Maintainer
I’m Oleg Botvenko, a team lead at Automattic.
I built exobrain in February 2026 to launch a new product with my team there — our first AI-native project. With agents doing the execution, the bottleneck became knowledge stuck in people’s heads, so we ran the whole launch through a shared exobrain instead:
- Nobody knew everything, and nobody had to. Every finding and decision went through an agent into the exobrain, which held the product’s current state. To find out where things stood, you asked your agent, not a colleague.
- The team coordinated agent-to-agent. People worked in parallel, and their agents read, wrote and reconciled the same knowledge. There were no status meetings; the shared space carried the coordination.
- Every write was reviewed like a deploy. Whatever landed in the exobrain became true for everyone, so an agent proposed each change and a person approved it.
The idea behind that way of working is on the philosophy page.
In June 2026 I lifted the patterns that held up into this public seed. The same machinery runs my household: health checks, document filing, reminders, and a family agent used by people who don’t write code.
Exobrain is a personal project, not an Automattic one. One person maintains it in the open, with no support commitment; the changelog is the record of what changes.