Most business software is rented by the seat and gone the day you stop paying. This is a working back end with the dashboard, mobile app, AI connection and MCP server already built, on a machine you own.
Built and ready to run. No waitlist.
$499 once · No monthly Ownbox fee · Bring your own AI subscription · Yours to keep
AI employees
Your box runs on the AI you already pay for. Any agent that speaks MCP can plug in: reads come straight from the box, and anything that acts waits for your OK.
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Business in a box
Start with the Base Machine and plug in add-on machines: the AEO Machine and the Unified Inbox today, more from the Machine Marketplace, or ones you build yourself. Your team and your AI employees work in the same place, on the same records. Agents do the work, people approve it, and it all runs on a server you own.
one service · one database · every machine
YOUR OWNBOX
YOUR BUSINESS — everything that comes in
Email · Texts · DMs · Calls · Voicemail · Recordings · Web forms · Meetings · Reviews · Bookings · Orders · Invoices · Payments · Files · Tickets · Leads
…and anything with an API
ADD-ON MACHINES
AEO Machine—creates self improving knowledge base, automatically · shipping
Unified Inbox—every email and DM, one queue, drafted · shipping
AI Voice Agent—answers the phone, books the job · shipping
Create Your Own—any job your business needs · as many as you want
BASE MACHINE — every add-on machine plugs in here
brain—Claude · ChatGPT · Gemini · Grok
cost guard—a hard monthly ceiling you set
queue—jobs claimed once, never twice
worker—runs them, one at a time
dispatch—sends only what you approved
mcp—where AI employees plug in, locked
dashboard—web and phone, for your team
morning page—what happened, before you start
watchdog—probes itself every 30 minutes
secrets—your keys, on your disk
SQLite — /opt/aios/aios.db
one file. Everything the box knows.
YOUR TEAM
on the dashboard and the phone app
approves the work before it goes out
AI EMPLOYEES
Claude Code · Codex · Gemini CLI · Grok Bot
does the work, through MCP
your server · Ubuntu 24.04 · about $12/mo
systemd · daily backups on every box
The dashboard
Every machine ships with a working admin interface: log in, see what the machine is doing, change what it does. Extend it as you add capabilities instead of building the front end before the thing it fronts.
/dash · session auth · one page per module
On your phone
The machine is already a Progressive Web App, so the same dashboard installs on iPhone and Android from the browser and runs like a native app. There is no App Store submission, no second codebase, and nothing to maintain twice.
PWA · iOS and Android · tap the orb and say what you're looking for
Your AI
Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok all sign in with OAuth, and the machine takes all four. Their terms bar using a subscription through a third-party app. This isn't one: the box is yours, so the sign-in is yours, on your machine, and it thinks on the plan you already pay for. No billing system to build, and no API bill on top of the plan you already pay for.
OAuth · Claude · ChatGPT · Gemini · Grok · your account, your box
The MCP server
Each machine has its own MCP server, so any AI agent session that speaks MCP can read its data and call its tools with no integration to write. Add it to Claude Code, Claude, ChatGPT, or whatever agent you run, and everything you've built into the machine is on the other end of the chat.
/mcp · bearer-locked · tools and resources you define
The other way to build it
Before a business machine does anything useful, someone builds the parts every one of them needs: a dashboard and a login, a mobile shell, a queue that never runs a job twice, a way to talk to an AI without wiring up billing, an endpoint so other tools can reach it, and a deploy that survives a reboot. Conservatively that is sixty hours of groundwork before the first line of the thing you actually wanted. Your Ownbox ships with all of it running.
| What you'd build | Roughly |
|---|---|
| Dashboard, auth, session handling | 15 h |
| PWA shell, manifest, service worker, install flow | 6 h |
| Sign-in to an AI provider, token refresh, spend ceiling | 8 h |
| MCP server, tool and resource registry, auth | 10 h |
| Queue, worker, watchdog, backups | 15 h |
| Deploy: Ubuntu, systemd, secrets, restarts | 6 h |
| Total | ≈ 60 h |
And who holds it when it's built?
The platforms that offer the same head start keep it. They own the runtime, the roadmap, the price, and the off-switch, and everything you build on top is theirs to hold the day you stop paying. Yours runs on a disk you own, and while we host it there is exactly one company between you and that disk: the one that owns it. The day you take it home, none.
There is nothing to encrypt on the way to us, because there is no way to us.
A hosted platform
Their runtime
Their off-switch
Their roadmap
Ownbox
Your server
Your disk
Your code
No seat fees. No per-request pricing. The AI runs on your own account, the server costs about $12 a month, and we set it up for you.
Base Machine
$499one time
Your AI business machine, set up for you on a server you own.
What you get
Base Machine Pro
$1,599one time
For a whole team, on a server with twice the memory.
Included today
Planned
Enterprise
Custom
For a company that needs its AI, data and records under its own control.
Add-on products
Free add-on machine, for a limited time: the Base Machine comes with the AEO Machine or the Unified Inbox free. Pro includes both. Open any card for everything it includes.
Add-on machine
ShippingAnswer engine optimization, done for you: articles written and published to your own site, with a hard check before anything goes live.
$299Freewith the Base Machine · pick one · limited time
Add-on machine
ShippingEvery email and DM your business gets, in one queue, with a reply already drafted.
$299Freewith the Base Machine · pick one · limited time
Add-on service
We host it, update it, watch it and back it up. You still own all of it.
3 months freethen $99 a month ($199 with Pro)
Two costs are yours, not ours: about $12 a month to your hosting provider, and your own AI plan. Neither is billed through us.
An AI business machine is software that does a job in your business with AI, like answering messages or following up, and runs on a server you own instead of someone else's cloud. Ownbox's Base Machine is the part every one of those jobs needs: the dashboard, the phone app, the sign-in to your AI, the MCP server, the queue and the database. Machines like the Unified Inbox run on top of it, and one box runs as many as you want.
Read the article: What is an AI business machine?
We set it up for you. You get an email to get started, we install the box on your server, connect your AI account, and hand it over running. You don't need to open a terminal.
Two things: a paid plan with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok (an API key works too), and a small cloud server at about $12 a month. The server account and its bill are yours, and we set the box up on it for you.
Nothing extra from us. The box thinks on the plan you already pay for, and the cost guard holds a hard monthly ceiling on anything billed per use, like an API key. We never bill you for AI.
Yes, through Managed Support Services. Every checkout includes the first three months free, then it's $99 a month, or $199 a month with Pro. If you cancel, your box keeps running exactly as it is; you just stop getting updates and support. Pro also includes priority support.
If most of your customer conversations arrive by email and DM, yes: it's the machine that answers them. For a limited time the Base Machine comes with one add-on machine free, and it can be this one, so $499 gets you both. If you're building a machine of your own instead, the Base Machine is all you need.
Yours. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok all sign in with OAuth, and the box takes all four. Their terms bar using a subscription through a third-party app; the box isn't one, because it's yours. It thinks on the plan you already pay for, and we never see the account. An API key works too if you'd rather.
Everything the box knows lives in one database file on your server, and we don't keep a copy. The AI calls go to your own account, not ours. On Managed Support Services we look after the server for you; without it, we have no access at all.
Read the article: Your customer data is your SaaS vendor's most valuable asset
Yes. Every box has its own MCP server, locked with a token only you hold. Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and any other agent that speaks MCP can read your box and call its tools. Anything that acts waits for your approval.
Read the article: Why do AI employees need a place to work?
No. We set it up, and you use it from the dashboard and your phone. If you are a developer, the Base Machine is where you start: the groundwork is done, and your work begins at the part that's specific to your business.
Yes. A new machine plugs into the Base Machine and gets a dashboard page, a place in the queue and its own tools on the MCP server, without rebuilding any of it. One box runs as many machines as you want.
One Python service, one SQLite file, an Ubuntu server, systemd, daily backups, and your keys on your own disk. The diagram above is the full list; nothing on the box is left off it.
Your box keeps running, and your code and data were never ours to lose. Everything on it exports in full, and the machine is yours; it doesn't stop working because we do.
Read the article: What happens to self-hosted software if the vendor goes out of business?
Because the box doesn't need us to keep working. You pay once for the machine. Upkeep is the ongoing part, and that's Managed Support Services: optional, the first three months free, and you can cancel anytime.
Four hundred and ninety-nine dollars, once. It arrives running, the sixty hours of building are already done for you, and everything you build on it is your asset.
$499 once · yours to keep
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