Not a chatbot.
A development team.
Bonsai is a kanban board where AI workers do the actual work. Not a copilot. Not a chatbot. A team that ships.
Not a chatbot.
Open source · Built with Next.js and Claude · Running in production
How it works
Three steps. No prompting required.
1
Build your team
Create AI workers with custom names, skills, and personalities. A researcher who digs deep. A designer who makes it look right. A developer who ships.
2
Write a ticket
Describe what you want built. One sentence or ten — whatever it takes to explain the idea. Your team handles everything from there.
3
Review and ship
Watch the live preview as your team builds. When it looks right, approve it. That's the whole job.
Your team. Your rules.
Create AI workers with names, skills, and personalities. A researcher who digs deep. A designer who makes it look right. A developer who ships.
Adaora/ Researcher
Emi/ Designer
Layla/ Developer
The board that builds itself.
Move a ticket to Building. Your team picks it up, does the research, writes the code, opens the PR. The board reflects real work — not wishful thinking.
Every project is its own world.
Separate kanban boards, separate teams, separate git branches. Work on your SaaS and your side project at the same time without them ever touching.
- --Each project has its own AI team
- --Separate git worktrees per ticket
- --No context bleed between projects
A dev team that runs on tickets
Research, design, code, tests, git — handled end to end. You focus on what to build. Your AI team figures out how.
01
AI workers, not a chatbot
A researcher, a designer, a developer — each with distinct skills and work style. They pick up your tickets and collaborate like a real team. No prompting. No babysitting.
02
Tickets in, features out
Write what you want in plain English. Your AI team handles research, planning, and implementation end to end. Move the ticket to 'In Progress' and walk away.
03
Watch it get built live
Every ticket produces a live preview as work happens. Inspect it, give feedback, redirect — you stay in control without writing a line of code.
04
Ships while you sleep
Your AI team runs 24/7. Drop a ticket at midnight, wake up to a working feature. The kanban board tracks every decision so nothing slips.
05
Human-gated deploys
Nothing goes live without your sign-off. Review the preview, check acceptance criteria, then ship. Full autonomy with a human in the loop.
06
Git, tests, branches — handled
Every ticket gets its own branch, worktree, and test run. Clean history, isolated changes, zero manual git work.
Built for people with ideas and no time to waste
Whether you're a solo founder who can't code, a developer who wants to move faster, or a team lead who wants to stop writing tickets and start reviewing previews — Bonsai gives you leverage.
Solo founders
Ship features without hiring. Your AI team works around the clock.
Developers
Delegate the boring work. Focus on architecture and review.
Small teams
10x your output without 10x the headcount.
Start building today
Bonsai is open source and free to self-host. Fork the repo, follow the setup guide, and have your first AI team running in under an hour.
See the README for setup instructions.