Matt builds a free, open-source business dashboard with Codex, covering industry news, brand mentions, reminders, audience tracking, newsletters digest and tasks. Optional AI API keys (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Grok, or local LM Studio/Ollama) improve ranking and summaries. It's on GitHub and can be installed via a coding harness.
Control Center
by Matt Wolfe
Free open-source business dashboard by Matt Wolfe that aggregates news, mentions, tasks and newsletters with optional AI.
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Control Center at a glance
- What is Control Center?
- Control Center is an app from Matt Wolfe. Free open-source business dashboard by Matt Wolfe that aggregates news, mentions, tasks and newsletters with optional AI.
- Who makes Control Center?
- Control Center is made by Matt Wolfe.
- Does Control Center work in the EU?
- Available in the EU. Described as a free open-source app installed locally from GitHub, so it has no regional restriction; no explicit EU statement was found, and the licence was not verified. Last verified 14 Nov 2026.
- How much does Control Center cost?
- Open source, open source. Free app per the creator; optional AI features require your own API keys (usage billed by the provider) or a local model.
- Where was Control Center shown?
- In 2 creator videos by Matt Wolfe. Most recently by Matt Wolfe on 26 Aug 2026, at 1:00 in “I Built a FREE App That Runs Your Entire Business”.
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Control Center (also called Wolf Control Tower or Control Tower) is a business dashboard app created by Matt Wolfe, who describes building it with Codex. It brings together industry news, brand mentions, reminders, audience tracking, a newsletter digest and tasks in a single interface.
AI features are optional. Users can supply API keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini or Grok, or point it at a local model through LM Studio or Ollama, to improve ranking and summarisation of incoming items.
According to the creator, it is free and open source, hosted on GitHub, and can be installed with the help of a coding harness (an AI coding agent). No official page was available to verify the repository URL, licence or release date, so those are left unspecified.
- Dashboard for industry news, brand mentions, reminders, audience tracking and tasks
- Newsletter digest
- Optional AI ranking and summaries via OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini or Grok keys
- Supports local models through LM Studio or Ollama
- Installable via a coding harness; code on GitHub
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Creator's custom business dashboard built with Codex, tracking AI news, brand mentions, site traffic and social stats.
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