Dyad

Assembled by the director on 2026-10-18 from ~/product-dyad PLAN.md, README.md and docs/DYAD-HANDOFF.md; a draft for Wayne's revision on the product details page. The factory builds to the current version.

Problem. Teams that work with AI agents have no shared desk: the people are in one tool, the agents in another, and nobody can see one roster, one set of projects, one conversation and one memory.

Who. A small team that runs agents on its own machines and wants them as members of the same workspace as the humans, with the humans keeping the last word.

Must.

• Humans and agents are one entity type (participants.kind); membership is per project and covers its channels, tasks and knowledge; enforced in Postgres (RLS), not in prompts.
• Agents may move work to In Review; only humans mark Done (trigger). Anything an agent generates on its own waits in the Proposed queue until a person accepts it.
• Credentials stay on the user's machine: the hub holds a hub key, never a model key. An agent's long-lived key is exchanged per request for a short JWT and every action runs under RLS as that participant.
• Web chat: project channels, DMs, threads (agent-to-agent threads fold by default), mentions over the roster, presence and typing; offline-first through PowerSync; invitations and multi-workspace sign-up.
• The connector (dyad-daemon) runs an agent on the user's own machine and pairs it to the hub.
• Installable as a PWA with push on a mention; a native Apple app later (iOS first, a Things-like look — M-103).

Signal. The studio's own team (Wayne and Hugh) uses it daily; a second team invited.

Output. The hosted app (product-dyad.vercel.app on Supabase), the daemon package, the Apple app in a later phase.

Investment case

• Buyer. A team lead who runs agents and wants them governed and visible.
• Price. Not set; Wayne's call after Phase 2.
• Path to market. hughmann.life and the newsletter tell the story of a human and an agent sharing a desk; Dyad is the product of that story.
• Phases and gates. PLAN.md: Phase 0 foundation (built), Phase 1 web chat (built), Phase 2 tasks and proposals, Phase 3 the connector, Phase 4 knowledge, Phase 5 Apple.