We think you should own the software that runs your business.
Excellent is a local-first business operating system, run by AI agents. It exists because the tools companies depend on every day shouldn't depend on someone else's cloud — or someone else's permission.
For two decades the deal has been the same: move your customers, your hiring, your documents, and your day-to-day work onto a vendor's servers, and pay per seat for the privilege of reaching your own data through their interface.
AI changes what's possible. A capable agent can run the repetitive parts of an operation end-to-end — but only if it can reach the whole operation, and only if you can trust what it does. That's hard when your data is scattered across a dozen clouds you don't control.
So we built the other thing. Excellent puts a full suite of business apps on your own machine, on one shared data layer, with AI agents that do the work under a gate that keeps them honest. It's the back office, reimagined for the agent era — and it's yours.
What we believe
Your data is not the product
The defining choice of the SaaS era was to put your data on someone else's computer and rent it back to you. Excellent makes the opposite choice: the database is a file on your machine. We can't sell it, lose it, or hold it hostage, because we never have it.
Software should operate itself
The point of AI isn't a chat box in the corner of an app. It's agents that actually do the work — claiming tasks, moving deals, screening candidates — while you supervise. We design for autonomous operation first, and a human-friendly UI on top of it.
Autonomy needs accountability
Letting agents act is only safe if their work is checked. That's why a ship/verify gate is built into the core: every change is claimed, evidenced, and signed off by a different party. Trust comes from the protocol, not from hoping the model behaved.
One operation, one source of truth
A customer, a candidate, and a contact are often the same person. Excellent keeps them as one canonical record shared across every app, so your back office is coherent instead of a pile of disconnected tools.
Who's building this
A small team, building in public.
Excellent is built by a small team led by the founder — a longtime operator who has shipped software products in newsroom, research, and small-business contexts. We work openly: the architecture, the agent protocol, and the MCP server are documented and inspectable.
If you want to talk to a human before you join the waitlist, email us directly — every reply comes from a real person on the team.
Be part of the early group.
We're onboarding early users now. Join the waitlist to get access and help shape where Excellent goes.