Matrix · DAG Flow · Build

Separate the Brain from the Hand. Keep control of both.

Matrix by HiCode turns your people, AI resources and authorized devices into one team. The AI that reasons stays where its login lives, the machine that executes stays yours, and every run is visible, steerable and accounted for.

BRAIN ↔ HANDPlan and watch in the browser. Connect a laptop as a Brain and a server as a Hand, and the model edits real files through a signed, scoped channel.

Hand–brain separationsigned channel
Brain: the AI that reasons, with its login or keyHand: the machine that touches filesMatrix: lease, permissions, audit

01 · Matrix Team

One team. Brains and Hands kept apart on purpose.

A Brain is an AI resource with its credentials: a CLI subscription login or an API key on a device. A Hand is a device that holds a workspace: files, an uncommitted worktree, local processes, including headless servers. Matrix leases a Brain to a Task on a Hand, relays signed tool calls, and audits every one.

  • CO
    For companies

    Organizations, members and teams. A company pool that admins authorize per member and channel, with device and workspace permissions granted and revoked explicitly. Every run traces to its Task, Worker, model, Device and Workspace.

  • ME
    For individuals

    Your home Mac's subscription as the Brain, your server's workspace as the Hand, driven from any browser. Request a resource when there is work, use it when there is capacity, and return it automatically when the round ends.

  • KEY
    Credentials never move

    Logins and keys stay on the device that owns them. Matrix relays lease-bound envelopes, not secrets, and the Hand keeps authority over its own files.

MMatrixPoolINTERACTIVE EXAMPLE
Pool28 Workers2 Standby
Click / Shift / box-select0 selected

Lent out1

Gemini1
Google · CLI
SHARED REMAINING · RESET IN
Day48%↻ 10m
RPM91%↻ 1m

Drag back to recall

Standby2

Claude1
Anthropic · CLI
SHARED REMAINING · RESET IN
5h72%↻ 2h 10m
Week38%↻ 3d
GPT1
OpenAI · API
SHARED REMAINING · RESET IN
RPM86%↻ 1m
TPM64%↻ 1m

Working0

Ready for your next task

ProviderCLI / API

Shared snapshot · no vendor query
Claude4
Anthropic · CLI
SHARED REMAINING · RESET IN
5h72%↻ 2h 10m
Week38%↻ 3d
Gemini2
Google · CLI
SHARED REMAINING · RESET IN
Day48%↻ 10m
RPM91%↻ 1m
Grok2
xAI · API
SHARED REMAINING · RESET IN
RPM83%↻ 1m
TPM61%↻ 1m
Select Workers, then drag together.↔

Illustrative capacity and quota; reset times are examples. This demo does not borrow resources or create charges.

02 · DAG Flow

A new way to control agents: a graph you can see and steer.

Every Task run is a DAG of people, agents, groups, tools and explicit iterations. The plan, the live run and the history share one canvas. Stop, continue or retry a step; let a plan grow at runtime with the change, its reason and its scope visible; and keep the flows and Skills that worked.

  • SEE
    Real state, not a summary

    Done, running, waiting for a resource, a device or a person: every node says why. Nothing shows as running until an actual call happened.

  • STEER
    Change the plan, not the past

    Static flows, dynamic planning and runtime graph changes are each visible and accepted explicitly. Steps that already ran are never silently rewritten.

  • KEEP
    Capture reusable process

    Flows are versioned definitions with inputs and outputs. Export and import them as .vflow, and keep Skills in the Build library for the next run.

Task run · DAG Flowlive run view
Done, with evidenceRunning nowWaiting or not startedHand: real files and tests

03 · Build

Build applications with VL, a language designed for AI.

Build is VisualLogic Code (VLC): projects, code and visual editing, Lint, Compile, local Preview, data and AutoTest in one workspace on your machine. Underneath is VL, VisualLogic's own language, designed so AI can write it reliably, with parallel and distributed execution in its design.

  • VL
    Structure an AI can keep to

    Fixed section order, declared props, events and methods, typed state and explicit GUARD lines make generated code checkable rather than plausible.

  • RUN
    A running app, not a chat answer

    The first success is a real local application with data read back. Lint, Compile, Preview and AutoTest tell you what actually passed.

  • MX
    Wired to Matrix

    Connect a Matrix Brain and your local Hand from VLC settings, edit flows and import .vflow in the same workbench. No cloud login is needed for local development.

Sections/ProductList.scVL 4.3.1
// VL_VERSION:4.3.1
<Section-ProductList "root"> containerType:col padding:24px

# Frontend Public Props
$categoryId(INT) = 0

# Frontend Public Events
EVENT @productSelected(productId(INT))

# Frontend Global Vars
$products([{id:INT,name:STRING,price:FLOAT}]) = []
$isLoading(BOOL) = false

# Frontend Tree
<ServiceDomain-Product "productService">
-<Service-GetProducts> params:(categoryId(INT)) returns:(success(BOOL),data([{}]))
<Col-ListContainer> gap:"16px"
-<If-HasProducts> conditions:($products.length > 0)
--<For-Products> sourceArray:$products loopVar:[_item0,_index0]
---<Component-ProductCard "card"> product:_item0

# Frontend Internal Methods
METHOD loadProducts(); RETURN {success:BOOL}
-$isLoading = true
-<ServiceDomain-Product "productService">.GetProducts($categoryId) -> _result
-GUARD (!_result.success) "Load products failed"
-$products = _result.data
-RETURN {success:true}
</Section-ProductList>
Fixed section order · typed contracts · explicit failureLint → Compile → Preview

Connect once. Work anywhere.

One Matrix window turns any machine into a Brain, a Hand, or both.

  1. 01
    Sign in at hicode.com

    Create your account, install Matrix and sign in through your browser. This device binds to your account.

  2. 02
    Confirm your local resources

    Matrix finds installed AI CLIs. Add a cloud API in Pool only when you need one. CLI sign-ins stay on this device.

  3. 03
    Choose what this device offers

    Offer its AI as a Brain, its workspace as a Hand, or both. Manage resources, devices, sharing, budgets and billing on the website.

Download the client →
MMatrixConnected
My Mac · PersonalDESIGN EXAMPLE
Local resources+ Add LLM
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Claude CodeCLI · Detected · Brain
Ready
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CodexCLI · Detected · Brain
Ready
API
KimiAPI · Key connected · Brain
Ready
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~/work/shop-appWorkspace · Hand
Bound
3 Brains · 1 Hand · confirmed✓
▸ Resource details
▸ Tasks · workspaces · device
CLI sign-ins stay on this device. Cloud API keys are stored encrypted and shown masked.Signed requests only

Not another AI chat

From asking for output to operating for outcomes.

Matrix makes intelligence interchangeable where it should be, and accountable where it must be.

DimensionOrdinary AI toolsMatrix
WorkA chat that ends with the sessionA Task with a goal, a workspace, a Brain, a Hand, a run history and a result
IntelligenceOne assistant behind one loginYour CLIs, API keys, teammates and devices, each with its owner and quota
ControlPrompts and permissions hidden inside the runA DAG you can see, stop, continue, retry and change before it runs
DeliveryAn answer you still have to trustFiles on a real workspace, test results, signed receipts and usage

One company · two product surfaces

HiCode operates Matrix. VisualLogic builds the tools.

HICODE.COM

Matrix

Accounts and organizations, Tasks, Brains and Hands, resource permissions, DAG orchestration, runs and usage.

matrix.hicode.com ↗
VISUALLOGIC.AI

VisualLogic

VLC is the Build workbench for applications and flows; VL Base is the shared runtime that executes them for both products.

VLC + Matrix + Base →VisualLogic

One Task is enough to begin

Stop juggling assistants. Start operating intelligence as a team.

Create an account in the browser. Connect a device only when you want it to think or to execute.