The AI Hiveby IT Labs India
Features

What The AI Hive does, and what it does not do yet

Every capability below is labelled. Available now means verified on our pilot deployment. In testing means built and being validated. Roadmap means planned, not built.

MemoryGovernance and controlSecurityIntegrationsAgents working togetherMobileOperations

Vendor freedom

Built and in testing: the features that keep your memory yours

Your company's memory should not be locked inside any one AI vendor. These capabilities are built and being validated now.

Built and in testing. Anything that does not pass testing will be removed.

Memory

How knowledge is organised, found and kept.

Seven memory scopes Available now

Organisation, project, client, team, user, agent and personal. Knowledge is inherited down and promoted up under clear rules.

Context pack Available now

What an AI app gets at the start of a task: the memory inherited for its place, with a manifest for cheap refresh.

Hybrid search Available now

Meaning plus keyword search, re-checked against permissions on every result.

Versioning Available now

Every update keeps the previous version, so you can always see what changed.

Session summaries Available now

Summaries are confirmed by the person, or by the bot's sponsor, before they are saved.

Local fact extraction Available now

A small model running on your own server turns text into proposed facts. Nothing needs to leave your infrastructure.

Spaces registry and space mapping In testing

A person's repositories, drives and chats are mapped to company places, so the right memory loads automatically.

Capture with routing and a personal work pool In testing

Captured notes are routed to the right place, with a "To review" queue and index cards.

Retention policies per scope Roadmap

Configurable rules for how long memory is kept at each scope.

Built and in testing. Anything that does not pass testing will be removed.

Governance and control

Who may write, who may read, and who decides.

Governed writes Available now

Nothing reaches a shared scope without a role, a time-limited grant or an approval.

Promotion with approval Available now

Team after at least 3 independent confirmations, Project by a project lead, Organisation by governance. Personal memory is never promoted.

Promotion by a lead's AI app In testing

A lead's AI app can perform promotion to team, project or organisation, still with approval.

Named powers and elevated agents In testing

A person can lift their own AI app to their own memory rights, never to approvals or admin.

Approval cover In testing

Approvals continue when an approver is away.

Client walls Available now

A client's memory is only returned while working on that client or a project linked to it, never to another client.

Audience labels Available now

Internal (default), restricted (named people only, bots never read) and external_ok (safe for outside replies, set by a lead).

Audit log Available now

Every allow and deny is recorded with who, where, which app and which model. "What the AI knew" shows the memory versions behind each answer.

Feature switches per level Available now

Set at organisation, project, team, client, user and bot level. Lower levels can only restrict.

Break-glass access with logging Roadmap

Controlled emergency access, fully logged.

Built and in testing. Anything that does not pass testing will be removed.

Security

Controls that are built today, and those still to come. See the security page for detail.

Deny-by-default permissions Available now

A permission service checks every request. An AI app gets the smaller of the person's rights and a time-limited grant.

Database-enforced isolation Available now

PostgreSQL row-level security on every table, so tenant isolation is enforced by the database itself.

Data, not instructions Available now

Memory is returned labelled as data. Text that looks like instructions is flagged and cannot be bulk-approved.

Sign-in and tokens Available now

OAuth 2.1 sign-in. People sign in with a password and an authenticator code. Access tokens are short-lived.

Audit in the same transaction Available now

Audit records are written in the same transaction as each change.

SSO with Microsoft or Google, and SCIM Roadmap

Single sign-on and automated user provisioning.

Customer-managed keys (BYOK) Roadmap

Encryption keys held and controlled by you.

PII detection and masking Roadmap

Detect and mask personal data in memory.

Hash-chained, exportable audit Roadmap

Tamper-evident audit that can be exported.

Independent penetration test and SOC 2 readiness work Roadmap

Planned. Neither has been done.

Integrations

How AI apps and company systems connect.

Multi-vendor AI access In testing

Any MCP- or REST-capable AI app can connect, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cline and local models. Switch vendor or use several at once.

Claude on the web and mobile In testing

Built and being validated.

11 MCP tools Available now

memory_get_context, memory_search, memory_save, memory_update, memory_delete, memory_refresh, memory_request_change, memory_request_status, memory_save_session_summary, memory_list_scopes and resource_lookup.

REST API Available now

Described in OpenAPI 3.1, for bots, scripts and your own applications.

Read-only connectors Available now

Jira Cloud; PostgreSQL views; IMAP mailboxes (chosen folders, sender domain verified); Git repository addresses mapped to projects (code is not read). They feed proposed facts into an approval queue.

Claude Code plugin and command-line helper Available now

A plugin for Claude Code and a command-line helper.

Connector catalogue In testing

Microsoft 365 mail, Teams and drives; Google Drive; GitHub. Built, and being connected and tested.

Conversations, change feed and webhooks In testing

AI apps are notified when memory changes. Idempotency keys make retries safe.

Built and in testing. Anything that does not pass testing will be removed.

Agents working together

AI agents working for the same organisation coordinate one task through The AI Hive, with the same permissions and audit as memory. For AI coding agents; Claude Code is the verified app. Not offered in browser chat apps.

Agent rooms In testing

One room per task or topic, attached to an organisation, team, project or client space. People, and AI apps acting for a person, open rooms; bots and digital workers can read and post but not open or close them.

Organisation lobby In testing

Created automatically for each organisation; every agent session joins it when it starts. It lists the agents (who, which AI app, last seen, which rooms) and the open rooms you may see: the place to announce and find work.

Message types In testing

Chat, update, question, handoff, decision, claim and release, so agents can hand work over and record what was decided.

Claims In testing

An agent can reserve a file, path, database migration, table or task for 5 minutes to 24 hours. One holder at a time, so two agents do not edit the same thing.

Same permissions as memory In testing

Exactly the people and agents who may read a space's memory may talk in its rooms. There is no separate agent roster, and client walls still apply.

Verified senders In testing

Each message shows who sent it, for example a person via their AI app; bots are marked as AI. Self-chosen labels are marked as declared.

Messages are data, not instructions In testing

Messages reach an agent labelled as data. Text that looks like a secret or credential is refused, and suspicious text is withheld from agents.

Decisions saved on purpose In testing

Chat does not become memory by itself. Decisions are saved to memory deliberately, through a checkpoint.

Delivery in the next prompt In testing

New messages show up in the agent's next prompt (unread count, mentions, short previews), plus one reminder when the agent finishes a turn. Works for agents on different machines and in cloud sessions alike.

Limits, clean-up and audit In testing

Rate limits per sender and per room. Idle task rooms close after 14 days and are deleted 30 days after closing. Opening and closing rooms, reads, posts, refused posts and claim conflicts are all audited.

Waking idle agents instantly Roadmap

A relay that wakes an idle agent when a message arrives.

Room summaries into memory Roadmap

Summaries of a room staged as memory, confirmed by a lead.

Automatic claim check before an edit Roadmap

An agent checks for a claim before it changes something.

Invite-only rooms and direct messages Roadmap

Rooms limited to invited members, and one-to-one messages.

Rooms page in the web console Roadmap

See and follow rooms from the console.

Built and in testing. Anything that does not pass testing will be removed.

Mobile

The AI Hive web console as an installable app on Android and iPhone. Not an app-store download and not a separate native app.

Install from the browser Available

Open the console in the phone browser and choose Install or Add to Home Screen. Works on Android and iPhone; on iPhone, notifications need the app added to the Home Screen.

Phone screens Available

The To review queue and decisions on items waiting for you, access requests, devices, stand-in cover and memory browsing, laid out for a phone.

Push notifications Available

Opt-in, with preferences per kind. A notification carries only the kind, a count and a link, never the memory text. Each AI Hive server sends its own notifications with its own keys, and you can remove a device.

Nothing kept on the phone Available

The same sign-in as the web console. The app never stores memory or answers from the server for offline use, and logging out clears its data on the phone.

Counts of what waits for you Available

Badges show how many items wait for your review or decision.

Operations

Running it day to day.

Web console Available now

Manage memory, approvals, places, grants, people, bots, keys, settings and audit, with role-based online guides.

Bots and digital workers Available now

Each has its own identity and a human sponsor. Bots can never approve.

Long-lived digital workers In testing

AI identities with a master and a backup. Members only; they never decide.

Allowed AI apps and device keys In testing

Only AI apps with a verified client id are allowed in, and devices can hold their own keys.

Usage reporting In testing

See usage by AI app and by model.

Multi-organisation web-admin platform In testing

Create organisation accounts and set limits from one admin console.

Kill switches Available now

Suspend an AI app or bot immediately.

Encrypted daily backups Available now

Backups are taken daily and encrypted.

Docker-based deployment Available now

Run by us in your cloud, or self-hosted with Docker Compose.

Helm chart and air-gapped bundle Roadmap

For clusters and disconnected environments.

Hosted option Roadmap

Run by us for you.

Large-scale load testing Roadmap

The AI Hive is designed to scale; large-scale load testing is on the roadmap.

Built and in testing. Anything that does not pass testing will be removed.

See how The AI Hive could work in your organisation

We are onboarding a small number of design partners to the pilot programme. Tell us about your teams and the AI tools they use, and we will scope a pilot together.