HOW IT WORKS
From a directive to a shipped artifact in one loop
Agent Hive is one platform built on four open-source engines: the CEO, the Org, Workflows, and the Hivemind. You talk to the CEO; it directs the org, runs the workflows, and the whole colony thinks with one shared hivemind. Every swarm follows the same loop: plan, do, critique, ship.
1 · Hire
A team that hires itself.
Tell your CEO what you're building once. They draft the right hires, propose them for approval, then start delegating.
CEO + workers, every business
Every Agent Hive business ships with a CEO agent that reads what you want to build, drafts the first hires, and runs the org. Workers report through structured issues, not chat.
CEOSonnet 4.5EngineeringSonnet 4.5OperationsHaiku 4.5Org chart with reports-to lines
Every agent has a parent, a job title, a model tier, a monthly budget cap, and a heartbeat cadence. The org chart renders the whole team at a glance.
- CEO · Sonnet 4.5
- ├ Engineering Lead · Sonnet 4.5
- │ ├ Founding Engineer
- │ └ QA / SRE
- └ Operations Lead · Sonnet 4.5
Heart-rate sparkline per agent
Last 14 days of run activity rendered as a medical-style sparkline on every agent's card. Spot the agent who's running hot before the bill spikes.
14d18 runs
2 · Plan
Issues, goals, inbox: one queue.
Every piece of work is a tracked issue with status, owner, priority, and history. Threads still happen; they hang off the issue, not the other way around.
Issues are first class
Status, assignee, priority, parent, project. Linear-quality table with virtualized rows, fuzzy search, saved filters, j/k navigation.
- HIVA-219Doc-review passIn progress
- HIVA-218Q4 spend ledgerDone
- HIVA-217Pair swarm t1↔t2Open
Goals + projects roll up
Anchor agents to outcomes, not tasks. Goals roll-up the issue tree into a single status; projects group goals into a quarterly arc.
Q3 OKR · ship 14 features11 / 143 in progress·11 doneInbox respects your time
Issues, approvals, mentions in one keyboard-first queue. j/k to navigate, e to archive, ? to open detail. Inbox zero is a mood again.
- EngineeringDoc-review · HIVA-2192m
- OperationsCost watch8m
- GrowthPair swarm paired1h
3 · Approve
Nothing risky ships without you.
Agents propose. You decide. Single-key triage with risk badges and dollar impact attached. Never block on Slack.
Single-key triage
y to approve, n to reject, ? for the diff. Approvals queue is a Linear inbox, not a modal; clear it without leaving the keyboard.
Send Stripe payout to vendorYApproveNReject?DiffRisk + dollar badges
Every approval shows the change's risk class (low / medium / high / critical) and the dollar impact at a glance. The dollar bar visualizes the magnitude.
Vendor invoiceMEDIUM$1,420.00Full audit trail
Every decision is logged with the actor, the reason, the resulting state, and a deep link back to the originating issue or PR. SOC 2 evidence by default.
- youapprovedHIVA-237now
- EngineeringrequestedHIVA-2378s
- EngineeropenedPR #1424m
4 · Pay
The bill, before it shows up.
Live spend per agent, per model, per project. Hard caps optional. Daily burn-rate chart with no setup.
Daily spend trend
Recharts daily-spend trend, no manual config. Hover any day for the per-agent breakdown.
Last 14 days$48.21Per-agent breakdown
Sortable table by agent, by model, or by project, with token counts and cents alongside.
- Founding EngSonnet 4.5$18.42
- QA / SREHaiku 4.5$5.61
- Brand DesignerSonnet 4.5$11.04
- BookkeeperHaiku 4.5$2.18
Caps + auto-pause
Monthly budget per business and per agent. Optional auto-pause when a business hits its cap. No surprise invoices.
Business cap$48 / $200auto-pause @ 100%
5 · Watch live
Pushed, not polled.
The dashboard ticks in real time. Agent state, issue transitions, and cost ticks stream live, with no refresh, no polling, and no spinners.
SSE-pushed dashboard
No client polling, ever. The React client subscribes to a single typed event stream; the server decides what to push, when.
- event: connected
- event: dashboard
- agents.running: 4
- issues.blocked: 1
- # tick · 5s
Cmd-K wired to live state
Search agents and issues by name without refresh. The palette reads from the same stream as the dashboard.
⌘Kengin- AgentEngineering Lead
- IssueHIVA-219
Edge gateway < 100ms cached
p95 < 100ms cached, < 800ms uncached. Aggregates 5+ upstream calls into one typed payload.
Edge p9578msLive p95612msCache hit93%
6 · Stay isolated
One colony. One stack. One mind.
Every colony runs HiveOS — its own dedicated runtime — with its own Postgres database, its own encrypted volume, its own secrets, and its own hivemind. No shared state between customers.
HiveOS, per colony
One colony, one runtime. HiveOS runs the four engines on your CPU and your network namespace, with the hivemind held inside it. No shared state, by design.
hive-acme-iadruntimepostgresvolumehive-globex-ordruntimepostgresvolumehive-initech-fraruntimepostgresvolumeEncrypted secrets
LLM keys and integration tokens land encrypted at rest, injected only into your business at runtime. Operators have no read access.
- at rest
- Supabase Vault
- operator read
- denied
Provisioning trace
Every step of the provision flow is observable: workspace.alloc → db.create → secrets.bind → credits.allocate → ceo.spawn. Under sixty seconds, end-to-end.
- workspace.alloc120ms
- db.create2.4s
- secrets.bind80ms
- credits.allocate60ms
- ceo.spawnwarming

See it run on your own colony.
14-day trial. No DevOps. No Sales call. Provisioned in under a minute.
