An Open-Source ‘Company Operating System’ — Ever Gauzy

Picture this: freelancer or small-business owner — you need a CRM tool, a time-tracker, an invoicing tool, three subscriptions, and data that doesn’t talk to each other. What if one open-source project bundled ERP, CRM, HRM, recruitment, and project management — free to self-host? That’s Ever Gauzy.

Five-in-One Business Suite

Ever Gauzy is an open platform packing everything a company needs to operate — ERP (inventory, procurement, orders), CRM, HRM, ATS (recruitment), PM — five systems in one, data unified, interface consistent.

Why the Author Built It

Ever Co. LTD (founder Ruslan Konviser), since 2015, project launched 2019. The vision: ‘fair and transparent ERP/CRM for freelancers, modern studios, and internal teams.’ ‘Fair and transparent’ — breaking ‘business software = big-company privilege.‘

Odoo or This?

Traditional company → Odoo’s mature ecosystem; freelancer/remote team wanting unified time-tracking + business → Ever Gauzy.

Trust Check

Seven years, 27k+ commits, a real company — plus an ecosystem (Ever Teams, Ever Demand, Ever Works). AGPLv3 community edition; nonprofits can apply for free licensing.

Where It’s Headed

Ever Teams (productivity), Ever Gauzy AI, Ever Works (autonomous agents) — running a whole company on open source. Install it, and your company’s OS lives on your server, free.

Install

Tested on macOS 15 (16GB):

docker-compose -f docker-compose.demo.yml up
# open http://localhost:4200 — admin@ever.co / admin

Gotchas: manual build is extremely slow (27k commits — use prebuilt images); change JWT/Express secrets in production; SQLite is demo-only — PostgreSQL 14+ for production.

FAQ

• Q: Really free? A: Community edition free; enterprise licenses separate.
• Q: Heavy? A: Many containers — use demo compose for lightness.
• Q: For my company? A: Freelancer to mid-size; large firms may need commercial support.

Self-host or cloud camp? Comment which — and what you use today.