Who it’s for · by Spectrum Web Co
Teams whose developers now include AI agents.
KanbanOS is for product and engineering teams that run AI coding agents and need plans, shared context and gated delivery on one board they control.
01 · Platform teams
Own the substrate your agents run on.
Platform and developer-experience teams are the ones asked to make five different agents behave like one system. Agent Substrate gives them a single layer to own — memory, skills, sandboxes and a ledger over MCP and ACP — instead of a patchwork of per-agent configuration.
- One substrate across Claude Code, Grok Build, Hermes and more
- Sandbox per agent; claims written outside any terminal
- Skills and tools synced across sessions
02 · Product & engineering leads
Turn intent into visible, gated delivery.
Leads need to know what is being built, by whom, and how far along it is — without reading transcripts. Every request gets a Graph ID, every claim is a card move, and every gate is a visible decision, so the board answers the status question before it is asked.
- Graph ID across the board, Linear and Notion
- Owners and progress on every card
- Human merge gate as the last move
03 · Security & quality
Make verification a signed part of the loop.
Security and quality teams are usually bolted on at the end. In KanbanOS they are inside the swarm: review, security and QA are specialist agents with fail-closed gates, their verdicts are signed, and anything uncertain stops and escalates to a person.
- Signed verdicts in the swarm.v1 protocol
- Fail-closed gates that never weaken
- Review driven to 5/5 before a human approves
04 · Agencies & studios
Orchestrate many clients without multiplying chaos.
Studios run the same lifecycle for many clients at once. Parallel lanes, isolated worktrees and a per-client board let one small team keep every engagement moving while the swarm does the repetitive work — which is how Spectrum Web Co runs its own services.
- Parallel lanes A / B / C per engagement
- Isolated worktrees, one ledger
- The same process Spectrum Web Co ships clients with
Fit questions.
01Is KanbanOS suitable for a small team?
Yes. KanbanOS was built by a small senior team at Spectrum Web Co to run its own products and client work, and the operating model scales down well: a team of two can inject Ultrathink into their agents, run Agent Swarm on one backlog and see the result on one board. The value for small teams is leverage — parallel agents doing the repetitive lifecycle work behind gates the humans still own.
02Does KanbanOS work for enterprise teams?
KanbanOS is designed with enterprise constraints in mind: ownership on every card, redaction in briefs, a fail-open planner so delivery is never blocked by tooling, a fail-closed swarm so unverified work never ships, and a ledger that records who did what, in which lane, with what outcome. Early-access enterprise teams work directly with Spectrum Web Co on hosting, access control and integration with existing trackers.
03Which roles use the KanbanOS board day to day?
Operators — usually engineering leads, product managers and delivery managers — use the board to see work, owners and progress and to approve gates. Engineers use it to watch the cards their agents have claimed and to step in when a gate escalates. Security and quality reviewers see verdicts and review results inside the loop. Agents use it too: they claim and move cards, which is what keeps the board truthful.
Early access
Tell us which agents you run and what your delivery looks like today, and we will map the first plane to adopt.