Convivy

Convivy is an agentic software engineering lab operated by Jay Porter.

In the process of creating one product, I (Jay) ended up building an extensive agentic development platform. Using that platform to develop software has become a bit of a flywheel: the agentic engineering system helps us build the software, and building the software helps us build a better agentic engineering system.

Field Notes

Also, I have a blog. (It’s 2006 somewhere!)

Agentic software engineering is still nascent. The sense of exploration and the quest for learning is real. Also the software we’re making is good, and the tools for building it get better every day.

Along the way, I’ve encountered a lot of other technical professionals looking for an entry point into understanding how our work is changing.

I write Field Notes to share what I’m seeing in that respect, with the hope that my peers in the industry — and builders and soon-to-be builders in other industries — may find it helpful.

Background

I (Jay, co-founder along with Katie Mayfield) started Convivy as a side project to my day job as an engineering director at a technology startup. My goal was to build a multitenant SaaS that would help a group I participated in — a community ukulele orchestra — with necessary tasks that overwhelmed the level of resources you might expect at a community ukulele orchestra.

That project took shape slowly, in fits and starts and with the occasional drastic pivot, until the ground under the software engineering industry started to shift dramatically in early 2026.

Wanting to anticipate emerging engineering systems, I dove back in. This time I focused as much on honing my understanding of the process as on my output.

Before too long my overheating little laptop had five products taking shape on it, as I explored various efficiencies including autonomous overnight sessions and multi-threaded workstreams.

It soon became clear that the challenges and opportunities of agentic engineering were going to be pretty similar no matter how big the company. I started thinking at scale, and developing tools and processes that make sense for builders of all things across organizations of all sizes.

Convivy’s product portfolio reflects this breadth of approach, with a B2B SaaS, mobile apps, an industry-specific management platform, and the agentic engineering system itself.

These will start rolling out to the public soon, each with their own identity and website. For now, I hope you enjoy following along on the blog.