# Nous

> **TL;DR.** Nous is an open-source context graph that merges a company's CRM, outbound, and inbox data — Salesforce, Apollo, Gmail, LinkedIn, Slack — into one identity-resolved account record AI sales agents query through a single [MCP](https://docs.

- **Category:** AI / Developer Tools / Agent Infrastructure
- **Stage:** validating
- **Age:** 58 days
- **Origin date:** 2026-05-19
- **First detected:** 2026-07-16
- **Canonical URL:** https://earlyterms.com/term/nous
- **Sources:** 6 primary URLs

## Definition

Nous is an open-source context graph that merges a company's CRM, outbound, and inbox data — Salesforce, Apollo, Gmail, LinkedIn, Slack — into one identity-resolved account record AI sales agents query through a single [MCP](https://docs.opennous.cloud) call instead of stitching six tools together.

Built by [Bennet Glinder](https://github.com/bennetglinder1)'s NousC, the hosted product shipped its Python SDK on May 19, 2026, then open-sourced the full stack under AGPL-3.0 with a [Show HN launch](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935212) on July 16, positioning Claude Code, Slack, and n8n as read surfaces rather than building another CRM.

## Analogy

Think of Nous as a shared whiteboard for your sales stack — every agent reads and writes the same board instead of keeping private notes.

## Why it's emerging now

Nous open-sourced its GTM context-graph engine under AGPL on July 16, 2026, two months after its Python SDK first shipped May 19 with paying Start/Pro tiers already live. Founder Bennet Glinder pitched it on Hacker News as the layer beneath Claude Code and Slack that lets sales agents share one identity-resolved account record instead of re-querying six tools per session.

## Related terms

- *related:* Hermes Agent
- *related:* Nous Research
- *related:* Model Context Protocol
- *parent:* MCP Server
- *related:* MCP Tool
- *related:* Managed Agents
- *related:* Context Engineering
- *related:* Agent Harness
- *competitor:* Rowboat
- *competitor:* Vault Context
- *competitor:* ZoomInfo GTM.AI
- *related:* Customer Data Platform

## Sources

1. [Nous — GTM data infrastructure for agents (homepage + pricing)](https://www.opennous.cloud/)
2. [Nous docs — MCP connector, self-hosting, architecture](https://docs.opennous.cloud)
3. [NousC/opennous — official GitHub repo, AGPL-3.0](https://github.com/NousC/opennous)
4. [Show HN: Nous – give GTM agents one context graph across your tools](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935212)
5. [opennous · PyPI — official Python SDK, first released May 19, 2026](https://pypi.org/project/opennous/)
6. [ZoomInfo launches GTM.AI, a headless GTM context layer for AI agents](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260601055723/en/ZoomInfo-Launches-GTM.AI-the-Headless-GTM-Context-Layer-to-Ground-Every-AI-Agent-in-Verified-GTM-Data)

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