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Works with
Claude
ChatGPT
Instagram
WhatsApp
GmailThe problem
Your team keeps repeating instructions. Your AI agents can miss a change in direction, a recent decision, or the context behind a task. Give both a shared source of the current knowledge that matters.
The foundation
Your Shared Company Brain keeps the important current knowledge about your company's direction, priorities, and decisions available to your people and connected AI agents. Four built-in capabilities put it to work.
Your files and day-to-day records stay in those systems. Use Ownbox for the important current information about where your company is going, what has changed, and what people and AI agents need to know to work together. It complements your file storage; it does not replace it.
Search supported documents you have chosen for the Brain and retrieve the relevant passage — not just a filename.
Review useful updates proposed by your agents before adding them to the Brain, so the next person or connected agent can work from them.
Keep the knowledge you have built. Connect another supported agent to the same Brain, subject to its access permissions.
Explore the five essentials in detail
Keep your current briefs, priorities and decisions on your Ownbox, with the price lists, procedures, contracts, and spreadsheets behind them. Claude, ChatGPT, and other compatible agents read inside them, find the exact passage they need, and can add what they learn. Each new document waits for your OK.
New
Always
PDF · Word · Excel · Passage search · Business Agent · Saves wait for your OK
See Machine activity, shared work, and decisions waiting for your team. Invite people and manage their access from one dashboard.
Web dashboard · Team access · Activity
Connect a supported Claude or ChatGPT account, or use an API key where supported. Your AI provider's plan, limits, and charges still apply.
Supported AI sign-in · Optional API connection
Each Ownbox has an MCP endpoint for compatible agents to use permitted business tools and information. Access and actions are governed by your setup.
MCP tools · Permissions · Activity history
What a machine can be built to work on
…and anything with an API or an MCP
Your AI works inside your business
your machine's own MCP server
Any AI that speaks MCP can plug in. Every action is logged.
Add Ownbox to your iPhone or Android home screen. Review conversations and pending work without returning to your desk.
iPhone + Android · Home-screen app
See it work — Unified Inbox
Here is one workflow available through the Unified Inbox Machine: a customer message, an AI draft, and a person deciding what is sent.
A supported email or direct message arrives in one unified inbox, with the conversation in view.
A draft appears alongside the conversation using your connected AI account.
Review, edit, and send the reply from your desktop or phone.
Ready today
Ownbox Core includes your choice of one available Machine. Ownbox Pro includes both.
Bring your customer conversations together. See supported Gmail, Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp messages in one unified inbox. Let AI draft replies, then review and respond from your dashboard or phone.
Help customers find answers from your business. Create and publish useful answers to the questions future customers ask. Apply publishing checks and connect Google Search Console to track search visibility.
Available now: Unified Inbox and SEO Machine. Search visibility, AI citations, and lead volume are not guaranteed.
Built to expand
Start with a job that matters today. Add more Machines as they become available, or build one for a workflow specific to your company. Your team and AI agents keep working from the same foundation.
Ownership
No lock-in. No contracts. Subscriptions cost more the longer you stay, and leaving means starting over. With Ownbox, every month you stay builds something that's already yours.
Your Ownbox runs on its own DigitalOcean cloud server, with business data separate from other Ownbox customers.
Any subscription lets you export your data. Ownbox lets you keep the whole thing: the software, with a perpetual license, and everything your team and AI agents have built in it.
Begin with Managed Support, then move Ownbox to your own DigitalOcean account any time from 30 days after you buy, and we'll make the move with you. You keep using the software while paying DigitalOcean directly.
Getting started
Core includes one of the two available Machines. Pro includes both.
After checkout, we deploy your cloud server and email your access details in about five minutes.
Sign in with a supported AI account and connect the services your Machine needs. Then start working from your dashboard or phone.
Add a short company-direction brief, current priorities, and one recent decision. Connect a supported AI agent, then ask: “What should our team focus on, and what has changed?” Review the answer against those sources.
From the founder
My AI agents were working on too many computers, and some of them on my personal computer, with full access to all of my files. They needed one place to work, and they needed to be contained.
I didn't need another subscription, or another silo of data. I believe a company should own its data, or at least have a copy it can take with it and build on.
So I built a Company Brain you own: one place where your AI agents and your team do real work together. I think of it as freedom computing.
Some called it a crazy idea. Time will tell.
Brian MacDonaldFounder & CEO of Ownbox
Ownbox runs on Ownbox Live
Brian MacDonald's own numbers, from the Ownbox that runs Ownbox. Updated November 14, 2026.
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Talk to BrianChoose your foundation and included Machine. Review what you pay today and how managed hosting works after the included period.
Included in every Ownbox
Need private AI infrastructure? Talk about Ownbox Enterprise
You get Ownbox Core: the five-part software foundation on its own hosted cloud server, a dashboard and mobile app, and your choice of the Unified Inbox or the SEO Machine. Managed Support is included for the first 90 days. The AI service you connect is billed by its provider.
The Unified Inbox for email and DMs and the SEO Machine are available now. Core includes your choice of one; Pro includes both. More Machines may come later, and none is included unless it is marked as available.
A Claude Pro or Max plan, or a ChatGPT Plus, Pro or Business plan: you sign in to it from your Ownbox's settings. For Claude, an Anthropic API key works too. Gemini and Grok are planned. Your provider's plan limits and charges apply.
Core costs $799 once; Pro costs $1,599 once. Managed Support is included for 90 days, then renews at $99/month for Core or $199/month for Pro unless canceled. Your AI provider may charge separately. If you move Ownbox to your own cloud account, that hosting provider bills you directly, about $12 a month on DigitalOcean.
You keep your license to the software and your business data. After Managed ends, your Ownbox keeps running for 30 days from the day we tell you. In that time we can move it to your own DigitalOcean account with you, starting with a short setup call, or we power it off and keep a copy safe until you claim it or ask us to delete it. Updates and support end with Managed, and hosting doesn't stay free.
Your business information is yours: it exports in full, and you can move your Ownbox to hosting you control any time from 30 days after you buy. The software comes with a perpetual license to run it for your business; it can't be resold or passed on.
Yes. Marketing agencies are who Ownbox is built for first. Your agency runs on it: client and prospect messages in one queue with a reply drafted for your OK, every client's brief and brand guide in one Shared Company Brain, and machines you build for your clients. Approved agencies can also join the 40% Partner tier of Earn with Ownbox.
No. Keep those tools and their files or records in place. The Shared Company Brain is for selected current knowledge: your direction, priorities, decisions, and important updates. Add what people and connected AI agents need to work together. It is not a replacement for file storage or a full operational archive.
No. Your Ownbox is deployed for you. You sign in, connect a supported AI account and the services your Machine uses, then work through the dashboard or phone app. Developers can also build their own Machines with the free SDK.
No. Ownbox is software deployed on its own cloud server. You use it through a web dashboard and a phone app. No physical hardware ships.
Only where you turn it on. In the Unified Inbox, drafts wait for you to review, edit and send. Auto-replies can be switched on for Instagram and Messenger; they're off by default, and email always waits for you. The SEO Machine publishes on its own schedule once you switch it on, after its publishing check.
No. It helps create and publish answers to customer questions, and connects Google Search Console so you can track search visibility. Search rankings, AI citations and leads depend on factors outside Ownbox's control.
Yes. Every Ownbox ships with one. The documents you approve into its Public folder become your Business Agent: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and any AI agent can read them and answer from them. Nothing is served until you say yes.
No. Today the Unified Inbox covers Gmail and other IMAP email, Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp. Outlook and Microsoft 365 aren't supported.
Your Ownbox runs on its own server, with no license check that could switch it off. Moved to your own DigitalOcean account, it keeps running with your business information on it. What comes from Ownbox would stop: software updates, the Search Console connection and the ownbox.app web address.
Your records live on your Ownbox's own server, not in a shared database. When your Ownbox asks your AI to draft or answer, that request is processed by your AI provider under your account's terms. When you connect an AI agent of your own, what it reads, it sends to its own AI provider, under your account with them. While Managed hosts it, backups stay with the same hosting provider.
Yes. For a limited time, Ownbox Core comes with one Machine free: the Unified Inbox for email and DMs, or the SEO Machine. After the offer ends, each is $299 on its own. Pro includes both.
Yes, anytime from inside your Ownbox, for the $800 difference. Nothing moves.
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