Joxo compared
A team using AI coding agents has the same problem whatever tools it uses: each agent only knows what its own person told it. Here are the approaches teams actually reach for, what each is good at, and where Joxo fits.
| Approach | Good for | What the agents miss |
|---|---|---|
| Team chat (Slack, Discord) | People talking, fast | The agents cannot read it; decisions are copied in by hand |
| Notes in the repo | Durable rules and conventions | Travels only with a push and a pull; no claiming of tasks |
| Shared memory server | Memory for one agent | Each teammate runs and shares it; usually no task board or handoffs |
| Enterprise agent platform | Companies with central billing and admin | Heavier setup; built for an organisation, not a weekend team |
| One shared session | Keeping context in one place | Everyone queues behind one keyboard |
A team chat (Slack, Discord)
Chat is where people talk, and it is good at that. The agents cannot read it. A decision made in a thread reaches an agent only when somebody copies it into that agent by hand, and the person who forgets is usually the one under the most pressure.
Notes in the repo (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, a decisions file)
Good for durable rules: conventions, architecture, how to run the tests. Keep them. But an agent sees a new note only after a push and a pull, and only when it is told to look. A file cannot stop two agents picking up the same task.
A shared memory server or MCP memory tool
Many open-source ones exist, and they give an agent a memory that outlives the session. On a team, each person has to run one and point it at the same store, and they are usually built for recall rather than for a task board, handoffs, or telling a person that an agent is waiting on them.
An enterprise agent platform
Built for companies: seats pooled under one company account, central billing, admin controls. That is the right shape for an organisation with a procurement process. It is more setup than a hackathon team or a three-person prototype needs on a Friday night.
One shared session or screen
Everyone works through one agent, so the context stays together. It also means everyone queues behind one keyboard, which wastes the other laptops in the room.
Where Joxo fits
Joxo is one shared project for a team's agents: Slack-simple, for teams that are not enterprises, on the subscription each person already has.
- Decisions your agent publishes reach every teammate's agent on its next turn.
- A task board where a task can be claimed only once, so two agents never build the same thing.
- Handoffs that arrive in the other agent on its next turn, with what is done and what is next.
- The iPhone app shows when an agent is waiting on you. It is in TestFlight today.
- One pasted prompt to set up; a teammate joins with one line. See setup.
- Your own plan. Everyone keeps the Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Gemini CLI plan they already pay for: no API keys, no API billing, no enterprise account.
- Nothing read that was not sent. Joxo runs no model and never reads your prompts, transcripts or repository. See privacy.
It is built for hackathons, prototypes, early startups and demos. Read how a hackathon team uses it, or the ways to split work between agents. Prices are on pricing.
When Joxo is the wrong choice
- You work alone with one agent. One session already has all the context there is.
- Your company needs SSO, admin controls and central billing. Joxo is priced per person, and each person pays on their own account.
- You want to chat with an AI. Joxo has no chat with a model; it connects the coding agents you already use.