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Product · Oct 12, 2026 · 4 min

Why every mate gets its own computer

Shared browsers leak logins between agents. One machine per mate keeps work, files and sessions apart.

Usama NavidFounder, Buildberg

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Guides · Oct 9, 2026 · 4 min

Giving an AI an inbox without losing sleep

Allowlists, sender checks and approvals: the rules we use before a mate emails anyone.

Danish Azam

Engineering · Oct 2, 2026 · 5 min

Replays: recording a desktop at 10 KB a second

How we capture every task a mate does as video and steps on a budget that fits a phone call, and why the steps turned out to matter more than the video.

Usama Navid

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