Open Executive: Developers Build Open-Source AI CEO After Being Fired to Make Room for AI
A CEO reportedly laid off a developer to free up budget for AI tools. In response, that developer and collaborators released Open Executive, an open-source system that simulates an entire company leadership team. The project raises an uncomfortable question for management: if AI can replace engineers, why not executives too? What Happened The origin story behind Open Executive is almost too on-the-nose. A CEO fired a developer, citing plans to "make room for AI" in the organization. Rather than walking away quietly, the developer built something pointed: an open-source virtual executive suite capable of handling the kind of decisions typically reserved for C-level staff. The project, hosted on GitHub under SenteLabsAI, is called Open Executive. It's not a chatbot wrapper or a single assistant — it's structured to mimic an actual leadership team, complete with department-specific reasoning. How the System Works At the core of Open Executive sits an orchestrator...