Can I self-host Business Studio?

No, not today. If self-hosting is a requirement, n8n is the honest answer and we would rather point you there.

Is Business Studio open source?

The SDK and the CLI are published packages you can read and use. The platform itself is not open source today.

Can n8n talk to the board?

Yes — org-scoped API keys and a typed SDK inbound, outbound webhooks the other way.

Comparison

Business Studio vs n8n

Self-hosted workflow automation you own, versus a hosted back-office Claude can run.

n8n is the automation tool you can run on your own server, extend with code, and keep entirely under your control. Business Studio is hosted, opinionated and much narrower — a board with the business on it, connected to Claude.

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Side by side

	n8n	Business Studio
Where it runs	Your infrastructure, if you want it. Source-available and self-hostable.	Hosted by us. There is no self-hosted edition today.
What it is	A workflow engine with code nodes and AI agent nodes.	A workspace with scheduled automations, not a workflow engine.
What survives the run	Executions and whatever your nodes wrote. No business objects of its own.	Cards — tasks, deals, invoices, posts — that persist independently of any run.
Where the AI sits	AI nodes you wire into a workflow.	Claude connects over OAuth and operates the board from your chat.
Setup	Deploy it yourself, or use their cloud; then build each workflow.	One OAuth connection, about two minutes.

Where n8n is stronger

Ownership. You can host it, read the source, extend it with your own code, and never depend on a vendor staying in business — including us. It also has far more nodes than we have integrations, and no per-seat pricing at all if you self-host.

Which one fits

Choose n8n if

you want control of the runtime and the data, and you are comfortable operating it.

Choose Business Studio if

you want none of that, and would rather the business admin simply exist.

Before you sign up

What we don't do yet

You can't connect your own X, LinkedIn or Facebook accounts yet

Publishing to X, LinkedIn and Facebook Pages currently goes through Viite's shared accounts, not accounts you connect yourself. Self-serve connections today: YouTube, Gmail, Notion and Stripe.

Claude is not autonomous here

It does what the six tools do — create, read, update, draft, attach, list. It does not run your business by itself, and publishing always waits for an explicit approval.

We are small

A younger product with fewer integrations than Notion or Zapier. The trade is a back-office Claude can actually operate.

Questions

Can I self-host Business Studio?: No, not today. If self-hosting is a requirement, n8n is the honest answer and we would rather point you there.
Is Business Studio open source?: The SDK and the CLI are published packages you can read and use. The platform itself is not open source today.
Can n8n talk to the board?: Yes — org-scoped API keys and a typed SDK inbound, outbound webhooks the other way.

Give Claude somewhere to put things

Create your workspace, add the connector in Claude.ai, and the next thing Claude drafts will still be there tomorrow.

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Business Studio, compared

Compared against publicly available information in August 2026, and written to describe the other product fairly. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.