How is DeanOS different from ChatGPT and Claude?

ChatGPT and Claude are chat assistants — brilliant at answering and drafting, but you copy the work into your tools yourself. DeanOS is a company of AI agents that sets itself up, connects to your apps, remembers your business, and does the work for you, asking before anything risky.

Do I need to be technical to use DeanOS?

No. DeanOS is built for everyone. It guides its own setup, automatically picks the right AI model for each job, and you speak to it in plain English. There is no prompt-crafting or model-picking required.

What is the Open Knowledge Format (OKF)?

OKF is Google's open standard for storing knowledge in a portable, readable way. DeanOS stores what it learns about your business in OKF, so your knowledge is never locked inside one vendor — it stays yours and stays portable.

AI, in plain English

Everyone's talking about AI.
DeanOS actually does the work.

ChatGPT, Claude and the rest are clever chat boxes — you still copy the work into your own tools. DeanOS sets itself up, connects to your apps, and gets the job done. No jargon required.

Start free See the field guide

Sets itself up Picks the right AI for you Remembers your business Makes images & video

A field guide to AI helpers

Four tools, told simply.

They're all good at something. The real question is where the work ends up — in a chat window, or actually done.

ChatGPT

the talkative one

Ask it anything and it answers or drafts in seconds.

Great forQuick answers & first drafts

You stillPaste it into your real tools yourself

Claude

the careful thinker

Thoughtful writing and coding — Claude Code helps developers build.

Great forDeep writing & coding

You stillNeed to be hands-on to run it

OpenClaw

the tinkerer's kit

A build-your-own agent you run yourself on your own machine.

Great forTechies who love to tinker

You stillSet it up and wire it together

Does the work

DeanOS

your AI team

A whole company of AI agents that sets itself up and gets things done across your apps.

Great forAnyone who just wants it handled

It doesThe actual work — you approve the risky bits

The honest comparison

What matters when you're not technical.

No feature soup. Just the things that decide whether AI actually saves you time.

What matters to you

DeanOS

ChatGPT

Claude

OpenClaw

Sets itself up for you

Yes, guided

You set up

You build it

Picks the right AI automatically

Yes

One model

You choose

Remembers your business

Yes, agent memory

A little

If you set it up

Does work across your apps

Yes

Limited

You wire it up

Makes images & video

Built in

Images

Add-ons

Keeps working in the background

Yes

Terracotta cells are where DeanOS is built to take the load off you.

Jargon, decoded

The clever bits — without the buzzwords.

Here's what makes DeanOS easy, and what each phrase actually means for you.

"Easy onboarding"

It sets itself up

No blank screen, no settings maze. DeanOS asks a few friendly questions and gets to work.

Up and running in minutes, not weeks

Connect an app only when it's actually needed

No prompt-writing skills required

"Automated model routing"

You never pick the AI

There are dozens of AI models, each good at different jobs. DeanOS quietly chooses the best one for each task, every time.

Right tool for the job, automatically

Better results without learning model names

No paying for the wrong, pricier model

"Agent memory"

It remembers your business

Most chatbots forget everything between sessions. DeanOS keeps a memory of how your business works — your customers, suppliers, tone, the lot — so you never start from scratch.

Stop repeating yourself every time

Answers that sound like your business

Gets smarter the more you use it

"Open Knowledge Format (OKF)"

Your Second Brain stays yours

DeanOS stores what it learns in Google's Open Knowledge Format — an open, readable standard. In plain terms: your Second Brain isn't trapped inside one company.

No vendor lock-in — take it with you anytime

Built on an open standard, not a black box

Future-proof and easy to back up

Make, don't just chat

It plugs into the best tools — so you don't have to.

Need an image or a video? DeanOS reaches for top creative tools like Higgsfield and Nano Banana on its own, then brings the result back to you. Same story for the apps you already run on.