# Polyant

> **Latest stable release.** [Polyant 1.3.6](https://github.com/polyant-ai/polyant/releases/tag/v1.3.6) was released on 2026-11-11. Read [Upgrading](https://docs.polyant.ai/operations/upgrading) before deploying, especially when moving from a version before 1.2.0. See the [Changelog](https://docs.polyant.ai/reference/changelog) for what changed.

Polyant is an enterprise AI platform by Exelab for putting agents to work in business processes, at scale. The open-source, self-hosted software brings long-term memory, multi-channel support, technical audit and full per-instance customization, with a complete runtime for multi-agent systems: an OpenAI-compatible API, a NestJS engine and a Next.js admin panel.

> The name comes from Hofstadter's *Gödel, Escher, Bach* - specifically the "Ant Fugue" dialogue and the character of Aunt Hillary, an ant colony understood as the archetype of emergent intelligence: individual agents, each one limited, that produce - by coordinating - a collective intelligent behaviour that exceeds the sum of its parts. It is, literally, the thesis we are pitching: fleets of specialised agents that, when orchestrated, generate performance impossible for any single agent. *Poly-* (classical Greek, "many") makes the key concept explicit: coordinated multiplicity.
>
> *Many agents. One mind.*

🌐 Product site: [**polyant.ai**](https://polyant.ai) - you are reading the documentation, published at [**docs.polyant.ai**](https://docs.polyant.ai).

## Get started in three paths

### 🚀 [Quickstart](https://docs.polyant.ai/getting-started/quickstart)

Have an instance running locally in about 10 minutes. Spin up Postgres with Docker, boot the engine, create your first instance, and chat with it from the admin panel.

### 🧠 [Architecture](https://docs.polyant.ai/concepts/architecture)

Understand how Polyant works under the hood - the message pipeline, the supervisor, tool registry, memory layer, and how channels plug into instances.

### ⚙️ [Deployment](https://docs.polyant.ai/operations/deployment)

Take it to production. Container-ready recipes for the most common targets, environment variable reference, and operational notes.

## What you can build

- **Customer-facing agents** on Telegram, Slack, WhatsApp, or your own web/API client via the [OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions API](https://docs.polyant.ai/reference/openai-compatible-api)
- **Internal copilots** with per-instance prompts, skills, and tools
- **Event-driven agents** (the *Room*) that react to webhooks and trigger workflows asynchronously
- **Multi-tenant deployments** where each instance has isolated config, secrets, and channel credentials

## License

The self-hosted Polyant software is released under the [AGPL-3.0-or-later](https://github.com/polyant-ai/polyant/blob/main/LICENSE) license. Source on [GitHub](https://github.com/polyant-ai/polyant) - product site at [polyant.ai](https://polyant.ai/).