Powerhouse transforms sensitive, document-heavy processes into structured applications. With permissions, approvals, and attributable history built in. Your teams and AI can work together without giving up control of your data.
Critical processes are spread across documents, spreadsheets, inboxes, and legacy systems. Without shared structure and controls, AI lacks the context needed to work reliably.
How Powerhouse works
Powerhouse turns your private processes into AI-ready software that you own. Explore solutions in a Powerhouse sandbox, then choose local, self-hosted, or remote deployment according to your needs.
Receipts
$182.40
Invoices
Claim status
In reviewEmails
Start from the documents, spreadsheets, inboxes, and legacy systems already carrying the work.
You control which users and what systems access your data.
Model the objects, approvals, permissions, exceptions, and data history behind the process.
Non-confidential data only
Use AI to extract, compare, draft, flag, and route work inside the approved workflow boundary.
Batch · 24 documents
Operators approve, reject, or revise important actions with the right context in front of them. Here, an operator approves the batch claim and updates the claim status.
Every source, rule, model output, and human decision remains inspectable as the workflow evolves.
This invoice application is powered by a typed document model. Approval states, identities, calculations, history, and exports are part of the application, not conventions held in a spreadsheet or someone's head.

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Document model
Invoice is one typed document model in the Powerhouse namespace. The schema defines what a valid record looks like, rather than a spreadsheet convention held in someone's head.
Powerhouse turns access, storage, approvals, exports, and history into product surfaces your team can inspect and operate.
Deployment, tooling, and model choices stay with your team. Powerhouse connects to your existing systems instead of asking you to replace them.
Choose local, self-hosted, or managed deployment according to the sensitivity and operational requirements of each workflow.
Powerhouse is the open-source platform for owned operational software. Your team can inspect, extend, and operate the system.
Scope assistance to the model and deployment path that fits the task, then change that choice as needs and policy evolve.
Powerhouse connects to existing systems and turns the valuable workflow into owned software over time.
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