Meet OpenAssistant: AI That Actually Gets Things Done

For decades, having a great assistant has been a privilege reserved for a relatively small group of people. Executives, founders, and other busy professionals have someone who manages their calendar, keeps track of important details, follows up on loose ends, and helps make sure things actually get done.

Everyone else does it themselves.

We built OpenAssistant to change that.

OpenAssistant is an AI assistant designed to take real work off your plate. It can help manage your calendar, coordinate meetings, work through your inbox, research information, prepare you for meetings, create documents and presentations, handle recurring tasks, and much more.

And unlike traditional AI tools that wait inside a chat window for your next prompt, OpenAssistant can work across the tools where work is already happening.

From AI that answers to AI that acts

The first generation of AI assistants became incredibly good at answering questions, generating content, and helping people think.

But an assistant should be able to do more than give you an answer.

You should be able to say, "Find a time for us to meet next week," and have the meeting get scheduled. Ask it to research a company before a call and get a briefing beforehand. Tell it to check for unanswered emails every Friday and have it help you stay on top of them.

That is the idea behind OpenAssistant: AI you can delegate to, not just chat with.

OpenAssistant can understand what you are asking, use the tools and information available to it, and carry out multi-step tasks on your behalf.

Your assistant, not just an assistant

OpenAssistant can also feel like your own.

You can give your assistant a name, a face, and a personality, creating a consistent identity for the AI you work with every day.

Over time, your assistant can learn the way you prefer to work: how you schedule meetings, how you communicate, which information matters to you, and how you want recurring tasks handled.

The goal is not simply to make AI more personable. It is to make delegation feel natural.

Instead of figuring out which feature to use or crafting the perfect prompt every time, you can increasingly just tell your assistant what needs to happen.

Built into the way you already work

Great assistants do not require you to constantly check another app. They are part of your workflow.

OpenAssistant works across email, SMS, Slack, and the web, with integrations into the calendars, files, communication tools, and business systems you already use.

That means you can ask OpenAssistant to handle work from wherever that work happens.

It can coordinate a meeting over email. Prepare a briefing using information from your connected tools. Create a document or presentation. Send you a daily agenda. Research something you need to know. Follow up on an outstanding task. Or run a workflow automatically on a recurring schedule.

Some tasks take a few seconds. Others might involve several steps, tools, or conversations.

The point is the same: you delegate the outcome instead of managing every step yourself.

More than scheduling

OpenAssistant began with scheduling, because scheduling is a perfect example of work that should be delegated.

Finding a time sounds simple until it involves six people, three calendars, two time zones, a reschedule, and four emails.

But the same idea applies to a huge amount of everyday work.

OpenAssistant can help with things like:

• Scheduling and calendar management
• Inbox triage and email follow-ups
• Meeting preparation and research
• Daily agendas and reminders
• Documents, presentations, and spreadsheets
• Research and information gathering
• Recurring workflows and routine tasks
• Post-meeting follow-ups and next steps

And we are continuing to expand what your assistant can do.

An assistant for everyone

Our goal with OpenAssistant is straightforward: make the benefits of having a great assistant available to far more people.

Maybe you are running a company. Maybe you are managing a team. Maybe your days are simply filled with dozens of small tasks that compete with the work you actually want to be doing.

AI gives us an opportunity to rethink how much of that work people need to do themselves.

We believe the future of AI is not another tab you keep open all day. It is an assistant you can trust with increasingly meaningful pieces of your work — one that knows how you operate, works across your tools, and helps make sure things actually get done.

That is what we are building with OpenAssistant.

And we are just getting started.