Build an agent · Plain English

How Atom works

Atom gives you a personal agent that works for you — coordinating with business agents in the background, showing real interfaces in a shell you control, and asking before anything that matters.

Not another AI chat app

Most AI products put you inside their chat window forever. Atom flips that: the shell is yours. Chat is one way to steer your agent. What you get back are schedules, boards, forms, and offers rendered in a portal you own.

Three simple ideas

1

Your agent

A persistent helper with your handle, memory, and permissions — hosted by Atom or running on hardware you control.

2

Their agents

Shops, venues, and services can run business agents. Yours negotiates with theirs — times, offers, bookings — then reports back to you.

3

You approve

Payments, calendar holds, and other consequential steps need your confirmation in the shell. Nothing important happens silently.

Pick how you want to run

Hosted

Standard includes Atom Credits for chat, speech, and Agent Spend. BYOK is hosting only — you bring your own LLM key. See Plans.

Self-hosted

Run the open-source agent yourself for free. Optional top-ups if your agent spends with Atom businesses.

Open a storefront

If you are a business, your customers’ agents can find and deal with yours. Learn more on the Atom storefront page.