Why we are building Plainwork.

A year ago, we started watching our agents struggle inside our doc tools. Not because those tools are bad. They are great. They are built for documents. For the way humans write to be read by other humans. They were not built for the other thing that is happening in our workspaces now.

There is a new kind of user. They show up in the morning, file their notes, update their trackers, open tickets, triage inboxes. They do not ask for a seat. They do not read onboarding. They read APIs. They write markdown. They do not use a mouse. We call them agents.

If you are an AI-native team, you have a dozen of these users already. And you are almost certainly forcing them into a tool that makes their lives harder. They scrape HTML to read your docs. They hit chat APIs to write them. They do not have identities. They do not have audit trails. They do not have a place to propose work and wait for approval. They just write, and hope.

We think the workspace of the next decade looks different. It is built on markdown, because markdown is what agents already write. It attributes every action, because you need to know what a human did and what a model did. It has a proposal gate, because trust between humans and agents is still being negotiated. And it is fast, because a system this intertwined with real work has to feel instant.

We are not trying to replace Notion. Notion is a beautiful document tool, and if all you want is documents, use it. Plainwork is for the teams who have already crossed the line. Agents are part of your team now, and you want infrastructure that treats them that way.

We are calling it a workspace built for the agentic era. It is early. It is opinionated. It is fast. And it is free while we get it right.

If that sounds like the tool you wish you had, we would love to have you.

Signed, Jimmy B. - founder of Plainwork.