Introduction

Buff is a company AI platform with three entry points. The knowledge space: an employee of any department asks a question about the company’s documents and gets an answer with a link to the document, orders a research and keeps a knowledge base — no code needed. Development: you set a task in plain language, and an AI agent formulates it, breaks it into subtasks, writes the code, passes the checks and prepares a finished change for acceptance in your repository; a person approves the plan before the start and approves the result. Buff Code: engineers who write code themselves work in the terminal and in the app, on their organisation’s models, knowledge and connections.

Who it is for

• Departments without code — support, sales, legal, HR, finance, marketing, management and product managers — whose answers to “how do we actually do it here” are written down in policies, contracts, spreadsheets and wikis, but finding them takes longer than asking a colleague.
• Engineering teams that want to delegate routine, well-defined work — features, refactorings, migrations, test coverage, backlog clean-up — while keeping control over how tasks are set and accepted.

The basic model

Everything in the product is built around a few entities:

• Organisation — the team’s workspace; isolated from other organisations.
• Development project and Repository — where the work happens and what is connected as code sources; Space — a workplace without code, built on the department’s documents (see Space).
• Task — the unit of work in a development project: from the request through formulation and decomposition to development and review.
• Question and research — the units of work in a space: an answer with links, or a verified document based on the company’s documents.

More in Core concepts and the Glossary.

How it works (in brief)

You work in a web application. It is built to keep your code and documents safe: code changes only with your consent, documents are only read — and only those the connection has been given access to. What this means in practice is covered in Security and privacy.

Where to start

• With a repository — Quick start: in a few steps you connect a repository, prepare the project and set your first task.
• Without code — Buff without a repository: an account, a space, the department’s documents and your first question.
• From a phone — the mobile app for iPhone and Android: approvals, answers and notifications when you are away from your computer.