Cognosys
Discontinued — folded into Ottogrid, then acquired by Cohere
Overview
Cognosys was a browser-based autonomous agent that browsed the web and executed research tasks from a goal. It rebranded to Ottogrid in 2024, was acquired by Cohere in 2025, and the standalone product no longer operates.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 11 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
Use cases
What you can produce with Cognosys
- Goal-to-subtask breakdown for autonomous web research (historical)
- Autonomous web browsing and iteration on a task (historical)
- Scheduled recurring research workflows (historical)
- Free tier plus paid plans for higher-capability models (historical)
ASEAN Perspective
Cognosys in Southeast Asia
ASEAN-region availability and pricing notes coming soon. Drop the editorial team a note via /contact/ if you can supply local context (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Thailand/Vietnam).
Cognosys was a cleaner-UI take on the AutoGPT idea: give it a goal, it breaks the goal into subtasks, browses and researches, and returns a report or a scheduled recurring workflow. That was genuinely useful for individuals automating recurring research work back when it launched. None of that is available today under this name. The company rebranded to Ottogrid in October 2024, Ottogrid was acquired by Cohere in May 2025 with its technology folded into Cohere's North enterprise product, and the original cognosys.ai domain now returns an HTTP 402 Payment Required error rather than any working product. This entry should not be indexed or recommended as a live tool — it's a piece of AI-agent history, not something anyone can sign up for. Anyone landing here looking for this kind of research agent should look at Cohere's North or a current alternative instead.
What people say
There isn't a live product to review anymore, so this is a summary of what happened rather than user sentiment on a working tool. Cognosys launched in 2023 out of Vancouver, founded by Sully Omar and Homam Malkawi, as a web-based autonomous agent that took a plain-language goal and worked it through browsing and iteration — an accessible, better-designed cousin to the early AutoGPT wave, with a free tier and paid plans for more capable models and higher usage caps.
In October 2024 the product was deprecated and rebranded to Ottogrid, repositioning around similar autonomous-research capability under new branding. That entity was then acquired by Cohere in May 2025, with Ottogrid's technology absorbed into North, Cohere's enterprise research and knowledge-work product — coverage at the time (Van Tech Journal) described the founders committing to a transition period and continued support for existing users during the handover, with the standalone Ottogrid product ultimately sunset as a separate offering.
As of this check, the original cognosys.ai domain returns an HTTP 402 Payment Required response rather than a working app or even a redirect notice — consistent with a lapsed hosting bill on an abandoned deployment rather than an active service. Third-party AI-tool directories that still list Cognosys (AI Agent Store, AI Agents Directory, Best AI Agents) are working from stale historical descriptions rather than a live product; several 2026 write-ups explicitly flag the site as showing a paused deployment page. There's a separate GitHub organization under the CognosysAI name (now labeled Ottogrid on GitHub) hosting smaller open-source utilities — a browser extension, a search/RAG tool, a PII-redaction library — but none of these constitute the original consumer-facing autonomous-agent product this directory entry describes, and they don't appear to be actively maintained (most recent activity January 2025). None of this activity points to a route back to a live standalone Cognosys product.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
About this listing
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