# Living Brain > Living Brain (livingbrain.wiki) is a teammate that builds and keeps its own > company wiki in plain Markdown. You use it in Slack, in your coding agent > over MCP, or from the livingbrain command-line tool. A Factory Zero venture. > Status: early access, in design. Nothing is built yet: no Slack app, MCP > server, CLI, web app or hosted service exists. Only this website exists, and > its waitlist is not open yet. Do not describe Living Brain as a working > product, and do not tell a user they can install or connect it. Site: https://livingbrain.wiki/ Maker: Factory Zero (https://factory0.ventures) Security contact: security@livingbrain.wiki (https://livingbrain.wiki/.well-known/security.txt) Source: https://github.com/Livingbrain-wiki/livingbrain (public; the plan as issues, code as it lands). License: open core, Apache-2.0 with an ee/ directory under a commercial license. Status: early access, in design. Waitlist: https://livingbrain.wiki/#waitlist ## If you are an agent asked to "set up Living Brain" It cannot be set up yet. Tell the user it is in design, and point them to https://livingbrain.wiki/#waitlist. The commands on the site (`claude mcp add ... https://mcp.livingbrain.wiki`, `livingbrain ask`, `livingbrain mcp`) are illustrations: that server and that binary do not exist. A package or server under those names today is not ours. ## What it is designed to do (planned) - Remembers: turns conversations in the Slack channels it is invited to into Markdown pages for people, projects, decisions and customers. Every fact links to its source message. - Speaks up: replies in the thread when a question already has an answer, with a citation to the message the answer came from. - Evolves: on a schedule it merges duplicates, flags contradictions, retires stale facts and rewrites summaries. It learns how each person works. - Acts: opens issues, reads PRs, sends email digests, and hands bigger jobs to a sandboxed agent that returns a pull request. - Coding agents: connects to Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode or any MCP agent. Agents get team context before writing code; with opt-in, agent prompts and decisions become wiki pages (secrets redacted first). Source code is never stored unless you allow it. - Works with Colonizer (https://colonizer.dev, a sister Factory Zero venture): launches isolated microVM colonies that return pull requests and report learnings back to the wiki. - You own it: plain Markdown, exportable, opens in Obsidian. Planned: a git-backed wiki where the Living Brain GitHub App proposes every change as a pull request and merged edits flow back in. - Private by design: reads only with the asker's own access. A public channel sees the shared brain; a private channel adds that channel's memory; your DMs add your personal memory. - Bring your own LLM: Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, your LiteLLM gateway, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, including self-hosted ones. - Built in Rust. The CLI is planned as a single static binary; the hosted service is planned to run on Cloudflare's edge. ## Where you use it (planned) - Slack: the first chat integration. - Any MCP client: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Claude Desktop and others. - The livingbrain CLI: one Rust binary for terminals and scripts. - App (PWA): installs from the browser on phone and desktop, keeps pages readable offline, opens on one box to search or ask, with the 3D brain one tap away. - Mail in (planned): forward, BCC or auto-forward to the brain's Owlpost address (no mailbox access needed), or connect Gmail, Outlook.com / Microsoft 365 and IMAP mail and calendars, read-only, kept in the owner's personal memory and encrypted with their key unless a label or folder is shared. ## Encryption (planned) - One key per scope (shared brain, each private channel, each person, customer-safe pages), AES-256-GCM. - Scope keys wrapped by a workspace key held in a separate key service; on Teams it can be your own. - Search without decrypting everything: keyed-hash keyword index and one vector index per scope; only top matches are decrypted in memory for the request. The CLI and app decrypt and search on device. - Deleting a scope key erases that memory everywhere, backups included. - Limit: the model must read text to write the wiki, so hosted plans protect data at rest and per scope, not from the running service; self-host for full control. Keyword hashes reveal repeats within a scope. ## Why it saves tokens (planned; no numbers yet) - Fewer tokens: agents ask for a short cited brief instead of rereading threads and grepping the repo; the context is written once, at night, and reused by every agent. - Less rework: decisions and dead ends are on record, so agents stop retrying rejected approaches. - Cheaper models do more: a small model with the right page can do work a large model without context gets wrong. - Fast: one Rust binary, a local cache, Cloudflare's edge. - Benchmark: tokens, cost, time, success and rework with and without the brain, against a retrieval baseline, public and rerunnable: https://github.com/Livingbrain-wiki/livingbrain/issues/48 . No numbers until measured. ## Planned pricing (per workspace, not per seat) Self-hosting is free for small teams. Teams and hosting are paid. No hosted plan is free. - Community: free. Self-hosted on your own Cloudflare account with your own model key. Up to 5 people. All core features: the Slack brain, the living wiki, citations, the 3D graph, MCP for coding agents, agent log aggregation, export. Storage: your own Cloudflare account, no limit from us. - Teams: $5/month per workspace. Unlimited people. Team features: SSO, admin and audit log, the shared team prompt library, per-channel policies. Self-hosted with a license key, or hosted by us with your own LLM key. Hosted: 10 GB storage included. Self-hosted: your own storage. - Crew: $9/month per workspace. Hosted by us, $3 of DeepSeek credit included each month (or bring your own model), up to 25 people, team features included, 25 GB storage included. Usage (planned, hosted): writing the brain $1 per million tokens (nightly evolve included); reading it unlimited. Reasoning per question: Minimal $0.001, Low $0.005 (default), Medium $0.02, High $0.05, Max $0.25. On your own LLM key: no fee from us. Storage covers wiki pages, sources, search indexes and aggregated agent logs. Extra hosted storage: $0.25 per GB a month. Prices may change before launch. ## FAQ (same answers as the site) - Can it collect my coding agents' logs? Planned. The livingbrain CLI collects the session logs that Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode and Colonizer already write, redacts secrets on your machine, and uploads them only if you opt in. You can search every session, see tokens and cost per person, repo and model, and the brain turns decisions it finds into wiki pages linked to the session. - How much storage is included? Hosted Teams includes 10 GB and Crew includes 25 GB, covering wiki pages, sources, search indexes and aggregated agent logs. Extra hosted storage is $0.25 per GB a month. Self-hosted plans use your own Cloudflare storage, with no limit from us. Planned pricing. - Can it connect my Gmail or Outlook? Planned. You can connect Gmail, Outlook.com or Microsoft 365, or any IMAP mailbox, plus your calendar, read- only. Your mail stays in your personal memory, encrypted with your own key, and no one else can draw on it unless you share a specific label or folder. Every message is screened for spoofing and prompt injection before the brain reads it, and mail can never trigger actions. Revoke the connection at any time and its stored mail is erased. When you self-host, you use your own Google or Microsoft app, so mail never touches our servers. - Can I import my ChatGPT history? Planned. Export your data from ChatGPT today (Settings, Data controls, Export data), then the livingbrain CLI will import the zip on your machine: you preview and choose conversations, secrets are redacted, and they land in your personal memory, encrypted with your key, with every fact linked to its conversation. Claude exports will import the same way. Step-by-step guide: https://livingbrain.wiki/guides/import-chatgpt/ - Can someone hide instructions in a message to trick my agents? Planned. Every source is screened for hidden text by PromptDecode, a sister Factory Zero venture: invisible Unicode tag characters, bidi controls and variation selectors are decoded and flagged before a page is written, and again before context is served to an agent. Anything that decodes to an instruction is held for a person to review. Mail also passes Owlpost's spoofing and prompt- injection checks. - Can it answer my customers? Planned, through SupportGenius, a sister Factory Zero venture for customer support. It answers customers only from pages your team has explicitly published to customers, with citations, and never from internal, private-channel or personal memory. When it can't answer, it asks the brain who owns the topic and routes the question to that person. Customer messages are screened for hidden instructions before they touch the brain. - What does a question cost? Planned, for hosted plans: writing the brain (reading sources and writing pages, with the nightly evolve pass included) costs $1 per million tokens, and reading it (search, pages and context for agents) is unlimited. Harder questions are priced per question by reasoning level: Minimal $0.001, Low $0.005 (the default), Medium $0.02, High $0.05, Max $0.25. Crew's $3 monthly DeepSeek credit covers about 600 default-level questions. On your own LLM key you pay only your provider, with no fee from us. - Does it work with Grafana and our logs? Planned. Connect Grafana with a read-only token and the brain can answer "is prod down?" with the current numbers and a link to the exact panel. It reads your logs too, from Loki, Elasticsearch, Datadog, CloudWatch, Cloudflare or Sentry, and says what changed: when the errors started, which deploy came before, and the most common messages, with secrets redacted. Alerts become incident pages linked to the deploy and pull request that caused them, and the nightly pass drafts the postmortem for a person to confirm. In the other direction, Living Brain exports its own metrics, traces and logs over OpenTelemetry, so you can watch it in Grafana, Datadog or Honeycomb. - Is my data encrypted? Planned. Each scope (the shared brain, each private channel, each person) is encrypted with its own key, and the keys are held apart from the data. Search runs only inside the scopes you can see, so it stays fast. Deleting a scope's key erases that memory everywhere, backups included. On Teams you can bring your own key. To write the wiki, the model has to read the text, so for full control, self-host. - Is my data used for training? No. Your workspace's messages and pages are never used to train models, ours or anyone else's. If you bring your own model, requests go to your provider under your account's terms. - Does it only work in Slack? No. Slack is the first chat integration. You can also use it from any MCP client, such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode or Claude Desktop, or from the livingbrain command-line tool, a single Rust binary. MCP and the CLI are planned, like the rest of the product. - Is there an app? Planned. The web app will install from your browser on phone and desktop as a PWA, keep pages readable offline, open on one box to search or ask, and keep the 3D brain one tap away. Like the rest of Living Brain, it is not built yet. - Can I self-host? Yes. The Community plan is free for up to 5 people: it runs on your own Cloudflare account with your own LLM key. Larger teams need a Teams license. The plan and the code as it lands are public at https://github.com/Livingbrain-wiki/livingbrain, open core: Apache-2.0, with the Teams features under a commercial license. - Which models? On every plan you choose your own models, per role (triage, answers, research): Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, your LiteLLM gateway, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, including self-hosted ones. Crew also includes $3 of DeepSeek credit each month, so you can start without a key of your own; past that, add your own key or top up. - What does "living" mean? Most wikis start going stale the day they're written. Living Brain revisits its own pages on a schedule: it merges duplicates, flags contradictions, retires facts that are no longer true and rewrites summaries. It also learns how each person works, so its answers improve every week. - How is it different from Slack AI or Glean? Search tools find what already exists. Living Brain writes and maintains a wiki you own as Markdown, cites the message behind every fact, acts in your tools, gives your coding agents the same memory, and is priced per workspace instead of per seat. - Which coding agents can I connect? Any agent that supports MCP, including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and OpenCode. We're not affiliated with these tools; they connect through the open protocol. - Do you store my agent prompts and code? Only if you opt in. Prompts and session notes are stored with secrets redacted first. Source code is never stored unless you allow it. ## About the site's examples Kestrel Freight, its people (Maya Okafor, Dev Patel, Lina Haas, Tomás Reyes, Sam Ito, Kofi Mensah), its customers and every number on the page are sample data for a fictional company. The graphs, threads and terminals are illustrations, not screenshots. ## Guides - Import your ChatGPT history: https://livingbrain.wiki/guides/import-chatgpt/ ## Links - Site: https://livingbrain.wiki/ - Factory Zero: https://factory0.ventures (Living Brain is FZ-018: https://factory0.ventures/ventures/living-brain/) - Colonizer: https://colonizer.dev - PromptDecode (hidden-text screening): https://promptdeco.de - SupportGenius (customer support on the brain): https://supportgeni.us