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The software your team needs doesn't exist yet
Coding agents can write it. What they can't do is turn it into something a team can actually run.
Every team runs on a handful of processes that no vendor sells. The approval that needs two signatures unless the amount is under a threshold. The intake form that has to reach the right person within an hour. The weekly report that three people assemble by hand because the shape of it changed last quarter.
These are not hard problems. They are specific problems, and specificity is exactly what off-the-shelf software cannot serve.
What changed
Coding agents can now write this software. Not a prototype — the actual thing, with the actual rules, in an afternoon.
What they produce is code. Code is not yet software a team can use.
That list is the difference between a script that ran once on someone's laptop and a system a team depends on. It is unglamorous, it is the same every time, and it is where most agent-built software quietly dies.
What a pod is
A pod is the unit that closes that gap. It holds the parts that make generated code into working software, and it holds them together.
Tables and files with real permissions, so state outlives the conversation that created it.
The steps that run the same way every time, whoever triggers them.
Named workers with scoped access, doing the parts that need judgment.
Where people meet the work — an app, or the chat tool they already use.
People use the app. Agents work through the same state and the same workflows. Neither is a guest in the other's system.
Building one
Install Lemma
Download the desktop app and choose Local, or point the CLI at a server you already run.
Create a pod
One command scaffolds the whole structure, including a starter you can throw away.
lemma pod create my-team --with-starterDescribe what you need
Open the directory in your coding agent and ask for the software you want. The agent authors and verifies the pod through the same CLI you just used.
Give it a surface
Connect Slack, Teams, WhatsApp or Telegram — or ship the app. The pod is the same either way.
Why it has to be open
Software a team depends on should not be something they can lose. Lemma runs on your laptop, your server, or our cloud, and the pod is a directory you own — exportable, diffable, and importable by anyone you send it to.
That last property is the one that matters most over time. A pod someone else built is a pod you can read, change, and make yours.