Mycel

Mycel is software for businesses that sell work rather than a product — recruiting, bookkeeping, search optimisation, contract review, consulting — built around the bottleneck such firms describe most often, that every deliverable has to pass through the owner. A firm supplies a past deliverable, and the system drafts later ones in the same form; each job runs inside a sandbox, an approval step sits before anything goes out, and the output is tracked as a deliverable against a client and, eventually, an invoice. The security design is the part worth reading, and the company's repository states it plainly: the agent never holds a credential. It receives an opaque placeholder, while the harness holds the real secret, shows a preview of the outward action, performs it only on approval and writes an audit record, and the destination of every write is taken from the connection rather than from anything the agent produced. A service is defined as configuration — a manifest plus skills and knowledge — rather than a fork of the engine, and the project drives an existing open-source coding agent instead of shipping its own loop. The kernel is published under the Apache 2.0 licence and can be self-hosted free. The hosted service is priced on the company's site at $299 a month for Starter (two businesses, three seats, 2,000 jobs a month) and $899 for Growth (ten businesses, ten seats, 10,000 jobs), with Scale priced on request and a discount for the launch period. Two caveats come from the company itself: its repository describes the project as pre-alpha, with interfaces still changing and a warning not to pin to it yet, and it describes the hosted cloud as invite-only even though the site lists plans. This was its first launch.