Product and company

Built for founders who operate more than one product at a time.

CmdBrief gives every product a local workspace for Codex, Claude Code, terminals, tasks, files, browser context, and usage limits—because founder work continues long after the first prompt or commit.

macOSnative beta focus
Claude + Codexfirst-class agent workflows
Multi-productone workspace per product
2025company started
Origin story

The product started with a simple problem: more products than one founder could keep in working memory.

AI agents made building faster, but the surrounding work stayed fragmented. One product may need an approval, another a release check, another launch work, and another a traffic review. CmdBrief is shaped around keeping that portfolio visible without turning the founder into a full-time coordinator.

Why CmdBrief exists

Built from operating real product portfolios

CmdBrief came from building, launching, and growing several products at once while supervising Codex, Claude Code, shells, browser tools, and local dev servers.

Why CmdBrief exists

Designed around founder attention

The product treats needs-action prompts, usage windows, blocked runs, tasks, and session resume as portfolio state instead of details a founder must remember.

Why CmdBrief exists

Practical safety, not theater

Shared workspaces demote auto-run commands, project context stays local, and privileged actions are made visible so builders can review before they ship.

Product principles

CmdBrief is opinionated about founder work.

The early product is narrow on purpose: technical founders on macOS, local product workspaces, terminal-first agents, and the daily work of keeping several products moving.

One window for the portfolio

A workspace per project, split panes where the work happens, and status that rolls up before a missed approval becomes a lost afternoon.

Evidence beside the agent

Git state, command history, files, tasks, and browser context belong next to the session that changed the code.

Native performance matters

CmdBrief is a Rust macOS app with a real terminal underneath because agent work gets heavy, long-lived, and local.

How we build

The first release is a private beta, not a broad platform promise.

CmdBrief is being built in the open enough for users to understand the direction, while keeping the product surface focused until signed macOS builds, onboarding, and feedback loops are ready for real testers.

Current stagePrivate beta waitlist
First platformmacOS
Core workflowsCodex, Claude Code, shell, tasks
What we will not do

No cloud takeover of your code.

CmdBrief is not trying to replace your repository, your terminal agent, or your judgment. It is the local control surface around the work so you can see what happened and decide what ships.

Talk to CmdBrief

Running more products than your current setup can comfortably hold?

Share how you build, launch, market, and review results today, or tell us where switching between products loses momentum.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

CmdBrief is built by a small team of senior engineers and terminal maximalists who use these agents daily while operating real products.

CmdBrief treats agent supervision as an operational problem: show state clearly, keep repositories local, and make permission boundaries visible before a tool can affect real work.

Yes. The most useful feedback right now comes from technical founders running Claude Code or Codex across real product portfolios.