In simple English
Macro puts your email, team chat, documents, tasks, calls, and customer records into a single program. You do not need to jump between five different apps to get your work done. Every piece of information links directly to every other piece. Your team and your artificial intelligence helpers share the same memory and see the exact same context. The project costs nothing to download and run yourself, but self-hosting a large multi-service system takes significant server setup and ongoing administration work.
What it is
Macro is an open-source, all-in-one workspace built with a SolidJS (a library for building fast user interfaces) frontend and a Rust (a programming language known for speed and safety) backend. It connects chat, mail, docs, task lists, and AI agents through a shared bidirectional database.
What it is good for
Startup founders and small teams who want to stop paying for and juggling separate tools like Slack, Linear, Notion, and HubSpot.
- Brings team chat, email, docs, tasks, and CRM into one shared application.
- Includes built-in artificial intelligence agents that can read team memory and perform tasks.
- Fully open source under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3.0, with no locked-down enterprise features.
- Very difficult setup for non-programmers, as it requires running numerous microservices and databases.
- Demands a powerful server with substantial memory and CPU to run the entire backend stack locally.
- Involves heavy ongoing maintenance because it combines so many complex systems into one codebase.
Slack, Linear, Notion, and HubSpot
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git clone https://github.com/macro-inc/macro.git cd macro docker compose up