How to manage an AI project with Byoi
Byoi is the workspace for managing AI projects: backlog, decisions, and context become versioned files in your Git, ready for any agent to read.
updated 2026-07-10
Managing an AI project is different from managing a regular one: the agent forgets context between runs, old decisions get lost, and prompts drift out of sync. Byoi fixes that by organizing backlog, decisions, and context as versioned Markdown, generating reproducible prompts, and keeping the project useful outside the app.
In one sentence
Byoi is a workspace where every card is Markdown in your Git and every agent prompt is assembled from versioned context.
Why it exists
AI agents can write code well. The bottleneck is giving them correct context, remembering decisions, and preventing the next run from contradicting the previous one. Byoi organizes that before the prompt.
Bring Your Own Intelligence
Your AI, your data, your config. You choose providers, keep the project in Git, and version workflow rules alongside the work.
Practical freedom
The promise is not abstract. You can open the repo outside Byoi, read cards as Markdown, read decisions as ADRs, edit context in your editor, and hand the same repository to a coding agent.
Practical customization
The board does not need to follow a fixed taxonomy. Columns, card types, and preferences live in versioned configuration, so the product follows the project instead of imposing universal ceremony.
Frequently asked questions
How do you manage an AI project without losing context between agent runs
Keep the backlog, decisions, and project rules as versioned files in Git instead of loose chat threads. Byoi organizes those into cards, decisions, and context, and assembles the agent prompt from those files, so every run starts from the same real project context.
What is the difference between managing an AI project and a regular software project
In a regular project, the team remembers past decisions through shared history. In an AI project, the work is executed by an agent with no memory across sessions, so decisions, architecture, and rules need to exist as versioned text that gets read again on every prompt.
Do I need a paid tool to organize AI project context
No. Byoi's free plan already covers the full individual workflow: capture a card, register a decision, edit context, and generate a prompt. Paid plans exist for volume and future collaboration, not for the basics to work.
Does Byoi lock my project inside the tool
No. All project content stays in Markdown in your Git repository. You can clone it, edit it outside Byoi, or hand the same repo to any coding agent at any time.