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Free for 30 days — no credit card

Your Private Business Brain, With AI Helpers and Guardrails.

Build the Brain your AI helper works from: files, notes, customer history, FAQs, templates, service rules, and follow-up rules.

Your helper drafts from real context. You review before anything gets sent or changed.

No credit card required Identity and memory persist Operator controls across channels

Most AI agents look impressive in a demo and fragile in real work. They forget what happened last week, lose their role after a restart, and act without enough operator control when the stakes get real.

That failure mode is bigger than hosting. Stateless tools can answer prompts, but they do not behave like dependable employees.

BrainRoad gives each agent a persistent identity, durable context, and governed execution surface so it can keep working across channels without turning into an unsupervised black box.

15 min Setup time
$29 Per month
90+ API methods
24/7 Always-on agents
What it does

The Difference Between A Demo and a Dependable Employee.

BrainRoad is not just a place to run a model. It gives the agent continuity, control surfaces, and operating rules so it can keep doing useful work in the real world.

Verified identity

Each agent keeps a stable operating identity with its own environment, channels, and access. You are not re-creating the role every time the runtime changes.

Memory continuity

Conversations, preferences, and operational context survive across restarts and updates, so your agent gets more useful over time instead of resetting back to prompt-only behavior.

Governed execution

Dashboard controls, approvals, schedules, and operator visibility make the agent usable in production instead of leaving you with unaudited autonomous behavior.

Comparing approaches

Which Kind of Agent Setup

Infrastructure is only one decision. The bigger question is whether you get a private Business Brain your AI helper can use, or just a runtime.

Self-Hosting

  • Full infrastructure control
  • Hours to days of setup
  • $100+/mo + DevOps time
  • You define identity, memory, and guardrails yourself
  • You own security, updates, and operator workflow design

Best for: Teams that want raw control and will build the employee layer themselves.

One-Click Hosts

  • Deploy in seconds
  • Low cost ($5–20/mo)
  • Usually no durable memory model or operator governance
  • Little visibility into how the agent should behave over time
  • You still have to design the dependable workflow yourself

Best for: Fast runtime access when continuity and governance are not the primary problem.

BrainRoad

  • Business Brain and AI helper running in 15 minutes
  • Persistent identity and memory continuity
  • Templates, schedules, and multi-channel reach
  • Dashboard, APIs, and MCP control surfaces
  • Governed execution with isolated runtime and storage

Best for: Operators who need an agent they can trust, supervise, and keep in context.

What your agent can do

An Agent That Remembers, Acts, and Reaches Out.

Multi-channel messaging

WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, iMessage, email. Your agent lives where you already communicate. Text it a task from your phone. Get a morning briefing at 7am.

Persistent memory

Your agent remembers every conversation, every preference, every client detail. Six months in, it knows your business better than most coworkers. Memory survives restarts and updates.

Scheduled actions & cron jobs

Your agent runs on a schedule. Morning briefings at 7am. Follow-up reminders on Thursday. Weekly reports every Monday. It acts without being asked.

Any AI model you want

Claude, GPT, Gemini, or local models via Ollama. Use whichever model works best — or assign different models to different tasks. Launch on the included trial key, then switch providers later without resetting the agent's identity, memory, or workflows.

Built for developers

Developer API & MCP Integration

The dashboard is the operating layer. These APIs are the advanced control surfaces underneath it.

Public REST API

Generate API keys and control your AI helper workspace from scripts, CI/CD pipelines, or any HTTP client. Start, stop, inspect status, and manage access with authenticated brk_ keys.

MCP Integration

Connect Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client to your agent. Use the same governed execution surface from code to send messages, manage channels, run cron jobs, and install skills.

Real-Time Events (SSE)

Subscribe to a Server-Sent Events stream to get notified the instant your agent receives a message, executes a tool, or fires a cron job. Filter by category to get only what you care about.

WebSocket RPC

For full control, connect directly to your agent's WebSocket API. This is the lower-level runtime surface for teams that want direct bidirectional control under the employee operating model.

Every agent includes a Developer Access page in the dashboard with connection details, code examples, and ready-to-copy config snippets.

The math

Why the Numbers Make This Decision Easy.

The expensive part is not only infrastructure. It is the time you lose re-explaining context, supervising brittle automations, and rebuilding trust every time an agent behaves like a stateless tool. Self-hosting also adds Docker setup, reverse proxy configuration, SSL certificates, persistent storage, monitoring, and security hardening on top.

$800–1,600

Self-host setup cost (at $100/hr)

$200–400/mo

Ongoing maintenance cost

$29/mo

BrainRoad Pro — zero maintenance

Dependable execution is cheaper than babysitting a brittle agent.

What you get

Why BrainRoad for a Verified AI Employee

Built around identity, memory continuity, and governed execution. The open-source runtime is supporting infrastructure, not the main story.

Isolated environments

Each agent runs in its own cloud environment with dedicated resources and a durable operating boundary. Your data never mixes with anyone else's.

Persistent context

Your agent's memory, context, and configuration survive restarts, updates, and redeployments so the role keeps getting sharper instead of resetting.

Guided setup wizard

A step-by-step wizard handles configuration in plain English. No terminal, no YAML, no Docker commands. If you can copy and paste, you can do this.

Dashboard control

Start, stop, configure, and monitor your agents from one place. See what they're doing, adjust behavior, and manage everything without a command line.

Get started in minutes

How It Works

1

Sign up free

Create your account in 30 seconds. No credit card required. Explore the dashboard and browse templates.

2

Launch without provider setup

Your agent launches with a BrainRoad trial key, so you can start chatting right away while keeping the same identity and memory from day one.

3

Choose a template

Pick from 4 pre-configured agents: email assistant, lead responder, content creator, or general assistant.

4

Follow the wizard

Connect your messaging channels, set your preferences, and add your own Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google key later if you want direct control over model spend without redoing setup.

Launch Your Agent — Free

No credit card. Takes 30 seconds.

Is this right for you

Who This Is For

Honest answer: maybe not. And that's fine.

BrainRoad is for you if:

  • You want a Business Brain your AI helper can use, not a tool you have to re-prompt every day
  • You need memory continuity across conversations, channels, and follow-up work
  • You want approvals, visibility, and operator control over what the agent does
  • You value isolated runtime boundaries and durable context for real operational work

This is NOT for you if:

  • You want raw infrastructure ownership more than an employee operating layer — self-host instead
  • You need a platform for 500+ users — we serve individuals and small teams
  • You only need AI for occasional chat — ChatGPT is simpler for that

Frequently Asked Questions

What is an AI agent platform?

An AI agent platform is infrastructure for running AI helpers with storage, tools, security boundaries, and controls. BrainRoad keeps that platform layer, but the buyer-facing value starts with the private Business Brain your helper works from: files, notes, customer history, templates, rules, and review history.

How is an AI agent platform different from ChatGPT or Claude?

ChatGPT and Claude are conversational AI tools you visit when you need help. An AI agent platform hosts longer-running helper runtimes with persistent storage, security isolation, and connected tools. BrainRoad adds the business context layer so those helpers draft from your actual files, templates, and rules.

What should I look for when choosing an AI agent platform?

Look for the parts that affect real work: business context that persists, review before external action, security isolation, clear API-key ownership, guided setup, connected channels when you need them, and transparent pricing. A platform without useful context is still just another place to run a generic agent.

How much does an AI agent platform cost?

Most AI agent platforms charge $0-50/month for the platform itself, plus your own API key costs (typically $5-20/month for moderate use). BrainRoad offers a free tier to explore, with Pro at $29/month for full access. You bring your own API key, so you pay only for what your agent actually uses. BrainRoad does not add markup on AI model calls.

Learn more

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AI Agent Platform · 10 min

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AI Agent Platform · 9 min

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AI Agent Platform · 2 min

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Every hour you spend managing infrastructure is an hour your agent could be handling email, leads, and scheduling.

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