The routine never got automated
Copying the deal into the CRM, retyping the ticket into Jira, filling in the vendor portal that will never have an API. Real automation took weeks and an analyst nobody had, so the work stayed by hand.
About
Who is behind the address.
Copyboy is built in Dallas by Pneumatic Software Inc., the team behind Pneumatic Workflow, an open-source workflow platform under Apache 2.0. We have spent years watching companies run their processes in SaaS trackers, chats and portals. Copyboy is what we built once the routine between those tools could finally be given to someone who is not a person.
Origin
Three things we kept seeing. One missing piece.
The bill came, the work didn't move
Companies gave everyone a chat seat and a bot in every platform. The routine was still done by hand, just with better autocomplete, and the finance team got one line called “AI” with nothing underneath it.
Nobody could say what the money bought
Tokens per key is not an answer. The person paying wanted to know which task, asked by whom, in which tool, cost what and worked or not. No agent product gave them that row.
The missing piece was the oldest onboarding there is. Every company already knows how to hire an intern: an email invite, a seat in the tools, tasks in the tracker, a correction in a comment. So that is how a Copyboy is hired, and the bill at the end of the month is a list of those tasks.
What we decided, and kept
Four rules the product is built on.
- No list of supported apps. There is no integration for Trello, Salesforce or anyone else in the product. A Copyboy is invited like a person, signs in like a person, and finds the product's MCP server or API himself. If a person can use the software in a browser, so can he. Guarded by blind runs: a field test of the engine is told nothing about the product.
- The person who invites him never opens our console. Her whole interface is his address and the product she added him to. Anything he needs to ask is asked there. The console is for the administrator and for the bill.
- He plays by the same rules as the staff. His own account and name, only the tools he was put in, a question before a change, a stop where a person is needed. The full list is on the security page.
- Every task is a row on the bill. Who asked, where, what he did, with what model, outcome, duration, cost, and a link to the result. Work that does not end as that row did not happen as far as the product is concerned. Sample numbers are always labelled and never mixed in.
Field log
What the engine has done on its own so far.
Dated runs, not a roadmap. Each one was done by the product's own engine, told nothing about the product. Where a person stepped in, the row says so.
| Date | Product | What happened |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-14 | Pneumatic | First end-to-end run: sign-in, found and created his own API key, made a verified call. The product's first proof. |
| 2026-09-16 | Trello | First real invite in production. Atlassian's sign-up rejected the browser once and a person clicked through; he then read Atlassian's own docs, created a Power-Up and came back with key and token. Connected through the API. |
| 2026-09-17 | Pneumatic | Production invite to ready in three and a half minutes, API verified. Since then he reads that product's new work on his own. |
| 2026-09-23 | Asana · Trello · Salesforce · Monday | Asana connected through the API on its own. Trello and Salesforce joined as browser-only connections. Monday stopped at a Google-only sign-in, which is where the connected Google account came from. |
| 2026-09-30 | Pneumatic | Ready in three minutes with experience from earlier runs switched on. The work desk then paused itself after three unproductive looks, which is how the “documented reads only” rule got enforced. |
| 2026-10-29 | Model usage | Included model usage went live: a real call through a scoped, short-lived credential, settled at seven microdollars, with the unused reservation released. |
Slack was last tried on 2026-09-15, before the current browser, and has not been re-tested. We say so rather than list it.
People
Who to write to.
Anton Seidler
Founder. Runs Pneumatic and Copyboy, and reads what comes to the contact address.
Pneumatic Software Inc., 8350 N Central Expy, Suite 1900, Dallas, Texas 75206. Pneumatic on GitHub and LinkedIn.