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# Introduction

Kaizen is an open-source AI automation agent that runs locally on your machine. Give it a task, and a team of specialized agents collaborates to get it done: researching, browsing, automating workflows, and learning from every run.

## Why Kaizen?

Most AI tools are stateless. They forget everything between sessions and repeat the same mistakes. Kaizen is different:

* **It automates, not just chats.** Kaizen browses the web, fills out forms, calls APIs, runs code, and connects to thousands of apps to complete real tasks end-to-end.
* **It learns.** After every run, insights and learnings are persisted to memory. The more you use it, the better it gets.
* **It's yours.** Runs entirely on your machine. No data leaves your environment except API calls to the model provider you choose.

## What Can Kaizen Do?

### Everyday Automation

| You say...                                                                        | Kaizen does...                                                                                                                           |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| "Take this photo of a recipe and add all the ingredients to my Instacart cart"    | Reads the image, extracts ingredients and quantities, opens Instacart in the browser, searches for each item, and adds them to your cart |
| "Every morning, check Hacker News for AI articles and send me a WhatsApp summary" | Creates a scheduled skill that runs daily, scrapes HN, filters for AI topics, summarizes the top stories, and messages you on WhatsApp   |
| "Find me flights to Tokyo under $800 for next month"                              | Searches multiple travel sites, compares prices, and presents the best options with booking links                                        |

### Business Automation

| You say...                                                                           | Kaizen does...                                                                                                            |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| "Search LinkedIn for senior Python developer jobs and classify them by salary range" | Browses LinkedIn, extracts job listings, classifies by salary band, and generates a structured report                     |
| "Every week, pull our sales data from the CRM and build a performance report"        | Creates a scheduled skill that connects to your CRM via Zapier, pulls the data, generates charts, and delivers the report |
| "Research our top 5 competitors and summarize what they shipped this month"          | Investigates each competitor's blog, changelog, and social media, then produces a competitive intelligence summary        |

### Creative & Technical

| You say...                                        | Kaizen does...                                                                                                                     |
| ------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| "Build me a weather dashboard for my city"        | Researches weather APIs, writes the code, tests it through a quality pipeline with visual review, and delivers a working dashboard |
| "Analyze this CSV and tell me what's interesting" | Reads the data, runs statistical analysis, generates visualizations, and presents findings with insights                           |

{% hint style="info" %}
**A note on AI outputs:** Kaizen is powered by large language models (LLMs), which are non-deterministic by nature. The same task may produce slightly different results each time. For important or sensitive workflows, we recommend reviewing outputs before acting on them.
{% endhint %}

## Key Features

* **Multi-agent pipeline** with specialized agents for routing, planning, executing, and reviewing
* **Skills system** for reusable automations that improve themselves over time
* **Scheduling** to run any skill on a cron schedule
* **Plugins** for custom code (Python, Node.js, TypeScript, Bash, Ruby)
* **Integrations** with WhatsApp, Zapier (8,000+ apps), Brave Search, and browser automation
* **Memory** that persists across sessions and improves with every run
* **Multi-model support** via OpenRouter: Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and more
* **Fully local** with secrets stored in an encrypted vault (AES-256-GCM)