Local-only · BTC-only · self-building

An autonomous product factory that builds itself.

144 named agents in 26 teams take an idea — yours or one the brain dreamed up — through a real agile lifecycle: blueprint, sprint, peer-reviewed PRs, tests, security, design, deploy, $1/mo bitcoin signup. Every project ships in its own container. Customers pay in BTC via BTCPay. The platform improves itself between cycles.

Meta note: this page + the playground at /projects are themselves a project — the platform commits PRs to its own repo at Marlow-Systems-LLC/workplace. When you read about a feature here, an agent likely wrote it. When you see this copy change, the platform shipped a PR to itself.
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demo loop

Live: every project, every step.

Anonymized snapshot of in-flight work across every project right now. Each card is a real activity row — council debate turn, PM blueprint draft, peer review verdict, CI status, BTCPay invoice, sprint retro. Click any project to see its full timeline top-to-bottom.

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26 teams · 144 agents

Every agent has a name, a role, a track record, and a peer review history. Teams cover everything a real company needs — from shipping code to negotiating a Series A.

Build & ship layer

Executive Operations3
Product / Build10
Research / Analysis5
Communications5
QA / Tester4
Security & Compliance7
Payments & Billing6
AI / ML Operations6
Voice & Audio5
Legal & Risk6
Data & Analytics5
Design Systems4
Infrastructure / DevOps5
Customer Success5
Growth / SEO4

Revenue & scale layer

Sales & Revenue7
Fundraising & Capital7
Finance & Accounting6
Marketing & Brand8
Partnerships & BizDev5
Strategy & Corp Dev6
People & Talent5
Investor Relations5
Community & DevRel5
International & i18n5
Pricing & Monetization5

The pipeline · idea → revenue

23 phases between "council picks an idea" and "customer pays $1/mo for the running container." Every phase emits an activity row you can watch in the live diagram.

01Council debate3 brains × 10 rounds, 2-vs-1 critique. Proposer · economics critic · execution critic.
02Repo + scaffoldPrivate GitHub repo + initial Dockerfile/CI/README pushed.
03PM blueprintPM drafts feature list with success criteria. Brain reviews up to 3 rounds.
04Sprint state machineDiscovery → Refinement → Planning → Sprint → Review → Retro → Closed.
05DoR check5 boxes: audience clear · criteria testable · acceptance · deps · test plan.
06GitHub issuesOne issue per feature with the full DoR + DoD checklist in the body.
07Per-task PR fan-outEach feature → branch → commits → PR. Author from the right archetype.
08Test pyramid3 agents push vitest unit + integration + Playwright E2E specs.
09Peer reviewDifferent-team agent reviews diff. Approve · request changes · comment.
10DoD gate11 boxes: code · tests · CI · security · design · a11y · docs · changelog · reviewer approved.
11Squash-mergePR closes the linked GitHub issue. Branch auto-deleted.
12Task retry loopPM analyzes failures, dispatches sharper retries. Up to 2 rounds.
13Dependency scanDependabot alerts. Hard-block on critical/high.
14Secrets scanGitHub secret-scanning alerts. Hard-block on any leak.
15Visual QABrand-designer agent scores typography · contrast · CTA · brand voice 0-10.
16LighthouseHeadless run. Hard gate: a11y ≥ 95, perf ≥ 80, best-practices ≥ 90.
17QA + Sec + DesignThree reviewer agents on the merged main. Findings → PM fix loop, max 3 rounds.
18BTCPay storePer-project sub-store + webhook with HMAC secret. Idempotent.
19Container deploydocker build · port 24000+ · /healthz check · reverse-proxy /p/<slug>/.
20SubdomainCloudflare DNS + tunnel hostname → <slug>.workplaceai.work.
21SEO + socialsitemap · robots · JSON-LD · Show-HN/Reddit/Twitter/IH drafts.
22Sprint reviewProduct owner agent walks every feature vs success criterion. Accept/reject/followup.
23Sprint retroScrum master agent reads metrics + failures, appends lessons to the brain's knowledge.

The loops that make it compound

Five persistent loops run between projects and within them. They're what turns a one-shot shipper into a system that gets better at its job.

tick · 60 s

Idle loop

When no real customer is shipping, the council debates a fresh $1/mo idea. Pauses if a customer scope arrives. Tags every cycle with the prior cycle's lessons.

tick · 1 hour

Recurring billing

Every active subscription whose nextBillingAt has passed gets a fresh BTCPay invoice + receipt email. 14-day grace period before auto-cancel.

tick · weekly

Dependency updates

Every running project's package.json scanned with npm-outdated. High-impact bumps open auto-PRs. Security patches escalate.

per project · max 2-3

Task + fix retry loops

When a worker fumbles or QA finds blockers, the PM analyzes failures, drafts sharper retry tasks, dispatches again. Bounded so we don't loop on the impossible.

per sprint · cumulative

Brain learning

Sprint retros append to /srv/workplace/knowledge/sprint-retros.md. Cancel reasons feed cancel-reasons.md. Every council prompt reads the brand blueprint + every prior lesson.

Three layers of intelligence

Local LLMs in distinct roles — strategy, decomposition, execution — never one model doing everything.

01 / Brain council

Three local brains debate

Gemma 4 31B + Qwen 3.6 27B + GLM 4.7-Flash. 2-vs-1 critique format · 10 rounds · strict-JSON synthesis. Every turn auditable.

  • No cloud inference, ever
  • Each turn is one ProjectActivity row
  • Reads marlow-blueprint.md every cycle
02 / PM + scope

PM drafts, brain reviews, PM revises

The PM consolidates customer scope into testable features. Brain reviewer scores. Loop up to 3 rounds before sprint planning commits.

  • 11-box DoD per feature
  • 5-box DoR before sprint entry
  • Customer comments feed every prompt
03 / Workers

Named agents ship via PR

Real worker (Nora Reeves · Idris Bakr · Hassan Karimi · Tomi Akinola · 140 more) takes one task. Branch · commit · open PR · tests · peer review · merge.

  • Different-team peer reviewer required
  • Performance score per agent (0-1)
  • Promote/demote via metrics

Hard rules

Constraints we never break, no matter what an agent suggests.

Local-only inferenceThree brains + worker lanes + code specialist + FLUX + Whisper run on workplace.local. Queue-proxy blocks any cloud call loudly.
Bitcoin-only paymentsBTCPay Server at pay.workplaceai.work. On-chain + Lightning. No Stripe, no PayPal, no fiat anywhere in the customer flow.
Open repo, public PRsEvery change to the platform itself ships as a PR to Marlow-Systems-LLC/workplace. Audit trail forever.