Every developer deserves an AI teammate that actually works.

The problem

The way we write software is changing faster than the tools can keep up. AI can generate entire files in seconds, debug code it's never seen, and refactor systems across thousands of lines.

But the developer experience around these capabilities is still broken. Juggling seven different tools that don't share context. Sending proprietary code to someone else's cloud. Paying per token for something that should feel as natural as running a linter. Trusting a black box.

Our approach

GrayCode is building Hawk — an AI coding agent that runs entirely on your machine. Your code never leaves your laptop. Your API keys stay in your config file. Every line of the core is MIT licensed, because trust is built through transparency, not terms of service.

We're designing Hawk as one CLI with six tightly integrated support capabilities because AI coding tools need shared context to be useful. When your agent can trace bugs, compress tokens, remember past sessions, inspect code structure, and review changes all in one place — it stops being a toy and starts being a teammate. Gitant and Lark are standalone products for decentralised git and agent communication — both in development.

Where we're going

Right now we're building Hawk in the open — features, tests, and hardening first. Public install comes later. The vision is a CLI you can trust every day.

We want to build the platform where solo developers and their agents can bring their own models, their own data, and their own workflows, and have an AI teammate that genuinely understands their codebase. Not a chatbot that guesses. A teammate that remembers, reasons, and ships.

We want AI coding to be as reliable as version control. Something you depend on every day without thinking about it. Something that just works — one bit at a time.

Why “GrayCode”?

The name comes from the binary encoding system where only one bit changes at a time — small, reliable steps forward. That's our promise. We won't move fast and break things. We'll move deliberately and build things that last.

We're two engineers. No investors. No board. No one telling us to ship faster at the expense of quality. We fund this ourselves because we want to build something we're proud of — not something that looks good in a pitch deck.