From expertise to execution
Share conversations, equip specialized agents with reusable skills and coordinate workflows. Keep people involved at the decisions that matter.
The collaborative agentic operating system
Collective intelligence. On your terms.
Bring your people, AI agents and company knowledge together to turn expertise into action—with control over your data, decisions and infrastructure.
One platform, shared intelligence
Scale what your organization knows—and what it can do.
Your rules follow your data
Sovereign Stream governs information flow across people, communication channels and AI providers—not just who can open a document.
Keep your independence
Choose your infrastructure and models. Inspect, adapt and extend an open-source foundation as your organization evolves.
Why ZAQ?
Compare at a glance.
| Capability | AI assistantsChatGPT | Agentic OperatorsOnyx · Hermes Agent · OpenClaw | ZAQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open-source foundation | |||
| Answers from your documents | |||
| Private deployment + model choice | |||
| Open-source foundation | |||
| People + specialized agents collaborating | |||
| Workflows with human approvals | |||
| Person → channel → AI confidentiality checks | |||
| Licensed extensions | |||
| Local runners | |||
| Knowledge gaps + source updates | |||
| Dynamic PII protection | |||
AvailableVaries by vendorNo verified supportLicensed extension
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Scope and sources
AI assistants: ChatGPT. Agentic Operators: Onyx, Hermes Agent and OpenClaw. Open-source rows compare free/open-source offerings; licensed rows consider free and paid offerings. ✓ means support across the compared set; ◐ means implementation or availability differs. — means no verified equivalent in the cited documentation, not proof of absence. Hosting and model costs are separate. Reviewed 20 October 2026.
Beyond answers
Delegate a process. Keep your judgment.
From customer support and prospecting to onboarding and operational reviews, give agents clear responsibilities and connect them to the people who know your business.
Reusable skills, business tools and MCP connections help agents act. Shared conversations and history keep colleagues in context across your existing channels.
Understand the request
An agent brings together the conversation, relevant documents and customer context.
Prepare and review
Specialized agents prepare a response or next action. A colleague reviews it at the designated approval step.
Act and follow through
The workflow executes the approved action through connected tools, with execution history for follow-up.
Evidence from the workplace
What well-applied AI can make possible.
Workplace studies show measurable gains in tasks ZAQ helps teams perform. These findings offer benchmarks for your own pilot—not a forecast of your results.
More support issues resolved per hour
Average productivity gain in a study of 5,172 customer-support agents using AI assistance. Gains differed by experience.
Relevant ZAQ capabilities
Company knowledge and contextual support assistance.
Faster completion of suitable knowledge tasks
Consultants using AI completed tasks 25.1% faster when those tasks were within the model’s capabilities. Results did not generalize to every task.
Relevant ZAQ capabilities
Specialized agents, reusable skills and human review.
Less time spent on email
Among workers using the tool in a six-month randomized study of about 6,000 workers. Around 3 hours saved weekly for users; 1.4 hours on average among those offered access.
Relevant ZAQ capabilities
Email assistance and tools embedded in existing work.
Measure the impact in your organization. Start with one workflow and compare resolution time, throughput, quality and human review effort before and after deployment.
These studies evaluated other AI tools, not ZAQ. Their results should not be added together.
Sovereign Stream
Permission to know is not permission to share everywhere.
Define confidentiality levels for your documents, channels and AI providers. Before retrieved information reaches a model, ZAQ checks three boundaries in order.
- 01
The person
Is this person entitled to access the information?
- 02
The channel
Is this communication environment suitable for its confidentiality level?
- 03
The AI provider
Is this processing environment authorized to receive it?
Content that fails a check is redacted before the model call. Local anonymization complements these controls when external processing is appropriate.
Knowledge that keeps improving
Keep your expertise useful, traceable and current.
Ground answers in company sources and give experts a role in improving the knowledge people and agents use.
- Source-linked answers that colleagues can verify.
- Detect missing, outdated or conflicting information and involve the right experts.
- Synchronize knowledge with source systems and update procedures and documentation.
- Use feedback, execution history and dashboards to improve quality and resource use.
Advanced knowledge governance, synchronization and adaptive operations are available through licensed extensions. We scope the capabilities to your needs.
Organizational independence
Your environment. Your choices.
Sovereign Stream governs information flow. Deployment and model choice put the surrounding environment under your control.
- Deploy on-premise or in a private cloud.
- Combine local and cloud AI according to confidentiality, capability, performance and cost.
- Manage organizational access, provider credentials and human approval boundaries.
- Inspect, adapt and extend the open-source platform.
Start with one valuable workflow
Choose your way into ZAQ.
For your organization
Map a high-value workflow, its participants, knowledge and confidentiality requirements with our team.
Discuss your use case ↗For SMEs
Get guided setup and dedicated hosting for practical sales, support, monitoring and recruitment needs.
Explore the SME offer →For builders
Explore the code, self-host the platform and build on an open-source foundation.
Discover ZAQ Open Source →A few things worth knowing
Do teams have to change their tools?
ZAQ connects work through channels such as Slack, Teams, Mattermost, Telegram, Discord, web chat and email. Business tools can be connected through integrations and MCP; we identify the connections needed for your workflow.
Can we keep humans in control?
Yes. Define agent responsibilities, person and team permissions, and approval checkpoints where a colleague must review a decision before the next action.
What is open source and what is licensed?
ZAQ provides an open-source foundation for collaborative agents, knowledge and workflows. Licensed extensions add advanced automation and continuous knowledge governance. Deployment and implementation support can be scoped with our team.
Where should we start?
Choose one process with accessible knowledge, clear participants and a measurable outcome. We help define the workflow, required integrations and confidentiality rules before expanding.
Grow your capacity. Retain your independence.
Let’s identify the first workflow where your people and agents can make a difference together.
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