Talk it through
Put a decision on the table and let a few of them argue it out — different angles, then a clear answer.
“Should we raise, or bootstrap?”
How you use it
You don't operate Ordinus.
You direct it.
Think of Ordinus as a small team that lives on your computer. You hand them work the way you'd brief a colleague — talk something through, hand off a whole job, or set it to run on its own. Here's the walk, start to finish.
Your team
First, you build your team.
Every agent is a colleague with a role and a voice. You decide who's in the room — give each one a job, a personality, and the tools it's allowed to touch.
A CEO advisor to pressure-test decisions. A personal assistant for the daily admin. A researcher who digs. A vacation planner for the fun stuff. Your team, your call.
The work
Then you give them work.
There's no single right way to do it — you pick whatever fits. Four ways, same team:
Hand off the whole thing
Give them a big job and they'll break it into tasks and work them — start to finish — while you watch.
“Research my competitors and write a positioning brief.”
Build a flow you reuse
Wire the steps up once — research, draft, review — and run the same flow again whenever you need it.
“Every blog post: research → draft → ready to publish.”
Set it and forget it
Put it on a timer — every hour, every morning — and wake up to it already done.
“A market brief on my desk at 7am.”
Your tools
They work where you already work.
Connect the tools you use — your email, your chats, your docs — and your team can read and act there, using your own accounts. You can even reach them from your phone.
Have them skim your inbox each morning and drop a summary in WhatsApp. Or message the team from Telegram and get an answer back.
Your stuff
And it all stays on your computer.
This is the part people ask about, so plainly: Ordinus runs entirely on your own machine. It talks to your Claude or Codex the same way you do — it doesn't change them, and it doesn't slip anything in.
Your conversations, your files, and your connected accounts never leave your computer, and nothing is ever sent to us. There's no account to create and nothing syncing to a cloud. It's yours.
Which should I use, when?
- Talk it through, or hand it off?
- Talk when you want to think a decision through. Hand it off when you just want it done.
- A one-off job, or a flow?
- Use the board for a single job. Build a flow for something you'll do again and again.
- Run it now, or schedule it?
- Run it now when you're there to watch. Schedule it for the recurring stuff you'd rather not think about.
- Do I need to know how to code?
- No. You direct your team in plain language — they do the work.
- What does it cost?
- Nothing. Ordinus is free and open source, and it runs on the Claude or Codex you already pay for.
Ready to meet your team?
Needs Claude or Codex installed · macOS & Windows · Unsigned — you'll wave it through on first launch.
Ordinus runs on your Mac or PC.