The workflow nobody talks about
I built a tool to solve my own problem. Here's the honest story I'm a physicist turned software engineer. I've spent the last few years working with AI agents — not reading about them, actually using them to ship code every day. And somewhere along the way I noticed something uncomfortable: the AI was getting faster. And I was becoming the bottleneck.
Every think piece about AI tells you the same thing: AI will replace developers. Or the opposite: AI is just a tool, developers are safe. Both miss the point.
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The real problem isn't whether AI writes code. It's that our workflows were designed for humans working with humans. And now we're asking those same workflows to handle humans working with agents — and they're completely broken.
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Think about it. You open Jira. You create a ticket. You write a description. You assign it. You do a standup. You do a review. You close it.
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That entire flow assumes a human is going to read the ticket, understand the context, make judgment calls, and remember why you made the decisions you made three weeks ago.
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An agent doesn't work like that. An agent needs precise context upfront, real-time feedback, and a system that actually remembers what happened — not just what's currently in the column.
We never redesigned the system. We just added AI on top of a broken process.
My breaking point
I was CTO at a company where I managed a team of agents running in parallel. Claude Code here, Codex there, a custom orchestration layer stitching it together.
And every single day I was spending hours doing things that felt like they shouldn't be my job:
- Re-explaining context that should already be documented somewhere
- Jumping between tools to figure out what the agent did and why
- Manually coordinating what was in progress, what was blocked, what was waiting for review
- Losing decisions. Good ones. Made at 2am that nobody remembered by Monday.
The AI was doing the work. I was doing the overhead.
That's backwards.
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**So I started building Almirant**
Not as a company. As a solution to my own problem.
I needed something that would watch what my agents were doing. Coordinate the work. And remember everything — not just the code, but the *why* behind every decision.
I called it mission control. Like Houston. The agents are the rocket. Almirant is the room full of people making sure it actually gets to where it's supposed to go.
The human — me, you — stays in the pilot seat. But you stop being the one manually tracking everything.
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**Why this matters now**
Working with AI agents isn't a future thing. It's happening. And if you're doing it seriously, you already feel this friction.
The tools you're using — Jira, Linear, Notion, GitHub Projects — were designed before this existed. They're good tools. They're just not designed for this.
Almirant is.
We're still early. The product is rough in places. But the problem is real, and I'm tired of pretending the current setup works when it clearly doesn't.
If you're building with agents and feeling this pain — I'd love to hear from you.
**[Join the waitlist →](https://almirant.ai)**
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