Build a team. Ship your project. Stay in the game.
Nex Staff is a web platform for solo founders who need a company-sized skill set on a one-person budget — and a journey that doesn't grind them down. Most tools help you work alone. We help you feel like you're building with a team, so you keep showing up.
Solo founders wear every hat: product, marketing, content, research, coding, ops. Most can't afford a real team. Generic AI chat helps in the moment, but it doesn't feel like having people — you still wait, context-switch, and carry the mental load yourself.
Over weeks and months, that isolation turns into something worse than being busy: boredom and burnout. Same blank doc. Same stuck feature. No one to high-five when something ships. Many solo founders don't quit because the idea failed — they quit because the journey felt lonely, repetitive, and draining.
That leads to a familiar spiral:
| Struggle | What it feels like |
|---|---|
| No depth in every field | You need a blog, a landing page, and a data pull — but you're strong in none of them |
| Low budget | Contractors and agencies are out of reach; every tool is another subscription |
| No time | Side project nights disappear into research rabbit holes and half-finished drafts |
| Boredom & demoralization | The grind feels endless — no teammates, no visible wins, no reason to open the app tomorrow |
Current AI products treat you like a power user in a terminal. Nex Staff treats you like a boss with a staff — and gives you an office worth coming back to.
Solo founders — indie hackers, first-time builders, side-project operators — who:
- Have an idea or product in motion and need output across multiple disciplines
- Want to delegate, not prompt-engineer every task from scratch
- Prefer conversation and a sense of progress over dashboards and API keys
- Are tired of solo grind — the quiet evenings, the stalled momentum, the feeling that nobody else is in the room
- Need the journey to stay alive and motivating, not another chore they eventually abandon
You run a pixel office — not a spreadsheet with a chat box. An Assistant is your coordinator at Reception. You walk the floor, see who's working, hire specialists, and delegate quests. Staff work async in the background; when they finish, you get a quest complete moment — a notification, a walk-in, a deliverable to open. Small wins stack up. The project moves. You stay in the game.
You (Boss)
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Assistant ──► chat, documents, research, coordination
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├── hire ──► Specialist staff join your roster
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└── delegate ──► Staff work async (you don't wait)
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Deliverable + notification
Building alone is hard on morale. Nex Staff is designed around momentum and presence:
- A team you can see — desks, names, idle/working/done states; your office fills up as you hire
- People to talk to — NPC dialogue with the Assistant and staff, not a cold prompt window
- Wins you can feel — task board progress,
!emotes when work is done, quest-complete banners - Forward motion without waiting — delegate and keep exploring; staff ship while you plan the next move
The goal isn't only faster output. It's making the founder journey less lonely and less boring — so you keep building long after the initial excitement fades.
AI agents, not one chat thread. Each staff member has a role, tools, and access to your company knowledge. The Assistant routes work, tracks progress, and reports back — so you're managing a team, not babysitting a model.
Documents as company memory. Upload specs, notes, and references to the Archive Room. Staff and the Assistant pull from the same knowledge base so work stays on-brief.
Real coding staff via Cursor SDK. Coder staff run on Cursor Cloud Agent (@cursor/sdk) against your GitHub repo — open PRs, ship changes without you living in the IDE. Live website previews are served via Cloudflare Workers (per-branch preview URLs; falls back to Cloudflare Pages when Workers is not configured).
Quality you can trust — eval harness. Worker output is measured, not assumed. Routing benchmarks, deliverable rubrics, and checkpoint verification (Eval Framework) keep staff reliable as you add roles and scale delegation.
RPG-style UX on purpose. Workspace, desks, NPC dialogue, and quest-complete moments aren't decoration — they're how we fight founder fatigue. Building a company should feel like running a party in a game, not filling out another SaaS form until you lose interest.
| Area | What you get |
|---|---|
| Assistant | Single entry point — project chat, document upload, hire/delegate orchestration |
| Hire staff | On-demand specialists (Writer, Researcher, Coder, …) with role-specific tools |
| Delegate async | Background workflows; progress on the Task Board; ask "how's Alex doing?" anytime |
| Documents | Archive Room + RAG — briefs and references linked to staff |
| Coder staff | Cursor SDK Cloud Agent on your repo; PRs + live website preview on Cloudflare Workers |
| Workspace | Top-down pixel office — walk the floor, see who's busy, feel like you have a company |
| NPC dialogue | RPG overlay for talking to Assistant and staff — presence, not a dead chat log |
| Quest moments | Done emotes, completion banners, deliverable reveals — celebrate progress, not just store it |
| Eval harness | Metrics and test runners for routing accuracy and deliverable quality |
| Layer | Technology |
|---|---|
| Agents | AI SDK 7 — ToolLoopAgent (Assistant), DurableAgent + Vercel Workflow (staff tasks) |
| Coder staff | @cursor/sdk Cloud Agent on CODER_GITHUB_REPO_URL |
| Client websites | Cloudflare Workers — branch preview URLs for coder deliverables (CLOUDFLARE_WORKER_NAME; Pages fallback via CLOUDFLARE_PAGES_PROJECT_NAME) |
| Documents | Vercel Blob storage + Neon Postgres / pgvector for search |
| Harness | Eval framework — routing scenarios, deliverable rubrics, checkpoint gates (docs) |
| Sandbox | Vercel Sandbox for Writer deliverables (@ai-sdk/sandbox-vercel) |
| Models | Google Gemini (default) or OpenRouter — see LLM_PROVIDER |
| App | Next.js 16, React 19, Tailwind CSS v4, Better Auth |
Full stack and data flow: Architecture.
For local setup, environment variables, and dev commands, see Architecture and AGENTS.md.
| Document | Description |
|---|---|
| PRD | Product requirements and user stories |
| Architecture | Technical architecture |
| Agent System | Hiring, delegation, supervision, checkpoints |
| Eval Framework | Worker quality metrics, tests, eval harness |
| Data Model | Database schema |
| API | REST endpoints, tools, events |
| UI/UX | Workspace tilemap + NPC dialogue |
| Voice Chat | Voice STT/TTS plan (Phase 2+) |
| Roadmap | MVP → v2 roadmap |
Foundation is in place — auth, database, health check, deploy scaffolding, workplace UI, and core agent flows. See Roadmap for what's next.
Thanks to everyone who has helped build Nex Staff:
| Contributor | GitHub |
|---|---|
| Viet-Tien | @nvti |
| Hong Hanh | @honghanhh |
| NLag | @NLag |
| Phuong Nhi | @ctpnheee |
| Anh Nguyen | @anh-nguyen-79 |
Maintained by tihado.