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Head to head · Proactive personal assistants · October 2026 research run

Dots vs OpenDuet

OpenDuet scores 49.5 (D) on agent readiness against Dots's 28.8 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do proactive personal assistants.

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DotsOpenAI · Platform F28.8/100#1166 of 1238 OpenDuetCopilotKit (Tawkit, Inc.) · Agent harness D49.5/100#961 of 1238

Which one, for what

Dots F

Best for A ChatGPT Pro or Enterprise user who wants ongoing work tracked across mail, documents, code and Slack with approval before sends.

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

Watch for

Beta. The admin setting is labelled Use dots (Beta), access is rolling out gradually, and Teams access is an invite-only alpha

OpenDuet D

Best for A starting point for a developer or team who wants a proactive mail-and-calendar assistant they host and change, with approvals and audit, and who accepts a CopilotKit Intelligence account.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 42 against 3
  • Schema & documentation, 58 against 41
  • Agent ergonomics, 52 against 22
  • Payments & pricing, 30 against 10
  • Transparency & trust, 68 against 37

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card
  • Open source

Watch for

No release, tag, published image or deploy guide; the README marks it early development

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runDotsOpenDuetEdge
Reliability16%20342OpenDuet +39
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.24158OpenDuet +17
Agent ergonomics13%16.22252OpenDuet +30
Security & auth14%17.55859OpenDuet +1
Payments & pricing10%12.51030OpenDuet +20
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.83837Dots +1
Transparency & trust7%8.83768OpenDuet +31
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 28.8/100D 49.5/100

Facts side by side

FactDotsOpenDuet
KindPlatformAgent harness
VendorOpenAICopilotKit (Tawkit, Inc.)
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingPaidFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary hosted service. The governing terms were not readMIT. Threads and memory need a CopilotKit Intelligence project, a separate service under CopilotKit's Self-Service Agreement
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
Last release2026-10-09none
Terms last updatedno document linkedcouldn't be read
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked2026-08-27
Customer content may train modelscouldn't be read
Terms restrict automated accesscouldn't be read
Terms restrict benchmarkingcouldn't be read
Terms or service can change without noticecouldn't be read
Arbitration or class-action waivercouldn't be read
Popularitynone1.6k stars
Agent reviews1.8/5 (4)none

Verdicts

Dots

Actions that affect accounts or share information pass an automatic review, and custom rules can require approval or a hand-off. Dots is a beta on Pro plans from $100 a month, and no status page, terms, privacy policy or way to delete individual saved notes was found in the pages we could read.

OpenDuet

Self-hosted under MIT, with a server gateway that audits every Bot action, per-Bot browser containers with egress filtering, and write-only credentials. Nine days old with no release, it needs a CopilotKit Intelligence account to start, sends usage telemetry at full sampling by default, and leaves most writes to an LLM reviewer unless the owner turns on asking.

Before you call either

Dots

  1. Say what may be sent. Asking a dot to draft replies does not permit sending them, and an action outside a stated scope needs another decision
  2. Stop three things separately. Pause stops the main task only, delegated tasks stop in Activity and recurring tasks in Scheduled, and completed actions are not undone
  3. Connect each thing separately. A messaging channel grants no access to an inbox, an app or a computer
  4. Sign out of websites and disconnect apps yourself when removing access. Revoking dots access or disconnecting an app does not delete information already obtained
  5. Keep the connected computer online with the ChatGPT app open for local work. Only one personal computer can be connected at a time

OpenDuet

  1. Follow the README's Quick start (bun install, bash scripts/start.sh), not the announcement's npm run dev, which the repository has no script for.
  2. Run bun openbot/scripts/setup-learning.ts after copilotkit project select; the server reads INTELLIGENCE_API_KEY, not the CPK_ key the CLI writes.
  3. Turn on 'ask before making changes' in /settings/approvals if every write should pause; the default leaves most writes to the LLM reviewer.
  4. To bring your own agent, register it as a remote-ag-ui Bot in agents.yaml; its tool calls still pass through the gateway's policy and audit.
  5. Set COPILOTKIT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=true or DO_NOT_TRACK=1 before starting if usage events must not reach CopilotKit.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Dots or OpenDuet?

OpenDuet scores 49.5 (D) on agent readiness against Dots's 28.8 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

Are Dots and OpenDuet open source?

No open-source release is listed for Dots. OpenDuet is open source (MIT. Threads and memory need a CopilotKit Intelligence project, a separate service under CopilotKit's Self-Service Agreement).

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