I run a one-person startup and this is how I keep it together.
I handle client work in the morning, coding at night, and a vet claim in between. I spend about $2,000 a month on AI and all of it goes directly through Alyph.
Roman Abashin
Founder
Built for people with big ideas and many hats.
Free to start with a $5 welcome credit and no subscription
Should I take the Acme retainer or keep the slot open?
Take it but cap the hours because retainers always creep.
Take it only if you can name the specific client you would drop for it. ▍
You asked about your app but fourteen messages later you are still debugging your local machine.
pip install textualxcode-select --install and try again.brew install portaudio pkg-config and then reinstall. That clears it.In normal chats every message you send carries the whole conversation including the detour, the errors, and the fix. The fix helps but the rest rides along rent free and poisons the next answer.
The installation process took fourteen messages of fighting and one message of fix. Pruning removes those middle messages so the final answer overwrites the failed attempts and your thread continues completely clean.
I want to build a terminal app in Python. Where do I start?
Use Textual — widgets, layout, and events in one install: pip install textual
Error on install: fatal error: 'Python.h' file not found
You're missing the dev headers. Run xcode-select --install and try again.
New one: ld: library not found for -lportaudio
brew install portaudio pkg-config, then reinstall. That clears it.
Progress — now it segfaults the moment I import it.
Broken wheel. Rebuild from source: pip install --no-binary :all: textual
Fixed. OK — back to the actual app.
Fixed. Now the main loop: App, compose(), and on_mount. Here is the clean skeleton.
Send the exact same question and context to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and any of the other 300+ models simultaneously so you can read the answers side by side and decide.
A client wants 20% off for a 12-month retainer. Should I take it?
Take it with a 90-day out clause for both sides.
Counter at 10% because discounts teach clients what to expect.
Only accept the discount if the year is prepaid in cash.
Share a canvas with your co-founder, your assistant, or your client so they can write and edit in the exact same space as the AI.
Acme proposal. I need the scope and price by Friday.
Three tiers drafted. I bundled the audit into the top tier.
Lead with the audit and price it second. ▍Sarah is editing
Client work at nine, administrative tasks at noon, coding at three, and the dog at nine. Everything lives in its own thread so context switching costs absolutely nothing.
Smith & Co: the pricing page.
Annual toggle first. Two variants ready.
Invoice #18 is 40 days out.
Follow-up draft. Firm, warm, and strictly one page.
Vite segfaults on MacBook M3.
Known issue. Pin esbuild to 0.21.
Apollo, vet claim #4412
2 documents
Over 300 models in one wallet.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, and hundreds more. Provider prices plus an infrastructure margin.
Files and folders.
Drop in a contract, a spreadsheet, or an entire project folder. The model's context window is your only limit.
Images on the canvas.
Generate your hero image right next to the copy that asked for it. Video capabilities are on the way.
Or just chat.
Every canvas also reads as a standard chat so you can switch views whenever you like.
Tools that promise to think for you produce slop. Alyph does not do your work for you. It holds your work including the questions, the files, the models, and the mess. You make the calls so the output stays uniquely yours.
I handle client work in the morning, coding at night, and a vet claim in between. I spend about $2,000 a month on AI and all of it goes directly through Alyph.
No subscription and no throttling. You pay for what you actually use and you set the limits yourself.
No subscription. You will never have to remember to cancel.
Bring your messiest project.