Loved by enterprises

## What our customers are saying

"Odysseus helped us ship more ships while shipping ships. Truly best-in-class shipping."

★★★★★
Generic Coder Guy
Sr. Engineer, ShipShip Inc.

"I'm a real person. This is a real testimonial. By a real woman."

★★★★★
Generic Corporate Woman
VP of Verticals, Things LLC

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

☆☆☆☆☆
Polyphemus
Cyclops, Cave Solutions (on leave)

"Anyway, as I was saying — best-in-class."

★★★★★
Chad Corporate
Chief Executive Officer
Everything, self-hosted

## One app, a lot of capabilities

Started as an AI chat. Became a workspace. Each piece runs locally against whatever endpoints you point it at.

### Chat & Agents

Multi-turn chat plus autonomous agents that plan, call tools, and work through tasks.

### Tools & MCP

Built-in tools (bash, files, web, memory) plus any MCP server you connect. Toggle per tool.

### Cookbook

Hardware-aware model recommendations and one-click serving across 270+ catalogued models.

### Email Assistant

AI summaries, style-matched draft replies, auto-tagging and spam triage over IMAP/SMTP.

### Deep Research

Multi-step research runs that gather, read, and synthesize sources into a written report.

### Compare

Send one prompt to several models at once and compare their answers side-by-side.

### Memory

Persistent memory the assistant builds up and recalls across all your conversations.

### Skills self-evolving

The assistant writes, refines, and reuses its own skills — getting more capable over time.

### Private by default

Runs on your machine against your own endpoints. No telemetry, with optional external integrations when you choose them.

Odysseus was created by a carefully crafted one-shot AI prompt:

user@odysseus: ~ –✕

    > idk what to make can you write it for me?
      actually make an ai chat, but make it good
      and also make it better

See it in action

## Hover to take a closer look

Each panel expands and plays its preview when you hover it.

[ Chat & Agents ]
Chat & Agents
[ Cookbook ]
Cookbook
[ Email Assistant ]
Email Assistant
How it actually started

## Odysseus is everything I hate, just making it tolerable.

I started working on the Odysseus project because running local AI felt fun — a step into the future. But the options to actually engage with LLMs felt like taking steps back. Where were features like Memory, Deep Research, Agents, and just basic integrations?!

So I started building my own, for fun — and eventually figured it might be fun to share what I built for myself with others. Doesn't work for you? Well… it runs great on my hardware.

Get started

## Clone it and run

It's open source and free. No sales team, no demo request — just clone the repo.

$ git clone https://github.com/pewdiepie-archdaemon/odysseus.git && cd odysseus
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Self-hosted Bring your own models Local-first MCP-ready No telemetry