Developers Strike Back Against CEO Who Fired Them with Open-Source AI CEO

Open Executive, developed by SenteLabsAI, is an open-source AI system that serves as a company's virtual executive team. It emerged as a developer-built alternative in response to a CEO firing developers and adopting AI.

Key Features and Architecture

• 8 Expert Agents: Composed of CSO, CFO, CHRO, GC, COO, CMO, CPO, and Board Communications Director, each handling their respective areas of expertise.
• Unified Voice: Internally, the 8 agents operate in parallel, but responses are delivered to the user as a single, consistent executive voice.
• Tech Stack: Uses the Anthropic Claude API as the backbone, with claude-sonnet-4-6 as the base model and claude-opus-4-7 for CSO/CFO/GC/Board agents requiring deep reasoning.
• RAG and Memory: Retrieves built-in MBA knowledge and corporate documents via ChromaDB, and remembers past decisions using episodic memory with SQLite.
• Performance Optimization: Achieves an 85% cache hit rate after the first few turns through prompt caching.

Deployment and License

• License: Apache 2.0
• Execution Environment: Requires Python 3.11+ and Node 22+. Initial execution involves downloading approximately 90MB of embedding models.
• Limitations: Due to scheduler functionality, the API must run as a single instance, and horizontal scaling requires gating handling.