Why Collab
Collab is a collaborative agentic workspace.
From one angle it looks like a WhatsApp where each thread is a full workspace. From another angle it looks like a multiplayer Codex. From a third it looks like a Slack where you can work with anybody, not just folks in your org. And it hints at a new type of social network.
It’s all of those things, and not really any of them, because it’s a workspace for a future that’s very different from today. In that future, the conventional boundaries of orgs, authorship, ownership, and workflows will have been dissolved and redrawn into much stranger shapes.
That future is not very far away. In fact, it’s already here and unevenly distributed.
We’re building Collab because it unlocks enormous creative and productive potential that existing tools prevent. Potential to not only make new and better things, but for people to organize themselves into new and better economic structures.
All interactions on Collab happen in threads. Threads are conversations containing any number of other humans, and each is a complete workspace. Threads are where ideas are swapped, decisions are made, context accumulates, and artifacts are created and remixed. Each is a durable object under the hood, with version control.
Humans get a virtual machine on which their projects, context, and agents live. In each thread of which a human is a member, they have an agent. This agent runs on the human’s virtual machine, while also reading and writing to that thread.
Because you gets a full cloud computer in Collab, your agents can do real work. They can set up the environment, clone repos, write code, test projects. Only you can invoke your agents, but all humans and agents in a thread can view all other agent sessions.
This is the core architecture of Collab. It’s still early, and things will change. But what won’t change is our belief in the need to fundamentally rethink what it means to make things, with others, in the agentic age.
If you share this belief, we’d love to have you on board.
