theexperiencecompany/gaia

The open-source AI assistant that handles your whole day.
GAIA is a personal AI assistant that can automate your whole day. Connect Gmail and it triages your inbox every morning, drafts your replies and turns emails into todos. Connect your calendar and it briefs you before every meeting.
You set none of that up. It's running the moment you connect.
And when something needs you, it comes to you — on iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack or Discord.
Run GAIA on your own machine:
bash
curl -fsSL https://heygaia.io/install.sh | sh
## Why GAIA
Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear — different tools, same problem: your day fills with work that isn't your job. Triaging mail, prepping for meetings, chasing updates, copying tasks between apps. Each one costs two minutes. Together they cost your afternoon.
GAIA does that layer for you. It does the work, then tells you when it's done.
## Features
Proactive — connect a tool and jobs start running on their own, no setup
Workflows — automations on a schedule or an event, written for you from plain English
Memory — learns people, projects and preferences as you talk; edit, export or delete any of it
Voice — real-time calls, plus a "Hey GAIA" wake word that runs on your device
Multi-platform — iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, web, desktop and mobile, on one account
Integrations — services one click away, or anything with an MCP server
Code execution — a sandboxed workspace that hands back real PDFs, decks and spreadsheets
Deep research — multi-source web research with structured output
Browser-use — drives a real browser to log in, fill forms, click through and finish tasks on any website
Skills — built on the open Agent Skills spec; install more from GitHub
One workspace — inbox, calendar, todos and notifications in a single app
Self-hostable — open source, your keys, your models, no caps
## Getting started
| If you want to… | Go here |
| Just use it | heygaia.io — sign up, nothing to install |
| Text it from your phone | iMessage · WhatsApp · Telegram · Slack · Discord |
| Run it on your own machines | curl -fsSL https://heygaia.io/install.sh \| sh — or the guide |
| Contribute | Development Setup |
| See how it's built | ARCHITECTURE.md |
### Cloud — recommended
Go to heygaia.io. Nothing to install, always up to date.
This is how most people should use GAIA — you skip standing up Postgres, Mongo, Redis, ChromaDB and RabbitMQ yourself.
### Self-host — full control
Your own server, your own keys and models, your data on your disks.
> [!IMPORTANT]
> The licence is noncommercial. Personal and non-profit self-hosting is free; running GAIA inside a business needs an enterprise licence.
You need: a Linux server or Mac with about 8 GB of RAM, and one AI key (OpenAI, OpenRouter, Gemini, or a local Ollama).
1. Install and start
bash
curl -fsSL https://heygaia.io/install.sh | sh
It installs the GAIA CLI, then asks to set GAIA up. Say yes: it installs Docker if it's missing, downloads GAIA and starts it on one port.
2. Open the address it prints (http://gaia.local on your network, or http://localhost:3000), create your admin account and paste your AI key. That's the whole setup.