A comprehensive introduction to the IteraOS platform—what it is, how it works, and how to use its AI agents, workflows, and tools to run your business and your life from a single, self-hosted OS.
IteraOS unifies CRM, email, calendar, finances, documents, media, projects, social, landing pages, automations, and AI into one platform. This page is your starting point: an editorial overview of the entire system, with sections you can drill into as we publish detailed how‑to videos, walkthroughs, and feature documentation.
What Is IteraOS?
IteraOS is your business and life OS—a full-stack platform where your data, workflows, and AI agents all live in the same place.
Instead of stitching together a CRM, email client, calendar, accounting tool, document storage, project manager, social media scheduler, landing page builder, and a separate AI assistant, IteraOS gives you:
A unified system of record for contacts, companies, deals, emails, events, transactions, documents, media, and tasks.
A multi-agent intelligence layer (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) over your own emails, documents, projects, transactions, and prior AI conversations.
A tooling layer with ~950 documented API endpoints across ~165 categories, covering CRM, budgets, projects, social, automations, voice memos, landing pages, and more.
The result: agents that can see your world, reason about it, and prepare actions—inside a platform you own and can fork as your business grows.
Why IteraOS Is an Agentic Platform (And Why That Matters)
Most “AI assistants” are glorified chat boxes sitting on top of someone else’s SaaS. They can talk about your work, but they cannot reliably run your workflows.
An agentic platform is different. It combines:
Goal-directed reasoning – the system understands objectives and can break them into steps.
Tool use – agents call real APIs and workflows (updating CRM records, generating boards, processing documents, reconciling ledgers), not just text.
Memory and context – agents retrieve from your actual emails, documents, projects, transactions, and chat history.
Reflection and correction – the system can detect low confidence, enforce policies, stop itself, and surface queues for human approval.
IteraOS is built around that pattern. The intelligence layer is model-agnostic and agents operate directly against the platform’s own database and APIs. Automations are supervised, health checks are built in, and the system is engineered to detect, constrain, and correct errors before they become business actions.
Own the Branch: Self-Hosted, Forkable, Extensible
IteraOS is designed to be owned, not rented.
You can self-host the entire platform.
You can fork the codebase and treat it as a branch you control.
You can wrap your own logic and proprietary agents around the OS using the exposed API surface.
You can evolve the platform as your workflows and business models change—without waiting on vendor roadmaps.
HydraDB, the platform’s knowledge graph and RAG layer, gives IteraOS a form of self-awareness: it indexes routes, tables, capabilities, RAG sources, and agent tools so the system can answer questions about its own structure and expose those capabilities to your custom agents.
This page—/lp/iteraos-documentation—acts as the human-facing counterpart: a structured overview that mirrors the platform’s internal graph and helps you understand how each piece fits together.
How to Use This Documentation Page
This page is your editorial overview of the whole platform. Think of it as a Wikipedia-style introduction organized by the same sections you see in the IteraOS side menu.
Each major section below:
Explains what that part of the OS does.
Highlights how agentic behavior shows up there.
Serves as a hub for detailed “How To” guides, videos, and screen captures that we’ll publish over time.
AI-assisted campaign drafting and personalization using real contact and company history.
Automatic linking of emails, tasks, invoices, and project cards to the right entities.
Agents that can answer questions like “What’s happening with this customer?” by pulling CRM activity, email threads, meetings, invoices, and related projects into a unified view.
Intent classification for inbound messages that can propose CRM updates or task creation, under policy and approval control.
Email is still where most business decisions happen. IteraOS turns your inbox into a governed automation and agentic workflow surface, not just a mailbox.
Core capabilities:
Gmail / IMAP sync with full thread ingestion.
Semantic search over your email using RAG.
AI-drafted replies, tone adjustment, and scheduled sending.
Agentic features:
A supervised email ingestion pipeline that:
Ingests new messages into an automation event log.
Classifies intent (lead, billing, support, etc.).
Applies allowlists, confidence thresholds, and rate limits.
Requires explicit human approval before any mutation.
This is where IteraOS’ autonomous correction shows clearly: agents can stop themselves when confidence is low or policy blocks action, and route items into an approval queue instead of silently changing your data.
IteraOS integrates your calendar so your time becomes part of the operating graph.
Core capabilities:
Google Calendar sync and event ingestion.
Detection of conflicts and overloaded days.
Awareness of recurring patterns and commitments.
Agentic features:
Agents can propose scheduling decisions: where to place tasks, how to spread a week’s workload, and how to align meetings with active projects and campaigns.
Future workflows can include time‑budgeting agents that help you design realistic daily plans based on your capacity and commitments.
Finances & Budgets: Autonomous Reconciliation and Insight
IteraOS brings financial data directly into the OS. You can connect accounts, ingest transactions, define budgets, and reconcile statements—all inside the same platform that powers your CRM and projects.
Core capabilities:
Account and transaction ingestion.
Budget definitions and categories.
Statement OCR and parsing (PDF, scanned documents).
Ledger and reconciliation tools.
Agentic features:
Duplicate detection and merge for ledger entries.
Bulk correction for date anomalies and inconsistent transaction metadata.
Statement mismatch detection between bank statements and internal ledgers.
Spending pattern analysis with AI-assisted explanations.
Health checks monitor ingestion pipelines (e.g., OCR and SQL consistency) so the system can detect and surface issues, making financial data a reliable foundation for agents that advise on spending, cashflow, and planning.
IteraOS includes document and media libraries designed to be AI-readable:
Core capabilities:
Upload documents, PDFs, images, and videos.
Run OCR and parsing on text-heavy files.
Organize assets into galleries and collections.
Process media via internal pipelines (e.g., ffmpeg).
Agentic features:
Vector embedding indexing over personal and group document libraries, enabling RAG over your own SOPs, contracts, notes, and research.
Automatic chunking for large documents so agents can handle long-form content reliably.
RAG over imported external AI histories (e.g., prior ChatGPT or Claude conversations) so your earlier work in other tools can be reused.
When you ask IteraOS for a strategy, analysis, or draft, agents can pull from your actual corpus—documents, prior chats, project data—rather than generic training data.
Admin tools for inspecting routes, health, and data.
Credentials and connectors for major external services (Auth0, Google, Twilio, SendGrid, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and more).
HydraDB, a knowledge graph and RAG layer that indexes the platform’s own capabilities, docs, tables, and agent tools.
This is where forkability becomes real: you can explore the existing API surface, add your own models and tools, and treat IteraOS as the base layer for a bespoke OS tailored to your company.
This page is your starting point for understanding IteraOS as a platform and as an agentic operating system you can own and extend.
Next steps:
Watch the Overview Video – high-level tour of the platform and philosophy.
Follow the Getting Started Guide – installation, basic configuration, and first workflows.
Dive into Feature Guides – CRM, Email, Calendar, Finances, Documents & Media, Social, Projects, AI Writing Assistant, Landing Pages, Automations, Admin & Developer Surface.
As you build out your own documentation, screen captures, and how‑to videos, each button and section here can link to deeper pages, making /lp/iteraos-documentation the hub for your entire IteraOS knowledge library.
Social Media: Publishing Aligned With Your Operations
IteraOS includes a social media composer and scheduler so content lives inside the same OS as your CRM, campaigns, and projects.
Core capabilities:
Agentic features: