Introduction

Welcome to the Company Brain Plugin — the layer of erxes where your workspace gains AI assistants and a social media pipeline, side by side with the Content Plugin you may already use.

Company Brain ships three modules from a single plugin:

OpenClaw Assistant — a dedicated AI assistant with its own isolated runtime, connected to the model provider of your choice.
Hermes Agent — a second, fully isolated agent runtime with persistent storage, erxes workspace tools, and a shared skill registry.
Social / Postiz — a connected social media workspace where your team drafts, reviews, schedules, and publishes content.

What is Company Brain?

Company Brain is the umbrella name for the plugin's surfaces inside erxes. It is where a workspace creates dedicated AI assistants, connects a model provider, shares assistant access with team members, and connects assistants to Discord. Postiz adds a social publishing surface governed by its own erxes access model.

Company Brain is not a single chatbot bolted onto erxes. Each assistant gets its own isolated runtime that erxes provisions for you, and Postiz gets its own workspace provisioned through the Postiz gateway. Access, billing, and runtime isolation are all handled by the plugin.

What are the three modules for?

OpenClaw Assistant

OpenClaw is a general-purpose assistant runtime for day-to-day company work: answering questions with your providers, running tools, and optional Discord presence.

Create multiple assistants, each with its own provider and model.
Connect with a provider API key or a provider subscription plan.
Invite team members to an assistant and open the runtime from the browser.
Connect the assistant to a Discord server and channel.
Transfer an assistant between erxes SaaS organizations without losing its runtime or its provider connection.

Hermes Agent

Hermes is a second assistant runtime kind, separate from OpenClaw. Choose Hermes when you want:

A per-assistant isolated namespace with persistent storage — credentials and workspace state survive restarts.
An embedded WebUI reached through a short-lived, backend-minted login URL (never a raw password in the browser).
Optional erxes workspace tools: after an OAuth approval, the assistant can search and call only the erxes capabilities your permissions allow.
The shared skill pot: publish community skills for your organization or use verified skills promoted by erxes.
Discord binding with the same official erxes AI Assistant bot as OpenClaw, with assistant- and runtime-scoped channel bindings.

Postiz is the social media module. It is provisioned differently: instead of a runtime per assistant, your tenant gets a workspace on a shared, managed Postiz installation.

The erxes owner connects the workspace and selects the initial Postiz Admin from your active erxes users.
Admins invite teammates as Postiz Admins or Members.
Members draft, review, and schedule social content in Postiz.
Optionally, the erxes CMS can hand approved content to Postiz through a signed server-to-server bridge (disabled by default).

What Company Brain is not

It is not a single sign-on service. Postiz accounts and Hermes/OpenClaw runtime logins are separate from erxes authentication.
It is not automatic access to every erxes module. An assistant can only act through explicitly approved tools and permissions.
It is not an unmanaged BYO-key chat. Runtimes are provisioned and monitored by the plugin; providers are connected through managed flows.

Who this guide is for

Workspace owners creating assistants, connecting providers, selecting the initial Postiz Admin, and managing access.
Team members who are invited to an assistant or the social workspace.
Developers and operators deploying the plugin on erxes SaaS or an enterprise installation, including the Kubernetes topology.

How to read these docs

Choose the section for your role in the sidebar. Introduction stays outside these sections so everyone can start with the same overview.

For Workspace Owners and Teams

Start with Getting started, then follow the guide for your module:

OpenClaw Assistant — create an assistant, connect a provider, invite members, and connect Discord.
Hermes Agent — use the isolated runtime, connect workspace tools, and manage the assistant.
Social / Postiz — set up your workspace, manage team access, and prepare social content.

For Developers

Read How it works for plugin boundaries, provisioning flows, tenant isolation, and the CMS integration. For a local environment, continue to Setup and Kubernetes.

For Administrators and Operators

Use Setup and Kubernetes for prerequisites, configuration, deployment order, and smoke checks. Keep Access and troubleshooting nearby for provisioning, provider, quota, and workspace access issues.