Best for founders, solo builders and small agencies who want drafts of code, posts, invoices and contracts prepared for them while keeping the final decision. It replaces juggling separate chat assistants, not a human lawyer or accountant. The vendor names the Coder its best fit today, and public launch is set for 1 November 2026, so expect alpha gaps.
What changed
- · Release Free alpha opens to the waitlist in daily invitation waves source
StellarFirm is an AI assistant platform from Astro Code L.P. of Athens that runs 15 documented roles, including Coder, Product owner, Marketing, Accountant and Legal, as one team managed by a single person acting as CEO. Each assistant works in its own private cloud workspace, and any step that sends, merges, deploys or charges waits for explicit approval.
Maker: Astro Code L.P. · Autonomy: semi autonomous · Maturity: ALPHA
About StellarFirm
StellarFirm is a team of AI assistants for founders, small teams and agencies, made by Astro Code L.P. in Athens, Greece. The co-founders are Vasilis Drosatos and Nikos Benakis, and the vendor says its team previously built the AI legal assistant behind Dikaio.ai and Legitima.ai. It works as a semi-autonomous agent rather than a chat window: you type a goal, a CEO assistant writes a brief and routes it, and the right assistant carries the work out in its own workspace, passing parts to other assistants when a job needs more than one role.
Each assistant has a job title, such as Coder, Product owner, Marketing, Accountant, Legal, Sales, Executive assistant, Support or Recruiting, and works on a private computer of its own. The Coder is the role the vendor calls its best fit today. For coding alone, the closest comparisons on this site are Claude Code, which is Anthropic's own agent, and OpenHands, which can be self-hosted; the free, MIT-licensed options are OpenClaw or Agent Zero. Browse the coding agents and general agents lists for more, or read the guides to the best AI agents for business ops, the best AI assistant for small business and the best AI coding assistants.
Access is by waitlist invitation. It runs in the browser, where assistants work on computers StellarFirm hosts, and as a desktop app for Mac (Intel and Apple silicon) and Windows. You can hand work over from the StellarFirm chat, Slack, Telegram, Discord or Microsoft Teams, and more than 80 integration guides cover code hosts, mail, calendars, issue trackers, files, payments and analytics. Examples include read-only Notion and Asana connectors, plus Canva and HeyGen for Marketing, where each new design or video waits for your Approve; the guide on what agents do without asking explains why that gate matters.
StellarFirm is in alpha. The vendor's roadmap runs invitation waves from 14 to 27 October 2026 and sets public launch for 1 November 2026, with native Android and iOS apps, a Marketplace of expert teams and multi-person organizations all listed as later work. Its own docs still mark some features as not open yet, so treat it as an early product.
Pricing
Plan prices are not published, and the vendor lists the alpha as free. Prepaid credit packs are shown without prices. A paid plan is described as adding the premium models and letting you use your own keys. If a free self-hosted option matters more, see [OpenClaw](/hub/agents/openclaw).
Key Features
- CEO routing: A CEO assistant reads each goal, writes a brief and hands it to the right role, or you send work straight to one by naming it at the start of a message, such as Coder.
- Private workspaces: Each assistant gets its own computer, and the Coder's carries Git, Node.js, Python and a browser, with outbound network access limited to an allowlist.
- Coder pull-request flow: The Coder works in a repository you connect from GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket, runs the tests and drafts a pull request, and you can run several Coders side by side, each with its own repository and login.
- House rules and auto-approve: Standing approval rules and auto-approve switches, all off until you turn them on, decide which kinds of step may run unasked, and a spend budget stops work when it is reached.
- Routines and loops: Routines repeat work on a schedule or until a goal is met, and a loop does not start its next run while the previous one is still waiting for your decision.
- Documented connectors: Connectors such as Gmail, Google Calendar, Linear, Stripe, Sentry and PostHog list what each assistant may read on its own, and the Stripe connector reads customers, subscriptions and charges only.
- Public API and MCP server: A public OpenAPI 3.1 description and an MCP server at stellarfirm.ai/mcp expose five read-only tools, including get_stellarfirm_overview and search_docs, with no sign-in.
- Editable memory: Assistants remember facts about you and your company, and the Memory screen in Settings lets you edit, delete or clear every remembered item.
Strengths
- The docs publish a table of which steps ask for approval and which run on their own, so a new user can predict behaviour before connecting a repository.
- One account covers code, marketing, finance, legal and support drafts, which spares a solo founder from stitching together a separate assistant for each job.
- Every docs and blog page is also served as Markdown, alongside llms.txt and an OpenAPI file, which makes the product easy for other agents and answer engines to read accurately.
Weaknesses
- Access is by waitlist invitation only and self-service sign-up is closed, so a team cannot try it today without an invite.
- No independent reviews or benchmark scores were found, and the vendor publishes no plan prices, so output quality and cost per job cannot be checked before signing in.
- The language models behind each assistant are not named, which matters for teams that must know where prompts and code are processed.
- The Astro Code site and the StellarFirm site describe the product differently: Astro Code mentions a one-time licence, a shorter trial and the Coder as the only role available, while StellarFirm describes credits and lists every role as available on the web today. Check the live product before relying on either.
- No funding, team size or founding year was found in the vendor's public pages or in search results, so continuity beyond the alpha cannot be judged.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does StellarFirm cost in 2026?
StellarFirm publishes no plan prices yet. Its pricing section says plans will be posted when they open, the alpha is free, and prepaid credit packs of 1,000, 5,000 and 20,000 credits are listed. Assistants spend credits as they work, and each answer shows the credits it used. The vendor's own agent instructions tell assistants not to quote a price, so confirm on the live site before budgeting.
Can you use StellarFirm without paying?
Yes, with limits. New accounts start with free credits, and the first 14 days are a full trial with the premium models open. After the trial the account stays on a free plan that keeps working on the open models, while premium models, your own model keys and coding on your own subscription need a paid plan. When credits run out, work stops cleanly and asks what to do instead of leaving a half-finished change.
What are the best alternatives to StellarFirm?
For coding, [Claude Code](/hub/agents/claude-code) is the choice when you only need one vendor's agent, while [OpenHands](/hub/agents/openhands) suits teams that want to self-host. Free, MIT-licensed agents you run yourself include [Agent Zero](/hub/agents/agent-zero) as well as [OpenClaw](/hub/agents/openclaw). StellarFirm is the pick when you want hosted, named roles beyond coding under one approval screen.
What separates StellarFirm from OpenHands?
OpenHands is open source, can be self-hosted and runs on GPT, Claude, Gemini, GLM, Qwen, DeepSeek or local models. StellarFirm is proprietary and hosted, does not name its models, and spreads work over roles such as Marketing, Accountant and Legal. For pure coding with model control, OpenHands is the safer pick today because it is generally available while StellarFirm is still in alpha.
How do you set up StellarFirm?
Join the waitlist at stellarfirm.ai and wait for the invitation email, because self-service sign-up is not open. After signing in on the web or in the desktop app, connect a repository token with the narrowest permissions, ideally on a test repository first. Give the Coder one small goal, read the diff in Jobs and approve the pull request.
Top Alternatives
- OpenHands: OpenHands fits teams that need an open-source coding agent they can self-host with their own choice of model; StellarFirm fits teams that want the coding work inside a wider set of approval-gated business roles.
- Claude Code: Claude Code is the narrower tool for developers who live in terminal, IDE, web and Slack with Anthropic's own agent; StellarFirm is the wider one, adding marketing, finance and legal drafts to a single approval inbox.
- OpenClaw: OpenClaw costs nothing under its MIT licence and runs on your own server with any model; StellarFirm trades that freedom for hosted workspaces and named roles with no infrastructure to maintain.
- Agent Zero: Agent Zero gives you a free, MIT-licensed agent with its own Linux desktop in Docker; StellarFirm suits you better when approval gates and business roles outweigh self-hosting.