Common questions, answered and dated.

OpenEng Labs is an AI research company in Bangalore that builds agentic software on open-source foundations and brings AI automation to enterprises. Its two product lines are OpenEng Engineering, which is five developer apps at openeng.app plus a separate AI engine, and AEL at ael.openeng.ai. A services team adapts open-source AI tooling to enterprise needs.

OpenEng Labs is based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, and its legal name is OpenEng Labs Private Limited. It publishes one mailbox, hello@openeng.ai, rather than a phone line or a street address, and every engagement starts in writing.

No. The OpenEng platform itself is not open source. Its engine runs open-weight (open-source) models such as Llama, Qwen, and Gemma entirely on your machine, and the company builds on and customizes open-source software such as Ollama, ONNX, and MCP for enterprises.

Six: AI automation support, custom AI solutions, open-source and open-weight customization and support, private and on-prem agent platforms (the plans will launch in Q4 2026), agent engineering with AEL (version 0.1 in development; agent features planned), and research collaboration. Every engagement is scoped; there is no published price list.

Email hello@openeng.ai. There is no form: each card on the Contact Us page opens a message with the subject prefilled for services, research collaboration, or press and partnerships. Product questions go to the product hosts instead: docs.openeng.app documents the five OpenEng apps, feedback.openeng.app takes bug reports and feature requests for Terminal, Kubernetes, and Git, and docs.openeng.app/ai documents the AI engine.

No. As of September 25, 2026, AEL 0.1 is in development and has not been released. No installer, binary, tarball, checksum, or signature exists; ael --version prints ael 0.1.0-dev on the development workstation. The status record at ael.openeng.ai/status is updated as acceptance checklist items close.

Only linux-x86_64, and only in development: AEL 0.1 has not been released. Compile, build, and run work there, and the output is a static ELF. On macos-aarch64, ael build writes a format-verified Mach-O image that has not been executed since September 8, 2026; on windows-x86_64, ael build refuses with exit 2. macOS and Windows are next-version scope.

Not yet. agent, node, edge, and hook are reserved keywords that refuse to compile with error P003, and the compiler has no agent runtime, model provider, MCP client, or network code. Typed agents, nodes, edges, and hooks are the planned direction; the status record will report them as they land.

The AEL status record is at ael.openeng.ai/status, and every AEL status claim on this site is checked against it. Its entry of September 19, 2026 reports compiler commit 6f9c44a under contract marker ael-p0/0.1.48, with 22 of 48 acceptance boxes closed and 1,503 tests passing. It is updated as boxes close, and where this site and the record differ, the record is right.

Agent Engineering Language. Agent engineering is the goal the name states, not a current capability: today AEL is a compiled, statically typed language with a first-party Rust compiler that emits native executables for linux-x86_64, and its agent features are planned.