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Heywire

An agentic OS I designed and built on my own: a governed surface where agents and people work the same canvas in real time, built so serious automation is affordable for smaller teams.

I started Heywire to do what n8n does, connecting Slack, Gmail, the rest, but with agents instead of rigid, set-in-stone schemas. Within days of my finishing routines, the big labs shipped routines and connectors of their own, so I pivoted up to Workspace: one canvas where agents and humans collaborate toward a goal, with persistent organizational memory underneath and per-task model routing throughout. It's model-agnostic by design and built so cost isn't what locks smaller teams out. My idea and my execution, built AI-first. A working beta today. Above all, my workshop for agentic systems: much of what I learned building it now runs in Oyster and Orca.

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Year
Summer 2026
Role
Creator (solo)
Type
Multi-agent + multi-human canvas
Stage
In beta · web + desktop
One canvas
agents and humans working the same surface
Model-agnostic
per-task routing + cost-decomposition
Beta
live: invite web app + a full desktop build
The Heywire brand plate: the stacked-blocks mark and the heywire wordmark on the brand's charcoal with a soft blue glow.
01The pivot

I built routines with agents, then the labs shipped routines, so I built what they won't.

Heywire started as n8n-with-agents: the same connect-everything automation, but driven by agents instead of rigid schemas. Within days of my finishing routines, the big labs shipped routines and connectors of their own. So I pivoted up, to one canvas where agents and people work the same surface together.

02Workspace

A multiplayer canvas where agents and humans share the work.

Workspace is the surface: agents and teammates collaborating toward a goal, anything from accounting to content, with an organizational memory (Brain) passed into every task, so within weeks it knows how you work and what your company is. The automation is built from agentic nodes: you wire a flow the way you would in n8n or Weavy, but each node has a little intelligence and you can talk to it. You keep full control of how work passes step to step: an agent you can talk to, inside a flow you control. The Studios live inside it: rich-text, content, design, code (desktop, wired to your GitHub) and data. Everything you make is editable by language, by hand, or by an agent. It all becomes context for the next thing. And it comes with you: everyone gets a Wire, one personal agent you reach from your phone that docks into the canvas at your desk, so the work leaves the desktop and your context travels with you.

03The economics

Cost-decomposition is what makes serious automation affordable outside the enterprise.

Run a strong model end-to-end through an API and the bill makes automation a non-starter for anyone without an enterprise budget. So Heywire breaks the work down: a capable planner splits a job into subtasks, cheaper models run the parts, a strong model compiles the result, at a fraction of the cost for the same delivery. The model is the user’s choice per task. The system steers them off under-powering a hard job. It’s model-agnostic by construction. As token economics tighten, that’s exactly what lets a freelancer or an SMB afford AI at all.

Heywire's Connectors screen: 52 integrations across CRM & Sales, Communication, and Productivity, including Apollo.io, Slack, Google Workspace, HubSpot CRM, and WhatsApp Business, each with a real vendor logo and a one-click enable.
04The wedge

Built for the people who'll deliver automation to everyone else.

It’s an output multiplier for freelancers and SMBs, but the launch wedge is the emerging automation-consultancy market: the agencies and operators the late majority will pay to set their AI up for them. Heywire fits because it’s fast to build in (you direct an agent, you don’t write a code schema) and transparent to hand over: share the canvas as a link and the client can see exactly how their automation is wired and approve it. The advanced machinery is packaged to feel simple, human-first, even though it’s heavily AI underneath.

A zoomed view of Heywire's Brain graph centered on one demo entity, with labelled edges out to the people it is linked to, each carrying a relationship count.
05My hands

My idea and my execution, built AI-first and honest about what that means.

Heywire is my idea and my execution, built AI-first: me and the model, together. My hands are on the concept, the architecture, the entire product surface and the orchestration. I challenge every plan the model proposes before it runs, design the build schemas it works to and gate everything to a Grade-A bar with confidence and gap checks throughout. I’m not a career Python engineer and I don’t pretend to be; what I have is a real, working understanding of how the modules talk to each other and why, enough to direct the build, keep it honest and stay in control. My two Oyster co-founders advise on it. They are a sounding board on the thinking. Every shipped line is mine. And every action still runs inside governance: budget caps, approval gates, an audit trail, a staged path to production, because deploying an agent safely is the actual hard part. Your Wire carries that governance out of the app, too: when a job needs your sign-off, it reaches you wherever you are, instead of waiting in a dashboard.

Stage: a real, working beta: an invite-based web app plus a full-power desktop build. I treat Heywire as an exploration rather than a company to raise for. Building a whole agentic OS is how I learned this craft properly. Many of its patterns now run in Oyster and Orca. Judge it by the hard problems solved, not by user counts.

Role

Creator: the idea, the architecture and the build, AI-first. A separate product from Oyster, built end to end on my own. My two Oyster co-founders advise on it. Honest stage: a working beta, judged on the hard problems solved, not traction.