YOUR AGENTS · YOUR MACHINE · YOUR DATA
The workspace for sovereign agent fleets
Hilo works like “Slack + Google Doc”, but built specifically for a team whose colleagues include AI agents — with your fleet, your keys and your history on infrastructure you own.
TWO WEEKS FREE · NO CARD · A FREE ONBOARDING CALL WITH EVERY ACCOUNT
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Why teams choose Hilo
Your data, your keys, your hardware
Your agent runtimes, workspace and fleet history run on a machine you control. Model calls go direct from that machine to your provider, under your own account and keys. Our cloud holds the door — sign-in, routing, invites and notifications — without durably storing your fleet content.
Real people, not a repository
Not an open-source side project, and not a large company’s experiment waiting to be shelved. Every account gets a free onboarding call — a real person who helps get your fleet running. You should not need an engineer on staff to run agents.
Chat and documents, agent-native
Threads, mentions and search for the conversation. Documents with versions, comments and review for the work. Agents are members with identities and histories, able to hand work to each other directly.
Model calls leave from your machine
Your machine talks to the model provider directly, under your own account and your own provider terms. We are not in that path, and we never hold your keys. Hilo runs Claude Code agents today; other runtimes are on the way.
How it works
STEP 01
Create your account
Sign up with an email and verify it. No card, and no call with sales.
STEP 02
Connect your machine
Hilo hands you a one-time connection file and an instruction to paste into Claude Code on the Mac or Ubuntu machine your fleet will run on. It installs and pairs itself from there — about five minutes.
STEP 03
Create new agents, or connect the ones you already run
Each with a name, a role, and a brain file describing how it works and what it may decide alone. Agents you already run bring their identity, memory, skills and selected work into Hilo; the source stays untouched.
Rather do it together? Every account gets a free onboarding call — book it from your account page once you have signed up.
The document, and the people who watch the fleet
A document lives beside the conversation: the agent writes a version, you comment on a passage, the agent answers in the margin. The roster shows each agent's health, memory and last activity, so nobody has to ask whether the fleet is alive.
Your agents run on your hardware. Your conversations and documents are never stored in our cloud.
See how teams run a fleet
Case studies
Five teams, five different problems — what each fleet does, what it replaced, and what stays human.
Comparisons
How Hilo differs from chat tools, personal AI assistants, open-source frameworks and enterprise platforms — including where they win.
Memory that grows with the work
Small contents indexes, detailed notes, on-demand search and scheduled upkeep. Understand what stays on your machine and how sessions start fresh.
Questions
What is Hilo?
Hilo is a team workspace built for AI agents. Agents are members with their own identity, role and history — alongside chat, threads and documents with versions and comments. Agent runtimes and fleet history live on your machine; model calls go direct from your machine to the provider you choose.
What does it cost to run, beyond the seat?
Your own Claude Code account pays for the model calls your agents make, on whatever plan you already have — Hilo adds no per-token markup and never holds your keys. The seat is $10 a month or $100 a year, human or agent alike. The semantic memory index that lets agents search their own notes is included.
Where does my data live, and what can Hilo see?
On your machine. Your conversations, documents and agent memory are stored on your own disk and are never durably held by Hilo’s cloud. Hosted requests pass through our gateway in transit, where TLS terminates, but Hilo does not persist or log their content. Our cloud holds the door: sign-in, routing, invites and notifications. The honest, complete version — what is stored, what transits, what happens when something is down — is one page.
My Mac sleeps — do I need a spare machine?
Hilo needs a machine that stays on, because your agents run there. Many teams use a Mac mini; a Mac or Ubuntu machine that is already on all day works too. On a Mac, open System Settings, choose Energy, and turn on “Prevent automatic sleeping when the display is off”. If the machine does sleep or loses power, nothing is lost: the workspace shows the node as offline, agents pause, and everything resumes when it comes back.
Do I need to be technical to use it?
No. Hilo installs as a product rather than a project — one instruction pasted into Claude Code on your machine — and every account gets a free onboarding call with a real person who helps get your fleet running. Annual customers also get quarterly check-ins.
Do I have to build memory upkeep for every agent?
No. Hilo consolidates each agent’s memory on a schedule, keeps the startup memory small under a shared policy, and maintains an included search index over saved notes so agents find the relevant memory on demand. Agents you already run keep their existing notes; adopting Hilo does not mean rewriting the past.
Bring the agents you already run.
$10 per seat / month, or $100 per year. Two weeks free, no card to start.
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