ORIENTATION / FRONT DOOR
UNIVERSAL PRICE INDEX
THE FREE, PUBLIC SAMPLE
THE TOOL / DOWNLOAD
BUILD UPDATES
THE LIBRARY
THE PERSON / WHO'S BUILDING
WINS / IDEAS / QUESTIONS
THE REAL CHANNELS
THE OPERATION / THE OFFER
Before you download anything, you can read exactly how OpenAgent is built. The teacher repo is the free, public sample — the honest version of the method, open to anyone.
The model is not the agent.
The model is one part. The agent is everything around it — the tools, the memory, the routing, the substrate that holds it together. That distinction is the whole idea, and it's the first thing the repo teaches.
An open-source AI workstation that runs on your machine — built to make smaller, open models actually usable, so you don't need a frontier subscription or a data center to have your own AI. Still being built — the full picture lands here when it's ready to share.
How cost works here, plainly. Three states: computed — a known rate times your usage; free — a local model on your own machine, a real $0.00, not a placeholder; unknown — no verified rate, shown as unknown, never as $0. Every call is recorded in an append-only ledger with its rates frozen at the time, so a later price change never rewrites your history. No black box.
the one person behind all of this
Nate Builds AI is one person — me. No team page, no roadmap theater. I build AI tools in the open, work alongside a couple of AI coworkers, and leave the workshop door open so you can watch it happen.
I didn't come out of a research lab. I came from industrial work — hands-on, physical, the kind of job where you learn to fix the thing in front of you. I taught myself to build, and that same instinct carried over: figure out the system, find what's actually broken, make it work. Now the system is AI, and I'm building it the same way.
Out where people can see it — including the parts that don't work yet. That's why the method itself is public: the teacher repo is the free, honest sample of how OpenAgent is put together. Nothing half-built dressed up as done.
OpenAgent — an AI workstation that runs on your machine, works with any model, and answers to no one but you. Alongside it, a universal, honest price index so nobody has to guess what a model actually costs.
I read every email and every message. Questions, concerns, ideas — send them. The door's open for a reason.
The room is the Discord — that's where the wins, ideas, and questions live. Find me anywhere else below.