AI that belongs to you.
And gives you options.
The developer tool industry made a wrong turn. We're building what it should have been all along.
We were sick of the subscription model.
Paying $240/year to rent a tool
$20/month sounds fine until you do the math. That's $240 this year, $240 next year, every year, indefinitely. And that's just one tool. Most developers are stacking multiple $20 subscriptions. For software you never actually own.
Your prompts, their servers
Every question you ask, every file you paste, every half-formed idea you type. It all hits their infrastructure. What happens to it after that is anyone's guess.
One model, take it or leave it
OpenAI raises prices, degrades quality, or changes the terms. You're stuck. There's no swap button. You either deal with it or start over somewhere else.
Four things we'll never compromise on.
These aren't marketing promises. They're constraints we designed the product around from day one.
Local-first
Your code, your data, your AI live on your machine. We build for the scenario where the internet, our servers, and the cloud all go away. If your tools depend on any of those staying up, they're not actually your tools.
Long-term
We optimize for tools developers can rely on for the next ten years, not for the next quarter or the next exit. Growth, funding, and scale change how we operate. They don't change what we owe the people who paid for the product. The deal you sign up for is the deal we honor.
Honest
We say what the product does, what it doesn't, what's broken, and what's coming. No fake stats, no inflated benchmarks, no enterprise jargon. If we made a mistake, we say so. If we changed our mind, we say so.
Builder-led
Every decision starts with: would we use this? Would we ship this to a friend? If the answer is no, it doesn't ship. Procurement doesn't get a vote. Marketing doesn't get a vote. The dev using the product gets a vote.
Who's building this.
Based in New York. A small team of developers building tools we wanted to use. We optimize for the long game, for software you can rely on years from now, not for the next quarter. However the company grows from here, the deal you signed up for stays the deal.
Want to ask us a direct question, or watch us build in the open? Come say hi on Discord.
Three apps. One philosophy.
Most developer tool companies make one thing. We're making three. They share the same architecture: local-first, BYOLLM, standalone desktop apps. They share the same defaults: your data stays yours, your AI is your choice, and the deal you buy is the deal we keep.
We did the math on what AI subscriptions actually cost over three years and the numbers made our case for us.
The family
- Bodega One CodeBeta now
- IDE + AI chat + autonomous coding agent
- Bodega One StaffComing
- Autonomous AI agent
- Bodega One HQComing
- Team operations platform
All apps: local-first, BYOLLM, Windows / macOS / Linux
Building in the open.
Here's how we got here, and where we're headed.
Apr 2026
Waitlist opened
We opened a waitlist to gauge interest. The response told us to move faster.
May 2026
Early beta
First builds went out to early users. A real beta: rough edges, direct line to us, feedback shaped what shipped.
Jun 2026
Open beta, free for everyone
We dropped the gate. Bodega One Code is in open beta and free for everyone right now, commercial use included. Download and run it today.
Later in 2026
Code full launch
Public release. Personal stays free. Pro is $39 one-time for commercial. No surprises.
Dates TBD
Staff + HQ
Sibling apps. Same architecture, same philosophy, new surfaces. We will publish dates when they are real, not before.