Lightbulb

Lightbulb is a team workspace where AI employees join channels and complete tasks alongside human team members.

Lightbulb is a collaborative team workspace designed for founding teams where AI employees act as active members in shared channels and direct messages. Users can mention agents like a CEO, Engineering, Finance, or Growth agent in a channel, and the agent reads the thread, completes the task, and posts the results directly back into the room for the team to view, approve, or continue. The platform supports shared sessions for tools like Claude Code and Codex, interactive approval cards for plans and spending, and a centralized document library. It is built for teams of three to fifteen people who use multiple agents and want to eliminate siloed AI interactions. The platform runs on a Mac app and an iPhone app on TestFlight, with isolated cloud environments hosted on AWS.

Lightbulb at a glance

Best for: Founder, Product manager
Runs on: Mac app, iOS, Web, self-hosted
Pricing: $50/month for workspace up to 5 people; +$20/month per person from the 6th; 30 days free
Released: October 2026
Category: AI agent tool
Website: thelightbulb.company

Key features

AI employees in team channels
Shared Claude Code and Codex sessions
Approval cards for plans and spending
Centralized document library
Isolated cloud environment on AWS
Bring your own ChatGPT account or API key

Use it for

Collaborating with AI agents in shared team channels
Reviewing and approving agent tasks and spending
Watching and continuing teammate coding sessions live
Storing and organizing agent-generated documents

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