About
A quieter way to remember things together.
Teals.ai is the home of Octopedia, an open-source assistant for teams that would rather think than file paperwork.
Every team builds up a memory: who said what, which decision was made and why, the introduction that turned into a hire. Most of that memory lives in chat history, in someone’s head, or nowhere at all. The usual fix is a wiki, and the usual outcome is a wiki that nobody keeps current.
Octopedia takes a different route. It listens in the channels your team already uses and writes the record for you, as plain markdown in a git repository. The knowledge base stays current because keeping it current is no longer a chore anyone has to remember to do.
We kept the name short and the design quiet on purpose. Calm, quick when it needs to be, and out of the way the rest of the time. That is roughly the temperament we want the software to have.
Principles
What we will not trade away.
Plain text, always
Knowledge written in markdown stays readable for decades. We treat the open files as the product, not as an escape hatch from it.
Calm by default
Software should ask for attention rarely and earn it every time. No streaks, no badges, no notifications that did not need to be sent.
You own the vault
Your team’s memory lives in a git repository you control. Leaving is a clone away, which is the surest sign you can trust us to stay.
Structure that bends
A schema should guide a thought into place, never block it at the door. Octopedia files what it can and flags the rest, quietly.
Who it is for
Built for teams that value their own time.
Founding teams
Keep the decisions, intros, and context straight while everything else is moving quickly.
Distributed teams
Give people in different time zones one shared, searchable memory instead of scattered threads.
Builders and tinkerers
Self-host the whole stack, read the source, and bend the schema to the shape of your work.
Get started
Come build the calm version with us.
Octopedia is developed in the open. Read the code, open an issue, or start a vault for your own team today.