Hand everything to Claude.
It's powerful. But your context gets stuck inside their projects. You start over. You cross your fingers.
Humans orient. Agents execute. Trust is earned.
The power of Claude.
The simplicity of Slack.
The ownership of open source.
Acorn is the AI chief of staff for seven-figure founders. It lives in Slack. It runs on your own server. It gets oriented on how you run your business, and that orientation stays on your disk.
Built by a fractional COO, for founders.
Private MemoryYour Amazon serverRetains context across conversations.
InterfaceSlack-nativeWorks inside your team rhythm.
ExecutionYou approve actionsAuthority expands only when earned.
PermissionsYou choose who sees whatYour infrastructure. Your rules.
CONTEXT SYSTEM
How Acorn Builds Context
Connect the systems that already carry your business context. Acorn turns those signals into private operating memory, then routes the right work back into your team rhythm.
Inputs
SlackTeam signal
EmailClient context
DriveBusiness docs
mcpsApproved systems
AcornPrivate Business ContextOrientation layer active
Outputs
DecisionsWith context
DraftsIn your voice
Follow-upsNo dropped threads
PrioritiesWeekly focus
Orientation
Acorn gets oriented on you.
The vendor apps customize their tool for you, and they keep the keys. Open source lets you customize everything, if you do the work. Claude gives you projects, and you start over in every one.
Acorn gets oriented on you. What you believe. How you decide. How you've done this the last fifty times. What winning looks like for your company.
That orientation lives in files on your own server. What humans said is write-protected: the AI cannot rewrite the record. Every answer can show its source.
Orientation is the product. Everything else is execution.
Observe
Read the terrain.
Orient
Understand what matters.
Decide
Choose the right move.
Act
Execute with judgment.
What Acorn does for you
Seven things Acorn does for you.
Know what's happening in your company.
You're busy. Things slip past you. You find out late, or by accident. I asked my own Acorn about a company I only give two hours a week. It listed what happened. My reaction, three times in a row: "I didn't know that." And I'm the owner.
Ask Acorn what happened last week. Ask what to focus on this week. It answers from the record, with the specific three things. "The point of Acorn is not to let AI do everything for you. It's so you better know what's happening in your company."
Hand off the work you hate.
Every founder has tasks that must be done perfectly but are beneath them. Data entry. Re-quoting. Purchase orders. Chasing follow-ups. You can't drop them, so they eat your week.
Acorn takes the most frustrating and annoying tasks off your plate: the ones that must be done right every time and drain you the most. You go from doing the work to checking the work. That's how your company acts like it's ten times the size, with the same people.
Stop checking the AI's math.
AI is never going to be more than 95% correct. It always needs some hand-holding. In my experience, working straight in Claude or Grok gets you about 80% right, and you have to double-check all of it.
Acorn uses three brains (Claude, Grok, and Gemini) that check each other, working on files that live on your server. What I'm seeing is closer to 95%. And the last 5% comes to you on purpose: Acorn acts on the routine, proposes on the judgment calls, and escalates the weird stuff.
It remembers what you said.
You know this fight. The AI says you decided something. You say, "No, I didn't say that. You said that." It says, "Oh, you're right, I'm sorry." Then it does it again.
In Acorn, what humans said is saved in files the AI cannot rewrite. Every answer has to show its source. You got a link for that? It does. And with three brains watching each other, it lies less, because there's a record on disk.
Get answers made for you.
Claude, Grok, and Gemini speak to the average person. That's regression to the mean, in every single conversation. You built a seven-figure company. You're the opposite of average, and your customers are too.
Acorn starts from what you believe, what winning looks like for you, and your own body of work. When it's stuck, it can ask HQ how I would handle it, backed by eight years of my calls.
Protect your context.
Your best thinking is scattered across apps that won't hand it back. You get a good idea in the car and there's nowhere to put it that connects to the project. And when you switch tools, the pile stays behind. One founder told me she'd lose 700 conversations just moving from one Claude plan to another.
With Acorn there is one contextual spot: your server. Talk to it from anywhere you have Slack. Drop a voice memo from the car. It lands in the right place, every time, because Acorn files everything to your own disk.
Own your AI.
Every other AI company bills you for usage. Credits, seats, meters. If you're paying $30 a month for AI, you're the product. They don't want to be a customer. They want to be THE customer.
Acorn bills for orientation. Your server cost and your compute go straight to Amazon and the model companies, with nothing added on. No seats: one founder or a whole team, it's one price. And if you ever cancel, the software keeps working, because it's on your server. You're never just renting your intelligence.
AGENTIC AI ARCHITECTURE
A Chief of Staff That Understands Context
A Chief of Staff agent that lives on your Amazon server, talks to you in Slack, and earns your trust over time.
Lives on your Amazon server
Slack interface
Acorn catches a missed follow-up.
Acorn summarizes a client thread.
Acorn flags a project risk.
Acorn drafts next week's priorities.
Acorn prepares meeting context.
Acorn identifies bottlenecks.
Acorn drafts the proposal.
Acorn surfaces the risk.
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Trust
Control Without Bottlenecks.
Runs on your Amazon serverNo training on private dataYou choose who sees what
Authority model
How Trust Is Earned
Acorn earns authority the way a new hire does.
Act and Report
Routine work inside its authority. It does the job and tells you what it did. No bottleneck. No waiting.
Propose and Wait
Decisions that need your judgment. It presents options and waits for your call. Everything starts here.
Escalate
Outside its scope, it flags it and holds. No guessing. No silent action.
What humans said is saved in files the AI cannot rewrite. Every answer can show its source. Three brains check the same files. The last 5% comes to you on purpose.
FOUNDER-LED BUILD
Brian Keith is building Acorn for operators who cannot outsource judgment.
"The founder running a real business with real employees and real risk has been underserved by AI. Acorn is built for them. We're manufacturing freedom for American small businesses."
Brian Keith, Founder
Why I'm building this
Your business is the money engine for your mission.
Every founder I talk to has one: the birth centers they want to fund, the industry they want to rebuild, the town they want to invest in, the family they want more time with.
Acorn exists so the engine runs with less of you inside it. Make the money. Then go do the thing you're supposed to be doing on this earth.
What happens next
What Happens Next
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