Hooktender logo — a laptop wearing a white foreman's hardhat
HOOKTENDER™

Your AI coder is re-reading everything. Every time.

Building one app with AI cost 6.9 billion tokens — because the AI re-read the entire project history on every single step. So we built the tool that runs the crew properly.

Hooktender breaks a project into checked steps, builds in parallel lanes, forecasts your quota, and stops at the cap you set. It builds until it needs you — not until your plan runs out.

Start the free trial 30 days, no card. Works with the plans you already have — your Claude subscription, your Copilot plan, Gemini on your own key, or local models free with Ollama.
Checked stepsWork is sliced into units, each reviewed before it lands
Parallel lanesSeveral builders at once, not one needy chat window
Quota forecastSee the cost before it is spent — and cap it
Your machineYour code and your logins never leave your computer
Stop babysitting

It builds until it needs you

AI coding agents are brilliant — and needy. Approve this. Answer that. Check whether it stalled again. Hooktender supervises the crew for you: describe the project, answer its questions in one pass, and it builds — in parallel lanes, with checkpoints — until the work is done or it genuinely needs you. Then it tells you exactly why it stopped, in plain words, on one dashboard.

Circuit breaker

Set the cap. It stops.

Every AI builder has the same nightmare: an agent looping at 3 a.m., burning the whole quota on the wrong thing. Hooktender checks the cap before every step and cannot cross it. When it pauses, it says why and waits for you. No runaway spend, no mystery stops.

How it works

Describe it. It builds it.

  1. Describe the project in plain words, in the prompt box on the dashboard.
  2. Answer the questions in one pass — the choices are laid out, the recommended one first.
  3. The crew builds in parallel lanes, each piece checked before it lands, with a full record you can undo with one click.
  4. You handle only what needs you — one ordered list of next steps on the dashboard, nothing buried in five tabs.

Plain language, on purpose

Built for people who build with AI but don't come from engineering. A walkthrough shows you the next step, and setup guidance names the service, the screen, and the button — every time.

Proof, not promises

Every landed piece carries its evidence: what changed, what was checked, and how to undo it.

Nothing leaves your machine

The desk runs where your work already lives. Your subscriptions stay yours — Hooktender never pays for tokens on your behalf, and never holds your logins.

Pricing

Simple pricing. No credit metering, ever.

Solo

$12/month

or $120/year

  • One person, unlimited projects
  • Parallel build lanes
  • Quota forecast and spend caps

Team

$20/month

first seat included, +$8 per added member

  • Everything in Solo
  • Shared desks for a crew
  • Client portal available as a $15/month add-on per desk

Every plan

  • Starts with a 30-day free trial — no card
  • No credit metering, no token charges
  • If a plan lapses, your work stays readable and exportable, forever

Start the free trial

Hooktender is in final testing. The 30-day, no-card trial opens here at launch — this page is live early so the launch lands on a site that's already been kicked around, not a fresh coat of paint.