DemanualAI Labs
Tools we built for ourselves, for founders like us.
We build the tools we wish existed as a small founding team. We run our own work on them until they hold up day to day, then give them to other solo and small-team founders.
Kuri
Capture conversations at events and on the road, before they’re gone.
After a two-day expo, the useful details of thirty chats are gone by the flight home. Kuri is an offline-first mobile app for logging what people actually said, tagging how much to trust it, and making sure every follow-up happens.
- Works offline; everything stays on your phone
- Name and company optional, so capture takes seconds
- Tag pain (low, medium, high) and set a follow-up date
- Evidence quality: volunteered, general ask or prompted
- Home screen of overdue, today and upcoming follow-ups
- Export ZIP, PDF, CSV or JSON to Drive, WhatsApp, email or Files
Tested at TechSprint Expo 2026 and Founders Meetup, Madras.
A problem raised unprompted is worth more than one agreed to.
Kuri tags every note as Volunteered, General ask or Prompted, so across every event you can see which pains people brought up themselves, and which ones you put in their mouths.
Halcyon
Chat, issues and time tracking in one workspace, with AI agents as teammates.
Small teams lose hours switching between Slack, Linear and a timesheet. In Halcyon, the conversation, the issue and the hours live together, and agents work inside the same threads as people.
- Inbox for mentions, DMs, assignments and automation runs
- Issues in list and board views, with projects and cycles
- Timesheet: estimates, a timer and logged time on every issue
- Channels, DMs and meetings with notes, summaries and actions
- AI agents as teammates in the same threads and issues
- Automations, such as posting shipped work to #releases
Screenshots show sample workspace data.
What's ready, and what's next.
A hiring tool for founders without a recruiter is next. We'll share details once we've run our own hiring through it.
| Tool | Solves | Platform | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kuri | Losing conversations and follow-ups after events | Mobile | Internal use |
| Halcyon | Switching between chat, issues and timesheets | Web | Internal demo |
| Hiring tool | Early hiring without a recruiter | To be decided | Coming soon |
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