Cabinet, Inc.
Cabinet develops an open-source, local-first AI knowledge base and workspace: one folder containing a user's or company's notes, files, tasks and AI agents. Its AI teammates can read and write durable Markdown-backed knowledge and run scheduled work on infrastructure the customer controls.
At a Glance
- AI developers
- Developers and technical teams
- Founders and executives
- Sales, marketing, product and engineering teams
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AI Tools by Cabinet, Inc.
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Cabinet
Self Hosted AI Agent Workspace
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Latest News
Cabinet v0.6.0 released; the app gained self-updating installation and future releases moved to cabinet-releases.
Cabinet v0.5.0 shipped Connect Knowledge, a larger integrations catalog, Channels, Telegram remote control, knowledge import, in-app browser and scheduling/editor upgrades.
Cabinet v0.4.4 launched Rooms, internationalization/RTL, Integrations Hub, mobile layout and a major onboarding/tasks rework.
SyntaxGTM published an interview with Hila Shmuel, 'Stop Losing Context in AI Conversations — Meet Cabinet, the Open Source Fix.'
Products & Services
Free, open-source desktop/local product and CLI that combines a Markdown-backed knowledge base, files, tasks, dashboards and AI agents. Runs on the customer's machines or infrastructure with bring-your-own AI accounts. Available for Mac and Windows, with Linux listed as coming.
Managed hosting for one always-on Cabinet, providing browser/phone/laptop access, scheduled agent work, automatic updates, daily backups with seven-day retention and BYOAI or optional Cabinet AI.
Higher-capacity managed hosting with a larger container, 30-day encrypted backups, point-in-time restore, custom domain, faster chat support and region pinning.
Enterprise deployment for teams and regulated industries, with shared workspaces (early access), dedicated infrastructure and data residency, SSO via SAML/OIDC, 99.9% SLA, security-review materials/SOC 2 readiness plan and a dedicated Slack channel.
Market Position
Cabinet positions itself between a knowledge-base/workspace product and an agent runtime: unlike chat-first agent workspaces, it makes an owned, editable file hierarchy the ground truth, so agent work compounds into durable documents, dashboards and Git history. It emphasizes open source, local-first/self-hosted deployment, BYOAI and portability, contrasting with closed SaaS knowledge bases and workflow automation tools such as Notion, Obsidian, Gumloop, Town, Claude Cowork and Buzz. Its differentiation versus Buzz is a knowledge base and live work views rather than a chat/event log; versus Gumloop it is an owned workspace where knowledge is authored rather than a read-only indexed automation layer.
Leadership
Founders
Hila Shmuel
Founder of Cabinet; former Apple Engineering Manager and architect for AI and data infrastructure, where she helped build distributed training and orchestration systems for models deployed to billions of Apple devices. She began coding in 2006, studied computer science, and previously worked in cybersecurity.
Executive Team
Hila Shmuel
Founder
Former Apple Engineering Manager/architect for AI and data infrastructure; previously worked in cybersecurity and has more than 20 years of software-engineering experience.
Founding Story
Hila Shmuel created Cabinet from her own experience managing multiple projects, repositories, marketing work and administrative tools. She wanted a single place, similar to Notion but connected to her projects and able to run Claude Code/AI teams, with agents that could work autonomously on recurring tasks and write their results back into a durable knowledge base. After seeing Andrej Karpathy's knowledge-base discussion at 4 a.m. during a vacation, she shipped the project and bought runcabinet.com rather than waiting another week.
Business Model
Revenue Model
The core self-hosted product is free. Cabinet monetizes optional managed Cabinet Cloud hosting and enterprise deployments; customers separately pay for their own AI provider accounts, while Cabinet AI access can be added for an extra monthly fee.
Pricing Tiers
Complete Cabinet product running on the customer's own machines; bring your own AI accounts; community Discord support.
Managed hosting for one always-on Cabinet; monthly price shown on the pricing page.
Higher capacity, hardened backups, point-in-time restore, custom domain, region pinning and faster support; monthly price shown on the pricing page.
Dedicated infrastructure, data residency, SSO, SLA, security materials and dedicated support.
Optional AI access; customers may instead connect their own OpenAI, Claude or Gemini account.
Target Markets
- AI developers
- Developers and technical teams
- Founders and executives
- Sales, marketing, product and engineering teams
- Operations and finance teams
- Enterprises and regulated industries
- Persistent context and knowledge management for AI developers
- Always-on AI teammates for sales, marketing, engineering, product and operations
- Strategy execution, OKRs, executive briefs, board preparation and investor updates
- Inbox, calendar, meeting and recurring-work automation
- Competitive intelligence, research and daily/weekly reporting
- Managing multiple projects, repositories and client engagements in one workspace