Your team's apps, on your own server.
The Business Suite is a set of apps for a small business: team chat, tasks and projects, customers, leads from your website, docs and procedures, and an AI assistant with a memory of how your business works. It is open source, it runs on a server you rent and pay for yourself, and your intern makes it fit how you work.
Open source under the MIT licence. No service of ours in the middle.
The tools a team uses every day, in one place you own.
Team chat
Channels, direct messages, threads, mentions, files and pins. The part of a chat subscription a small team uses every day.
Tasks and projects
Who does what, by when: a list, a board and a calendar for each project, and everything assigned to you in one place.
Customers
A light CRM: contacts and companies, deals in a pipeline with your own stages, a timeline of every call and email, and follow-ups.
Leads
Forms for your own website, a list of everyone who asked with how fast someone got back to them, a few follow-up emails that wait for your approval, and where your customers come from.
Docs and procedures
The team wiki: how things are done, written down once, with every earlier version kept and templates for procedures.
The assistant and the business brain
Ask in plain words. It looks things up in your apps at once, and it remembers the facts of your business, each with where it came from.
Approvals
Anything the assistant or an import wants to change waits in one inbox until a person approves it. A batch is one approval, and nothing is written twice.
Around the apps: one sign-in with roles, a home page of what needs you, search across every app, notifications on the phone, an activity log and nightly backups.
Yours: the code, the server and the data.
On your own server
It runs on a small Linux server that you choose, rent and pay for, in your business's name. The data never sits on ours.
Open source, MIT
Anyone may read, change and run the code. If we disappeared tomorrow, the suite and everything in it would keep working.
A cheap AI, or your own
The assistant uses DeepSeek by default, with your own key, or a model on the server itself. Personal details are removed before anything leaves the server.
Replace, connect, or leave alone.
Owning your apps does not mean owning everything. The suite follows one rule, the same one as the subscription review.
Replace internal team tools
Team chat, tasks, the wiki and procedures, forms, a simple customer list, bookings, stock lists and dashboards: the tools only your team uses.
Connect, never replace
Accounting, payments, payroll, banking and email delivery hold your money or send on your behalf. They stay the record; your apps connect to them.
Never replace regulated records
Health, legal, tax and compliance records stay in the systems built and certified for them. The suite does not hold them.
Your intern makes it yours, one app at a time.
The suite is the starting point, not the finished product. A trained intern, working with an AI coding agent and our course, changes it to fit how you work.
- Change an app: your own fields on a customer, your own deal stages, a procedure template, a new report on the home page.
- Add a new app: every app plugs into the same base, so a bookings app or a stock list gets sign-in, search, notifications, the assistant and approvals from the start.
- Teach the assistant: give it the facts of your business, and give an intern's coding agent a token to read them while it builds.
- Look after it: keep the intern on a retainer after the internship for updates, backups and the next app.
Our course has modules that teach interns exactly this: deploy the suite, run it safely, change each of its apps, add a new one. The course · Keeping your intern on a retainer
Your server, your account. Your intern does the setup.
You rent the server in your business's name. Your intern installs the suite with one standard setup file, checks it, and moves your team in one app at a time, with your approval at each step.
You rent the server
In your business's name, with your own card, at the provider you choose (our guide compares them). Your intern tells you the size: Ubuntu 24.04, at least 2 vCPU, 4 GB of memory and 40 GB of disk, enough for up to 50 people.
Your intern prepares the setup file
One standard file from the latest release, with its address and checksum already filled in. You choose the setup code, a code only you know; your intern never needs your passwords. The setup file (for your intern).
Your intern installs it
With you on a call, or as a member of your provider account, your intern pastes the file into the server's "User data" box and creates the server.
About ten minutes later, it is running
The server downloads the release, checks it, installs everything and gets its own HTTPS certificate. Your intern checks every app works. No domain yet? It answers at an address made from its IP until you add yours.
You hold the owner account
You enter your setup code and create the owner account; you decide who joins and what they see. Then your intern moves your team in, one app at a time, as you approve.
Release 0.1.1 on GitHubThe code on GitHubThe full install guide, updates and backups
No user data box at your provider? Your intern connects to the server once and runs the installer with one command. Because it is a standard open-source install, any developer can repeat it: you are never locked in to us.
You pick the provider and pay it directly.
We do not resell servers or take a cut. Our help guide compares providers from their own pages, for businesses in the US and in India: what size to buy, which have a user data box, and what to check before you pay.
Choosing a server for your business suite · Your own business suite, in short
This is version 0.1.1.
This release, with all its apps, has been installed from start to finish on a practice server with 2 GB of memory, and each app was used in a browser through it. These parts have not yet been checked on a real public server, and the first owners to install it will be the first to check them:
- A trusted HTTPS certificate from Let's Encrypt (the practice server used a test certificate).
- A real call to DeepSeek with a live key (Settings, then AI, has a button to send a test message).
- Notifications pushed to a real phone.
- Sending invites and password resets through a real email (SMTP) provider.
- Off-site backups to a real S3-compatible storage bucket.
Until each is checked, have your intern test it with you on the first day, and keep the nightly backups on. What the owner must keep doing
Want your own apps? Start with a project.
Post it as a project, and an intern sets the suite up with you and changes the first app to fit. We call you within 2 working days to scope it.