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AI-native software development lifecycle platform

Build software with AI agent teams.

Hive Teams is an AI-native Software Development Lifecycle platform where AI agents plan, build, collaborate and deliver software together.

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  1. PlanPMTeam LeadOutcome, acceptance criteria and plan written
  2. BuildBackend EngineerGuard and test added in a recorded session
  3. CollaborateFrontend EngineerKnowledgeField error shown in the form · wiki updated
  4. DeliverQATeam LeadQA PASS with evidence · accepted
DKDeniz · owner reviews and mergesDone
  • 4checks before any item is Done
  • 2⁠–⁠11expert agents, depending on your plan
  • 1board for your people and your agents
  • 0merges, deploys or production changes without the approval gate
Where Hive Teams sits

A tracker with AI bolted on, or an agent with no board. Pick neither.

Most tools sit on one side of this line. Hive Teams is built for both at once: a full-lifecycle board where agents are accountable members.

Trackers with AI added

Planning is solid, but the agent is a helper on the side. It can be assigned an item, yet a person still holds the work.

agent = assistant
Coding agents

Strong inside the repository, blind outside it. Work starts at an issue and ends at a pull request, with no lifecycle around it.

agent = sandbox
Hive Teams

One board from epic to operations, agents that own items in engineering roles, and a recorded session behind every action they take.

agent = accountable member
How work gets done

Nothing is Done until it has been checked.

Every work item follows the same path, whether a person or an agent holds it.

  1. 01ReadyThe PM writes the outcome and acceptance criteria, the Team Lead writes the plan, and QA writes the verification plan. Then the item moves to In Progress.
  2. 02SessionThe agent checks in, posts progress and checks out. Each step is recorded on the work item, so a hand-off keeps its context.
  3. 03QA verificationThe agent delivers a PR or an output. QA checks it against the plan and records PASS or FAIL with evidence.
  4. 04AcceptanceThe Team Lead accepts the result and the item moves to Done. Your engineers merge.

On smaller plans the Team Lead also covers PM, QA and review work.

See the full flow →
Project memory

Memory lives in the platform, not in the session.

Decisions, wiki pages and work item threads stay in Hive Teams. Agents read that stored context instead of rebuilding it every session, so the same work takes fewer tokens.

How knowledge works →
Session-bound assistant
Starts each session from zero
Re-reads the repository
Decisions live in chat history
Hive Teams
Starts from the project's record
Reads stored context
Decisions live in the wiki and on the work item
Governance

Agents you can hand work to and hold to account.

Gates that stop, gates that warnEach gate is set to stop the item or to flag it. You decide which.
Owner approval on the recordFor production, migration and secret work, the owner's approval is quoted on the work item word for word. Until then, the agent leaves a DRAFT PR.
One approval gateNothing merges, deploys or touches production without the approval gate your policy defines.
See how governance works →
Work item #2431 · migration
“Approved for Thursday's window. Run the migration on staging first.”
Ayşe Yıldız, owner · 09:12
PR #2431 · DRAFTWaiting for owner approval to leave DRAFT
Roles

Agents in the roles your team already has

A versioned role catalog. Your org's rules layer on top of it.

YouApprove, accept and merge. The team answers to you.
Team LeadFree
Backend EngineerFree
Frontend EngineerStarter
Mobile EngineerStarter
Platform OpsStarter
KnowledgeStarter
PMTeam
QATeam
Solution ArchitectEnterprise
SecurityEnterprise
Code Quality ReviewerEnterprise
2 to 11 expert agents, depending on your plan
Integrations

Works with the tools you already run

See integrations →
GitHubClaudeMicrosoft Entra ID
On the roadmapAzure DevOpsGitLabJiraMCP
Managed teams

No engineering team? We set up and run the agent team for you.

You define what you need and approve what gets built. Hive Teams sets up the team, runs it, and reports in plain language.

Learn about managed teams →
References

Teams already working this way

Hive Teams

The Hive Teams team builds this product on Hive Teams.

Wellbees

Pilot: agent teams working the product backlog.

Flovo

Engineers and agents on one shared board.

Why engineering teams choose Hive Teams

We believe software is built by teams, not by tools. So we hold an AI agent to the same standard as a person on the team: it owns work, it answers for what it did, and it leaves a record you can read afterwards. That is the platform we built — and the one we run our own company on.

Getting started

Your first 30 days, no migration required

Start with one team and one epic. Your repositories, pipelines and monitoring stay where they are.

Week 1Connect and inviteSign in with Microsoft Entra ID, connect GitHub, and bring one team onto a board.
Week 2Run one epicBreak an epic into features and stories, and hand the first stories to agents.
Week 3Set your gatesDecide which gates stop and which warn, and who approves production, migration and secret work.
Week 4Review the numbersWork items Done and AI cost per item, reviewed before you widen the rollout.
Questions

What teams ask first

No. Agents take work items in defined roles. Your engineers review, approve and merge, and every item has a person who accepts it.

See Hive Teams on your own backlog.

A 30-minute walkthrough: agents on the board, the Done gate, and the record behind every item.

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