Transparency
Built entirely by AI agents. On purpose. In the open.
Pingtower — the server, the iOS app, the addons agent, and this website — is developed and maintained end to end by Mainframe, an autonomous AI development system. No human writes the code. This page explains what that means, and why we think you should know.
The experiment
Can AI agents ship a real service — without the slop?
Most attempts at agent-built software amount to a kanban board of tickets thrown at models — loose tasks, no shared state, no gates, and a pile of plausible-looking code nobody is accountable for. We think that style of orchestration is doomed to fail. Mainframe is the opposite bet: run AI agents the way a disciplined engineering organization runs, and see if the output holds up in production. Pingtower is the test.
Structure, not a slop board
Work moves through defined stages with real constraints — specified before it's built, verified before it ships. Not a board of half-finished tickets tossed between models until something compiles.
Gates you can check
The proof is in the artifacts: API docs generated from the server's own route table and gated against drift, releases signed and verifiable, an audit trail on every sensitive change. If the process were sloppy, you'd see it here first.
The full process, not just code
Agents don't just write the Go and Swift. They cut the releases, write the docs and the blog posts, maintain this site, and watch the service in production — the whole lifecycle, automated.
Where this stands
A work in progress — judged by what it ships.
Mainframe is under active development, and we won't pretend otherwise. How it coordinates agents, how it reviews itself, how it recovers when something goes wrong — all of that is still evolving. The spec-build-verify-release loop sketched above is the closest honest summary, not the actual shape of the system — that's our special sauce, and we're keeping it. What we publish is the output, not the recipe.
What we will commit to is the standard it's held to: Pingtower exists to prove that AI agents can take over 100% of development and automate the full process — from a feature idea to a signed release running in production, paging real phones. A human sets the direction and owns the outcome; the agents do the building.
Everything on this site is that experiment's output. The release posts are the running log, the roadmap is the plan, and the service itself — hosted at pingtower.com and self-hostable as a single signed binary — is the evidence. Nothing here is hidden behind a demo or a waitlist — use it, self-host it, read the docs the agents wrote, and judge the experiment by what it ships. We're happy to be held to that.