ZGI

What is ZGI?

ZGI is a source-available agent runtime from a Hangzhou-based team for companies that want AI agents doing real work. Teams build agents in a visual studio, connect them to company files, databases, and models, then publish them as web apps or APIs. Everything can run on your own servers with logs and permissions.

Top Features:

• Agent studio: configure instructions, memory, knowledge, skills, and models for each agent.
• Visual workflows: chain model calls, branches, approvals, and database steps on a canvas.
• Model gateway: route requests across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, and Qwen models.

Use Cases:

• Contract review: screen contracts against approved company knowledge and flag risky clauses.
• Sales follow-up: combine CRM context and customer emails to draft follow-up messages.
• Data questions: let staff query business databases in plain language without SQL.

Who Can Use ZGI?

• IT teams: give the company one governed place to build and run agents.
• Developers: self-host the stack with Docker and add your own skills.
• Operations leaders: automate multi-step processes while keeping approvals and audit trails.

Pricing

• Community edition (free): self-host for personal, research, educational, and internal company use.
• Commercial license (contact sales): required for hosted multi-tenant services, white-label resale, or rebranding.
• Enterprise deployment (contact sales): cloud, private cloud, or on-premise Kubernetes setups through sales.

Pros and Cons

Pros:

• Self-hostable: data, models, and agents stay inside your own company infrastructure.
• All in one: agents, workflows, knowledge, and model routing share one workspace.
• Many models: switch between global and Chinese providers without rebuilding your agents.

Cons:

• Source-available license: hosted resale is restricted and the license is not OSI approved.
• Technical setup: running the full stack needs Docker, PostgreSQL, and Redis knowledge.
• Features still coming: digital workers for email and chat apps remain on the roadmap.

FAQs:

1) Is ZGI free to use?

Yes, the community edition is free for personal, research, and internal company use.

2) Can I host it myself?

Yes, the full stack runs on your own servers with Docker.

3) Which AI models does it support?

It connects to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, Qwen, and other providers.

4) How are agents shared with staff?

Agents can be published as web apps, in an internal app center, or via API.

5) Do I need a commercial license?

Only for hosted multi-tenant services, resale, or removing the official branding.