What is notes.asm?
notes.asm (also written notesasm) is a hosted service that puts five AI agents, for code, outreach, social posts, the inbox and strategy, on a kanban board. You file a ticket in one sentence from its dashboard, Claude Code or any MCP client; the code agent opens a pull request, and a QA agent clicks through the preview deploy in a real browser and records it before the pull request can merge. The other agents research leads, send emails from your Gmail, post on your social accounts and turn replies into new tickets.
The agents run on your own Claude subscription, on a DigitalOcean server in your account, so there is no API key and no metered compute from notes.asm. Drafts wait in a review queue called Needs you, paid actions such as ads or domains need your approval against a monthly budget that starts at $0, and with autonomy switched on routine work runs on a schedule while sensitive items are still held for you.
The site describes it as in open beta. Its public changelog runs from 0.1.0 on 4 May 2026 to 0.58.0 on 10 July 2026, and the privacy policy names a single operator, Kavin Jeyasankar, rather than a company.
Is notes.asm worth it?
If you have a side project, the code is rarely the slow part. The slow part is everything around it: finding the first ten people who might want it, writing to them, following up, posting about it, and still fixing the bug someone reported at midnight.
notes.asm gives that list to a team of five agents on a kanban board. You say what you want in one sentence, from its dashboard or from inside Claude Code. The code agent writes the change and opens a pull request; a QA agent clicks through the preview in a real browser and records it, and failures go back to the code agent. The outreach agent researches leads and writes to them from your own Gmail, the social agent posts, the inbox agent sorts the replies, and a strategist turns what it learns into new tickets.
The unusual part is the bill. The agents run on your own Claude subscription, on a DigitalOcean server in your account, so notes.asm charges $0 for running them by hand and $20 a month per workspace for scheduled and overnight runs. It also takes 10% of customer payments that go through Stripe Connect links its agents set up, on top of Stripe's own fees. An agent that works through the night on a Claude subscription will run into that subscription's usage limits, which Anthropic, not notes.asm, sets.
The approvals are sensible. Every email and post waits in a Needs you queue unless you switch on autonomy, and even then sensitive items are held. Paid actions start from a monthly budget of $0, each approval sets a hard cap the agent cannot raise, and a kill switch pauses all spending. The terms are blunt that you are responsible for what the agents send and that sends may be irreversible.
The catch: the list of what it holds is long. The privacy policy covers tokens for GitHub, DigitalOcean, Vercel, Stripe, Slack, X, LinkedIn, Notion and Meta and Google ad accounts, stored encrypted with AES-256-GCM, plus ticket content and agent transcripts kept until you ask for deletion, which takes an email. It says it does not use your code or ticket content to train AI models. The operator is one named person, the terms name no company or governing law, and the public changelog's last entry is 0.58.0 on 10 July 2026. Its own changelog also lists stealthier QA, auto-CAPTCHA solving and agents that sign up for services, while its own terms forbid spam, which leaves you to judge where automated cold outreach crosses that line.
Our take: Kanzo, a free open-source board, keeps you and your coding agents on the same cards and nothing more; notes.asm hands the whole company to the agents, so the question is less whether the code is good than whether you want software writing to strangers under your name.
Where it earns its place
A solo developer on Claude Max with a half-built SaaS
Have bug fixes done overnight and reviewed in the morning
File tickets from Claude Code over MCP, turn on the $20 Platform plan for overnight runs, and review the pull requests with the QA recordings each morning. Heavy nights eat into the Claude plan's own usage limits.
A first-time founder with an untested product idea
Test demand before building
Ask for a one-day Level I probe: the agents put up a landing page, post and email, and report replies and conversion. Every post and email waits in the review queue on the free plan, and replies go through your own accounts.
A two-person agency weighing it for client work
Decide whether the access it asks for is acceptable
Count the tokens: GitHub, DigitalOcean, Vercel, Stripe and each social and ad account you connect sit encrypted on its servers. With no named company in the terms, client data is a hard sell.
Before you commit
- Setup
- Sign in with GitHub, connect your Claude subscription and a DigitalOcean account; the site says onboarding takes four clicks, after which the agents run on a droplet in your account.
- Integrations
- GitHub App, Claude Code and any MCP client, Cursor, Vercel, Stripe Connect, Gmail, Slack, X, LinkedIn, Notion, and Meta and Google Ads accounts; Browserbase drives the QA browser.
- Data and privacy
- Integration tokens are stored encrypted with AES-256-GCM; repositories are cloned into temporary containers and deleted after each job; tickets, transcripts and files are kept until you ask for deletion by email. The privacy policy says it does not use your code or ticket content to train AI models. Which AI tools train on your data?
- Cost at scale
- Platform is $20/month per workspace, billed separately for each, plus your Claude plan, the DigitalOcean server, any approved ad or domain spend, and 10% of revenue through agent-made Stripe Connect links.
- Limits
- Open beta run by one person; no refund terms or governing law in the terms; the public changelog stops at 0.58.0 on 10 July 2026; agent runs are bound by your Claude plan's usage limits.
What’s good
- Five agents for code, outreach, social, inbox and strategy on one board
- Real-browser QA records every pull request before merge
- Runs on your own Claude subscription and server, with no metered compute
- Spend starts at a $0 budget with hard caps and a kill switch
What’s not
- Holds tokens for your code, email, social, ad and payment accounts
- Run by one named person; terms give no company or governing law
- 10% fee on customer payments through agent-made Stripe links
- Automated outreach and sign-ups risk your accounts' reputation
Best for
Solo founders testing a small product idea who want agents to handle code and first outreach, and who will read every draft before it goes out.
notes.asm alternatives
notes.asm: common questions
- Is notes.asm worth it?
- An ambitious one-person company-in-a-box that wants the keys to your code, inbox, social accounts and payments, which is a lot of trust to hand a beta. We rate it 3.0 out of 5.
- How much does notes.asm cost?
- Free: all five agents, browser QA and the review queue, run by hand. Platform $20/month per workspace adds scheduled, overnight and self-planning runs. A 10% fee applies to customer payments through Stripe Connect links the agents create. You also pay for your Claude subscription and the DigitalOcean server.
- What are the downsides of notes.asm?
- Holds tokens for your code, email, social, ad and payment accounts; run by one named person; terms give no company or governing law; 10% fee on customer payments through agent-made Stripe links; automated outreach and sign-ups risk your accounts' reputation.
- Who is notes.asm best for?
- Solo founders testing a small product idea who want agents to handle code and first outreach, and who will read every draft before it goes out.
- How much does notes.asm cost for a team or in production?
- Platform is $20/month per workspace, billed separately for each, plus your Claude plan, the DigitalOcean server, any approved ad or domain spend, and 10% of revenue through agent-made Stripe Connect links.
- Is notes.asm safe for company data?
- Integration tokens are stored encrypted with AES-256-GCM; repositories are cloned into temporary containers and deleted after each job; tickets, transcripts and files are kept until you ask for deletion by email. The privacy policy says it does not use your code or ticket content to train AI models.
- What are the best notes.asm alternatives?
- The closest alternatives we have reviewed are Devin (incl. Devin Desktop, formerly Windsurf), Manus and Claude Cowork.
Answers checked Nov 11, 2026.