Make the work visible.
The agent should show its plan, tools, memory, cost, and next move. No mystery layer.
Company
Company.
We are building a coding agent that feels inevitable. Quiet. Direct. Useful from the first command.
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Company
Company
We are building a coding agent that feels inevitable. Quiet. Direct. Useful from the first command.
Make the work visibleThe agent should show its plan, tools, memory, cost, and next move. No mystery layer.
Keep the user in commandAutonomy is useful only when scope, permission, budget, and stop conditions are clear.
Earn trust by designPrivacy, sponsor disclosure, and provider choice belong in the product surface, not hidden in policy pages.
ValueWhat it meansTaste.Every surface should reduce doubt. Fewer words. Better defaults. Clearer controls.Craft.Terminal scenes, copy, route structure, and documentation are part of the product.Candor.Show cost, limits, failures, sponsor surfaces, and data handling plainly.
Why we exist.
Software work should not feel like renting a new assistant every morning. Picasso is built around continuity: plans that stay visible, memory that compounds, goals that finish, and controls that respect the developer holding the keyboard.
Principles.
Keep the user in command.
Autonomy is useful only when scope, permission, budget, and stop conditions are clear.
Earn trust by design.
Privacy, sponsor disclosure, and provider choice belong in the product surface, not hidden in policy pages.
What we make.
A complete loop.
Plan. Act. Observe. Reflect. The ordinary rhythm of good engineering, made visible in the terminal.
Memory that can be inspected.
Facts, style, and decisions return when they are relevant. The user can see them and clear them.
Goals with finish lines.
Long work gets a contract: objective, budget, criteria, limits, and pause conditions.
Provider choice.
Hosted routes for Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft Foundry, Google, xAI, Qwen, Xiaomi MiMo, Kimi, DeepSeek, Zhipu GLM, MiniMax, and OpenRouter, plus local Ollama and vLLM.
The business model.
Picasso starts free. Managed inference is funded by clearly disclosed sponsor surfaces. Subscription passthrough and API-key modes let users bring their own provider relationships. Sponsors never receive code, prompts, model output, tool output, memory, or credentials.
$0 to start.
The first experience should be installation, not procurement.
Disclosed sponsorship.
Sponsor placement is labeled, bounded, and user-controllable.
No pooled subscriptions.
Provider subscription access stays per-user and policy-aligned.
How we work.
| Value | What it means |
|---|---|
| Taste. | Every surface should reduce doubt. Fewer words. Better defaults. Clearer controls. |
| Craft. | Terminal scenes, copy, route structure, and documentation are part of the product. |
| Candor. | Show cost, limits, failures, sponsor surfaces, and data handling plainly. |
| Persistence. | Long-horizon work matters. The product should keep context without taking control away. |
Contact.
Product.
Product, account, and partnership contact opens with launch. Join the waitlist and we'll write the moment the doors open.
Security.
Vulnerability reporting and responsible disclosure contact is published at launch.
Sponsors.
Sponsor inventory is reviewed before launch. Choose Sponsor on the waitlist and the team will reach out personally.