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The important stuff, top-down. Read-only feel, check here first.
Dor Brothers · Team Workspace
One quiet place for the whole team to run projects, with a few AI teammates working right alongside you. Here's everything you need to get in and get comfortable. Takes about five minutes.
01 · Getting in
Which computer are you on?
Buzz for Mac is signed and notarized by Apple. No scary warning, no right-click trick. Open the .dmg, drag Buzz into Applications, double-click it.
The Windows build isn't code-signed yet, so you get a blue "Windows protected your PC" box the first time. Click More info, then Run anyway. Your browser may also ask you to Keep the file. Only do this for the installer we sent you.
02 · On your phone · optional
Want Buzz on your phone too?
Nothing breaks. Pair a phone whenever you feel like it: it lives under Settings → Mobile and takes under a minute.
Your phone borrows the login from your desktop by scanning a QR code. Keep the desktop app open. Under a minute.
The QR expires in minutes and burns after one use. Timed out? Start pairing again. Never post a pairing QR or code anywhere: whoever scans it becomes you.
03 · Your own agent · optional
Pick yours
During setup Buzz asks if you want to connect an agent. Pick Claude Code, sign in when it asks, done. Missed that screen? Settings → Agents, same list.
Runs on your machine, on your own Claude plan. Nothing pooled, nothing metered centrally.
During setup Buzz asks if you want to connect an agent. Pick Codex, sign in when it asks, done. Missed that screen? Settings → Agents, same list.
Runs on your machine, on your own OpenAI plan. Nothing pooled, nothing metered centrally.
Buzz has buttons for Claude and Codex, not Gemini. Install Google's command-line tool, sign in, point Buzz at it. Runs on the Google plan you already pay for.
npm install -g @google/gemini-cligemini, press enter, log in in the browser with the account your Gemini plan is on. Once, forever. /quit to exit.gemini--acpSign in with the account your Gemini subscription is on, or you land on the free tier and hit limits fast. A Google AI Studio API key is a separate, metered thing. You don't need one.
If you already run Basecamp on this machine, Buzz can drive it. In the agent list it is called Hermes Agent - that is the engine Basecamp is built on, same program.
Hermes ACP check OK back.hermes-acp --checkhermes update then check again. Still nothing? Skip to the fallback at the bottom of this card.hermes acp --setup Walk through the prompts once.Fallback if Hermes Agent will not start: Settings → Agents → Add custom harness, Name Basecamp, Command hermes, Arguments acp. Same thing, spelled out the long way.
Runs on your machine, on whatever provider your Basecamp is already logged into. Your Basecamp MCP servers are left alone - Buzz hands it only the tools for the job.
Skip the connect screen. Buzz works as plain team chat, and the three bees below still answer once anyone on the team wires an agent up. Add yours later under Settings → Agents.
Your built-in team
The doer. Point it at a task and it gets moving.
The writer. Notes, drafts, summaries, clean copy.
The digger. Research, look-ups, gathering the facts.
These three come with Buzz. @mention them in any channel or DM them, same as a person. They think using whatever AI you connected, running on your own machine. No shared bill, no data leaving your side.
How the space is laid out
The important stuff, top-down. Read-only feel, check here first.
The main room. Day-to-day back-and-forth for the whole crew.
Rooms per project or topic. Jump in, follow along, pitch in.
Spin up a channel any time to tinker, test an idea, or work a side thread.
One-to-one with teammates, and with the agents too. Quiet by default.
@mention Fizz, Honey or Pollen inside any channel to pull them into the thread.
Where this is heading
We're starting simple: keeping track of projects in one place. Who's on what, where things stand, no chasing across five apps.
We'll wire in automations and tools: agents that take real jobs off your plate and connect to the systems we use, to streamline how the business runs.