March 21, 2026

Build Log 05: The Public Face.

Feb 26-28 — the product needed a face for the outside world.

A product can be functionally complete and still feel unfinished. That's where Scindo was heading into Feb 26. Everything worked. Nothing looked like it was ready for strangers.

What Got Built

Three days of surface work. Built the blog site — it reads markdown files at build time, no CMS, no database, just files turning into pages. Created a feedback system where user submissions get AI-digested into summaries so nothing gets lost in a pile of raw text.

Multi-repo workspace support landed. Before this, one workspace meant one repo. Now a workspace maps to as many repos as the team uses. Complete settings overhaul — five tabs covering workspace, members, billing, integrations, and account. Account deletion flow with proper confirmation. Inline Stripe card form that keeps you on the page instead of bouncing to a Stripe redirect.

Onboarding got tighter. Fewer steps, less confusion. And the @mention system simplified down to a single "Agent" entry instead of making people choose between specialist roles before they understand what those roles do.

Why This Matters

Blog, settings, billing, onboarding — none of these are the product. But they're the difference between "this is a prototype" and "this is something I'd pay for." Users form trust in the first 30 seconds. If the settings page looks half-done, they assume the agent is half-done too.

The Pattern

Every build log so far has been about making the product work. This one was about making it presentable. Both matter. But you can't ship the second one first — you need the working product to know what the public face should look like.

The inside was done. Now the outside matched.