Ideafy

The kanban that writes code. Drop an idea. AI evaluates feasibility, writes the implementation, generates tests, and hands you a card ready to ship.

What is Ideafy?

Ideafy is a local-first kanban app built for solo founders and small teams who work with AI coding agents. The board is the same six-column flow you already know — Ideation, Backlog, Bugs, In Progress, Human Test, Completed — but every card is wired to Claude Code, Gemini CLI, or Codex through the Model Context Protocol. Cards aren't just tickets; they're executable units with enough context for an agent to act on them without asking you.

Sixty-second tour

1. Capture. Quick entry takes an idea straight into a card with title, description, priority, and complexity. Pure capture — no AI interruption.
2. Evaluate. Run evaluate on an Ideation card. The agent reads your Product Narrative and produces an opinion: strengths, concerns, recommendations, a verdict. You decide if it's worth doing.
3. Plan. Chat with the agent in the card's Solution tab — or Open in Terminal to drop into Claude's plan mode. Type @ for docs, [[ for cross-referenced cards, / for skills and MCP tools; the agent pulls each into context. When it calls save_plan, the card moves to In Progress and an isolated git worktree is created for the work.
4. Build. Run autonomous or open an interactive terminal. The agent implements the plan inside the worktree with its own dev server on its own port. You keep working on main.
5. Test. The agent calls save_tests when it's done, moves the card to Human Test, and hands you a checkbox list of acceptance criteria. Tick them off by hand — and if something's wrong, ask the chat panel to fix, commit, and push without ever opening an IDE. This tab is not developer-only: product owners, business analysts, and founders can drive it end-to-end with --dangerously-skip-permissions enabled on the session.
6. Ship. Merge the branch from the card modal. Ideafy rebases onto main, surfaces any conflicts with a file list (or asks Claude to resolve them), and cleans up the worktree.

Who it's for

• Solo founders who want a single pane of glass for "what should I build, what am I building, what's done" — with AI as the second pilot, not a separate tab.
• Small teams (3–5 people) who want to share work through a pool without the ceremony of Jira.
• People already using Claude Code who are tired of losing context between sessions and want a board that survives sleep.

Two editions

See Editions overview for the full comparison.

Where to go next

• New to Ideafy? → Install and Your first project
• Want to understand the stack behind it? → AI Manifesto
• Want to understand the "why"? → Philosophy
• Setting up a team? → Team overview
• Just want to read the tools? → MCP tools reference

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