The AI-driven, open-source, self-hosted alternative to Slack + Notion + Linear — one binary on your own server, your data, no per-seat fees.
⚠️ Early-stage software (0.0.x). Workavera is under active development: features and data schemas are still changing quickly, and releases may include breaking changes (see the changelog). It is not ready for production use yet.
Workavera connects conversations, knowledge, relationships, projects, tasks, and time commitments in one workspace, and Chat is how you put it in motion: the AI can only use the capabilities your account already has—finding context, creating or updating records—and the server re-authorizes every action against your own permissions before it is applied.
Self-hosted AI tools are a crowded space, but most of them fall on one of two sides:
- Chat front-ends (Open WebUI, LibreChat, and similar) put a UI over model APIs. The conversation is the whole product—there is no workspace behind it for the AI to act on.
- Knowledge workspaces (AFFiNE, AppFlowy, and similar) manage notes and projects and bolt AI on as a writing assistant. The AI suggests text; it doesn't operate the workspace.
Workavera combines both halves and adds the part neither has:
- Permission-aware AI tool calling. Chat can search your context and operate Board, Calendar, Docs, Reading, and Contacts—but only within the permissions your account already has, and the server re-authorizes every tool call (identity, role, ownership, revision). The AI is never a privileged service account.
- One self-contained binary. The frontend is embedded via
go:embedand data lives in PocketBase/SQLite—no Postgres, Redis, or vector-database stack. Deploy with a singledocker runor a single downloaded binary. - Built for freelancers and small teams. Bring your own model API keys, run it on a cheap VPS or a NAS, and own all of your data. Open source under Apache-2.0.
No toolchain needed—run the prebuilt image or binary.
docker run -p 8090:8090 -v workavera-data:/app/pb_data ghcr.io/xusenlin/workavera:latestDownload the archive for your platform from GitHub Releases, extract it, and start the server from a terminal (it is a server process, so double-clicking the binary is not enough):
./workavera serve # workavera.exe serve on WindowsBy default it listens on http://127.0.0.1:8090. Pass --http=0.0.0.0:8090 to accept connections from other machines.
- Sign in with the demo user. A fresh data directory automatically gets one application user:
demo@workavera.localwith passwordworkavera. - Secure the account. Change the demo password from Profile before exposing Workavera to other machines or the public internet.
- Create the superuser. PocketBase prints a one-time setup link containing a token, e.g.
http://127.0.0.1:8090/_/#/pbinstal/<token>. Find it in the terminal output (or indocker logsfor a detached container), open it, and create the superuser used to manage collections and application users. The superuser itself cannot sign in to Workavera. - Add a model. In Settings, add at least one model configuration before using Chat or AI summaries.
The demo user is seeded only when the users collection is empty, so upgrades do not add or overwrite an account in an existing workspace.
- Dashboard shows counts for active projects, open tasks, the next seven days, and unread Reading items, together with due tasks, upcoming events and deadlines, recently updated Docs/Chat/Reading records, and quick links.
- Reading saves external URLs and notes with project, tags, read status, pins, archive, configurable summary language, and AI-generated summaries. Its paginated library can be searched and filtered by status or project, with mark-all-read and separate archive restore and delete controls.
- Contacts provides a searchable contact list, detailed profiles, and personal favorites; Chat can search a bounded, non-sensitive contact projection.
- Chat streams model output, reasoning, and tool calls into durable conversations. Runs continue across browser disconnects and can be resumed or stopped. A context-usage indicator tracks token and cache details, and long conversations are automatically compacted into a summary near the model's context limit without altering the visible history.
- Docs stores private and project documents with BlockNote rich editing, source/fullscreen modes, Markdown/HTML export, explicit versions, conflict detection, pins, archive, and AI editing. Documents are Markdown or self-contained interactive HTML apps rendered in a sandboxed preview.
- Board manages independent project workflows, labels, roles, tasks, activity history, due dates, and same-project document links. Ten bilingual workflow templates are included.
- Calendar combines personal events with visible Board deadlines, supports recurrence and system-timezone scheduling, and produces in-app reminders.
- Notifications provides realtime model-share requests, task-due notices, and calendar reminders with record deep links. The paginated inbox supports search, read-state and type filters, pins, archive/restore, and permanent delete.
- Settings and Profile manage model configurations, model sharing, per-user appearance, profile fields, and avatars.
Only needed when contributing or building from source. Requires Go 1.26.5+, Node.js with pnpm, and Task 3+.
cd frontend && pnpm install && cd .. # once
task dev:go # backend at http://127.0.0.1:8090 (admin UI at /_/)
task dev:ui # Vite dev server at http://127.0.0.1:5173
task test # go test ./...
task build # self-contained binary with the frontend embedded
task release # cross-compiled release archives in dist/All tasks are defined in Taskfile.yml; frontend-only commands are documented in frontend/README.md.
| Module | English | 简体中文 |
|---|---|---|
| Board | Board PRD | Board PRD |
| Calendar | Calendar PRD | Calendar PRD |
| Chat | Chat PRD and Fantasy architecture | Chat PRD 与 Fantasy 架构 |
| Docs | Docs PRD | Docs PRD |
Release history is documented in CHANGELOG.md.
Licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
Copyright 2026 xusenlin