Convivy is a software lab. We develop real products using an agentic development system. By "agentic development system" we mean a substrate of agents, tools, and workflows that takes care of most coding and reviewing, and assists with architecture and design.
Our whole enterprise embraces deep transparency. We want to show how the system works, and hand you the tools and ideas to set up your own version if you'd like to.
I (Jay, co-founder) started Convivy as a side project to my day job as an engineering director at a technology startup. My goal was to build a multitenant SaaS that would help a group I participated in — a community ukulele orchestra — with required tasks which overwhelmed the resources you would expect at a community ukulele orchestra.
The project took shape slowly, in fits and starts and the occasional pivot, until the ground under the software engineering industry started to shift dramatically in early 2026. Wanting to understand newly emerging engineering workflows, I dove back in. This time I was focused more on honing my understanding of the process than on my output. Before too long we had five products taking shape, having discovered the efficiency of threading development streams.
In the process, I found that a lot of other technical professionals were looking for an entry point into understanding how our work is changing.
Every product in our suite comes from a need we've encountered in our day-to-day lives. Some relate to our day jobs, others are just for fun. They won't raise any capital from VCs, but there may be a modest market for them. Most importantly, this new wave of engineering tools allows us to build the things we'd like to exist, instead of just hoping that someone else finds it worthwhile to do so.
Our products are currently referred to as Lyra, Vela, Corvus, Orion, and Pavo. You'll see these working names until each is close to launch. Follow along.
Agentic engineering is here and it is powerful. It accelerates development to such an extent that while the specifics will surely change, I believe it won't go away.
Information to help us start well is thin, and many places you'd look for it are full of hype and slop. I hope that by opening up a lot of what I set up here, it provides a useful entry point to engineers that would like to tinker, play around, build some things, and develop a real understanding of how these systems work.
Because that's what engineers have always done. And that's what engineers will continue to do, no matter how the tools change.
See it all in the open at lab.convivy.com — the dashboards, the knowledge base, the reference docs, and Field Notes.
Jay Porter
Co-founder · Builder
Twenty years across hospitality and tech: twelve as a restaurant owner-operator, technical leadership at Salesforce and Meta, now Engineering Director at Amperon.
Katie Mayfield, SPHR
Co-founder · Operator
Twenty years building people systems and management cultures across food, hospitality, and CPG. Founder of Katie Mayfield People & Culture; former VP People at Fellow.
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