

Define every agent's skills, goals, budgets, routing, and review gates.

Runs the operating loop for you — and feeds the AI apps your team already uses.

One typed company Brain: accounts, competitors, features, decisions — with provenance and freshness.

Watches Slack, Gmail, meetings, GitHub, Linear, and docs in place — and writes back.

Six specialized departments pre-wired around the same Brain, cascading to each other.

OPINIONATED, NOT RIGID

Strong defaults out of the box. You still hold the dial.

HiveBase ships opinionated defaults for how each department acts on context — then hands you the dial, squad by squad, from propose to fully automatic. Every action keeps a why and an undo.

DEPARTMENT AUTONOMYhow each squad acts on context

Strategy

Re-synthesize the thesis

asks you

Accounts

Write health + notes back to CRM

you approve

Narrative

Draft content in your voice

asks you

Engineering

Run security + dependency scans

ran · undo

Product

Update the capability map

you approve

every action carriesApproveWhyUndo receiptseparate from how tasks run

WHY THE CONTEXT LAYER MATTERS

Flat memory blends facts. HiveBase keeps company truth typed.

The same name can be an account, a competitor, a feature, or a decision. HiveBase keeps those entities separate and carries provenance, freshness, and review state into the work loop.

UNDIFFERENTIATED BLOB⚠ entity collision

Slack

Acme pushed back on renewal — need to prep the pitch deck

Acme just launched their SSO feature yesterday

CRM

Acme renewal call is Thursday — CSM says at risk

AI QUERY: "What is Acme's status?"

⚠ Muddled: mixing customer renewal risk with competitor feature launch

WHERE EACH FITS

Reach for OpenClaw or Hermes when

You want to own and assemble your own agent stack end to end.

Your team has the appetite to maintain runtimes, prompts, integrations, and guardrails.

The job is mostly a single-agent or personal automation workflow.

Reach for HiveBase when

You want a built AI company, not a kit to integrate yourself.

AI work should inherit the same company truth across Slack, docs, code, and meetings.

You want squads, governed autonomy, briefs, and write-backs running on day one — still yours to steer.

ALREADY USE NOTION?

It stays your workspace. HiveBase is the context layer above it.

Reads your docs

Specs, notes, and decisions stay where your team already works.

Extracts context

Durable claims move into typed company memory with provenance attached.

Acts above tools

Squads, briefs, and AI apps use the same truth — Notion stays your workspace.

Keep your models. Skip the integration project.

HiveBase is the vertically-integrated alternative to wiring an AI company yourself — a built team, one Brain, running on day one.