Welcome the Boxcar Platform™ 2.0 - a collaborative software development environment where human expertise meets AI execution.
Coding models have made writing software easier, but making anything big enough to make an impact while keeping it maintainable and secure is still hard and expensive. Elite software development teams historically have made this more managable by taking a strategic and architectual look at software problem solving. Learn from our team and use Boxcar to experience what happens when small teams have access to the same collaborative processes, strategic frameworks, and comprehensive outputs that typically cost millions at top-tier agencies.
While other AI tools focus on writing code faster, Boxcar focuses on building the right software intentionally. Your team collaborates on strategy, user experience, and architecture while AI agents handle the technical implementation, security, and dev/ops – all within a shared visual workspace designed for human thinking, not machine syntax.
The platform centers around collaborative storytelling and decision-making. Every element of the solution is visualized with drill-in / drill-out mental maps that are easy to understand at a glance, and easy for LLMs to fit into meaningful contexts to reduce cost and enable private compute.
Team members take on specialized roles – strategist, UX director, technical architect – working together to define user journeys, success metrics, and system requirements. AI agents translate these decisions into secure, scalable implementations while generating the comprehensive documentation and strategic artifacts (persona grids, journey maps, measurement frameworks) that enable software to evolve with your business.
Some of the key ideas include:
- Code optional - we are engineers, we would never dream of hiding the underlying concrete implementations of the front-end, back-end, and infrastructure/ops of a project. But the goal is that you shouldn't ever need to go to that level. When you do, however, it will be well documented, clean, and easy to customize.
- Collaborative - true creativity and excellence comes from working together. AI has had a trend, lately, of isolation, we want to use it to bring back teams instead. Work with a suite of agents as you work with a talented team of people.
- Storytelling - building the right software requires understanding the people, problems, and systems involved with an architect mindset. The narrative of decision making, measuring success metrics, and ensuring the perspectives of users and stakeholders are represented is critical to success. This is not only important for AI agents to do their work correctly, it also provides exportable artifacts for future reference. This is the art of building the right thing and adapting it intentionally over time to a fast moving world.
- Opinionated - Boxcar is built on the shoulders of decades of architectural, engineering, and design experience. There are many ways to accomplish the same goals, but the Boxcar Platform includes specific best practices and patterns to ensure consistency, security, and confidence across the entire stack.
- Mental Mapping - Flow is crucial to work and building a mental model of a large system is crucial to establishing Flow. That's why the main editor is an isometric view with meaningful color and shape encoded Nodes. Anyone familiar with working with Nodes knows it's a nightmare to work with enormous sets of workflows, which is why we also support abstractions with drill in and drill out. That way, you organize your maps into managable sets that never get too crazy. This not only helps foster collaboration and easier mental models - it also dramatically reduces the cost and energy of AI compute, making even local LLMs with smaller context sizes viable for private and secure use.
- Extensibility - as a collaborative platform, custom agents using MCP/A2A and APIs can be integrated into your workflow in real-time.
The visual, node-based interface lets you think in systems and relationships rather than syntax. Everything from deployment to database optimization happens automatically, letting your team focus on understanding users, solving real problems, and building software that creates measurable impact.
So come and join us on this journey! We're so excited to see what you'll build on Boxcar.
Sign up to stay updated on our release schedule, or contact us at sales@tinmankinetics.com if you are interested in training your teams or have an idea for software that you'd like our help to make into a reality.
We’re extremely pleased to announce the launch of our first private beta.
