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Klex is an open-source platform for autonomous digital coworkers, built by stagewise. We build bots, not agents. Klex Bots are designed to participate in a team’s work rather than sit alongside it as a separate chat tool.

We see bots as the next evolution of agents: less constrained by individual tasks or chat sessions, and able to act autonomously and proactively. Rather than waiting for every instruction, a Klex Bot can recognize what needs attention, take initiative, and keep work moving across connected environments, within the permissions its team sets.

Each Klex Bot maintains a durable identity and memory across conversations and work environments. Teams communicate with their bots through connected channels and give them access to tools and computers through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The aim is one coherent coworker, without asking users to manage model sessions or the orchestration behind them.

Klex separates a bot’s durable state from the environments where work happens. Its brain, memory, and configuration remain with the bot; external tools and computers are connected environments. This lets the coworker retain its context as its work moves between systems. It also makes hosting Klex Bots significantly safer and less compute-intense.

Klex supports multiple model providers and can run locally or be self-hosted. Klex Cloud is the hosted offering, bringing together integrations, hosted bots, and computers. The brand is Klex; the individual coworkers are Klex Bots; the cloud offering is Klex Cloud.

stagewise builds applied AI with a simple premise: bots should be partners that tackle work autonomously, not tools people talk to on the side.

The team started in software development, working on a gap between increasingly capable models and the limited context they could access. Its early work connected agents to the live state of an application: the running interface, selected elements, and surrounding code.

That experience shaped the team’s approach to bots. Capability depends not only on a model, but also on context, lasting memory, access to surrounding systems, and clear permissions. Klex brings this thinking to digital coworkers that can work across the environments a team already uses.

Glenn Töws

Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer

Julian Götze

Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer

stagewise is based in Bielefeld, Germany, and San Francisco, USA. The company is backed by Y Combinator, TwentyTwo Ventures, BLAST VC, and angel investors.

Its stated principles are openness, configurability, affordability, and simplicity: let people choose their models and systems, define the boundaries of autonomy, and focus on useful outcomes rather than token consumption.

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