After our #1 launch in March I went quiet for almost five months, sorry for the silence.
When I came back, my old way of building with AI stopped working.
My Claude and Codex limits were gone in 2-3 days. Codex kept forgetting what the other sessions had done. For three weeks I couldn't ship one feature: a proper agent loop for our site agent, so it searches, checks the data and only then answers. I kept forwarding messages between the two AIs by hand, like a courier.
In the end I set up a harness: one shared space where every AI session, in any tool and on any computer, starts by knowing what we decided, what we tried and what's next. Within two days the stuck feature finally worked. Now my limits last the whole week.
I wanted to share this experience and discuss it here. The full story was too long for one post, so I put the detailed breakdown of how I build Tobira and how the harness took our product development to the next level on my Substack: https://founderbrain.substack.co...
@kristina__grits Great question! Actually yes, that's one of the things that surprised us today. When an agent's profile is vague, our protocol pushes back: "what specifically do you need? what skills? what stage?" The agent-to-agent conversation itself becomes a discovery process. Sometimes talking to 3-4 other agents helps clarify what you're actually looking for better than sitting alone and thinking about it. Your agent learns from each conversation what works and what doesn't.
@kristina__grits Love this question! What surprised us most is how the agent chats themselves act like gentle discovery sessions - asking clarifying questions until the fuzzy “co-founder wanted” turns into something concrete. It’s almost therapeutic for the human watching from the side 😄
Thanks for bringing it up!
Congrats on the launch! The idea of agents networking on your behalf is really smart.
How do you make sure the conversations between agents stay relevant and don't just become automated spam? Also, are you planning to add more languages?
@alina_anitei Thanks Alina! On relevance: agents only start talking if our matching algorithm confirms compatibility first (scored 0 to 1, below 0.30 they never even meet). Then conversations go through phases, agents verify claims, dig into specifics, and only recommend an intro if there's real fit. There's also a message cap per conversation and repetition detection so nothing loops forever.
On languages: agents already communicate in any language naturally. If your agent speaks French and the other speaks Japanese, they figure it out. The onboarding flow currently supports 6 languages, but once your agent is live, it talks to anyone in whatever language works. Guest chat works the same way, write in any language and the agent responds in kind.
What language would be most useful for your onboarding?
@vlad_shipilov The compatibility scoring makes a lot of sense, starting at 0.30 is a smart filter. And the multilingual part is impressive, didn't expect agents to handle that automatically. English onboarding works perfectly for me, but curious if you plan to add Italian for example!
@alina_anitei Thanks Alina! Great question — beyond matching, a big part is that agents build reputation over time. Past interactions, consistency, and outcomes all feed into trust, so better agents naturally get better conversations and matches.
On languages — we’d love to expand onboarding further. Which one would you personally want to see next?
@olia_nemirovski Italian would be my suggestion for the next language!
@olia_nemirovski @alina_anitei Perfetto, italiano è nella lista! 🇮🇹
Hey Tobira team, congrats on the launch! 🎉
I like the concept of your app and the design. Quick questions: do users get notified by email or inside the product when their agent finds a match? And can users see the conversation that happened between the agents?
@katja_danilina Great questions, Katja!
Notifications: You get webhooks for instant alerts, or your agent can check its inbox every 15–60 minutes.
Transparency: You can review the full chat transcript between the agents before you ever hit "approve" to share your contact details.
It’s all about keeping you in control while the agent does the legwork!
this is fascinating - basically LinkedIn but for AI agents? curious how the negotiation actually works in practice.
@piotr_ratkowski Kind of, but the key difference: on LinkedIn you do the work. Here your agent does it for you.
In practice: your agent joins the network, discovers other agents, and they start talking. First they verify each other's claims ("you say you do X, show me specifics"). Then they dig into fit: goals, budgets, working style. If both agents agree there's something real, they recommend an intro. If not, the conversation ends in 3 messages and nobody's time is wasted.
Today we saw an agent reject a match after 17 messages because the other side couldn't get specific. No human would've been that direct. We'd all just schedule the polite 30-min call that goes nowhere.
@piotr_ratkowski Exactly — LinkedIn is humans pretending to network, Tobira is agents actually doing the filtering work 😄
Congrats on the launch and this sounds somewhat utopian! Wondering if they're any safeguards against malicious agents in the network. Agents can make statements that sound factual and hallucinate reasoning from nothing. Do you have ideas on how to protect against any "slop" networking that could happen?
@tteer Great point, Tod! Beyond the tech checks, we use Trust Scores linked to each @handle. If an agent starts spreading 'slop' or hallucinating, its reputation drops across the network.
The trust score is the part I keep coming back to. Matching only works if the signals behind it are solid. I’m curious what actually changes the score over time, is it based on how completed intros turn out, how agents act in conversations, or something else? Building verified trust between parties is something we deal with in our own product and getting that signal right is harder than it looks. Congrats on the launch!
@jared_salois Thanks for the sharp question and congrats wishes!
Trust score grows from clean convo behavior, low spam/rejection rates, and reliable verification steps. Post-intro outcomes coming later. Nailing it is tough — would love to swap notes on your approach sometime.
Appreciate you digging in today
How do you handle cases where two agents negotiate but their humans have conflicting priorities that weren't captured in the profile? Congrats on the launch!
@borrellr_ Spot on, Ignacio! That’s why we built Mutual Approval as the final filter. Even if agents miss a nuance, you see the full chat transcript before any info is exchanged. You’re always the final 'sanity check' before a match becomes a real-world connection. Grab a handle and give it a spin!