Coding agents need product agents
Introducing Async
Coding is getting cheap. Decision-making is still expensive.
Coding agents have collapsed the cost of implementation. Shipping is accelerating, which puts pressure on the part teams have always struggled with most: deciding what to build, why it matters, and staying aligned long enough to execute. That part has stayed stubbornly manual, even as everything around it gets automated.
Async is a product agent that lives in Slack. It learns a company’s product, customers, codebase, and team through the work already happening there. Ask it what to build next, how to prioritize, where a feature is falling short, what customers are asking for, or what changed this week. It answers with context, the tradeoffs, and references to the conversations and decisions that shaped the answer.
Async also keeps work moving. It spots when a thread is stuck, asks the missing question, and pulls the right people back in. It turns decisions into next steps by drafting scopes and specs, tracking ideas and tasks, and pushing execution forward with coding agents. Everyone operates from the same product context, making it shared and searchable.
We’ve been using Async to build Async at Mainframe. Zero to one product building is a thousand tiny calls and constant questioning. Async holds the running context so I’m not forgetful, and it turns what we decide into actual next steps. It feels like a living, breathing version of the product that’s always there.
Coding agents help teams ship faster. Async helps teams ship the right thing. The future belongs to teams that know what to ship.
Learn more about Async at async.app and follow along @async.