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Nautis vs JaneOS1: a partner to talk to or a place to work

JaneOS1 is an AI co-founder that remembers everything across your tools. Nautis is a startup workspace with a Chief of Staff. Compare price and approach.

By Baltej Singh, founder of Nautis · Updated Oct 31, 2026

Summarise

JaneOS1 is the founder product from Haleos, Inc., of Austin, Texas, whose founder and CEO is Andrew Sailer. It isn't Jane.ai, which is a separate product. Haleos also sells AtlasOS1, an edition for organizations and universities, which this page leaves aside except where pricing needs it.

The two products overlap in budget and audience, and the starting prices are the same. They ask for different habits, though. JaneOS1 wants to become a voice in your day. Nautis wants to become the place where the company's records sit. All the JaneOS1 details here come from Haleos's own pages, read on October 31, 2026.

Can you use JaneOS1 today?

Possibly not straight away. The site's main button says Get Early Access, and every Get started button on its pricing page leads to a waitlist at atlas.haleos.com. There is a sign-in page for existing users. The waitlist page returned no readable text when we fetched it, so we can't say how long the wait is or how people get selected.

Nautis has a 14-day trial with no card, starting on the Launch plan. If you need something running this month, that alone may settle it. If you can wait, join the waitlist and use the time to decide whether its working style suits you, which the next section covers. There's also a Startup Program with open applications and rolling review, explained under pricing.

Conversation first or records first

Haleos describes four roles for Jane. Your Strategist knows your market and numbers. Your Confidant is someone to bring doubt to, without judgment. Your Analyst reads your financials, pipeline and metrics. Your Executor drafts, sends, schedules and builds. You can speak to her on iOS, macOS, Android, the web or Slack, and a memory graph lets you explore what she has retained about you and the company. The page also says she watches events from over 100 connectors as they happen, so there is no catching her up.

Nautis has a narrower personality and a wider set of records. The Chief of Staff writes one briefing a day for the organization, and it isn't a personal companion. Commodore, the built-in chat, and the advisors answer questions in context. The modules do the holding: investors in a fundraising CRM, runway in Startup Health, then invoices, expenses, sales leads, data rooms, task boards and employee records.

A practical way to tell which you want: think about the last time you felt stuck. If you wanted someone to think out loud with, nothing in Nautis is designed for that, and JaneOS1 clearly is, though keep a human or two in that conversation as well. If you were stuck because a number or a document was missing, you need the records first.

Same starting price, different units

JaneOS1 and Nautis both start at $49 a month and step up to $99, so people will assume the plans match. They don't. Prices below are as of October 2026, on monthly billing. JaneOS1's page has an annual option, but its annual amounts weren't in the text we could read.

Published plan limits, October 2026. Jane Tokens and Nautis AI credits are different units and shouldn't be compared directly.
Monthly priceJaneOS1Nautis
$49Start: 1 seat, 125M Jane TokensLaunch: 5 members, 1,000 AI credits, 5 routines
$99Grow: 2 seats, 375M Jane Tokens, API with 10,000 callsVoyage: 10 members, 2,000 AI credits, 10 routines
$129No plan at this priceFleet: 25 members, 2,600 AI credits, 15 routines
$199Scale: 5 seats, 1.25B Jane Tokens, API with 50,000 callsNone
Trial7-day trial listed on each plan14-day trial, no card
Above theseAtlasOS1 Enterprise from $2,500 a monthNo startup plan above 25 members

Seats are the biggest gap. A five-person team pays $199 for JaneOS1 Scale and $49 for Nautis Launch. A solo founder doesn't care about that, and may care more about usage. Extra token packages are available on all three JaneOS1 plans, while Nautis credits can be topped up.

The Startup Program changes the sum for some founders. Haleos offers six months of JaneOS1 Start at no cost, then Grow at half price for the next six months, plus founder events and partner perks including Stripe Atlas. You need fewer than 25 employees, a business model and a company email. Agencies, consultancies and one-off projects aren't eligible, and each company may apply once. Nautis has no equivalent published offer, so if you qualify, this is a good reason to apply.

Nautis vs JaneOS1, job by job

Haleos pages and Nautis guides, October 2026.
JobJaneOS1Nautis
Finished documentsRelics: documents, models, decks and dashboards, plus production codeBusiness plans, financial planner, notes, sheets, Docsign
RunwayRunway and financial models, founder metrics calculatorsStartup Health, financial planner, runway calculator
InvestorsFundraising and investor updates. A demo reads your pipeline from AttioInvestor directory with % match, a pipeline CRM, readiness score, deck analysis, data room analytics
CustomersCRM and finance context from connected toolsLeads CRM and Contacts inside the product
AutomationSequences, a recipe catalog, schedule, event and webhook triggersRoutines, 5 to 15 by plan, and outcome workflows
Browser and OfficeJane Browser automation, JaneOS1 Office for Word and ExcelNot in its guides
HiringRecipes such as Hiring Pipeline Velocity, which tracks candidates and posts to SlackJobs and recruitment with a public careers page, employee management
Security statementsAES-256 encryption and named security attestations, per its Startup Program pageNo named certification claimed. Every agent action is audit-logged
MobileiOS and Android appsWhatsApp, where enabled for your workspace

Who decides before something goes out?

JaneOS1's site says you have complete control over what Jane sees, how data flows and what's retained, and its interface shows access levels such as read only and full access. It also describes automations that run by themselves. Its Payroll Automation recipe is summarised as contractor invoices triggering automatic payouts to your accounting software. The pages we read don't describe a default approval queue. If that matters to you, ask how approvals are set up, as you would with any agent tool.

Nautis takes the slower route. Capabilities default to Ask every time, and agents' proposed actions wait in the Approval Center with exact details of what would be sent or changed. An owner or admin can switch a capability to Run without asking, which is logged in AI Activity. Deleting always asks. Someone has to do the reviewing, so it isn't hands-off. The reasoning behind that trade-off is in human-in-the-loop AI agents.

The fortnight before a seed round opens

Imagine a solo technical founder with revenue in Stripe, code in GitHub, a shortlist of investors in a spreadsheet, and a seed round planned in two weeks.

With JaneOS1, once she has access, she connects those tools and talks through the raise on her commute. She asks for a financial model and an investor update, gets them back as Relics, and has Jane draft follow-ups after calls. The value comes quickly because little needs moving, and the conversation covers her doubts as well as the tasks.

With Nautis, she adds investors from the directory with a % match against her profile, moves them along a pipeline, gets a 0 to 100 readiness verdict for the seed stage, uploads her deck for analysis and shares a data room whose Analytics tab shows who opened which file. The 7:00 am briefing then watches fundraising signals alongside runway. It takes more data entry and gives her an organized record that an investor might eventually ask about. Launch limits investor deals, so check the plans before she counts on it for a full round.

Neither replaces meeting people or having a lawyer read the term sheet. If she has only one free evening, she'd get a useful draft faster through conversation, and a more complete raise record through Nautis. See the seed funding guide for the steps either way.

Where JaneOS1 stands out

  • Memory as the product. A browsable memory graph, working and deep memory, and persistent context are central to how Haleos describes it.
  • Voice and platforms. Conversation across phone, desktop, web and Slack is a first-class way in.
  • Building things. Models, decks, dashboards and code from one request, plus Word and Excel add-ins.
  • Open-ended automation. Hundreds of ready-made recipes, by its own count, or a sequence described in conversation.
  • A stated security posture. Its Startup Program page names encryption and an attestation on every plan.
  • Programs beyond startups. Editions for investors, enterprises and universities if your needs change.

Where Nautis stands out, and falls short

Nautis's advantage is that the fundraising, finance, customer and team records exist without connecting anything, with a member price that doesn't climb quickly: 25 people on Fleet for $129. You can also start this week. Where it has been enabled, there's WhatsApp in English, Hindi and Hinglish, and Indian founders pay in rupees.

Its shortfalls are clear too. With a public launch as recent as July 2026, it hasn't gathered many outside reviews. It doesn't present itself as building custom models, dashboards or code from a single request. Credits are capped. Google and Microsoft are the only calendar and email options in Liftoff. And a sparse workspace gives a sparse briefing, because sources with no data are skipped.

Which one suits you?

  • Go for JaneOS1 if you're a solo or two-person company with your data already in connected tools, you like thinking aloud, and you can wait for access.
  • Go for Nautis if you need several people working in one system at a fixed plan price, or a structured fundraising process. The guide to the AI business operating system explains the model.
  • Apply to the Startup Program anyway if you qualify and have time. Six months at no cost is a low-risk way to judge the product for yourself.

FAQ

What is JaneOS1?

JaneOS1 is an AI co-founder from Haleos, Inc. It connects to over 100 tools, keeps a long-term memory of you and your company, takes voice and chat requests, and produces documents, models and automations. It's offered through early access with a waitlist as of October 2026.

How much does JaneOS1 cost?

Its pricing page lists Start at $49, Grow at $99 and Scale at $199 a month, with 1, 2 and 5 seats and a 7-day trial on each, as of October 2026. A Startup Program offers six months of Start at no cost to eligible companies. Annual amounts weren't readable on the page we fetched.

Is JaneOS1 cheaper than Nautis?

They start at the same $49 and $99 monthly prices, but seat counts differ widely. JaneOS1 Start has 1 seat where Nautis Launch has 5 members. For one person it's a matter of preference, and for five people Nautis costs less at list price, unless you qualify for Haleos's Startup Program.

In Nautis vs JaneOS1, which handles approvals better for a cautious founder?

Nautis makes approval the default, with capabilities set to Ask every time and an Approval Center showing exact details. JaneOS1 says you control access and what is retained, but the pages we read don't describe a default approval queue, and one recipe summary describes automatic payouts. Ask Haleos how approvals can be configured.

Disclosure: We make Nautis, so we have a stake in this comparison. It's based on published information, not a scored hands-on test. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we will correct it.

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