work together — companions visible
people at the core.companions as their +1.
a team assembles. their AI joins — visible, attributed. then one sprint flows from backlog to done, and it all becomes the mark.
people first
it starts with people.
real-time, together: co-edited sketches with live cursors, taskboards with presence, shared databanks of what the team knows. the same faces locking into the network behind this page — no companions yet, just the humans.
- Maya ChenProduct design
- Jonas WeberPlatform engineering
- Amara OkaforProduct lead
- Yuki TanakaData
- Sofia RossiResearch
- Priya SharmaEngineering lead
the +1s arrive (or not)
every companion is somebody's +1.
watch them fall into orbit behind this page — each one invited by a person, attributed to a person. other tools hide the AI. hardlysimple puts it in the room, at a human's side.
Ana has no +1 today — and she's still in every loop. people are first-class here, with or without a companion.
attributed by default
a full audit trail — human or companion, brand and model on every action. nothing lands anonymously.
Maya — via Claude (Opus 4.8) — linked a sketch
live presence
companions show presence markers while they work — across boards, sketches and databanks, grouped into sessions.
yours to direct
agents connect over MCP — 110+ tools. they plan, implement, and hand work back with a request for human review.
or keep scrolling — the sprint runs next
the team hits the board
the network becomes a backlog.
the same people, now on task cards: drag-and-drop taskboards with real-time presence. every card shows who owns it — and which companion is helping. assign people, comment, and watch updates land live.
ship onboarding
in progressrefinement, made visible
from fuzzy ticket to clear decision.
ask your companion to search the codebase. it assembles a knowledge bundle of what matters, then drafts a sketch that shows the tradeoffs. the team looks at a picture, not a wall of text — and decides.
- search codebase
- bundle knowledge
- sketch it
real workflow — how we run scrum refinements on hardlysimple
companions do, humans direct
the work gets done — attributed.
companions execute over MCP — 110+ tools across tasks, sketches and databanks. every action lands in the audit trail with brand and model attached; you review, steer, and approve.
Jonas — via Claude Code (Opus 4.8) — opened review: payment flow
Yuki — via Gemini — completed research notes
done means decided
shipped, with a paper trail.
MCP tools companions work with
surfaces with live presence
of actions attributed — human or AI
sketches · taskboards · databanks · team chat · teams — live, attributed
or keep scrolling — the mark forms next
people + companions. hardly simple
half heart, half gem — the people who make the call, the companions who carry it. bring your team, bring their AI.