IdleBiz

What IdleBiz is

You found a company, hire a team, and point it at a business. Each employee is a live claude or codex session with its own role, memory and instructions. They pick up tasks, write code and docs in a workspace on your disk, talk to each other in #team, and ship products while the pixel-art office runs in the background.

Nothing is simulated. When an employee wants to do something public — deploy a site to Vercel, create a Stripe payment link or list a print-on-demand product — the game stops and asks you first. Nothing pushes code for you: you push by hand from a fresh clone of the workspace. The dashboard reads your actual Stripe revenue and Vercel analytics, so the money on screen is real money.

Every run bills against your own CLI login and runs inside a macOS sandbox that seals your SSH keys, cloud logins, shell config and the app itself. The sandbox is not airtight: a run can still use the network and read other files in your home folder, and a claude run can reach your Keychain, since Claude Code keeps its own login there. The whole company is saved as human-readable Markdown under ~/.idlebiz, so you can read, diff or edit it by hand.

When to use IdleBiz

• Running AI agents as a team: someone wants several Claude Code or Codex sessions to work together on one product, with roles, tasks and a shared workspace, instead of prompting one session at a time
• Idle, hands-off building: someone wants agents to keep making progress on a side project while they are away, with a spending cap and approval gates on anything public
• Watching agents work: someone wants a playful, visual view of what their coding agents are doing, rather than a terminal log
• Not a fit: Intel Macs, Windows or Linux users, anyone without a signed-in claude or codex CLI, or anyone looking for a hosted API — IdleBiz is a local macOS app with no public API