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Show HN: CoOS – desktop app where an agent builds your CRM/ERP as local plugins

CoOS, a desktop app from German AI lab Pirol, lets an agent build a company's CRM, ERP, and HR systems as local plugins, with a companion CLI for server and headless use. The lab, which researches federated learning and human-agentic interaction, aims to make intelligence abundant and affordable through predictable, observable, and safe AI tools.

read2 min views1 publishedSep 2, 2026

Products that put it to work.

Every company is becoming a software company — but not by hiring developers. Coding agents and business apps are merging into one thing. CoOS is that thing: a desktop app where an agent builds your CRM, ERP, and HR right inside it. Everything is a plugin — and the agent writes them.

The same agent as the desktop app, without the window. It works in the folder you are already in, keeps your memory and skills, and goes where a desktop app cannot — a server over SSH, a nightly job, any machine without a screen.

curl -fsSL https://updates.pirol.ai/cli/install.sh | sh

irm https://updates.pirol.ai/cli/install.ps1 | iex

pirol is a small German AI lab researching human–agentic interaction. We build tools that let people and agents share a desk — predictable, observable and safe. We believe the future holds not one model but many — a swarm of intelligence.

The science and engineering of machine learning are about to accelerate exponentially — making intelligence abundant and affordable. We want to shape that future: AI systems that serve people, improve lives, and shrink the cycle time of innovation from years to days. Our path there starts at the desk — with agents people can trust to do their most sensitive work.

Federated learning. The most valuable data — in companies, labs, and clinics — can never leave the building. So instead of moving data to models, we research how models learn across many places at once: training and adaptation that travel to the data, and let separate organizations build shared intelligence without sharing a single record.

We are a small team — every hire shapes the lab. If you want to build at the edge of agentic AI on sensitive data, we want to hear from you.

Run leading models through the Pirol API — cloud or fully local. Your keys, your infrastructure, zero data exposure. One API for every model you need.

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