BrightGears is what I build now: a team of AI workers, the gears, that you hire into your Slack. You hand them work in a thread and they carry it to done: merged, checked and released. It comes with years of best practices already built in, so no agentic-engineering expertise is needed.
Commercial Product
BrightGears is my maintained commercial product, and where the best ideas of Klimkit continue.
Challenge
Ten people with ten private AI chats are not a team. Context gets explained again and again, work stops when a laptop closes or a limit is hit, and everyone keeps checking whether anything is done. Running more agents makes it worse: the scarce resource stops being code and becomes a person’s attention.
What It Does
- One clean inbox. Only what truly needs a person reaches you, as one-tap cards in a single list. When the list is empty, nothing needs you.
- Decisions on record. Every approval and choice is kept: what the teammate saw, what they chose, and when.
- Work carried to done. Hand over a task in a Slack thread and the gears take it through to merged, checked and released, then report back.
- Shared by the whole team. Every ask is a thread everyone can see. Developers, product, support and leads hand work to the same gears.
- Context that stays. The gears know your wiki, your calls and your team’s habits. They run on one shared machine, so work keeps going overnight.
Needs a human: one list of everything that waits for you, with who asks. Demo data.
Decisions: every approval and choice, append-only. Demo data.
Results
BrightGears builds itself. In the 14 days from October 22 to November 4, 2026, its own repository saw 763 merged PRs, 342 release candidates and 27 stable releases, every PR written by its gears and every decision made by people.
Sellify, a B2B SaaS team, reports merged PRs per developer per month going from 45 to 85 and client satisfaction from 6.8 to 9.1 out of 10. Your numbers will differ.
How It Is Delivered
BrightGears fits one builder running several projects as well as a whole product team. It runs on your own server. I install every BrightGears myself, join your Slack, watch over the quality and fix what the install reports, usually within hours, with no SLA. To give each one real attention, I take on at most three new installs a month.