Building in Public

Honest thoughts on building an enterprise AI agent platform. No marketing fluff.

🚧 Pinchy is in active development. Features described here represent our roadmap — not current functionality.

Day 15: The Fix-Everything Day

84 commits, 5 PRs merged, 112 files changed. Every bug from yesterday's demo, plus a complete audit log overhaul and in-app error reporting.

Day 14: The Demo That Broke Everything

A live demo, an Anthropic outage, and the most productive bug-finding session in weeks.

Day 13: The Thinking Day

Zero commits. No code. Just thinking about RBAC, knowledge base indexing, and what Pinchy needs next.

Day 12: The Audit Trail Closes

PR #3 merged. Every tool call now leaves a trace. Plus: a marketing experiment that backfired.

Day 11: The Ecosystem Day

Two npm releases, audit trail upgrades, and three calls with people who want to build with us.

Day 10: Context Belongs to People, Not Agents

A data model that felt right at 2 agents broke at 5. Why USER.md moved from agent settings to general settings.

Day 9: Making It Feel Right

31 commits. 128 files. The first PR merge, fun-emoji avatars, and why polish isn't optional.

Day 8: Give Your Agent a Face

11 commits. 72 files. Personality presets, DiceBear avatars, taglines, and the Settings UI that ties it all together.

Day 7: Agents Are People Too

16 commits. A product philosophy, a lobster in a bowtie, and a complete session architecture rewrite.

Day 6: The Personality Layer

26 commits. 5,000 lines. Agent greetings, memory privacy, SBOM pipelines, and the question: what makes an AI agent feel like yours?

Day 5: The Enterprise Gauntlet

77 commits. 15,000 lines of code. Security hardening, audit trails, compliance docs, and a conversation in a gym that changed everything.

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Day 4: From Solo to Team

63 commits. 12,000 lines of code. Multi-user support, invite system, personal agents, custom plugins, E2E tests, and eating our own dog food.

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Day 3: Encryption, Onboarding, and a Trojan Horse

30 commits, 7,600 lines of code. Encrypted API key storage, a full provider setup flow, Docker dev mode, a documentation site — and we shipped the first Node.js client for OpenClaw.

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Day 2: From Zero to Chat in One Day

Yesterday we had a website. Today we have a working app — login, setup wizard, chat UI, WebSocket bridge to OpenClaw, and Docker Compose. 29 commits, ~2,000 lines of code.

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Building Pinchy in Public: Why We're Open-Sourcing an Enterprise AI Agent Platform

It started with an AI agent leaking internal reasoning to a friend via WhatsApp. Now imagine that happening at a company. That's the problem Pinchy solves.

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