Orbit isn't here to swap your team for AI. It's the operating layer that turns every operator into the planner — the expert behind a fleet of agents. Your senior engineer ships like five. Your ops lead runs what used to need a department. The judgement stays with the human. The lifting moves to the agents.
Software development is where Orbit's tooling runs deepest today — one engineer driving agents ships like a team of five. The same loop elevates anyone whose work runs on a computer: ops, research, content, support, back-office.
$ orbit board show ▸ ENG — Engineering platform delivery board TODO │ IN PROGRESS │ IN REVIEW │ DONE ───────────┼─────────────┼────────────┼───────────── ENG-42 │ ENG-37 │ ENG-31 │ ENG-29 task · MED │ story · HI │ bug · URG │ task · LOW Wire vault │ Decompose │ Patch lock │ Update OAS to broker │ auth epic │ contention │ schemas agent:atlas│ @tino │ agent:hyperion│ @tino $ orbit instance start --ticket ENG-37 ✔ sandbox booted · skills mounted · secrets brokered ▸ agent atlas picked up ENG-37
AI doesn't get to improvise. Your expert writes the spec — agents decompose, assemble, and verify against it. The judgement stays with the human. The execution moves to the machine. Same standard the expert would hold themselves to.
Orbit is a force multiplier for your judgement, not a substitute for it. You become the planner — the architect, the strategist, the senior reviewer. Orbit holds the spec, the catalogs, the SOPs, and the verification — so your intent survives every execution.
Hire for new capability — not for more of the same. One senior engineer driving agents ships like a team of five. One ops lead runs what used to need a department. Kanban, sign-off loops, sandboxed runtimes, brokered credentials, audited skills — wrapped around the experts you already have.
Each role below used to mean adding a second, third, fourth of the same. With Orbit, one expert directs agents — keeping their judgement, multiplying their output. Hire when you need new capability, not more of the same.
Software dev
first vertical · deep templates
Operations
SOPs · runbooks · escalations
Research
literature · synthesis · briefs
Content
drafting · review · publish
Business mgmt
clients · proposals · billing
Customer support
triage · respond · escalate
Most teams run on vibes, sticky notes, and three different SaaS tabs. Orbit runs on a single premise. Articulate the destination. Honestly assess the position. Close the gap. Never confuse motion for progress.
Everything Orbit ships — kanban, agents, skills, sandboxes, fabric — exists in service of this loop. The same loop that lets every expert on your team drive a multiple of their own output without stepping out of their seat.
Desired state, written down.
Every domain — feature, system, business — gets a specification with verifiable criteria. Not vision-board fluff. Yes-or-no acceptance.
Current state, measured.
Boards, metrics, dashboards, agent telemetry. Orbit takes a continuous read of where things actually stand, not where you hope they are.
Plan, execute, verify.
Tasks decomposed to assembly-grade specificity. Agents glue documented components together. Verification gates every column transition.
Orbit's kanban is a first-class TUI — boards, columns, WIP limits, dependencies, ticket links, all streaming over the API in real time. The expert writes the spec on a ticket; agents pick it up and run. JSON on the wire, a sci-fi terminal on the surface. The board below is engineering — the same shape runs ops, sales pipeline, content calendars, support queues.
$ orbit board watch --workspace eng Define vault rotation policy
@tino
Acceptance criteria for billing portal
@tino
Tighten preview rendering on small terminals
—
+3 more
Decompose auth epic into assembly-grade tasks
agent:atlas
Wire ShadCN form primitives into onboarding
agent:atlas
Generate OpenAPI client for fabric routes
agent:hyperion
+1 more
Patch lock contention in instance scheduler
agent:hyperion
Verify Knex migration for ticket-link
@tino
Update OpenAPI schemas for boards
@tino
Ship credential broker v1
agent:atlas
+3 more
The expert writes the spec — the part only they can do. Orbit composes the input (story, child tasks, required skills) and dispatches a sandboxed agent to implement it. The human stays the planner. The agent does the typing. The board moves under their direction, not in spite of it.
The repetitive layer that used to require duplicating a role now runs as auditable instances guided by the senior who'd otherwise be reviewing them by hand. Trust is granted progressively as the loop tightens.
Container starts from the Orbit image. Workspace and credentials bind-mount at runtime. Nothing baked in.
Required skills (orbit-spec, orbit-board, project templates) are mounted read-only into the agent's context.
The vault issues ephemeral, scoped tokens to capabilities — not raw secrets. The agent never sees the keys.
The agent picks up the ticket. Components, services, SOPs, and reference material are catalogued. It connects A to B exactly as specified.
Whatever 'done' means for this work — tests, lints, schema diffs, behavioural specs, sign-off checks. The verifier — not the agent — moves the ticket to IN REVIEW.
isolation
per-instance
filesystem
scoped mount
network egress
policy gated
When your experts drive agents at scale, the secrets shouldn't be scattered across prompts, logs, and disk. Orbit's API holds the keys instead. When an agent needs to push to GitHub, query a database, send an email, or call a payment API, it asks the broker. The broker authenticates on its behalf — and returns capability, scoped, leased, audited.
Zero-visibility secrets. Plaintext never touches the agent's context, memory, or logs.
Scoped leases. Tokens are bound to instance, ticket, and capability. Expire on completion.
Per-workspace isolation. Client A's keys can never be issued to Client B's sandbox. Compliance-grade safety wrapped around your existing experts.
Audit-grade telemetry. Every lease is logged, replayed, and queryable.
Templates encode the standards your experts already hold themselves to. Skills package the judgement they've spent careers building — so their agents apply it consistently. Dialects abstract the data layer. Adapters fan out to the platforms you already use. Codify once, scale forever.
Software development has the deepest template catalog today — your engineering experts plug in and immediately ship at multiplied output. Operations, research, and content templates are on the runway.
Express · TS · Postgres · Knex · Objection
REST API with OpenAPI, auth middleware, schema migrations, and a service catalog ready for agent assembly.
Vite · React · TS · ShadCN · Tailwind
Frontend scaffold with routing, an OpenAPI-generated client, and a documented component catalog.
Kotlin · Jetpack Compose · Material
Compose scaffold with design system, navigation graph, auth flow, networking, and component library.
SwiftUI · Swift Concurrency
iOS scaffold with design system, navigation, auth, networking, and a documented component catalog.
One expert can serve more clients than a 20-person agency — once the safety rails are real. Every project runs in its own container. Orbit's operational layer mounts read-only. Auth tokens are namespaced per client. Cross- contamination isn't a rule someone follows. It's a property the runtime enforces.
Client projects — code repos, ops workspaces, research projects, content archives — never contain Orbit internals. The skills, the SOPs, the relationship context all live in Orbit and inject at runtime. Clients get the product. They never see the process.
# build the orbit runtime $ docker build -t orbit . # launch a sandboxed instance for this project $ docker run -it \ --name orbit \ -v /path/to/project:/workspace \ -v ~/.ssh:/home/orbit/.ssh:ro \ -v ~/.gitconfig:/home/orbit/.gitconfig:ro \ -e ORBIT_API=http://api.orbitwork.sh \ orbit ✔ orbit runtime booted ✔ workspace mounted · /workspace ✔ credentials read-only · /home/orbit/.ssh ▸ claude code · ready ▸ awaiting ticket dispatch
isolation
per-project
orbit layer
read-only
client repo
orbit-free
Most experts end up as the slowest node in their own workflow — final reviewer on every output, copied on every thread, signing every approval. Orbit lets them encode their standards upfront so agents can self-evaluate, and surfaces only the decisions that actually need the human. The ones their expertise was hired for.
metric drift
intervene
ambiguity
intervene
direction
decide
Everything else executes autonomously. Orbit handles the how. You own the what and the why.
throughput · ENG
12.4 tickets/day
▲ within band
verification pass
98.1%
▲ ok
spec ambiguity · ENG-37
Auth refresh policy not pinned.
! needs decision
cost · 24h
$4.18
▲ under budget
queue · awaiting operator
Built for the people who'd rather elevate than replace. Orbit is the harness Tino built so his own expertise — and his team's — could ship at a multiple, without diluting the standards or commoditizing the craft.
If you have to click through someone else's interface, the system has failed. Every capability becomes an Orbit module — accessible to your agents, not your mouse.
Capabilities are building blocks. Small, well-defined pieces that snap together to do things no single tool was designed for.
Orbit is plugged into live signals — AI news, security advisories, supply chain threats. Awareness isn't optional. It's infrastructure.
Your data lives in your infrastructure. You own the storage, the access patterns, the lifecycle — not a dozen SaaS dashboards you can't audit.
Every incident becomes a new SOP. Every threat tightens the loop. The system doesn't just survive disruptions — it gets stronger from them.
The system earns agency. Start supervised. Prove reliability. Expand scope. Autonomy is granted, not assumed.
Orbit is being built in the open for the people who'd rather elevate than replace. Your judgement, multiplied. Your standards, automated. Trustworthy output. Honest specs. Sandboxed runtimes. Brokered secrets. A kanban that lives where the work actually happens. Drop your email — you'll be first through the airlock when we open it.
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