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Zo is an AI computer that lets you create and automate anything with AI. You get a cloud workspace hosted on your own personal server, designed from first principles for human-AI collaboration.
  • Explore – Chat with AI to understand anything. Zo can browse the web, understand and edit your files, and connect to all your apps and services.
  • Automate – Write workflows using English (or any language) for your AI to execute. You can trigger workflows manually, or run them automatically on a schedule.
  • Create – Use AI to create and collaborate on almost anything: documents, images, videos, websites, personal apps, and more.
  • Deploy – Host anything on your own server: from websites, to APIs & databases, to self-hostable services like n8n or VSCode Web. The whole world of computing is your oyster, and Zo can help you set it up.
You can access your Zo Computer: You can talk to your Zo:
  1. In the Zo application
  2. By emailing your Zo’s email
  3. By texting your Zo’s number
You can also ask Zo to email or text you.
Come chat with our team and other users in Discord!

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Basics

Nope! In fact, Zo is specifically designed to enable non-technical people to do more with computers – bridging the gap between experts and beginners.Zo lets you collaborate with AI to build things in this brave new world, where the building blocks are ideas and systems, rather than code and deep technical knowledge.
On Zo, you can choose between all the leading AI models. Zo includes:
  • A large selection of language models – which can use all of Zo’s tools to help you get things done.
  • Built-in models for transcription (converting speech in audio files to text), image generation, and video generation.
We rigorously evaluate models to ensure we offer the best models in each modality (with a preference for providers that are both fast and high-quality).
Zo is infinitely customizable. You can choose from a variety of themes to change the look and feel of your Zo. You can customize your AI with rules, personas, prompts, and automated agents. You can even ask Zo to build custom apps that incorporate your files, programs, and AI.Here’s a quick overview of the Zo application from Anthea, a freediving instructor and Zo user:
Zo supports working with most file formats, including notes, spreadsheets, code, word documents, audio and video files, images, PDFs, and Ebooks.If a file can’t be edited directly in the file browser, you can ask Zo to edit or convert the file in the chat. Because Zo has full access to the computer and can install tools as needed, you may be surprised by what Zo is able to handle.
Yes! Depending on your plan, your Zo server will come with 128GB–1TB of fast disk storage (located on your server), and unlimited network storage.
Yes! We perform regular “snapshots” of your computer, storing the entire state of your computer at a point in time. On the System page, you can restore your computer to any point in time.
In addition to built-in integrations with Notion, Google Calendar, Gmail, and more, Zo can build its own integration with many apps, tools, and services. Zo can research the web to find the best way to integrate any service, write code to build the integration, and walk you through the process of getting developer credentials.Once Zo has built an integration, you can simply tell Zo to use it. This approach enables similar “AI plugin” functionality to MCP, but is much more flexible and powerful.There’s a whole universe of software out there, and with Zo’s help, you can explore and leverage any of it to do practically anything on your Zo Computer. The only limit is your imagination – and your determination.
Zo is free to try, with limits on your computer and AI usage.When you subscribe to a plan, you’ll get an always-on cloud computer and monthly AI credits. Usage beyond your monthly AI credit allotment is charged to you at-cost, using the same rates we pay our underlying AI model providers.Other AI apps mediate your interaction with AI models to fit their subscription economics. We never downgrade performance or route to cheaper providers. Because we charge for usage at-cost, you immediately benefit from AI price drops as AI efficiency improves.
If you’re excited about building on Zo and spreading the word, apply to be a Zo Architect. If you’re accepted, we’ll grant you a discounted plan, bonus AI credits, and cash for referring users to Zo.

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Comparisons

Zo is a fully-featured AI workspace that lets you chat with all the leading AI models alongside your files. It’s much easier to stay organized when using Zo because you can create folders, summarize AI conversations into notes, ask AI to write and run code, and even host websites and services.
Zapier and n8n are automation tools that let you build workflows using a visual, node-based programming interface. n8n is open-source and self-hostable, which means you can run it on your Zo Computer. Our Prompt Library includes a prompt to install n8n.Zo provides an interface for building workflows using natural language – English, or your language of choice. You can create “Prompts” for your Zo by just writing them in plain text, referencing other files, Zo’s tools, and other prompts. Many of the same automations you can build in tools like Zapier or n8n are easy to build in Zo, and the ceiling of what you can accomplish is much higher.
Web-based vibe coding sites like Lovable, Replit, Bolt, and v0 are excellent for building prototype UIs, landing pages, and simple websites. However, these tools are:
  1. Oriented around “projects”. It isn’t easy to share context between multiple projects, or incorporate context from your other files.
  2. Focused on building websites. But the world of programming is much larger than just websites!
  3. Lock you into their “cookie-cutter” way of building software on their platform, which is often more complex than necessary. Many apps and websites can be built using much simpler technologies and less code.
Zo is different from these tools in several ways:
  1. Projects built on Zo can interact with the files and programs on your computer, incorporating context from all your projects. Your personal apps can also interact with your AI using an internal API, enabling you to build custom interfaces for any workflow you can imagine.
  2. Zo sites come with technology choices that are much more simple and minimal than other tools. For example, rather than using a full-fledged database provider, you can simply store data to a file on your server.
  3. Zo is designed to be a general-purpose computing environment, not just a website builder. You can build scripts, automations, data analysis environments, even self-host open-source software… On Zo, the whole world of computing is your oyster.
Zo is a dedicated computer for AI. Giving AI unconstrained access to a dedicated cloud computer is a powerful paradigm. Our approach is safer than giving AI full access to your own computer or your browser, because you have more control over what you are giving your AI access to as you build your AI system.On Zo, your AI has access to its own browser, which you can use to sign into sites you want Zo to access. Zo cannot currently take actions in its browser. We’re evaluating techniques for AI browser use, and plan to add this capability when it is more fast and reliable.
Many Zo users use Zo as a “second-brain”, collecting and collaborating on notes with AI.Zo is more powerful than notetaking-focused apps because it’s a general-purpose computing environment. You can use Zo to create and edit all kinds of files, write and run code, build automations, and even host websites and services.You can easily connect Zo to your Notion or Google Drive using our built-in integrations. For other services that provide a developer API, you can ask Zo to help you build a custom integration.By setting up file syncing, you can access local files on your computer in your Zo workspace. This enables integrating your Zo with your Obsidian notes, or any other app that stores its data locally on your computer.

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Technical

In addition to built-in integrations with Notion, Google Calendar, Gmail, and more, Zo can build its own integration with many apps, tools, and services. Zo can research the web to find the best way to integrate any service, write code to build the integration, and walk you through the process of getting developer credentials.Once Zo has built an integration, you can simply tell Zo to use it. This approach enables similar “AI plugin” functionality to MCP, but is much more flexible and powerful.There’s a whole universe of software out there, and with Zo’s help, you can explore and leverage any of it to do practically anything on your Zo Computer. The only limit is your imagination – and your determination.
Instances of your Zo computer moves around based on capacity. In general placements are in the USA. In the future, we will locate servers as close as we can to your primary physical location.You can learn more about our server specifications on our pricing page.
Zo uses a unique architecture where your data is primarily stored on your own server.We have been very intentional about choosing non-proprietary file formats and open-source technologies for all of the components behind Zo. When possible, we store data and run services on your own server. For example:
  • The Zo application is hosted on your server.
  • The Zo AI agent has its own dedicated workspace on your server, which it uses for memories and work-in-progress.
  • Zo sites use simple, modern web technologies with no vendor lock-in. You can easily deploy sites created with Zo on any other hosting service.