A two-hour handoff now starts with one link

Alka builds ETFs. Assembling the portfolio of companies for an ETF involves a lot of manual research, and Alka is working to automate it. Ivo Stranic and his team are building that system from scratch, using coding agents for much of the work.

The hard part is not writing the code. It is keeping multiple agents and people aligned on what has already been done.

A coding agent starts every session cold. It does not know what the agent on the next desk decided yesterday, or which approach a colleague already tried and dropped. On a team, that gap is filled by people: notes, calls, and a lot of repeating yourself.

Hivemind records every agent session as traces and turns them into shared memory for the organization. Any agent on the team can read what the others have done, so the question “where did this leave off?” has an answer the agent can fetch on its own.

The clearest example came when Ivo went on vacation and handed a task to a colleague. Instead of a long walkthrough, he pointed him to his Hivemind sessions and memory. The colleague's coding agent had the context from Ivo's previous work and could pick up from there.

A handoff that used to take around 2 hours now starts with one link. That makes it easier for someone else on the team to pick up where another person left off.

Alka was the first organization to pass 1 million traces in Hivemind. Each trace is a step an agent took while working on Alka's system. Together they are the team's record of what has been tried, decided, and shipped, available to every agent and every person on the team.