Persistent memory
Conversations, decisions and preferences survive the session. Long-term memory is distilled from real work, not a transcript dump.
Olano Core
The model writes the words. Everything that makes an agent useful at work - remembering, connecting, acting, and knowing when to stop and ask - is the platform around it.
The Olano platform
Most agent products focus on the next task. Olano is built for the operating life of an AI system: doing today's work, keeping what it learns, and proposing what should improve next - on infrastructure we build and operate ourselves.
Powered by Olano Core · improved by Olano Cortex.
In motion
Two unedited screen recordings from a running deployment - no narration, no cuts.
Olano Core
Not a prompt box. A runtime that gives every agent a memory, a toolbelt, a schedule, a way to reach your people, and a boundary it will not cross.
Conversations, decisions and preferences survive the session. Long-term memory is distilled from real work, not a transcript dump.
Upload price lists, policies, SOPs and product specs. Answers come from your material, with the source attached.
Show it a procedure and it runs the same way every time. 20 skills ship built in, and Cortex drafts new ones from work it repeats.
CRM, calendars, finance, files, browsers, databases, payments, marketing - across 75+ built-in integrations.
A library of 200+ ready-made Model Context Protocol servers plus any custom server - with OAuth, health checks and automatic reconnection.
WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, email, SMS, Signal, Matrix, Feishu, WeCom, WeChat, DingTalk and inbound webhooks - one agent on all of them.
Cron-style tasks, recurring checks and monitoring that bring you the result instead of waiting to be asked.
Agents and people file, assign, comment on and close the same work items - with an append-only audit log and hybrid search.
Agents message their manager, their reports and approved peers, and hand specialist work to focused subagents.
From observe-only to autonomous, per agent and per category. Outbound actions wait for a human until you say otherwise.
Connector tokens and API keys are encrypted and kept out of prompts, files and the model's reach.
Customers write in the language they are comfortable in; the agent answers in kind and escalates with the thread intact.
Multi-user agents
Put an agent on your business WhatsApp and it serves everyone who writes to it - and it remembers each of them separately. Priya's order history is hers; Marcus never sees it, and neither does anyone who asks nicely.
Built to compound
What makes an agent yours - its memory, your documents, the procedures you taught it, who it works with, what it may do - lives in the platform. Change the model underneath and all of it stays exactly where it is.
Beyond an assistant
These are shipped features of the platform, not a roadmap.
Connect an agent to your own Telegram Business account and it handles the messages people send you. It can brief you and draft a reply for your approval, or - if you allow it - answer directly on your behalf, with a human-paced delay instead of an instant robotic reply.
Turn an agent into a product: give new users a free trial, then take recurring subscriptions through your own Stripe account or Telegram Stars. The paywall runs before the model does, so a lapsed subscriber cannot talk their way past it.
Give your staff their own logins, and control which agents each person can see and use. Owners, admins and members - with every action attributed to the human or agent that took it.
Deploy on Olano Cloud and build your first agent in the dashboard, or read the manual first.
Where it fits
Both are good at what they are for. Neither runs the recurring work of a business on the channels your customers already use.
| Capability | General AI assistant | Chatbot builder | Olano |
|---|---|---|---|
| Answers on your customers’ channels | No.you go to it | Yes.that is the point | Yes.WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, email, SMS and more |
| Remembers your business between sessions | Partial.personal memory, one account | No.scripted flows | Yes.memory, your documents, taught skills |
| Takes action in your systems | Partial.some connectors | Partial.handoffs and forms | Yes.450+ tools, with approval gates |
| Works while nobody is watching | Partial.some scheduled tasks | No.waits to be messaged | Yes.schedules, monitoring, proactive reports |
| Improves itself from the work it did | No.same tomorrow | No.you edit the flow | Yes.Cortex proposes, you approve |
| Runs in an environment that is yours | No.shared SaaS | No.shared SaaS | Yes.your own isolated deployment |
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If a general assistant already covers what you need, use it — we say so in the full comparison. Olano earns its keep when the work is recurring, arrives on a customer channel, and has to touch your systems.