See it · the two-minute version

Watch what goes wrong
— and what doesn’t.

Two short stories about what your AI does when no one’s keeping track — and what changes when CatWrangler is. Pick where you see yourself.

Choose your path · jump to a story

Close-up of Maya, a solo founder, mid-sentence and smiling.

Path 1 · one person, over time

The Solo Founder

You and your AI, moving fast — until it quietly undoes your own past decision.

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Three founders smiling together, each with their own AI.

Path 2 · three founders, all at once

The Small Team

Three people, three AIs, one codebase — full speed, until everyone builds the same wall at once.

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Path 1 · one person, over time

The Solo Founder

Your worst conflict isn’t with a teammate — it’s with your own forgotten decision.

Monday. Maya tells her AI, an orange tabby named Pixel: never charge an order twice, even if the system retries. A Decision Card records the rule — charge each order only once (idempotent charges) — because retries were double-charging customers.
Mon · the good decisionA rule, captured with its reason: charge each order only once — because retries were double-charging customers.
It works. Maya ships and relaxes with coffee, Pixel asleep. The Monday decision files itself onto a glowing ember thread of past decisions.
Tue · shippedIt works. She ships. The decision files itself away.

Two days later, a fresh session. No memory of Monday.

the trap sets itself ↘

Wednesday. New session, fresh context. Pixel has a foggy thought bubble — no memory of Monday. Maya: payments time out sometimes, let's just retry the charge. Pixel: sure, adding retry logic.
Wed · new session"Payments time out — let’s just retry." Pixel has no memory of Monday.
The fork — same moment, two outcomes. Without CatWrangler: the existing charge-once code is silently overwritten by retry code, no warning. With CatWrangler: before any code is written, a Decision Card surfaces, linked to Monday's — you decided each order is charged only once because retries were double-charging; a naive retry would undo that. Pixel pauses, paws up.
The fork · same moment, two outcomes

the catch happens before a single line is written ✦

Friday. Without CatWrangler: a customer is charged twice, chargebacks, alerts everywhere — the decision was real but the reason was buried. With CatWrangler: one order, one charge, a quiet Friday — the decision and its reason were right there when she needed them.
Fri · the outcome

Every choice — yours or your agent’s — captured, reasoned, and tied to your code for all time.

Now imagine a whole team… ↓

Path 2 · three founders, all at once

The Small Team

Three friends, three AIs, full speed — the dream, until everyone builds the same wall at once.

Three founders — Sam, Priya and Theo — each with their own AI cat (Mochi, Saffron, Pepper) around one shared codebase tower: UI, API, Auth, Data, Billing. Let's build this thing.
01 · the setupThree founders, three AIs, one shared codebase.
All three AI cats type furiously in AI speed mode; the shared codebase tower grows fast. We just built a week of work before lunch.
02 · full speedA week of work before lunch.
All three cats reach for the same AUTH block at once: one cleaning up auth, one renaming auth routes, one building login on top.
03 · everyone reaches for the same piece
Without CatWrangler: no lanes, no gate. The tower collapses into rubble and red threads. Merge conflict, build failed, auth missing. Where did my login go? Why did my change disappear? I built on code that doesn't exist anymore.
04 · without · the pile-up

at AI speed, conflicts aren’t an edge case — they’re constant.

CatWrangler coordinates intent before any code changes land. Each cat's intent is surfaced on a card — clean up auth middleware, rename auth routes, build login on the current contract — in front of a protected shared codebase vault.
05 · with · intent firstCatWrangler reads each AI’s intent before code changes land.
Without CatWrangler, the humans become the merge engine — three exhausted founders stuck hand-resolving a merge conflict late at night while their cats droop over the laptops. Manual merges, manual stress, slower teams.
06 · the alternativeWithout it, you become the merge engine — at midnight.
With CatWrangler, each AI works in its own glowing lane — Mochi, Saffron and Pepper workspaces — all feeding through a protected gate into the shared codebase. One codebase, three lanes, zero conflicts.
07 · own lanesEach AI gets its own lane, feeding a protected gate. Zero conflicts.
CatWrangler the orchestrator coordinates intent before changes land — Mochi, Saffron and Pepper intents shown aligned, no conflicts, safe to merge. All set: work in your lane, I'll handle the merge.
08 · coordinated"Work in your lane — I’ll handle the merge."
AI-powered intelligent merges handle the heavy lifting. A merge engine diagram: compatible work merged automatically and approved to the codebase; a true conflict rerouted back to Saffron's workspace to rework against the merged version.
09 · intelligent merges do the heavy lifting
Many agents, one codebase, no pile-up. The three founders and their cats celebrate beside a clean, complete codebase tower. Point your AI crew at CatWrangler — build at AI speed without the pile-up. Join the waitlist.
10 · many agents · one codebase · no pile-up

Many agents · one codebase · zero collisions

Point your whole crew at CatWrangler.

Build at AI speed without the pile-up — every decision remembered, every clash caught before it lands.

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